Pulmonary Hypertension Roundtable: Metabolic Disease and PH

On June 20, 2018, Guest Editor Anna Ryan Hemnes, MD, gathered a group of pulmonary hypertension specialists by telephone to talk about the role of metabolic disease in PH. Among the participants in the animated discussion was Roham Zamanian, MD, Director of the Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He directs the Vera Moulton Wall Center clinical database and biobank and focuses his research on clinical characterization and impact of novel risk factors such as methamphetamine use, and biomarkers such as insulin resistance in pulmonary arterial hypertension. Readers will recall his participation in the previous issue's roundtable on drug-induced PH. Joining Dr Zamanian were Ioana Preston, MD, Pulmonary Function Lab Director; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center; and Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension editor-in-chief Harrison W. Farber, MD.