Dr Azhar Jahangir

Referral

Referrals are accepted from the GPs in the community and from other specialist in private sector and HSE.

Biography

Dr Jahangir is a Consultant Respiratory & General Physician. He Joined the Bon Secours Hospital Tralee in 2017. He completed his specialist respiratory training in Mercy University Hospital Cork, St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, St James’ University Hospital Dublin & East of England Denary Hospitals in the UK. Since 2011 he has been working as a Consultant Pulmonologist in hospitals in Ireland and abroad.  He was Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and the Medical University of Bahrain. 

Areas of Interest

Dr Jahangir has a special interest in Interstitial Lung disease, Sleep Disorders, Lung cancer and complex Asthma and COPD.  He is also skilled in all emergency and routine respiratory and general medical procedures.  Dr Azhar Jahangir is a Consultant Respiratory & General Physician who has completed all of his specialist respiratory training in Cork University Hospital, St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, St James’ University Hospital Dublin & East of England Denary Hospitals in the UK. Since 2014 he has been working as a Consultant Pulmonologist at the King Hamad University Hospital in Bahrain.  During this time he also held the posts of Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and the Medical University of Bahrain. 

Publications

- Candidaemia in an Irish intensive care unit setting between 2004 and 2018 reflects increased incidence of Candida glabrata. J Hosp Infect
. 2019 Jul;102(3):347-350. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2019.01.017. Epub 2019 Jan 19 
- Characteristics of patients presenting with erythema nodosum and pulmonary sarcoidosis. Irish Medical Journal 2009 Jun; 102(6): 181-4. 
- Comparison of Arterial and Venous Blood Gases and the Effects of Analysis Delay and Air Contamination on Arterial Samples in Patients with 
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Healthy Controls, Respiration. 2011; 81(1): 18-25. Epub 2010 Feb 4
- Assessing and maintaining asthma control, medicine weekly issue 19 November 2007
- Medical pleurodesis- safety, effectiveness and adherence to the guidelines: East of England DGH experience.   Thematic poster #P2825, ERS Amsterdam 2011 Congress.               
- Characteristics of patients presenting with erythema nodosum and pulmonary sarcoidosis. Ir J Med Sci 2007;176:420
- Comparison of latent, pleural and pulmonary Tuberculosis infection in a cohort of patients attending a dedicated tuberculosis clinic, Ir J Med Sci 2008; 178; 465.
- Differences in tuberculin sensitivity and symptom prevalence in patients with latent, pleural and pulmonary tuberculosis Infection.  Am.J. Respir. Crit. Care Med Apr 2009; 179: A3201
- Comparison of venous and arterial pH in patients with COPD exacerbation and healthy controls                      
- Temporal effects of analysis delay in arterial blood gas samples in patients with COPD exacerbations and healthy controls 
- Diagnostic and Staging utility of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (TBNA) in a University Hospital. Ir J Med Sci 2007; 176:S405.
- Outcomes of non-invasive ventilation and predictors of survival in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. Ir J Med Sci 2007; 176:S405
- Audit of closed pleural biopsy in a medical department Ir J Med Sci 2006 Volume 175 Number4 supplement 3 page 45.
- Lung cancer in county Louth: Demographics in Our Lady of Lourdes & Louth County Hospitals. Ir J Med Sci.2006 Volume 175 Number 4 supplement 3 page 44.
- To evaluate the association of positive family history and the severity of symptoms in IBS. Endoscopy; 2006; 40
 

Dr Jahangir has a special interest in Pulmonary Fibrosis, Sleep Disorders and complex Asthma.  He is also skilled in all emergency and routine respiratory and general medical procedures.  

MRCP (UK)- Royal College of Physicians UK 2008 MRCP (Ireland) – Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2005 MBBS – University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan 1994.