I’m Aware That I’m Rare: Dunbar Ivy, MD (Pt 1)

The phaware® interview

Dunbar Ivy, MD gives an update on the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension, which was held in Nice, France earlier this year. Dr. Ivy discusses the progress of pulmonary hypertension science and its anticipated future developments. The WSPH series takes place once every five years.

Hi, this is Dunbar Ivy, I’m chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Children’s Hospital of Colorado.

The World Symposium is a meeting of experts every five years to look at what’s happened in the last five years and come up with proceedings that will help guide the clinicians and future directions for research.

The working groups each contribute to different areas, so there’s a working group on definition and classification, and then on patients with lung disease or heart disease and what should we use for risk factors in adults, and based on the new therapies that have come out, how should we use them and what’s a…