EPC 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021
4:25 – 4:30 PM
Introduction and conference objectives
Sidney Braman, MD
4:30 – 5:00 PM
2020 Asthma guideline: Update from the National Asthma Education and
Prevention Program
Mario Castro, MD
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Phenotypes and endotypes of asthma
Geoffrey Chupp, MD
5:30 – 6:00 PM
Novel therapies for severe asthma
Michael Wechsler, MD
6:00 – 6:15 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
Friday, October 1, 2021
7:45 – 8:15 AM
Future biologics for asthma -Where do we stand?
Rey Panettieri, MD
8:15 – 8:45 AM
Patient and ventilator interactions: Why cant we all just get along?
Jinesh Mehta, MD
8:45 – 9:15 AM
SMART therapy: How to and for whom?
Mario Castro, MD
9:15 – 9:30 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
9:30 – 10:15 AM
Breakout Session – PBL – 45-year-old asthmatic man with eosinophilia and pulmonary
infiltrates
Mario Castro, MD Sidney Braman, MD,
Rey Panettieri, MD Michael Wechsler, MD
10:15 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break: Visit exhibits and posters
11:00 – 11:25 AM
Unraveling eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA): Clinician awareness,
diagnosis, and management
Michael Wechsler, MD
11:25 – 11:30 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
11:30 – 11:55 PM
Occupational asthma
Lawrence Mohr Jr., MD
11:55 – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
12:00 – 12:25 PM
Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: Is it PPFE or apical capping?
Maria Padilla, MD
12:25 – 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
1:25 – 1:55 PM
2020 Delphi consensus recommendations for a treatment algorithm in pulmonary
sarcoidosis
Franck Rahaghi, MD
1:55 – 2:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
2:00 – 2:25 PM
Post-Covid pulmonary complications
Marilyn Glassberg, MD
2:25 – 2:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
2:30 – 3:15 PM
Breakout Session – PBL: Interstitial Lung Disease
Maria Padilla, MD, Franck Rahaghi, MD, Marilyn Glassberg, MD
Saturday, October 2, 2021
7:45 – 8:10 AM
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: Diagnosis and management
Ganesh Raghu, MD
8:10 – 8:15 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
8:15 – 8:40 AM
Future Biologics for COPD: Where do we stand?
Rey Panettieri, MD
8:40 – 8:45 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
8:45 – 9:30 AM
Breakout Session – PBL – A 60-year-old-man referred to you for evaluation of COPD and
frequent exacerbations
Sidney Braman, MD, William Corrao, MD,
Anne O'Donnell, MD, Rey Panettieri, MD
9:30 –10:15 AM
Coffee Break: Visit exhibits and posters
10:15 – 10:40 AM
Progressive fibrosing lung disease: Diagnosis and management
Ganesh Raghu, MD
10:40 – 10:45 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
10:45 – 11:10 AM
Sleep apnea: Practical lessons for the pulmonologist
Anas Hadeh, MD
11:10 – 11:15 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
11:15 – 12:30 PM
Lung cancer: Case-based discussion
Charles Powell, MD and Momen Wahidi, MD
1:25 – 1:55 PM
Malignant pleural effusions and pleural infections: Management strategies
Momen Wahidi, MD
1:55– 2:20 PM
Pulmonary toxicities associated with oncologic immunotherapies: Recognition and ASCO
management guidelines
Charles Powell, MD
2:20 – 2:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
Sunday, October 3, 2021
8:15 – 8:55 AM
PBL - A 5 -year-old woman with chronic cough for 6 months
Sidney Braman, MD and Peter Dicpinigaitis, MD
8:55 – 9:25 AM
Group 3 pulmonary hypertension: Pathogenesis and therapeutic approaches
David De La Zerda, MD
9:25 – 9:30 AM
Panel Discussion: Q & A
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9:30 – 11:00 AM
AcademicCME Symposium**
9:30 – 10:00 AM Update on the evaluation and management of chronic cough
Peter Dicpinigaitis, MD
10:00 – 10:30 AM Influenza 2021-2022: Nothing to sneeze at
Sidney Braman, MD
10:30 – 11:15 AM Update on the long-term applications of amikacin-based inhalation:
Therapeutics for the treatment of non-tuberculin mycobacterial lung disease
Anne O'Donnell, MD
Supported by an independent educational grant from Insmed
** These AcademicCME presentations are not part of the ACAAI-accredited CME Program. CME/CNE credit for these presentations is provided through AcademicCME
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