Asthma with Experts

This episode (2026 (8)) of 'Asthma with Experts' on World Asthma Day 2026 hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), and features a discussion with Professor Francine Ducharme, University of Montreal, Canada. She is a respiratory paediatrician, and a member of the GINA Science Committee Prof Ducharme shares her thoughts about the current problems faced by children who have asthma. She emph...

This This episode (2026 (8)) of 'Asthma with Experts' on World Asthma Day 2026 is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), and features a discussion with Professor Guy Brusselle, Chairman of the GINA Board of Directors on his thoughts about asthma. Prof Brusselle shares his thoughts about the current problems faced by adults who have asthma. Key issues include i) getting the diagnosis ri...

This episode (2026 (7)) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), features a discussion with Professor Bart Lambrecht of Ghent University Belgium, about possible primary prevention of asthma. In their large Danish population based study, ( https://bit.ly/3Mc9lWO ) they concluded that “a respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis hospitaliza...

This episode (2025 (6)) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), is about allergic asthma, one of a number of different asthma phenotypes and today I’m joined by Professor Roland Buhl, a colleague who is a member of the GINA science committee. We discuss the importance of accurately diagnosing the type of asthma (ie the phenotype), in this case allergic...

This episode (2025 (5)) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), is about diagnosis of asthma in children under 5 years old. Professor Francine Ducharme a specialist respiratory paediatrician in Montreal, Canada, shares her approach to this very important challenging diagnosis for doctors. We discuss her practical approach to refining the diagnosis in th...

This episode (2025 (4)) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), is focussed on acute asthma in children. Dr Désirée Larenas-Linnemann, one of our international GINA Advocates shares her personal approach to management of children presenting with asthma flare-ups, and exacerbations/attacks. She is an Allergist, clinical immunologist and pediatrician...

This episode (2025 (3) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), DR Alan Kaplan, a general practitioner in Canada shares his views and experience in our discussion on managing asthma exacerbations/attacks in primary care. Alan shares his approach to the management of patients consulting with respiratory symptoms which he thinks are due to an asthma a...

In this episode (2025 (2) of 'Asthma with Experts', hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Professor Guy Brusselle, an adult pulmonologist in Belgium, shares his views and experience in a dialogue about diagnosis and treatment of difficult-to-treat and severe asthma in adolescents and adults. These patients can suffer from frequent symptoms and frightening, unpredictable attacks. It is...

Most acute asthma attacks/exacerbations are preventable with correct management. In this episode (2025 (1)) of 'Asthma with Experts' which is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Professor Alvaro Cruz, an adult pulmonologist in Brasil, shares his views and experience in our dialogue on the prevention of acute asthma exacerbations / asthma attacks. The podcast is targeted ma...

The ‘Asthma with Experts’ podcast – the place where clinical experts share their personal approaches to management of asthma. features discussions with expert clinicians. The podcast is hosted by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). It is a resource for doctors and health care professionals in primary care and adult and paediatric doctors who are not respiratory specialists. Asthma is a seriou...