NHLBI Guidelines -- From Paper to Practice
 From Birth Through Adulthood: 
 Strategies to Assess and Manage Control

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Meeting Objectives

• To provide participants with the strategies (tools) to assess control as defined by the NHLBI guidelines. 
  
  
• To teach participants how to integrate assessment strategies into practice.
  
  
• To teach participants to assess, diagnose, and manage potential risk and impairment for asthma in infants, toddlers, and pre-school aged children

This educational activity is co-provided with
Oakton Community College and the Chicago Asthma Consortium

Meeting Agenda

USING PATIENT-COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES TO ASSESS AND TO MEASURE ASTHMA CONTROL IN CHILD AND ADULT ASTHMA PATIENTS
Aaron Donnell, MD, Chicago Family Asthma & Allergy, SC
Dr. Donnell is board certified in Allergy/Immunology and Pediatrics and is co-owner of Chicago Family Asthma & Allergy in Chicago. He completed fellowships in Allergy/Immunology through Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine at Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

PANEL DISCUSSION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INCORPORATING PATIENT-COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES INTO A CLINICAL SETTING
Thomas Bockle, MD, Lawndale Christian Health Center; Kristen Ellensohn, CNP, PCC Community Wellness Center; and Michael Lapsansky, RRT, CPFT, Advocate South Suburban Hospital

ASTHMA IN INFANTS, TODDLERS, AND PRE-SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN
Leonard B. Bacharier, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Director, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology & Pulmonary Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine and St Louis Children's Hospital
Dr. Bacharier is one of the nation's leading experts on asthma in infants, toddlers, and pre-school-aged children. Currently, he is a co-investigator in the Childhood Asthma Management Program, a multi-centered prospective trial examining the effects of early treatment of asthma on lung growth and an investigator in the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network, a multi-centered network examining novel therapeutic approaches in childhood asthma.
PART I: CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHEEZERS FROM BIRTH TO AGE FIVE
PART II: ASTHMA RISKS: ASSESSMENT, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT

Faculty Disclosure Statement

CMEs/CNEs/CEs

Doctors
The American College of Chest Physicians designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM   ACCP Accreditation Statement
Nurses
Oakton Community College/Alliance for Lifetime Learning Continuing Education for Health Professionals designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3.3 ANCC Contact Hours. ANCC RN CNE Statement

Respiratory Therapists
The Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago is an approved continuing education sponsor by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. 4.0 continuing education hours of credit will be awarded upon completion of the program. 

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