Pulmonary Hypertension Community Call — October

22 October 2026

PVRI's monthly PH Community Calls are free online, informal discussions on the latest developments in PH.

In this PH Community Call, we discussed: 

  • Pulmonary Artery Dilation on Chest CT Across the Spectrum of Chronic Lung Disease with Tyler Couch, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
  • Characterization of CT Imaging-Derived Pulmonary Vascular Abnormalities Associated With Pulmonary Hypertension in Chronic Lung Disease with Agustin Garcia, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hospital Clinic—Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Spain & Biomedical Research Networking Center in Respiratory Diseases, Spain
  • MicroRNA-224 orchestrates BMP and TGFβ signaling and is a therapeutic target in preclinical pulmonary arterial hypertension with Olympia Bikou, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA  & Department of Medicine I, LMU University Hospital, Germany

Speakers

Tyler Couch, Tyler Couch, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Agustin Garcia, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Spain & Biomedical Research Networking Center in Respiratory Diseases, Spain
Olympia Bikou, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA & Department of Medicine I, LMU University Hospital, Germany

Moderators

Joel James, Indiana University School of Medicine
Tatiana Kudryashova, University of Pittsburgh
Sandeep Sahay, Baylor University Medical Center
Katarina Zeder, University of Maryland
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