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This free CHEST e-Learning course was created based on the materials from the CHEST Annual Meeting 2018 Severe Asthma Fellows Course. This course contains highlighted content of a full-day course with relevant presentations from respected leaders in severe asthma and is targeted toward physicians-in-training who specialize in this area.
Includes:
Asthma Immunology
Reynold Panettieri, MD
Vice Chancellor of Translational Medicine and Science
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Overview of inflammatory cascade, understand classic allergic, eosinophilic, and independent pathways and how they overlap (IgE, ILD4, IL5, IL14). General framework for how the drugs will actually work.
Severe Asthma Definition/Intro to Phenotyping and Biomarkers
Monica Kraft, MD, FCCP
Robert and Irene Flinn Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
Deputy Director, Asthma and Airway Diseases Research Center
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Tucson, Arizona
Diving into what we mean by “severe asthma” (ATS/ERS definitions). Use immunology basis of different types of asthma (allergen sensitization to type2/non-type 2/Th17,etc).
Severe Asthma Mimickers
Jay Peters, MD, FCCP
Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas
Covers VCD, COPD/asthma overlap, severe reflux, and sinus disease.
Practical Approach to Severe Asthma Therapies: Putting It All Together
Monica Kraft, MD, FCCP
Robert and Irene Flinn Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
Deputy Director, Asthma and Airway Diseases Research Center
University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
Tucson, Arizona
Focuses on a case-based approach.
Biologics
Param Nair, MD
Frederick E. HargreaveTeva Innovation Chair in Airway Diseases
Professor of Medicine, McMaster University
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, McGill University
Staff Respirologist, St. Joseph’s Healthcare
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Non-Eosinophilic Advanced Therapies
Gerry Cox, MD
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health–McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Covers bronchial thermoplasty (who to consider this for, mostly IP procedure), macrolides, and other experimental drugs.