20th Annual International Asthma Conference at Nemacolin
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Speakers
Matthew C. Altman, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Head, Allergy Section
Associate Scientist, Benaroya Research Institute
Seattle, Washington, USA
Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD, AVP
Chief Health Equity Officer
Director, Community Asthma Prevention Program
Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Sergei Belenky, MD
William W. Busse, MD
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public Health
Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Erika Garcia, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Environmental Health
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine of USC
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Deborah A. Gentile, MD
Staff Physician
Division of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Lifeline Medical Center
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Medical Director
Community Partners in Asthma Care
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
James E. Gern, MD
Chief, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology
Vice Chair of Research
Department of Pediatrics
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Marc Barry Hershenson, MD
Frederick G. Huetwell Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Jay K. Kolls, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
John W Deming Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine
Director, Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation
Tulane School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Callum Lewandrowski, MD
Pediatric and Internal Medicine Resident PGY-4
WVU Medicine Children's Hospital
Morgantown, West Virginia
Andrew H. Liu, MD
Director, Airway Inflammation, Resilience & the Environment (AIRE) Program
Professor, Breathing Institute, Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Njira L. Lugogo, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine
Director Michigan Medicine Asthma Program
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Paul M. O'Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
Dean and Vice-President
Faculty of Health Sciences
Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine
Distinguished University Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
John Oppenheimer, MD
Clinical Professor
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Vice Chancellor, Clinical & Translational Science
Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine & Science
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Vice President for Research of Tulane University
Professor of Pediatrics
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, MRACP, FRACP, FRCP(C), FAAAAI, FERS
Professor of Medicine
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Angela Simpson, BA MBChB MD PhD
Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester
Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT- Wythenshawe)
Wythenshawe, South Manchester, England
David P. Skoner, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
West Virginia University
School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Jonathan Skoner, OD, FIAOMC, IACMM
Optometrist, Orthokeratology and Myopia Control
Chair of Fellowship, American Academy of Orthokeratolgy and Myopia Control
President, American Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Padmaja Subbarao, MD MSc (Epid)
Director, CHILD study
Associate Chief, Clinical Research & Co-Lead Precision Health
CRC Tier 1, Pediatric Asthma and Lung Health
Senior Scientist & Professor
Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto and McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Winnie Wan-yee Tang, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sally E. Wenzel, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Heath
Rachel Carson Chair in Environmental Health
Director, University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute@UPMC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Zachary Zinn, MD
Professor of Dermatology
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Schedule
Thursday, November 13th, 2025
5:00pm – 7:30pm – Conference Onsite Registration and Welcome Reception (Attendees & Guests Welcome)
Friday, November 14th, 2025
7:00am – 7:55am – Breakfast/Exhibits, Industry Product Theater with Breakfast provided by Maci’s Teams
8:00am – 8:15am - Welcome/Introduction to Conference (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – Safety of Asthma – David P. Skoner, MD - 8:15am-10:40am
8:15am – Inhaled and Intranasal Corticosteroid Safety in Children (David P. Skoner, MD)
8:35am – History of LABA Safety (Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, MRACP, FRACP, FRCP(C), FAAAAI, FERS)
8:55am – Safety of Biologic Therapies (Njira L. Lugogo, MD)
9:15am – Should Oral Corticosteroid Therapy be Relegated to History in the Asthma Biologics Era? (John Oppenheimer, MD)
9:35am – Orbital Cushing’s – Cushing’s Seen Through the Eyes (Jonathan Skoner, OD, FIAOMC, IACMM)
9:55am – Discussion
10:40am - 10:55am - Break/Exhibits
Symposium – Asthma Cohorts: The Past and The Future – Paul O’Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC – 10:55am - 12:55pm
10:55am – The Dunedin Cohort (Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, MRACP, FRACP, FRCP(C), FAAAAI, FERS)
11:15am – The MAAS Cohort Angela Simpson, BA MBChB MD PhD)
11:35am – The CHILD Cohort (Padmaja Subbarao, MD MSc (Epid))
11:55am – The ECHO Cohort and CADRE (James E. Gern, MD)
12:15pm – Discussion
12:55pm-1:50pm – Exhibits/Lunch Break, Industry Product Theater with Lunch provided by Maci’s Teams
Symposium – Safety of Asthma – Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP – 1:55pm-3:25pm
1:55pm – Viruses and Asthma: Speed-dating or Long-term Relationship? (Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP)
2:25pm – Rhinovirus and Asthma Marc Barry Hershenson, MD)
2:55pm – Discussion
3:25pm – Pro-Con Debate: Which Virus is Most Important in Asthma Pathogenesis, RSV or Rhinovirus?
RSV: Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Rhinovirus: Marc Barry Hershenson, MD
4:00pm – 4:20pm - Break/Exhibits/Faculty (Speaker) Group Picture
4:20pm – Pro-Con Debate: Benralizumab (or more generally, “a biologic”) should be administered as a rescue medication for acuteeosinophilic asthma and COPD exacerbations
Pro: Sergei Belenky, MD
Con: Callum Lewandrowski, MD
4:55pm – Asthma Powerhouse Roundtable (TBD) 35 MIN
5:30pm – Meeting Adjournment (David P. Skoner, MD)
6:45pm – 9:00pm – PRIVATE FACULTY (Speakers) ONLY Dinner, Meet at Chateau/Grand Lodge at 6:30pm to request transportation.
Saturday, November 15th, 2025
7:10am – 8:00am – Breakfast/Exhibits, Industry Product Theater with Breakfast provided by Maci’s Teams
8:05am – 8:15am - Welcome/Introduction (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – Asthma Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Phenotyping – Sally E. Wenzel, MD - 8:15am-10:15am
8:15am – Historical Overview of Asthma Phenotyping: From Clinical to Molecular (William W. Busse, MD)
8:35am – Clinical and Molecular Phenotypes in Children (Matthew C. Altman, MD)
8:55am – Application and Limitations of Old and New Biomarkers (Njira L. Lugogo, MD)
9:15am – The Future: Achieving the goal of Endotyping, Remission and Cures (Sally E. Wenzel, MD)
9:35am – Discussion
10:15am-10:30am - Break/Exhibits
Symposium – Determinants of Asthma – Deborah A. Gentile, MD – 10:30am-12:30pm
10:30am – Origins of Asthma (Andrew H. Liu, MD)
10:50am – Epigenetics of Asthma (Winnie Wan-yee Tang, PhD)
11:10am – Impact of Air Pollution on Asthma (Erika Garcia, PhD, MPH)
11:30am – Addressing Social Determinants of Asthma (Tyra Bryant-Stephens, MD, AVP)
11:50am – Discussion
12:35pm–1:30pm – Exhibits/Lunch, Industry Product Theater with Lunch provided by Maci’s Teams
1:35pm – 2:35pm – Fellows Oral Abstracts (Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD)
1:35pm - TBD (TBD)
1:50pm - TBD (TBD)
2:05pm - TBD (TBD)
2:20pm - TBD (TBD)
2:35pm – Meeting Adjournment (David P. Skoner, MD)
6:30pm – Farewell Dinner (All attendees/guests invited, RSVP Required), Quartz at Horizon Point. Shuttles will be available at the
Chateau/Grand Lodge at 6:15pm.
Sunday, November 16th, 2025
8:00am - 8:50am– Breakfast/Exhibits, Light Breakfast will be provided by Maci’s Teams
8:55am – 9:00am - Welcome/Introduction (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – The Beginning and Ending of Asthma – David P. Skoner, MD – 9:00am-10:30am
9:00am – Atopic Dermatitis Management (Zachary Zinn, MD)
9:20am - Asthma Remission: Fact or Fiction (Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD)
9:40am – Asthma Remission - How Do We Get There? (John Oppenheimer, MD)
10:00am – Discussion
10:30am – Update on Gene Therapy for Lung Disease (Jay K. Kolls, MD) – 30 MIN
11:00am – 11:10am - Closing Remarks/Meeting Adjournment (David P. Skoner, MD)
➤ LOCATION
Nemacolin & Virtual
➤ Sponsored BY
Maci’s TEAMS non-profit organization
Teaching Everyone About Medicine Safety
West Virginia University