21st Annual International Asthma Conference at Nemacolin
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Speakers
Praveen Akuthota, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, USA
William C. Anderson III, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Clinical Medical Director, Allergy & Immunology Section
Director, Multidisciplinary Asthma Clinic (MAC)
Co-Director, Improving Pediatric to Adult Care Transition (ImPACT) Program
Director, Asthma Self-Care Education and Transition (ASCEnT) Program
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Lisa A. Beck, MD
Carol & Lowell Goldsmith Professor of Dermatology,
Medicine (AIR division) and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester Medicine
Rochester, New York, USA
Wendy Brunner, MS, PhD
Director, Center for Rural Community Health
Bassett Research Institute
Bassett Medical Center
Cooperstown, New York, USA
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
Katherine N. Cahill, MD
Section Chief, Allergy
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director of Clinical Asthma Research
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Benjamin Gaston, MD
Billie Lou Wood Professor of Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Translational Research
Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Deborah A. Gentile, MD
Allergy/Immunology
Indiana Regional Medical Center
Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Steve N. Georas, MD
Walter and Carmina Parkes Family Endowed Professor of Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Function Labs
PI, Pulmonary T32 Training Grant
Co-Director, EHSC Translational Research Support Core
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York, USA
Rachel Grove, LCSW
Director of Ambulatory Social Services & Transition of Care
Indiana Regional Medical Center
Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Adam Haber, MD
Angela Haczku, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Director, UC Davis Lung Center
School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Davis, California, 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
Nandini Krishnamoorthy, PhD
Nidhya Navanandan, MD, MSCS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine
Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, 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
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
Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Thanai Pongdee, MD
Consultant
Department of Medicine, Section of Allergy and Immunology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Chair, Section of Allergy and Immunology
Joint Appointments: Division of Hematology, Division of Epidemiology
Google Advanced Solutions Lab, Advanced Generative AI Certificate
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Celeste Porsbjerg, PhD
Hooman H. Rashidi MD, MS, FCAP
Associate Dean of AI in Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Professor & Endowed Chair of Experimental Pathology Research
Executive Vice Chair of Computational Pathology, UPMC
Adjunct Professor of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Executive Director of CPACE Ai Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Anuradha Ray, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Immunology
UPMC Endowed Chair in Lung Immunology
Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Division
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Mondira Ray, MD, MBI
Senior Vice President of Clinical Informatics, OpenEvidence
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, USA
Miko Rose, DO
Imran Satia, MA, MB, BChir (cantab), PhD, MRCP, FACP
Canada Research Chair in Chronic Cough
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, McMaster University
Respirologist, Hamilton Health Sciences and Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health,
St. Joseph's Healthcare
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
David P. Skoner, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
West Virginia University
School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Stanley J. Szefler, MD
Professor of Pediatrics,
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, 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
Joe Zein, MD, PhD, MBA
Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chair for Research, and Discipline Oriented Group (DOG) Chair for Pulmonary
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
SYMPOSIA
From Inception to Regulation: Asthma and Atopic Diseases
Moderator: Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Role of neuro-immune interactions on the pathogenesis of virus-induced asthma
Nandini Krishnamoorthy, PhD
Novel mechanisms for resolution of type 2 inflammation
Anuradha Ray, PhD
A mechanism that helps to suppress the development of a Th2 response which is central to allergic asthma
Angela Haczku, MD, PhD
The impact of environmental exposures on immune development
Recognizing and Addressing Rural Health Disparities in Asthma
Moderator: Deborah A. Gentile, MD
Rachel Grove, LCSW
Overview of Rural Health Disparities
Thanai Pongdee, MD
Rural Health Disparities in Asthma
Wendy Brunner, MS, PhD
Impact of Rural School-Based Health Centers on Asthma Management
Miko Rose, DO
An Innovative Strategy to Train and Recruit Rural Healthcare Physicians
The Role of Eosinophils in “Eosinophilic Diseases”
Moderator: Paul M. O'Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
William W. Busse, MD
Atopic Dermatitis
Imran Satia, MA, MB, BChir (cantab), PhD, MRCP, FACP
Chronic Cough
Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Paul M. O'Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
Eosinophilic Asthma
Endotyping, T2 biologics and Remission: Are we getting closer to a cure for asthma?
Moderator: Sally E. Wenzel, MD
Celeste Porsbjerg, PhD
Defining Severe Asthma - Distinguishing Disease Activity Versus Damage
Praveen Akuthota, MD
Similarities and differences in anti-T2 pathway biologics
Benjamin Gaston, MD
Natural course of disease, Remission vs Cure
Steve N. Georas, MD
Is there ANY need for CSs?
What Can AI Do for Asthma?
Moderator: Sally E. Wenzel, MD
Joe Zein, MD, PhD, MBA
Can AI help identify the most at risk patients?
Hooman H. Rashidi MD, MS, FCAP
How can AI help improve the EMR and our utilization of it for clinical care?
Adam Haber, MD
Towards using machine learning to prevent indoor exposures to asthma triggers
Anuradha Ray, PhD and Mondira Ray, MD, MBI
Large language models and/or machine learning to interrogate existing broad and deep data.
Pediatric Asthma
Moderator: Stanley J. Szefler, MD
Nidhya Navanandan, MD, MSCS
Acute asthma exacerbations: New tools, new observations, and insights into future management
William C. Anderson III, MD
Transitioning adolescents to adult-oriented asthma care
Stanley J. Szefler, MD
Integrating asthma care with the community to improve asthma outcomes
Corticosteroid Stewardship
Moderator: David P. Skoner, MD
David P. Skoner, MD
Corticosteroid susceptibility in children.
Stanley J. Szefler, MD
Corticosteroid stewardship: How do we do it in the office and health care system?
William W. Busse, MD
Minimizing corticosteroid use with asthma biologics: Missed opportunities
Repurposing Medications for Asthma Management
Moderator: Sally E. Wenzel, MD
Lisa A. Beck, MD
Remission as defined and observed in atopic dermatitis
Steve N. Georas, MD
Lessons learned from the PrecISE asthma network
Katherine N. Cahill, MD
Incretin medications to address obesity-associated asthma
William C. Anderson III, MD
SMART Therapy for children and adolescents: Not as easy as you think
The Atopic March
Moderator: Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Jonathan Spergel, MD, PhD
Is the atopic march real?
Lisa A. Beck, MD
Can we prevent the atopic march?
William W. Busse, MD
Adult asthma not part of the atopic march
Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr., MD
Bronchodilators: Who’s on first?
Jay K. Kolls, MD
Immunometabolism of Tissue Resident T cells along the Respiratory Tract
➤ LOCATION
Nemacolin & Virtual
➤ Sponsored BY
Maci’s TEAMS non-profit organization
Teaching Everyone About Medicine Safety
West Virginia University