2011 Pittsburgh International Lung Conference
At the 2011 Pittsburgh International Lung Conference, sponsored by the Vascular Medicine Institute of the University of Pittsburgh, and the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, experts will discuss advances in personalized medicine for improving medical and lifestyle outcomes in patients with lung disease and members of their families who may carry risk factors for lung disease.
Hear about this course from course directors Mark Gladwin, MD, and Naftali Kaminski, MD:
This intensive 2-day conference features more than 50 national and international leaders in:
- pulmonary medicine
- genomics
- genetics
- biomarker discovery
- clinical research
There is focus on personalized medicine approaches for:
- asthma
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- acute lung injury
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- sarcoidosis
- cystic fibrosis
- interstitial lung disease
- pulmonary hypertension
- alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- pulmonary vascular disease
Clinical and research updates in all major lung diseases are interspersed and complemented by detailed webinars, where required, thus ensuring and providing a state-of-the-art update on the scientific and clinical advances in personalized medicine of lung disease. The presentations and discussions will lay out the promises, limitations, and challenges of personalized medicine in lung disease, specifically the impact on drug development, diagnostics and improved outcomes for people with lung disease; people at risk for lung disease; and the population at large.
This conference of scientists, clinicians, and industry specialists presents a unique opportunity to discuss the current knowledge and practice of gene-based personalized medicine and its future application to the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory disease.
Activity Directors
Division Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Director, Vascular Medicine Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Human Genetics and Computational Biology
Director, Dorothy P. & Richard P. Simmons Center for ILD
Director, Lung, Blood and Vascular Center for Genomic Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CME Credit
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded 1.6 continuing education units (CEU’s) which are equal to 16.5 contact hours.
