Onslow Medical Specialties Clinic
Jacksonville, NC  
Lahey Clinic's Interventional Pulmonology
Course,
Burlington, MA   March 28 - 31, 2007
Lahey Clinic Faculty:
John Beamis,Jr, MD   - Chairman, Division of Internal Medicine
Course Director
Timothy Anderson, MD  - Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck
Surgery
Sheila Cunniff, RN,BS    - Administrative Director, Department of
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Anthony Gray, MD    - Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Medicine
Carla Lamb, MD        - Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
David Riker, MD       - Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Maher Tabba, MD     - Interventional Pulmonary Fellow,
Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Andrew Villanueva, MD - Chairman, Department of Pulmonary &
Critical Care Medicine
Laboratory Faculty:
Joan Gabriel, RN
Laurie Lennon, LPN
Tia Love, CA
Susan Noonan, LPN
Donna Reilley, RN
Anne Riley, RN
Peggy Russo, CA

Guest Faculty
Armin Ernst, MD        -  Director, Interventional Pulmonology
Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center,
Boston, Massachusetts
Rita Jean-Francois, MD -  Director of Pulmonary Endoscopy
Notre- Dame Hospital, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Edward Haponik, MD -  Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Wake Forest University Medical Center,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Kevin Kovitz, MD       -  Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Tulane University Medical Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pyng Lee, MD              - Consultant, Dept of Respirology & Critical Care
Medicine, Singapore General Hospital
Praveen Mathur, MBBS - Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
& Occupational Medicine, Indiana University,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Atul Mehta, MBBS       - Director, Bronchoscopy Service
Vice Chairman, Pulmonary Division,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
David Ost, MD              - Director, Interventional Pulmonology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY
R. Wesley Shepherd, MD - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
VCU Health Systems Medical College of
Virginia, Richmond, VA
Alain Tremblay, MD       - Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory
Medicine, Department of Oncology,
Department of Medical Oncology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary,
Calgary, Canada
Michael Unger, MD       - Fox Case Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD - Department of Thoracic Surgery,
Graduate School of Medicine,
Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

March 28, 2007 - Wednesday

1:00 PM     - Welcome & Introduction   -  John Beamis, Jr, MD

Pleural Diseases
1:30 PM     - Pleuroscopy - The Basics  -
Andrew Villanueva, MD
2:00 PM     - Use of Pleural Catheter      - Alain Tremblay, MD
2:30 PM     - Flexi-Rigid Pleuroscopy  - Pyng Lee, MD
3:00 PM     - Break

Upper Airway
3:30 PM     - Laryngo-tracheal stenosis  -
Timothy Anderson, MD
4:00 PM     - Percutaneous Tracheostomy  - Anthony Gray, MD
4:30 PM     - Improving TBNA Yield              - Edward Haponik, MD
5:00 PM     - Billing & Coding for Interventional Procedures
-
David Ost, MD
5:30 PM     - Adjourn

March 29, 2007 - Thursday

Advanced Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
7:30 AM     - Does Early Lung Cancer Exist?     -  
Michael Unger, MD
8:00 AM     - Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy  - Maher Tabba, MD
8:30 AM     - Navigational Bronchoscopy    - Atul Mehta, MBBS
9:00 AM     - Break

Therapeutic Bronchoscopy I
9:15 AM     - Rigid Bronchoscopy     -
Carla Lamb, MD
9:45 AM     - Laser Bronchoscopy    - John Beamis, Jr, MD
10:15 AM   - Endoscopic Management of Tracheal Stenosis -
Kevin Kovitz, MD
10:45 AM   - Break
11:00 AM   - Balloons and Tubes for Airways and Pleura  -
Praveen
Mathur, MD
11:30 AM   - Stents  -  John Beamis, Jr, MD
12:00 PM   - Bronchoscopic LVRS   - David Riker, MD
12:30 PM   - Lunch
1:30 PM     - Laboratory Sessions
Rigid Bronchoscopy -
Kovitz, Gray, Riker, Donna
Foreign Body Removal  - Ost, Susan
TBNA  - Haponik, Mehta, Unger, Anne, Peggy
Thorascopy Trainer - Villanueva, Mathur, Tia
Flexiscope - Lee
Endobronchial Ultrasound - Tremblay, Yasufuku, Joan
Autofluorescence  - Shepherd
Navigational Bronchoscopy - Lamb, Laurie
5:15 PM     - Adjourn

March 30, 2007 - Friday
8:00 AM     - Grand Rounds at Lahey Clinic - Lung Transplantation 2007
-
Atul Mehta, MBBS

Therapeutic Bronchoscopy II
9:00 AM     - Electrocautery & Argon Plasma Coagulation -
R. Wesley
Shepherd, MD
9:30 AM     - Cryotherapy   -  Rita Jean-Francois, MD
10:00 AM   - Tracheomalacia & Excessive Dynamic Collapse
-
Armin Ernst, MD
10:30 AM   - Break
11:00 AM   - Laboratory Sessions
Laser Bronchoscopy  -
Gray, Donna
Microdebrider Station - Lamb
Cryosurgery/ Argon Plasma Coagulator  - Mathur, Unger,
Jean-Francois, Anne, Susan
Electrocautery  - Mehta, Tabba, Joan
Stents I  -  Ost, Riker, Tia
Stents II -  Kovitz, Shepherd, Peggy
12:15 PM   - Lunch
1:15 PM     - Laboratory Sessions continued
5:00 PM     - Adjourn


March 31, 2007 - Saturday

8:00 AM     - Laboratory Sessions
Thorascoscopy & Pleural Catheters -
Mathur, Riker, Susan
Percutaneous Tracheostomy - Gray, Tabba, Anne, Tia
Video Workshop - Beamis, Ost, Riker, Unger
1:00 PM     - Adjourn
Lahey Clinic Course Faculty and participating Pulmonologists from all
over the United States
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