Breathing Smarter: Discussing Lung Health & Targeted Therapies With Dr. Aahd Kubbara

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

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4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we connect with Dr. Aahd Kubbara to discuss the intricacies of lung function and targeted biological therapies for asthma. Dr. Kubbara is a practicing pulmonologist and intensivist at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, where he also serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep and Associate Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship.

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The types of inflammatory diseases that can lead to lung scarring.
The consequences of untreated asthma over years of time.
What pulmonary fibrosis is, and how to treat it.
The potential impacts of normalizing chronic health symptoms.
How seasonal asthma is typically triggered and how to mitigate it.

Dr. Kubbara brings a wealth of experience to his field, including a year in Critical Care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and another year in Academic Pulmonary and Critical Care at the University of Nevada, Reno. He also spent a year practicing community Pulmonary and Critical Care at both Mayo Clinic Eau Claire and Aspirus Wausau Hospital. In addition, he completed an advanced fellowship in Interstitial Lung Disease and Vasculitis at the Mayo Clinic.

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Transcript

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0:28.6	Here come the geniuses.
0:30.3	This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:37.5	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast.
0:41.4	My guest today is Dr. Ahad Kubara.
0:43.8	We're going to look at pharmacogenomics and pulmonary fibrosis.
0:48.0	How to improve lung function, what targeted biological therapies there are for asthma.
0:52.5	Myself, I'm having asthma for a 42 years at least.
0:55.8	Hopefully this will be literally a breath of fresh air unintended. So welcome out. Thank you for
1:00.2	coming. Thank you very much for inviting me. Yeah. So as a, you know, well, it says you're a pulmonologist
1:05.5	and intensivist at University of Minnesota. So when it comes to asthma, is your work more research or is it more
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