Onslow Medical Specialties Clinic Jacksonville, NC
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Chest 2008 - Annual Meeting of the
American College of Chest Physicians,
Philadelphia, PA - October 25- 30, 2008.
8 AM - 4:40 PM - Pulmonary Rehabilitation: State of the Science
COPD: A Disease of the Muscles - Implications for Pulmonary Rehabilitation, M.Jeffrey
Mador, MD- ACCP/ American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
2007: -
- Outcome Assessment in Pulmonary Rehabilitation - Linda Nici, MD
- The Rational Use of Supplemenal Oxygen During Pulmonary Rehabilitation - Roger
Goldstein, MBChB
- Education and Self-Management Strategies - Jon Bourbeau, MD
- Reimbursement: History and Strategies for the Future. - Jonathan Raskin, MD
- Performance Measures: How do we know that we do provides benefits?
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Advanced Lung Disease: Current Concepts in
Disease Management.
- Medical Management of Advanced COPD and its co-morbidites - Nicola Hanania, MBBS
- Non-Pharmacologic Therapies for COPD - Barry Make, MD
- Management of Advanced CF and non- CF bronchiectasis. - Keith Meyer, MD
- Strategies to optimize treatment of severe asthma - Nicola Hanania, MBBS
- Making an Accurate Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease: The Clinicians' Perspective -
Kevin Brown, MD
patterns. - Jeffrey Myers, MD
- Pharmacologic Therapies for Treating the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias - G. Raghu,
MD.
- Management of Sarcoidosis - Linda Efferen, MD
- Idiopathic Primary and Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension: Current Concepts in Diagnosis
and Management - Steven Natham, MD.
- Lung Transplantation for Advanced Lung Disease: Timing of Referral and Outcomes with
End-Stage Disease - Keith Meyer, MD
Monday, October 27, 2008
5:30 AM - 8:00 AM - COPD 2009
- Can we alter natural history of COPD? - Kenneth Chapman, MD, Toronto,ON, Canada.
- Pharmacologic Managment of COPD: An update - Nicola Hanania, MBBS, FCCP, Houston,
TX
- The Comprehensive Management of COPD: the role of disease management - Sandra
Adams, MD - Sandra Adams, MD , San Antoni, TX
- Novel Targets of Therapy: Treating the Systemic Inflammation of COPD. - Mario Cazzola,
MD, Naples, Italy.
9:30 AM - 12 PM - Ultasonography in the ICU
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Keynote Address
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Pulmonary Function Testing in Pulmonary Unit
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM - Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Polysomnography in the Sleep Lab
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Advances and Controveries in Pleural Diseases
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "Approved" Home Sleep
Studies: Now What?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
5:30 AM - 8:00 AM - Controversies in Clinical Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM - Update on Central Sleep Apnea
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Management of Sleep Apnea
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Sleep Disorders: Moving from Diagnosis to Management Posters
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM - The Next Step in Managing Sarcoidosis: What are the New Techniques
and Drugs?
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM - Intersting Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Cases: Improving Patient
Care Through Exercise Testing
Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM - Health and Science Policy: ACCP Lung Cancer Guidelines for Patients
with Potentially Resectable Disease
9:45 - 11:15 AM - Bedside Ultrasonography in the ICU for the Rapid Evaluation of Acute
Respiratory Failure and Shock.