Severe Asthma Conference– Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Treatments
Agenda
Program Chairs: Njira Lugogo, MD and
Program Coordinator and CoChair: Roy Pleasants, PharmD
10:00 - 10:15
“Perspective of the patient” – Severe asthma patient
10:15 – 10:55 “Status of severe asthma research in 2015” – G Bleecker(WFU)
10:55 – 11:35 “Environmental factors contributing to severe asthma”- Dave Peden, MD (UNC)
11:35 – 12:15 “Asthma/COPD overlap syndrome” Jim Donohue, MD (UNC)
12:15-12:35
Panel Discussion
12:35 - 1:25
Lunch
1:25 – 2:05
”Role of MRI in asthma" – Bastiaan Driehuys, PhD
2:05 – 2;45
“Current and future treatments for severe asthma” – Steve Peters, MD (WFU)
2:45 – 3:25
“Asthma in the ICU setting”– Neil MacIntyre
3:25 – 4:05
“A protocol for severe asthma at Duke”– Njira Lugogo
4:05 – 4:25
Panel discussion
Faculty
Eugene Bleecker, MD Director, Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research and
Professor, Wake Forest University Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunologic
Medicine, ebleeck@wfubmc.edu, 336-713-2011
Jim Donohue, MD Jim Donohue, MD – Emeritus Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Chair ATS Foundation, Board of Directors,
james_donohue@med.unc.edu, 919-966-7890
Bastiaan Driehuys, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering , Duke University Division of Radiology 919-684-7786 bastian.driehuys@dm.duke.edu
Njira Lugogo, MD, Duke University Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Immunology, and Critical Care
Medicine and Duke Asthma, Allergy, and Airways Center njira.lugogo@dm.duke.edu, 919-620-7300
Neil MacIntyre, MD Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine. Neil.macintyre@dm.duke.edu
David Peden, MD Professor Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology,
and Infectious Diseases Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology 919-966-0768
(office) david_peden@med.unc.edu
Steve Peters, MD, Chair and Professor, Wake Forest University Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care,
Allergy, and Immunologic Medicine 336-713-7500, speters@wfubmc.edu