19th Annual International Asthma Conference at Nemacolin
Updated Conference Dates: November 15, 2024 - November 17, 2024
Speakers
Saif Al Qatarneh, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatric Pulmonary
WVU Medicine Children's Hospital
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Casandra Arevalo, MD
Assistant professor of Pediatrics
Acting Division Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary
Pediatric Director, Cystic Fibrosis & Therapeutics Development Centers
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Mian Muhammad Salman Aslam, MBBS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Michigan Medicine Severe Asthma Research Program
Department of Internal Medicine | Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Eugene Chang, MD, FACS
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Otolaryngology
Division Director, Neurorhinology
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA
James DeAngelo, DO, FAAAAI, FACOI, CPI
Allergy & Clinical Immunology Associates
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
Senior Physician Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Editor, NEJM Group
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robert F. Garry, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Dean, Biomedical Sciences
Tulane Medical School
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Marc Gauthier, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Deborah A. Gentile, MD
Medical Director and Clinical Associate Professor
Health Sciences
St. Francis University
Medical Director
Community Partners in Asthma Care
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Teal S. Hallstand, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, UWMC-ML Lung Function Testing Center
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Center for Lung Biology
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA
Wafa Hassan, MD
Clinical Fellow, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Atsushi Kato, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Allergy and Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jay K. Kolls, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
John W. Deming Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine
Director, Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation Tulane School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Allison Lastinger, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University
Associate Chief for Clinical Operations, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Musculoskeletal Infection Program
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Grace L. Lisius, MD
Fellow Physician
Division of Pulmonary,Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Meredith C. McCormack, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, BREATHE Center
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Benjamin D. Medoff, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and
Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases
Mass General Brigham
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Paul M. O'Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
Dean and Vice-President
Faculty of Health Sciences
Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine
Distinguished University Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
James N. Palmer, MD
David W. Kennedy, MD Endowed Professor
Director, Division of Rhinology
Co-Director, Center for Skull Base Surgery
Departments of ORL:HNS and Neurosurgery
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Reynold A. Panettieri Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Vice Chancellor, Clinical & Translational Science
Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine & Science
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Brian P. Peppers, DO, PhD
Associate Professor
Program Director for Allergy and Immunology Fellowship
Adult and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology
WVU Medicine Children's Hospital
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Vice President for Research of Tulane University
Professor of Pediatrics
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Hassan H. Ramadan, MD, MSc, FACS, FARS
Steven & Patricia Wetmore Professor and Chairman
Director Sinus & Allergy Center
Department of Otolaryngology H&N Surgery
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
T. Parks Remcho
PhD Candidate, Kolls Lab
Tulane School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
David P. Skoner, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
West Virginia University
School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Michael E. Wechsler, MD MMSc
Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice President, Innovation & Industry Relations
Director, NJH Cohen Family Asthma Institute
Department of Medicine
National Jewish Health
Denver, Colorado, USA
David N. Weissman, MD
Director, Respiratory Health Division, CDC-NIOSH
Adjunct Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Medicine, and Pediatrics
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Sally E. Wenzel Morganroth, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
UPMC Chair in Translational Airway Biology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Robert A. Wood, MD
Julie and Neil Reinhard Professor of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Professor of Pediatrics and International Health
Director, Eudowood Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Director, Pediatric Clinical Research Unit
Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical and Translational Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Schedule
Please note: All times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
5:00pm – 7:30pm – Conference Onsite Registration and Welcome Reception (Attendees & Guests Welcome)
Friday, November 15th, 2024
7:00am – 7:55am – Breakfast/Exhibits, Industry Product Theater with Breakfast provided by Maci’s Teams
8:00am – 8:15am – Welcome/Introduction to Conference (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – New Molecular Insights into Old Clinical Phenotypes – Sally Wenzel Morganroth, MD - 8:15am-10:15am
8:15am – Allergic Asthmatic Responses (Benjamin D. Medoff, MD)
8:35am – Dual Eosinophilic-Neutrophilic Asthma (Marc Gauthier, MD)
8:55am – The Immunopathogenesis of Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Asthma (Teal S. Hallstrand, MD, MPH)
9:15am – New Insights Into Nasal Polyps (Atsushi Kato, PhD)
9:35am – Discussion
10:15am - 10:30am - Break/Exhibits
10:30am – When I Can’t Relax, Am I Remodeled? (Reynold A. Panettieri Jr., MD)
Symposium – Food Allergy and Asthma – Deborah A. Gentile, MD – 11:00am-12:30pm
11:00am – Emerging Role of Biologics in Treatment of Asthma/Allergy (Deborah A. Gentile, MD)
11:20am - Biologics for Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (Evan S. Dellon, MD MPH)
11:40am - Role of Biologics in Food Allergy (Robert A. Wood, MD)
12:00pm – Discussion
12:35pm-1:30pm – Exhibits/Lunch Break, Industry Product Theater with Lunch provided by Maci’s Teams
1:35pm – Keynote Lecture
A Look at 50+ Years of Asthma Treatment - What the Past Tells us About the Future (Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD)
2:20pm – Asthma Powerhouse Roundtable
2:50pm – 3:10pm - Break/Exhibits/Faculty (Speaker) Group Picture
3:10pm – Medical Survivor (40 MIN)
3:50pm – 4:50pm – Fellows Oral Abstracts (Reynold A. Panettieri Jr., MD)
3:50pm - Evaluation of Novel Mucosal Adjuvant, LTA1’s Capacity to Modulate Type 2 Immune Responses to Intranasal House Dust Mite: a murine pilot study (T. Parks Remcho)
4:05pm - A double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of briquilimab in participants with allergic asthma (AA) (Wafa Hassan, MD)
4:20pm - Real World Experience with Tezepelumab in Steroid Dependent Asthma (Mian Muhammad Salman Aslam, MBBS)
4:35pm - Differences in epithelial gene expression profiles in asthma patients living in industrialized cities with high PM2.5 and SO2 exposures (Grace L. Lisius, MD)
4:50pm – Meeting Adjournment (David P. Skoner, MD)
6:30pm – 9:00pm – PRIVATE FACULTY (Speakers) ONLY Dinner, Meet at Chateau/Grand Lodge at 6:15pm for transportation.
Saturday, November 16th, 2024
7:10am – 8:00am – Breakfast/Exhibits, Light Breakfast will be provided by Maci’s Teams
8:00am – 8:15am - Welcome/Introduction (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – The Game of Thrones of Respiratory Infections: Are Vaccines Our New Dragons? – Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP – 8:15am-9:45am
8:15am - New RSV Prophylaxis (Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP)
8:35am - The Origins of COVID and its Vaccines (Robert F. Garry, PhD)
8:55am – Pneumococcal Vaccines (Meredith C. McCormack, MD MHS)
9:15am – Discussion
9:45am - Phil Fireman Keynote Lecture - Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Michael E. Wechsler, MD)
10:15am-10:30am - Break/Exhibits
Symposium – CRS and Asthma – Hassan H. Ramadan, MD, MSc, FACS, FARS – 10:30am-12:00pm
10:30am – William J. Doyle Keynote Lecture - Chronic Rhinosinusitis & Asthma, What Do we Know? (Hassan H. Ramadan, MD, MSc, FACS, FARS)
10:50am - CDHR3 – A Common Link Between CRS and Asthma? (Eugene Chang, MD, FACS)
11:10am - CRS and Asthma in Adults: The Role of Complete Surgery (James N. Palmer, MD)
11:30am – Discussion
12:00pm – MDI Shortage, in Light with New Asthma Guidelines for Pediatrics Patients (Saif Al Qatarneh, MD)
12:35pm–1:30pm – Exhibits/Lunch, Industry Product Theater with Lunch provided by Maci’s Teams
1:35pm – Pro-Con Debate: Allergen Immunotherapy Should Be Used in Patients with Allergic Asthma
Pro: Brian P. Peppers, DO, PhD
Con: Casandra Arevalo, MD
2:10pm – Pro-Con Debate: Severe Asthma Patients Should Fail Triple Drug Therapy with ICS/LABA/LAMA Before Starting a Biologic
Pro: Paul O’Byrne MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
Con: Reynold A. Panettieri Jr., MD
2:45pm – Meeting Adjournment (David P. Skoner, MD)
6:30pm – Farewell Dinner (All attendees/guests invited, RSVP Required), Quartz at Horizon Point. Shuttles will be available at the Chateau/Grand Lodge at 6:15pm
Sunday, November 17th, 2024
7:10am – 8:00am – Breakfast/Exhibits, Light Breakfast will be provided by Maci’s Teams
8:00am – 8:05am - Welcome/Introduction (David P. Skoner, MD)
Symposium – Co-Morbid Lung Diseases – Brian P. Peppers, DO, PhD– 8:05am-9:35am
8:05am – Gil Friday Keynote Lecture - Primary Immunodeficiency, Asthma and Lung Disease (Brian P. Peppers, DO, PhD)
8:25am - All that Wheezes: Occupational Mimics for Asthma (David N. Weissman, MD)
8:45am - Consulting ID: Challenges of Detecting and Treating Infections in Those with Chronic Lung Disease (Allison Lastinger, MD)
9:05am – Discussion
9:35am – Long Lived Tissue Resident Memory Cells implicate Glycolysis in Survival/Effector Function (Jay K. Kolls, MD)
10:05am - 10:20am - Break/Exhibits
Symposium – Biologics for Severe Asthma and Beyond – Paul O’Byrne MB, FRCP(C), FRSC – 10:20am-11:40am
10:20am – Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (Paul O’Byrne MB, FRCP(C), FRSC)
10:50am - Severe Asthma (Sally E. Wenzel Morganroth, MD)
11:20am - Discussion
11:40am – 11:50am – Closing Remarks/Meeting Adjournment (Paul O’Byrne MB, FRCP(C), FRSC)
➤ LOCATION
Nemacolin & Virtual
➤ Sponsored BY
Maci’s TEAMS non-profit organization
Teaching Everyone About Medicine Safety
West Virginia University