Onslow Medical Specialties Clinic
Jacksonville, NC
5th International WASOG Conference on  Diffuse
Lung Disease, Charleston, SC.  March 25- 27,
2009.
Professor of Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine
Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Robert Baughman, MD
Professor, University of Cincinnati Physicians Cincinnati, OH

Agnes Boots, PhD
Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The
Netherlands

Kevin Brown, MD
Vice Chairman, Medicine Dept; Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program,
National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

Harold Collard, MD
Director, Interstitial Lung Disease Program
Asst Professor, Dept of Medicine
University of California San Francisco, San California, CA

Ulrich Costabel, MD
Professor of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen; Chief, Dept of Pneumonology/Allergy
Ruhrlandklinik, Essen

Marjolein Drent, MD,PhD
Professor, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical center, Maastricht, The
Netherlands

Eric Edell, MD
Professor of Medicine, Div of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, MN

Linda Efferen,MD
Asso Professor of Clinical Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Peter Engel, MD,FACC
Cardiologist OHVC; Co-Director Cincinnati PH Clinic, Cincinnati, OH

Andrew Fontenot, MD
Henry Claman Associate Professor of Medicine; Division Head, Allergy & Immunology,
University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO

Johan Grunewald, MD,PhD
Professor of Experimental Resp Medicine
Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska Hospital
Stockholm, Sweded

Russell Harley, MD
Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, MUSC, Charleston, SC

Kristin Highland, MD
Asso Professor of Medicine; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, MUSC,
Charleston,SC

Karina Keogh, MD
Asst Professor of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, MN

David Lynch, MD
Professor of Radiology, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado.

Joachim Muller-Quernhelm, MD
Professor, Head Dept of Pneumonology
University Medical center, Freiburg, Germany

Imre Noth, MD
Asso Professor of Medicine, Pulmo/CC Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Annie Pardo, PhD
Professor, UNAM; Head, Post-Graduate Studies, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Mexico DF, Mexico.

Martin Petrek, MD,PhD
Professor of Immunology, Lab of Immunogenomics and Proteomies, Palacky University
Olomouc, CZEC Republic

Viasis Polychronopoulos, MD
Director, 3rd Chest Dept, Sismanoglion, General Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Genesh Raghu, MD,FACP,FCCP
Prof of Medicine & Lab Med/ Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Director, Interstitial Lung Diseases and Lung Transplant Program
Paola Rottoli, MD
Professor/ Director of Respiratory Disease, Siena University, Siena, Italy.

Moises Selman, MD
Director of Research, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades, Respiratorias,
Mexico DF, Mexico

Richard Silver, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director of Rheumatology & Immunology
MUSC, Charleston, SC

Mark Steele, MD
Clinical Asso Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center,  Durham, NC

Charlie Strange, MD
Professor Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, MUSC, Charleston, SC

Ulrich Specks, MD
Professor of Medicine; Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Med, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Violeta Vucinic, MD,PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine & Pulmonology
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

David Zisman, MD,MS
Asst Prof of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Dr Collard
Non-specific Interstitial Pneumonitis secondary to CVD - Dr Brown
Sarcoidosis  - Dr Baughman
Pathogenesis of Scleroderma and Scleroderma Interstitial Lung Disease - Dr Silver
The Treatment of Scleroderma  - Dr Strange
Pulmonary Hypertension in Scleroderma - Dr Highland
Health Related Quality of Life in Interstitial Lung Dieases: Why We Should Measure It? How
We Should Measure It?  - Dr Judson
Health Related Quality of Life in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis -     Dr Vucinic
The Impact of Sarcoidosis on the Patient's Life - Dr Drent
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Dr Noth
Sarcoidosis  - Dr Muller-Quernheim
The Treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis with Pirfenidone - Dr Azuma
Bronchoscopic Findings in Wegener's Granulomatosis  - Dr Polychronopoulos
The Role of Anti-Oxidants in Sarcoidosis - dr Drent

Thursday, March 26, 2009
8:00 AM - 4:20 PM
Sarcoidosis  - Dr Engel
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Dr Zisman
Interstitial Lung Disease Related Collagen Vascular Disease  - Dr Highland
The Use of High Resolution CT scanning in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease  - Dr
Lynch
The Use of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Diseases - Dr
Costabel
The Use of Pathology in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease - Dr Harley
How to Use Clinical Date in conjunction with laboratory tests to make a diagnosis of
Interstitial lung disease.  - Dr Raghu
Overview of Pathogenic Mechanisms in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - dr Seman
Proteomics - Dr Rottoli
The Role of Metalloproteinases in the Development of Lung Fibrosis - Dr Pardo
Updat on Clinical Management of Wegener's Granulomatosis & Microscopic Polyangiitis - dr
Specks
Tracheobronchial Manifestations of Wegener's Granulomatosis: yhe Interventional
Bronchoscopic Perspective  - Dr Edell
Updat on the Churg Strauss Syndrome  - Dr Keogh

Friday, March 27, 2009
9 AM - 11:50 AM
What has Chronic Beryllium Disease Taught Us about Sarcoidosis?  - Dr Fonenot
Review of Bio-markers in Sarcoidosis  - Dr Efferon
Potential Future Therapies for Sarcoidosis  - Dr Baughman
HLA and Sarcoidosis  - Dr Grunewald
The Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis  - Dr Judson