Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine

Part I: Basic Bronchoscopy.- Tracheobronchial anatomy.- Flexible bronchoscopy.- Ultrathin bronchoscopy: indications and technique.- Rigid bronchoscopy.- Anesthesia for Interventional bronchoscopic procedures.- Evaluating outcomes  after interventional procedures.- Bronchoscopy education: Interventional Pulmonary standardization of training and education.- Part II: Interventional Procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.- Adaptations in the Interventional Pulmonary department.- Role of bronchoscopy in COVID.- Tracheostomy in COVID.- Part III: Tracheobronchial Obstructions.- Reopening the airway: fast methods.- Cryotherapy and cryospray: applications in the airways.- Endobronchial brachytherapy.- Photodynamic therapy.- Benign Airway stenosis.- Endobronchial prosthesis: old and the new.- Part IV: Lung cancer diagnosis.- Early lung Cancer: methods for detection.- Navigation Bronchoscopy.- Robotic Bronchoscopy.- Tissue acquisition in patients with suspected lung cancer.- Lung cancerscreening: what is new.- Lung cancer epidemiologic changes: implications in diagnosis and therapy.- Patient centered care: lung cancer patients.- Part V: Lung cancer staging.- TNM classification: review and clinical implications.- Lung cancer staging methods: a practical approach.- Mediastinoscopy, its variants and transcervical mediastinal lymphadenectomy.- Endobronchial ultrasound: update.- TBNA in the endobronchial ultrasound.- Part VI: Pleural Conditions.- Pleural anatomy: a pathological and surgical perspective.- Medical thoracoscopy.- Overview of the spectrum of chest tubes with focus on the tunneled pleural catheter: disease-specific selection.- Parapneumonic effusions and empyema.- Management of malignant pleural effusion.- Transthoracic Ultrasound: role in pleural conditions.- Part VII: Interventional Bronchoscopy for specific conditions.- Emphysema: endoscopic methods for lung volume reduction.- Asthma: Bronchial thermoplasty, an update.- Evaluation of Pulmonary solitary nodule:

J. Pablo Diaz-Jimenez MD, PhD is a Pulmonary Physician, dedicated to Interventional Pulmonology (IP) for more than 35 years. He trained as a Pulmonary Physician at Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, and then he completed his interventional training with Dr. Dumon at Marseille (France), and Dr. Cortese at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota (US).

He was Head of the Interventional Pulmonary Department at Bellvitge University from 1991, organizing training programs, international courses and congresses in Interventional Pulmonology for more than 25 years. Adjunct Professor,  Pulmonary Department at the MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas (US)

He is  recognized as one of the leaders of IP around the world. He is Former Chairman of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (WABIP), and Former President of the World Bronchology Foundation (WBF).  He is also recipient of Dumon Award and Killian Centenary Medal for the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (WABIP). 

Alicia Rodriguez MD, PhD has been a Pulmonary Physician for more than 20 years. She trained in Internal Medicine and then completed her training in Pulmonary Medicine with Dr. Beamis at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington MA (US), and Interventional Pulmonary Medicine with Dr. Diaz-Jimenez at Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona (Spain).  She settled in Mar del Plata (Argentina), where she became Head of the Pulmonary and Respiratory Endoscopy Department in Clinica Colón. She has taken part of many multicentric research projects, and is also performing independent research and teaching at the University of Mar del Plata Medical School.