Global Initiative for Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction
John Robertson
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: Texas, USA
Workplace: Pediatric pulmonologist at Cook Children’s in Prosper, Texas.
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Name: Siobhan Ludlow
About me
Dr. John Robertson is a pediatric pulmonologist at Cook Children’s in Prosper, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University and then University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed his general pediatric residency at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas followed by a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas in 2008. He has been performing continuous laryngoscopy during exercise to investigate causes of exercise induced respiratory symptoms since 2019. In 2024, he received an Endowed Chair Award from the Cook Children’s Health Foundation to fund the Exercise Respiratory Center in Prosper, Texas. The ExRC’s purpose is to diagnose, treat and research the causes of exercise induced respiratory symptoms in older children, adolescents and young adults. He and his team performed the first Continuous Laryngoscopy During Exercise (CLE) on a pediatric patient in Texas on February 8, 2022 and the first ever Continuous Bronchoscopy (CBE) During Exercise on a pediatric patient on August 14, 2024.
When he's not working, Dr. Robertson enjoys spending time with his wife and young daughter, grilling, being involved in church activities, and making a mess as an amateur artist. He was first introduced to the international community that would become GIILO in 2019 at a CLE workshop in
Copenhagen and joined GIILO at its founding in 2023. Since then, Dr. Robertson has had the pleasure of participating in panels at the international conferences in Denver in 2023 and Pittsburgh in 2024. Dr. Robertson would like to be a part of the growth and development of GIILO as a resource for its members but also patients.
Specifically, he is interested in the following:
(1) Develop a members only quarterly online challenging case and topic discussion meetings where GIILO members can go to give and receive clinical guidance.
(2) Develop publicly accessible on-demand recorded presentations to educate health care practitioners on the basic presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of ILO, DB, and EIB.
(3) Develop publicly accessible online GIILO member directory to help patients around the world find the nearest center that specializes in their specific clinical issue.