Global Initiative for Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction
Philip Bardin
Name: Rita Patel, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Profession: Speech Language Pathologist
Country: From India. Research and Clinical Practice in the United States of America
Institution: Indiana University
Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Workplace: University Academic and Clinic
Position: Associate Professor
Country: Australia, Melbourne
Workplace: Respiratory physician and Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University.
Name: Siobhan Ludlow
About me
I am a respiratory physician and practising clinician and Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Respirology, official journal of the TSANZ and APSR until 2024.
Having conducted research of asthma and COPD, I became interested in ILO/VCD since many patients with these disorders remained breathless despite optimal therapies. Our research has focussed on understanding the interactions between ILO/VCD and unexplained breathlessness and on models of care for ILO/VCD.
My passion is to improve diagnosis and care of these patients and to reduce their exposure to harmful steroid treatments. We aim to research and design models of care that use a team approach (Physicians, Speech Pathologists, ENT surgeons, Physiotherapists, Nurse consultants and others) to provide optimised, swift diagnosis and comprehensive care for the disorder.
GIILO has been a fantastic initiative that is taking ILO/VCD ‘international’. My contributions could include raising awareness of ILO/VCD (particularly in the respiratory physician community), to participate in education, to initiate and encourage international research collaborations and to encourage collaboration between the different specialty groups who see and manage the disorder.