Program

Nov
07
Thursday
  • Nurses and Allied Health Network (CE/ANCC, pre-registration required)
    • Healthcare Professionals
    PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 100

    Location: Iris - Lily

    • Welcome - Pauline Bianchi, RN, BSN
    • Overview of ILD - Carolyn Spada, RN, BSN & Jennifer Hayes, RN, BSN
      • Definition
      • How do I recognize ILD in my patient
      • Symptoms/presentation
      • Outcomes
      • Major ILD categories
    • ILD Diagnosis - Wendi Mason, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC
      • Diagnostic workup
      • H&P
      • Exposure history
      • Outcomes
      • Serology
      • PFTs
      • HRCTs
      • SLB
      • Genetic testing and biomarkers
    • Challenges of ILD Management
      • Drug Therapy - Anne Turner, RN4, BSN, JD 
      • Oxygen - Susan Jacobs, RN, MS
      • Pulmonary Rehab - Karen S. Van Kerkhove, BSN, RN
      • Management of Comorbidity - Julie A. Porcelli, RN, MSN, CNL
      • Lung Transplant - Rebekah Edwards, DNP, FNP-C
      • Palliative Care - Kathleen Lindell, PhD, RN, ATSF, FAAN
    • Successful Management Strategies - Lori Flint, RN, BSN & Janell Reichuber, RN, BSN
      • Treat, transplant, trials, transition
    • PFF Updates - Pauline Bianchi, RN, BSN
    Please note that this session's program is subject to change. Lunch is included.
  • Community Pulmonologists and ILD Fellows (CME, pre-registration required)
    • Healthcare Professionals
    PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. MAXIMUM CAPACITY: 140

    Location: Cibolo 8-10
    Session Chair: Anoop M. Nambiar, MD, MS
     
    • Welcome - Anoop M. Nambiar, MD, MS
    • Practical approach to the evaluation of ILD - Lisa Lancaster, MD
    • Environmental links to ILD - Mridu Gulati, MD
    • Genetics of ILD - Jonathan Kropski, MD
    • Use of HRCT in ILD and IPF - Santiago Restrepo, MD
    • Lung biopsy: transbronchial, cryobiopsy, and surgical - Fayez Kheir, MD
    • New IPF Diagnostic Guidelines: Fleischner vs. ATS - Ganesh Raghu, MD
    • What’s new in CTD-ILDs? - Tessy Paul, MD
    • Pharmacologic therapies for IPF - Mary Beth Scholand, MD
    • Lung Transplantation: who should be referred and when? - Kathleen Lindell, PhD, RN
    • PH-ILD: does treatment improve outcomes? - Steve Nathan, MD
    • Patient-focused management for the ILD patient - Deborah Levine, MD
    • Interesting cases & Multidisciplinary Team Simulation - Joao A. de Andrade
    • Panel Discussion: Ayodeji Adegunsoye, MD, Joyce Johnson, MD, Steven Nathan, MD, Ganesh Raghu, MD, and Santiago Restrepo, MD
    • All group Q&A - Panel 

    Lunch is included. 
  • Patient and Caregiver Lunch: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Management & Patient Perspectives — Sponsored by Genentech
    • Individuals Living with PF
    • Recently Diagnosed Patients and Their Caregivers
    • Transplant Recipients and Individuals Who Lost a Loved One
    Location: Larkspur-Indian Paintbrush Meeting Room
  • Pulmonary Fibrosis Overview and Introduction to the PFF
    • Recently Diagnosed Patients and Their Caregivers
    Location: Cibolo 1-3

     

    • Overview of pulmonary fibrosis
      • What is pulmonary fibrosis? - Joyce Lee, MD
      • Causes and classification of pulmonary fibrosis - Joyce Lee, MD
      • Testing and monitoring in pulmonary fibrosis - Joyce Lee, MD
      • Symptom management - Wendi Mason, MSN, NP
    • Case Study - Erica Farrand, MD
    • Introduction to the PFF and Care Center Network - Pauline Bianchi, BSN, RN
    • Panel Q&A - Joyce Lee, MD; Wendi Mason, MSN, NP; Erica Farrand, MD; Pauline Bianchi, BSN, RN
  • PFF Care Center Network Meeting - Closed Meeting
    • Healthcare Professionals
    Location: Periwinkle-Verbena
  • PFF Patient Registry Meeting - Closed Meeting
    • Healthcare Professionals
    Location: Periwinkle-Verbena
  • Welcome Reception and Poster Presentation
    • Healthcare Professionals
    • Individuals Living with PF
    • Recently Diagnosed Patients and Their Caregivers
    • Transplant Recipients and Individuals Who Lost a Loved One
    Location: Cibolo Ballroom

    Scientific abstracts from both academia and industry
Nov
08
Friday
Nov
09
Saturday
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