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2012 Session TitlesThe ATS International Conference Program offers the latest in pulmonary, critical care and sleepmedicine for ATS members and other physicians, scientists and healthcare professionals.
Following are lists of postgraduate courses, scientific symposia, track sessions, seminars andworkshops offered at ATS 2012 • San Francisco.
FRIDAY, MAY 18
POSTGRADUATE COURSES8:00 am – 4:00 pm
PG1 Pulmonary Adaptive Immunity: More Than Just Crossing Your T's
PG2 Grant Fundamentals For Clinical, Community, And Public Health Researchers
PG3 Lung Cancer: State Of The Art In 2012
PG4 Intensive Care Unit Monitoring
PG5 Pulmonary And Critical Care Reviews: Built Around ABIM 2011 Modules (Updates) InPulmonary And Critical Care
PG6 Incorporating Ultrasound And Echocardiography Into Intensive Care Unit Practice
PG7 Epigenetics Of Lung Diseases
PG8 Difficult Clinical Problems In Pulmonary Infections
PG9 The Cellular Foundation Of Pediatric Respiratory Disease
PG10 Sleep Disordered Breathing And Associated Co-Morbidities In Children: From Bench ToBedside
PG11 New Science In The Comprehensive Management Of The Chronic ObstructivePulmonary Disease Patient
PG12 Case-Based Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) Interpretation: The Foundations
PG13 What’s New In Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Cardiovascular Disease?
PG14 Leadership Workshop: Developing Skills To Advance Your Career And Improve YourWork Environment. Day 1
SATURDAY, MAY 19
POSTGRADUATE COURSES8:00 am – 4:00 pm
PG15 Enhancing Patient Centered Care And Improving Outcomes Through MotivationalInterviewing: A Hands On Course- CANCELLED
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PG16 Thoracic Imaging
PG17 Management Of Interstitial Lung Disease: A Case-Based Approach
PG18 Exacerbations Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Measurement, Mechanisms,Modeling And Management
PG19 Novel Approaches To Investigate Occupational And Environmental Causes In CommonLung Diseases
PG20 Host Defense Mechanisms In Pulmonary Infection
PG21 The Physiologic Basis Of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases
PG22 Update In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: What's New, What's Now
PG23 Update On Venous Thromboembolism
PG24 Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET): An Evidence And Case-Based Update 2012
PG25 Master Physiology Class: Common Pulmonary Diseases From A PhysiologicPerspective
PG26 Current And Emerging Treatments For Sleep Disordered Breathing
PG27 Mastering Clinical Teaching Skills For Pulmonary And Critical Care
PG28 Leadership Workshop: Developing Skills To Advance Your Career And Improve YourWork Environment. Day 2
PG29 American Thoracic Society Bronchoscopy Course
SUNDAY, MAY 20
HANDS-ON LUNG BIOPSY SKILLS WORKSHOP7:00 am - 12:00 pm
H1 Hands-On Lung Biopsy Skills Workshop: Mutational Testing In The Era Of PersonalizedNSCLC Therapy
YEAR IN REVIEW8:15 am – 10:15 am
A1 Clinical Year In Review 1
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE8:15 am – 10:45 am
A2 Evaluation Of Interstitial Lung Disease: More Bang For Your Buck
A3 Fellows Case Conference
CRITICAL CARE TRACK8:15 am – 10:45 am
A4 What Do You Do Now? Clinical Challenges At The Edge Of The Evidence
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA8:15 am – 10:45 am
A5 Dyspnea Update And The Road Ahead
A6 The Price Of Progress: Lung Injury Before And After Pediatric Lung Transplantation
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A7 Airway Remodeling And Hyperresponsiveness In Asthma: What Are They And What CanWe Do About Them?
A8 ARRA-Funded Lung Stem And Progenitor Cell Projects
A9 Epigenetics At The Crossroads: The Intersection Between The Lung And TheEnvironment
A10 HIV-Associated Pulmonary Complications In The Era Of Antiretroviral Therapy
A11 Adult Cystic Fibrosis: The Essentials
A12Discussion On The Edge: Reports Of Recent Pulmonary Research Published In The New EnglandJournal Of Medicine Or The Journal Of The American Medical Association
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 am – 10:45 am
A13 Advances In COPD Pathogenesis And Exacerbation Susceptibility
A14 Tuberculosis Host Defense
A15 Airway Responses To Respiratory Viral Infection
A16 The Matrix In Control: Pathobiology Driven By Matrix Remodeling And Rigidity
A17 Pathogenic Mechanisms Of Acute Lung Injury
A18 Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Interventions And New Associations
A19 Novel Insights And Novel Approaches: Late Breaking Abstracts
A21 First Responders: Mucosal Innate Immunity
A22 Psychosocial Factors Associated With Respiratory Health Outcomes
A23 Novel Technology In Interventional Pulmonology
A24 Clinical Sepsis
A25 Predicting Development And Outcomes In Acute Lung Injury
A26 Work-Related Lung Disease: Clinical And Epidemiological Approaches
A27 Health Effects Of Nanoparticles
A28 Lung Development: Bench To Bedside
A29 Pathogenesis Of Pulmonary Hypertension
A30 Pulmonary Vices: Cigarette Smoke, Alcohol And Oxidative Stress Responses Of TheLung
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
A31 Pathogenesis Of COPD And Emphysema In Mice And Men
A32 Smoke-Related Alterations In Lung Biology
A33 Acute Lung Injury
A34 New Insights Into Sarcoidosis
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A35 Recent Advances In Phagocyte Biology
A36 Cytokines And Chemokines In Airways Disease
A37 Lipids In Lung Diseases
A38 Microbial Influences On Asthma And COPD
A39 Improving Quality In The Intensive Care Unit
A40 The Economic Burden Of Respiratory Disease And Cost- Effectiveness Of Treatments
A41 COPD: What's The Score?
A42 COPD: Phenotypes And Outcomes
A43 COPD: Functional Assessment And Exercise
A44 Topics In Benign And Malignant Pleural Disease
A45 Non-Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Interstitial Lung Diseases
A46 Intensive Care Unit Management And Rapid Response: Provider And Patient Outcomes
A47 Diagnostic Techniques And Monitoring
A48 Mechanical Ventilation
A49 Air Pollution: Respiratory And Novel Health Effects
A50 Health Effects Of Indoor Air Pollutants
A51 Diet, Overweight, Diabetes And Lung Disease
A52 Differentiating Health Care Associated Pneumonia From Community AcquiredPneumonia
A53 Epidemiology, Risk Factors, And Outcomes Of Respiratory Infections
A54 Assessing Severity Of Disease In Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia
A55 Lung Development And Chronic Lung Disease Of Prematurity
A56 Pediatric And Neonatal Critical Care
A57 Pulmonary Barriers To Edema Formation
A58 Clinical Evaluation Of Pulmonary Hypertension
A59 Fibroblast Biology Reloaded
A60 COPD: Omics
A61 Antifibrotics And Therapeutic Targets In Experimental Lung Fibrosis
A62 New Insights In Acute Lung Injury: In Vivo And In Vitro
A63 New Concepts In The Alveolar Surfactant Structure And Function
A64 Local And Systemic Effects Of Smoke Exposure
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A65 Lung Imaging: Physiology And Technology
A66 Modeling, Mechanics And Gas Exchange
A67 Acute Lung Injury And Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Biological Mechanisms
A68 Tissue Remodeling In The Lung
A69 Neural Control Of The Airway
A70 Sleep Disordered Breathing: Cardiovascular And Metabolic Aspects
WORKSHOPS11:30 am – 1:00 pm
WS1 Endobronchial Ultrasound Workshop
WS2 Mycobacterial And Fungal Diagnostics
SESSIONS BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
L1 Tips From The Other Side: Making Grant Applications Attractive To The National InstituteOf Nursing Research
L2 Pulmonary Update From The U.S. Food And Drug Administration
L3 NASA’S Satellites And Their Use In Studying The Environement And Diseases
L4 The NIAID Human Immunology Project Consortium: Influenza And Systems Biology
L5 Update From CDC's TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) And TB Epidemiologic StudiesConsortium (TBESC)
L6 Infant Study Of Inhaled Saline In Cystic Fibrosis (ISIS)
L7 The Lung HIV Microbiome Project: Validation, Healthy Volunteers, And Diseased States
L8 NHLBI Childhood Asthma Research And Education (CARE) Network: New StudyFindings
L9 Effects Of Adenotonsillectomy On Health Outcomes In Children With Sleep Apnea:Results From The Childhood Adenotonsillectomy (CHAT) Study
L26 Developmental Origins of Asthma: Primary Prevention Strategies
MEET THE PROFESSOR SEMINARS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
MP401 Managing Asthma Phenotypes For The Clinician
MP402 Does Addressing Health Literacy Improve Health Outcomes?
MP403 Prevention Of COPD Exacerbations: Current And Novel Approaches
MP404 Autoantibodies And Lung Disease
MP405 Bronchiectasis: Case Based Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment
MP406 Diagnosing And Managing Interstitial Lung Disease In The Elderly Patient
MP407 Advances In Adult Cystic Fibrosis For The Non-CF Physician
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MP408 Role Of The Pulmonary Intensivist In The Paradigm Of Accountable Care Organizations
MP409 Malignant Pleural Effusion: What Are My Options?
MP410 Achieving Zero CLABSI Rates In Your ICU
MP411 Tuberculosis And The TNF-Alpha Inhibitors
MP412 Non-Pharmacologic Intervention For Insomnia Co-Morbid With Chronic Illness
MP413 Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation
MP414 Surgical Risk Assessment And Management In The Patient With PulmonaryHypertension
MP415 The Do's And Don'ts Of A K08 Application
MP416 Obesity And Asthma Overlap: Insight Into Pathophysiology And Treatment Strategies
MP417 Developing New ATS/ERS Recommendations For Methacholine Challenge Testing
MP418 Women And Sleep
THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
TSS1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PROGRAM2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
A81 Scientific Breakthroughs Symposium: Biomarkers For Lung Disease: The Cutting Edge
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
A82 Emerging Science Of Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis
A83 Great Cases: Clinical, Radiologic And Pathologic Correlations By Master Physicians
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
A85 The IL33/ST2 Axis: New Biology And New Potential Targets In Asthma
A86 Neonatal Origins Of Adult Pulmonary Disease
A87 Arrhythmogenesis And Cardiac Disease In Sleep Disordered Breathing: MechanismsAnd Clinical Implications
A88 Microparticles: Small Wonders Or A Big Deal In Pulmonary Injury And Disease?
A89 Novel Inflammatory And Repair Pathways In Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
A90 Pediatric Non-Invasive Ventilation
A91 Advances in Lung Transplant
A111 Drugs, Regulatory Agencies and Guidelines: The Challenge of Idiopathic PulmonaryFibrosis
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
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A92 Severe Asthma: Present And Future
A93 Identifying Risk Factors And Potential Interventions For Asthma Adherence
A94 The New Biology Of Sepsis
A95 Hygiene Hypothesis Revisited
A96 Transitions In Health Care Setting, Disease Management, And Disease State
A97 Modeling Remodeling: How Disease Affects The Airways
A98 Nanotech Meets The Lung
A101 Pharmacological Treatment Of Copd: Old And New
A102 Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness
A103 Health Services Research And Administrative Databases
A104 Tuberculosis In Vulnerable Populations
A105 Evaluation Of Pediatric Lung Diseases
A106 Advances In Diagnosis And Treatment Of Pulmonary Embolism
A107 Assessment, Exercise Training And Outcomes
A108 Airways Hyperresponsiveness: Causes And Treatments
A109 Upper Airway Control, Structure And Function
A110 Emerging Insights Into Obstructive Lung Disease: Late Breaking Abstracts
MONDAY, MAY 21
SUNRISE SEMINARS7:00 am – 8:00 am
SS101 Eosinophils: Friend Or Foe In Pulmonary Disease?
SS102 Pulmonary Hypertension In Interstitial Lung Disease
SS103 Diagnosing And Treating Collagen Vascular Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
SS104 Optimizing Efficiency And Yield With EBUS-TBNA
SS105 What Is My Pathologist Trying To Tell Me?
SS106 Optimizing The Patient For Lung Transplantation
SS107 Acute COPD Exacerbation Phenotypes: Recognition And Treatment
SS108 Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation: Beyond Weaning Parameters
SS109 Real-World Spirometry: Pitfalls That Falsely Elevate (Or Reduce) Results
SS110 Infectious Etiologies Of Asthma And Asthma Exacerbation
SS111 Dyspnea Crisis: Translation Into Practice
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SS112 Management Of Emerging Drug-Resistant Strains Of Bacteria That Cause Pneumonia InChildren
SS113 Pulmonary Complications Of Liver Disease
SS114 Contemporary Techniques For Epigenetic And Epigenomic Studies In Lung Disease
SS115 Practical Integration Of Novel And Established Imaging Techniques For The DiagnosisAnd Staging Of Lung Cancer
SS116 The Use Of Image Analysis In Quantifying The Pathology Of Lung Diseases
SS117 What The Pulmonologist Should Know About Sleep In Respiratory Disease
THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES7:00 am – 8:00 am
TSS1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
TSS2 Drug-Induced Lung Disease
HANDS-ON LUNG BIOPSY SKILLS WORKSHOP7:00 am - 12:00 pm
H2 Hands-On Lung Biopsy Skills Workshop: Mutational Testing In The Era Of PersonalizedNSCLC Therapy
YEAR IN REVIEW8:15 am – 10:15 am
B1 Clinical Year In Review 2
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE8:15 am – 10:45 am
B2 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations: Lessons Learned From ClinicalTrials
B3 Pushing The Envelope: Reevaluating The Criteria For Lung Transplant CandidateSelection
CRITICAL CARE TRACK8:15 am – 10:45 am
B4 An Ounce Of Prevention In Critical Care
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA8:15 am – 10:45 am
B5 Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias/Pulmonary Fibrosis: Is 'Idiopathic' Truly 'Idiopathic'?
B6 Controversies In The Treatment Of Childhood Asthma: A Pro-Con Debate
B7 Controversies In The Diagnosis And Management Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: CuttingEdge Debates
B8 The Updated ATS/ERS Statement On Pulmonary Rehabilitation
B9 Targeting The Alveolome: Intercellular Crosstalk In Alveolar Injury, Repair, And Therapy
B10 Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Update: Guidelines Plus 5
B11 Probing The Lung Microbiome In Health And Disease
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B12 Improving Care For Severe Sepsis In Resource-Limited Settings
B13Discussion On The Edge: Reports Of Recent Critical Care Research Published In The Journal OfThe American Medical Association Or The New England Journal Of Medicine
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 am – 10:45 am
B14 Control Of Innate And Adaptive Immunity In The Lung
B15 Clinical Outcomes Research Methodology
B16 Cystic Fibrosis: Novel Therapies And Outcome Measures
B17 How Bad Is Traffic Pollution? Health Effects And Interventions
B18 Rare Pediatric Lung Disease: Expanding Our Understanding
B19 Update In Clinical Trials Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
B20 Emerging Approaches To Respiratory Infections: Late Breaking Abstracts
B21 Genetics Of Asthma
B22 Advances In The Treatment Of Lung Cancer
B23Outcomes, Health Services And Patient-Centered Research In The Intensive CareUnit
B24 Process Improvement: Impact On Outcomes Of Patients With Pneumonia
B25 Smoking Across The Research Spectrum: Symptoms, Genetics, And Quality Of Life
B26 Pulmonary Vascular Signaling In Pulmonary Hypertension
B27 Balancing Act: Novel Functions Of The Protease And Antiproteases In The Lung
B28 Emerging Biomarkers Of Complex Lung Diseases
B29 The Lung On The Border Between Order And Chaos
B30Mechanisms Of Muscle Weakness In Critical Illness: Translating Basic Science To TheBedside
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
B31 Environmental Exposures That Influence Lung Function
B32 Test Your Diagnostic Skills: Interesting Cases
B33 Asthma Therapy: Novel Approaches
B34 Inflammatory Mechanisms In Asthma
B35 Pathogenesis And Clinical Issues In Cystic Fibrosis
B36 Airway Hyperresponsiveness
B37 New Insights Into Asthma And COPD Treatment
B38 Barriers To Self-Management And Access To Care And Strategies To Overcome Them
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B39 Current Practices In Medical Education: Residents To Practicing Physicians
B40 Lung Volume Reduction In COPD
B41 COPD: Pharmacological Treatment
B42 Case Reports: General Pulmonary
B43 Endobronchial Ultrasound: Diagnostic Applications
B44 Advances In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Sarcoidosis
B45 Exacerbations Of COPD: Prevention, Treatment And Outcomes
B46Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome And Ventilator Induced-Lung Injury: Bench ToBedside Advances
B47 Intensive Care Unit Physiotherapy And Weaning: Mind Over Muscle?
B48 Non-Invasive Ventilation
B49 Non-Pulmonary Critical Care
B50 Clinical Trials In The Intensive Care Unit
B51 Air Pollution And Temperature: Cardiovascular Effects
B52Recognizing Occupational And Environmental Lung Disease: Clinical And ExposureAssessment
B53 Asthma Epidemiology: Trends And Risk Factors
B54 Tuberculosis In Special Populations
B55 Host Defense In Pulmonary Infection And Tuberculosis
B56 Pathogenesis And Host Response To Fungal Lung Infections
B57 Improving Outcome In Tuberculosis
B58 Tuberculosis Education And Surveillance
B59 Asthma: Devices, Adherence, And Health Outcomes
B60 Nursing In Pulmonary And Critical Care
B61 Pediatric Asthma
B62 Pediatric Clinical Cases
B63 Experimental Models In Pulmonary Hypertension I
B64 Right Ventricle In Pulmonary Vascular Disease
B65 Epigenetic Regulation Of Lung Cell Function
B66 The Fibroblast Pool On The Move: Derivation And Targeting
B67 Ion Transport In Lung Cells: Impact On Lung Function And Disease
B68 Lung Structure And Growth
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B69 Airway Structure And Function
B70 Sleep Disordered Breathing: Pathophysiology
WORKSHOPS11:30 am – 1:00 pm
WS3 Career Development Workshop: Grantsmanship Skills For Basic Science AndTranslational Researchers: What Happens During Grant Review?
WS4 Case Based Approach To Diagnosing And Treating Patients With Non-TuberculousMycobacterium Lung Infections
SESSIONS BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
L10 Challenges And Progress In Understanding Community-Acquired Pneumonia: : TheCDC Epic Study
L11 Fogarty International Center Research And Research Training Opportunities
L12 The Role Of The Microbiome And Epigenetics In Inner City Asthma
L13 Get To Know NIGMS The National Institute Of General Medical Sciences
L14 NIOSH Update On Classifying Digital Chest Images Of Pneumoconioses
L15 Update On NHLBI ARDS Network: Ancillary Studies
L16 COPD-Clinical Research Network Clinical Trials Update: Azithromycin In ExacerbationsPrevention And Response To Pneumococcal Vaccinations
L17 Findings From NHLBI Severe Asthma Research Program: Dissecting Heterogeneity OfSevere Asthma
L27 COPD Guidelines and Treatment Initiatives Update
MEET THE PROFESSOR SEMINARS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
MP501 Comprehensive Management Of The Patient With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
MP502 Lung Cancer Staging In 2012
MP503 Clinical Problems In Sarcoidosis
MP505 Pulmonary Diseases Associated With Elevated IGE
MP506 Coding For Pulmonary Function Testing: New Codes For Old Tests
MP507 Pulmonary Artery Catheterization For The Pulmonologist: Practical Tips
MP508 Predictably Irrational: Revealing The Hidden Forces That Drive End Of Life Decisions
MP509 Pulmonary Infections After Disasters
MP511 Measurement Issues In COPD
MP512 Viral Infections And Childhood Asthma
MP513 Management Of The Patient With A Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: EvolvingConcepts
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MP514 Maintaining Quality In Pulmonary Rehabilitation
MP515 The Process Of Writing And Reviewing A Scientific Article
MP516 Gene Therapy For Lung Diseases: A Postponed Dream Whose Time Has Come?
MP517 Similarities And Differences In Asthma And COPD: Are They Real?
MP518 A Practical Approach To Improving Adherence To Positive Airway Pressure Therapy InPatients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea
THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
TSS1 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
TSS2 Drug-Induced Lung Disease
YEAR IN REVIEW2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B81 Pediatric Year In Review
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B82 The Many Faces Of Bronchiolitis Obliterans: New Insights From Occupational MedicineTo Human Transplantation
B83 Immunotherapy For Lung Cancer And Mesothelioma
CRITICAL CARE TRACK2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B84 Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Respiratory Failure And Beyond
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B85 Divergent Roles Of Antigen Presenting Cells In Lung And Health Disease
B86 Targeting The Extracellular Matrix: Detecting And Treating Fibrotic Diseases
B87 Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Your Patient (But Were Afraid To Ask)
B88 Work-Exacerbated Asthma: New Developments In Clinical Approach, Epidemiology,And Prevention
B89 Ubiquitination And Proteolysis In Respiratory Disease
B90 Going For The Cure: The Mycobacteria Case
B91 Career Development Symposium: The Evolution of Academic Medicine
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
B92Asthma Phenotypes: Better Understanding Of Asthma And Rationale ForTherapy
B93 Clinical Trials In Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis And Sarcoidosis
B94 Neuromuscular, Cognitive And Psychiatric Issues In The Intensive Care Unit
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B95 Bench To Bedside Advances In Bronchiectasis
B96Mechanisms And Markers Of Pulmonary Endothelial Barrier Disruption AndRepair
B97 Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Best Of The Best
B98 Novel Approaches To Lung Imaging
B101 Pathogenesis Of Acute Lung Injury
B102 COPD: Challenges Affecting Diagnosis, Treatment, And Health Outcomes
B103 COPD: Mechanisms Of Disease Progression And Exacerbation
B104 Lung Transplantation: Patient Selection, Complications, And Outcomes
B105 Devices And Monitoring In The Intensive Care Unit
B106 New Developments In Lung Disease Genetics
B107 Biomarkers And Predictors Of Outcomes In Pulmonary Hypertension
B108 Diagnostic And Therapeutic Approaches In Sleep Apnea
B109Sleep Disordered Breathing And Cardiovascular Disease: Of Rodents AndHumans
B110Genomics, Metabolomics, And Epigenetics In Lung Disease: Late BreakingAbstracts
TUESDAY, MAY 22
SUNRISE SEMINARS7:00 am – 8:00 am
SS201 Targeting The Protease/Antiprotease Imbalance In COPD
SS202 Practical Applications Of Technology In Medical Education
SS203 Management Of Extra-Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Neurologic, Cardiac, Hepatic,Hypercalcemia And Fatigue
SS204 Lung Transplant 101
SS205 The Bronchoscopist's Evolving Role In Lung Cancer Diagnosis And TherapeuticDecisions
SS206 The Art Of Prognostication: Understanding The Impact Of Comorbidities On PatientOutcome
SS207 Key Concepts In Cost Effectiveness And Decision Analysis: A Practical Approach ForThe Practicing Clinician
SS208 COPD, Asthma, Or Something In Between?
SS209 The Use Of Non-Physician Providers In The ICU
SS210 Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome
SS211 Flexible Bronchoscopy In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
SS212 Pulmonary Hypertension Due To Left Heart Disease: Prognosis And Management
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SS213 Pulmonary Rehabilitation For The Surgical Patient
SS214 Of Mice And Men: Therapeutic Implications Of Preclinical Models Of IPF
SS215 Obesity And Asthma: What Can We Learn From Animal Models?
SS216 Too Tired For 18 Wheels: Case Studies Of Sleep Apnea In Commercial Truck Drivers
THEMATIC SEMINARS SERIES7:00 am – 8:00 am
TSS2 Drug-Induced Lung Disease
YEAR IN REVIEW8:15 am – 10:15 am
C1 Clinical Year In Review 3
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE8:15 am – 10:45 am
C2 Pulmonary Fibrosis: When It’s Not Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
C3 Newly Recognized And Emerging Lung Diseases
CRITICAL CARE TRACK8:15 am – 10:45 am
C4 Acute Kidney Injury In The Intensive Care Unit
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA8:15 am – 10:45 am
C5 Revisiting The IDSA-ATS Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines: 5 Years Older,But Any Wiser?
C6 Inflammation And Altered Metabolism In Pulmonary Hypertension
C7 Developmental Control Of Respiratory Structure And Function During The Course OfLife
C8 No Pain No Gain: Will Upper-Airway Exercise Training/Electrical Stimulation Work ForSleep Apnea?
C9 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Across The Spectrum Of Illness For Patients With ChronicObstructive Pulmonary Disease
C10 Implementing Lung Cancer Screening: Moving From RCTS To The Real World
C11 Imag(in)e The Lung: New Methodologies For Real-Time Visualization Of The Lung InExperimental Animals And Patients
C12 Tobacco Dependence In Pediatrics: What Can Be Done To Help Our Children AndTheir Parents?
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 am – 10:45 am
C13 Mechanisms Involved In Exacerbation Of Asthma And COPD
C14 Clinical Trials In Critical Care
C15 Predictors For COPD Progression And Outcomes
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C16 Best Of Pediatrics
C17Cellular And Molecular Signaling In The Pulmonary Endothelium Regulating ProliferationAnd Programmed Cell Death
C18 Emerging Pathways And Secondary Hits In Pulmonary Fibrosis
C21 Asthma Biomarkers
C22 Asthma Therapy
C23 COPD Comorbidities: Expanding The Horizons
C24 This Can Be Done Better: Quality, Safety And Process Improvement In Critical Care
C25 Advances In Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria: Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Disease
C26 From PCP To COPD: Pulmonary Complications Of HIV Infection
C27 Evaluation And Management Of Difficult Asthma Populations
C28 Diagnosis And Treatment Of Pulmonary Hypertension
C29 Fat Signals: Crosstalk Between The Adipose Tissue And The Lung
C30 The Role Of The Smooth Muscle Cell In Airway Disease
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
C31 Regulation Of Lung Inflammation
C32 Refractory Asthma
C33 Rhinitis, Sinusitis And Other Co-Morbidities
C34 Asthma Therapy: New Findings On Established Treatments
C35 Bacterial Pneumonia
C36 Lung Epithelium, Submucosal Glands And Smooth Muscle
C37 Mediators Of Asthma And Allergic Lung Disease
C38 Advances In Asthma And COPD Screening And Monitoring
C39 COPD Evaluation: Imaging
C40 COPD: Alpha 1 Antitrypsin
C41 Outcomes In Interstitial Lung Disease
C42 Case Reports: Tumors
C43 Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, Staging, Treatment And Outcomes
C44Lymphangioleiomyomatosis And Other Cystic Lung Diseases: Clinical Features AndEvolving Therapies
C45 Exacerbations Of COPD: Susceptibility And Pathogenesis
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C46 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Pathogenesis And Comorbidities
C47 Topics In Transplant Medicine
C48 Bronchoscopy For Benign Disorders
C49 Interstitial Lung Disease: Supplemental Oxygen And Other Therapies
C50 COPD: Biomarkers
C51 Comorbidities In COPD
C52 COPD Pathogenesis: Human Studies
C53 COPD Pathogenesis: In Vitro And In Vivo Studies
C54 Case Reports: Interventional Pulmonology
C55 Interstitial Lung Disease: Diagnostic And Therapeutic Considerations
C56 Pulmonary And Non-Pulmonary Critical Care: Great Cases!
C57 Cardiopulmonary Interactions In The Intensive Care Unit
C58 Environmental Exposures: Mechanisms
C59 Occupational And Environmental Lung Disease
C60 Advances In Diagnosis Of Active Tuberculosis Disease
C61 Immunodiagnostics For Latent Tuberculosis Infection And Tuberculosis
C62 Experimental Models In Pulmonary Hypertension II
C63 Management Of Pulmonary Hypertension
C64 Pulmonary Vascular Structure, Function, And Signaling
C65 Peripheral Muscle Dysfunction
C66 Integrated Care And Pulmonary Rehabilitation
C67 Translational "Omics" Discoveries In Lung Disease
C68 Old And New Pathways To Pulmonary Fibrosis
C69 Cellular Signaling Of Oxidative Stress
C70 Repair And Regeneration: Stem Cell Functions And Applications
C71 Major Impact Of Micro-RNA Function
C72 Sleep And Sleep Disordered Breathing In Other Medical Disorders
C73 Sleep Disordered Breathing: Epidemiology And Outcomes
WORKSHOPS11:30 am – 1:00 pm
WS5 Models Of Sleep Apnea Care Utilizing Portable Monitoring And Alternative DeliveryMethods
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WS6 Pulmonary Evaluation And Respiratory Support In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)
MEET THE PROFESSOR SEMINARS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
MP601 Stress And Childhood Asthma: Is It Time To Consider Clinical Interventions?
MP602 Publish Without Perishing: A Guide To What Those Darn Editors Want
MP603 Management Of Pulmonary Nodules, Including Nodules Identified During Lung CancerScreening And Ground Glass Opacities
MP604 Drug-Induced/Iatrogenic Respiratory Disease
MP605 Case-Based Approach To Pulmonary Mac and M.Abscessus Infection
MP606 Acute Exacebation Of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Concept And Management
MP607 Therapeutic Bronchoscopy For Benign And Malignant Airway Obstruction: The NutsAnd Bolts
MP608 Pneumonia: From The Emergency Department To The Hospital
MP609 Can ARDS Be Prevented?
MP610 Investigation And Management Of Occupational Asthma
MP611 Management Of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: State Of The Art From Experts
MP612 Children's Interstitial And Diffuse Lung Disease In The Critical Care Unit
MP613 Management Of Right Heart Failure In The ICU
MP614 The Management of Refractory Dyspnea In Advance COPD
MP615 GM-CSF Inhalation As A Less Invasive Treatment For Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
MP616 Adiponectin In Asthma: Beneficial Role Or Innocent Bystander?
MP617 Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Use In Children
MP618 Updates In Fungal Infections, From Bench To Bedside
MP619 Improving The Early Diagnosis Of Pulmonary Hypertension
THEMATIC SEMINAR SERIES12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
TSS2 Drug-Induced Lung Disease
YEAR IN REVIEW2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
C81 Nursing Year In Review: Interdisciplinary Research: Moving From Silos To Synergy
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
C82 Pulmonary And Non-Pulmonary Manifestations Of Hyperinflation In ChronicObstructive Pulmonary Disease: Pathogenesis And Implications For Treatment
C83 Pediatric Clinical Chest Rounds
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CRITICAL CARE TRACK2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
C84 Using Genomics To Understand And Treat Acute Lung Injury
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
C85 Quality And Performance Measures: The Future Of Healthcare
C86 Severe Asthma: A View To The Future Consultation
C87 Hypoxia And Neurocognitive Impairment: Lessons From Sleep Apnea And IschemicBrain Injury
C88 Lung Cancer Stem Cells And The Role Of The Microenvironment In LungCarcinogenesis
C89 Evidence-Based Innovations In Tuberculosis Diagnosis And Treatment
C90 Pro-Con Debate: Comparative Effectiveness Research: Fool's Gold Or Promise Land?
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
C92 Control Of Macrophage Polarization And Effector Functions
C93 Evolving Role Of Screening For Lung Cancer
C94From Bay To Breaking Intensive Care Unit Capacity: Staffing, Strains And Stemming TheTide
C95 Novel Insights Into Influenza Pathogenesis
C96Bone Marrow And Microparticles In The Pathogenesis Of Pulmonary ArterialHypertension
C97 Mechanism And Outcomes Of Cellular Autophagy
C98 Novel Airway Epithelial Barrier And Immune Responses
C101 Transplant And Ischemia And Reperfusion Related Lung Injury
C102 Quality Improvement In Pulmonary Medicine
C103Pathogenesis, Biomarkers, And Risk Factors For Interstitial Lung Disease: From BenchTo Bedside
C104 Case Reports: Interventional Pulmonology And Pleural Diseases
C105 Ethics And End-Of-Life Care In The Intensive Care Unit
C106 Determinants Of Control And Severity Of Asthma And COPD
C107 Progress In Biomarkers And Diagnostics For Respiratory Infections
C108 Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis And Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
C109 Effects Of Senescence And Manifestations Of Aging In The Lung
C110Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction In Chronic Pulmonary Disease: Adaptation OrMaladaptation?
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
SUNRISE SEMINARS7:00 am – 8:00 am
SS301 Asthma Exacerbations: Risks, Biomarkers And Management Strategies
SS302 Rheumatoid Arthritis Related Interstitial Lung Diseases
SS303 Introduction To Quality Improvement
SS304 Connective Tissue Disease And The Lung: Lessons Learned From Difficult Cases
SS305 Is Sleep Apnea Affecting My Brain? Impact Of OSAS On Neurocognitive Function
SS306 Antisynthetase Syndrome
SS307 Managing Patient Care And Complications After Lung Transplantation
SS308 Mortality And The Cardiovascular Effects Of Acute Exacerbation Of COPD
SS309 Pulmonary Embolism: To Lyse Or Not?
SS310 Are Diseased Airway Epithelial Cells More Susceptible To Air Pollutants?
SS311 Sleep Disordered Breathing In Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
SS312 Genetics Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Relevance To Clinical Practice
SS313 Mitochondrial Metabolism: A Novel Therapeutic Target In Chronic Lung Disease
SS314 L-Arginine Homeostasis: Novel Master Switch In Respiratory Structure And Function?
SS315 Stroke As A Sequela Of Sleep Pathology
YEAR IN REVIEW8:15 am – 10:15 am
D1 Clinical Year in Review 4
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE8:15 am – 10:45 am
D2 Mechanisms And Implications Of Mucus Accumulation In Chronic ObstructivePulmonary Disease
D3 The SPN In 2012: The State Of The Art In The Evaluation Of The Pulmonary Nodule
CRITICAL CARE TRACK8:15 am – 10:45 am
D4 Intensive Care Of The Future
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA8:15 am – 10:45 am
D5 Addressing Variability In Asthma Treatment Responses: Implementing AnIndividualized Approach
D6 Behavioral Sciences Year In Review: Celebrating The BSA's 20th Anniversary
D7 Alveolar Epithelium In Fibrotic Lung Remodeling: Innocent Bystander Or Key Player?
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D8 Epigenetic Targets For Novel Therapy Of Lung Diseases
D9 Controversies In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Sickle Cell Lung Disease
D10 Inhaled Exposures, Genetics And Airways Disease: A View Towards Prevention
D11 Critical Care In The Immunocompromised Host
D12 The Changing World Of Drug Discovery And Development
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 am – 10:45 am
D13 Scientific And Clinical Innovations In Lung Transplantation
D14 Advances In Pleural Infection And Malignancy
D15 Surgical And Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction: State Of The Art
D16 Cystic Fibrosis: Biomarkers, Outcome Measures, And Pathogenesis
D17Sleep Disordered Breathing Pathogenesis: Mechanical And NeuralMechanisms
D18 Sleep Disordered Breathing And Metabolic Function: How Unsweet It Is
D21 Microbial Contributions To Asthma Pathogenesis
D22 Pathogenesis Of Lung Fibrosis And Airway Remodeling
D23 Case Reports: Interstitial Lung Disease
D24 The Villain Behind Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
D25 Pulmonary Infections And Tuberculosis: Case Reports Of Note
D26 Pediatric Respiratory Infections
D27 Signaling Molecules Involved In Pulmonary Endothelial Injury And Repair
D28 Developmental Signaling Reborn In Adult Lung Disease
D29 Sticky Situation: Multi-Fate Of Cell And Matrix Interactions
D30 Novel Approaches To Assessing Lung Pathophysiology
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS8:15 AM – 4:30 PM
D31 Advances In Asthma Genetics
D32 Aerosols Therapy
D33 Asthma Pathogenesis
D34 Asthma Epidemiology
D35 Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors As Therapeutics For Lung Diseases
D36 Influences And Outcomes Of Respiratory Viral Infections
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D37 What's New In Fibrosis And Pneumonitis?
D38 Mast Cells And Basophils In Asthma And COPD
D39 Evaluation And Monitoring Of Asthma And COPD
D40 Sepsis
D41Developing And Improving Measures To Assess And Change Beliefs, Skills, BehaviorsAnd Outcomes
D42 COPD Treatment: Oxygen, Home Ventilation And Others
D43 Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
D44 Clinical Application Of Pulmonary Physiological Studies
D45 Acute Exacerbations Of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
D46 Case Reports: Lung Transplantation
D47 Issues In Thoracic Surgery
D48 Chronic Cough
D49 Impact Of COPD Exacerbation On Comorbidities
D50 Genetic Studies In COPD
D51 COPD: Diagnosis And Evaluation
D52 Case Reports: Pleural Diseases
D53 Interstitial Lung Disease Case Reports: Sometimes The Hoof Beats Indicate Zebras
D54 Topics In Interventional Pulmonology
D55From The White Elephant To The Common Canary: Presentation And Outcomes OfCommon And Not-So-Common Critical Illnesses
D56 Intensive Care Unit Procedures, Ultrasound, And New Devices
D57 Sepsis: Of Mice, Metabolomics, And Man
D58 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Resting Injured Lungs
D59 COPD Epidemiology: Risk Factors, Trends, Comorbidities
D60 Health Effects Of Smoking
D61 Respiratory Clinical Epidemiology
D62 Nosocomial Infections: Bacteriology, Drug Resistance, And Outcomes
D63 Advances In Treatment Of Respiratory Infections
D64 New Insights Into Mechanisms, Complications And Outcomes Of Bronchiectasis
D65 Case Reports Of Unusual Pulmonary Infections
D66 General Pediatric Pulmonary
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D67 Pediatric Pulmonary Physiology And Measurement
D68 Pulmonary Vascular Diseases: Clinical Cases
D69 Pulmonary Embolism And Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
D70 Mechanical Forces And Hemodynamics In Response To Exercise
D71 Animal Models Of Lung Fibrosis: Bleo And Beyond
D72 Cell Fate Decisions: Apoptosis Vs. Survival Of Structural Cells Of The Lung
D73 Receptor Input Of Airway Networking
D74 Molecular Targets And Model Therapies For Lung Cancer
D75 Mucins: Novel Pathways Of Regulation And Previously Unsuspected Functions
D76 Alveolar Epithelium: Novel Tools And Phenotypes
D77 Airway Cell Differentiation And Injury: Two Sides Of A Coin
D78 Pathways And Models Of Lung Oncogenesis
D79 Exercise, Hypoxia And Altitude
D80 Emphysema And COPD: Pathophysiology
D81 Assessing The Airways
D82A Sleep Disordered Breathing: Diagnosis
D82B Management Of Sleep Disordered Breathing
WORKSHOPS11:30 am – 1:00 pm
WS7 Innovative Teaching And Evaluation Methods
WS8 Clinical Impact Of Point Of Care Ultrasonography In Critically Ill Patients
SESSIONS BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
L18 Ancillary Studies Of The American Lung Association Asthma Clinical ResearchCenters
L19 Overview By The Environmental Protection Agency On Recent Actions And TheAgency's Research Program
L20 Counteract Research Program At NIEHS/NIH
L21 U.S. Critical Illness And Injury Trials (USCIIT) Group: Clinical Trials Update
L22 Pulmonary Research At The VA
L23 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Network IPFNet: New Insights Into IPF
L24 Major Scientific Advances From NHLBI ARRA-Funded Challenge Grants
L25 Sleep Heart Health Study: Key Discoveries And Scientific Opportunities
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L28 ARDS Consensus Conference: New Definition and Disease Stratification
CLINICAL TOPICS IN PULMONARY MEDICINE2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
D83 Pneumonia And Pleural Infection: Advances And Controversies
CRITICAL CARE TRACK2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
D84 What Are The Boundaries Of Acceptable Medical Practice Near The End Of Life InIntensive Care Units?
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
D85 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Recent Advances, Future Directions
D86 Impact Of Exercise On Cardiopulmonary Status: Implications For PulmonaryHypertension
D87 Intermittent Hypoxia Mediated Cardiovascular And Neuronal Protective Mechanisms
D88 Imaging Structure And Function Via MRI, CT, And PET
D89 Live And Let Die: Linking Endoplasmatic Stress, Autophagy, And Apoptosis In LungHealth And Disease
ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND CASE REPORTS2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
D92 Novel Mediators In Asthma Pathogenesis
D93 Early Origins Of Asthma
D94 Non-Invasive Ventilation And Weaning By The Bay
D95 How Do Dietary Factors And Obesity Influence Lung Disease?
D96 What's New In Tuberculosis Diagnostics
D97 Pulmonary Hypertension: New Insights Into Causes And Treatments?
D98Novel Mechanisms Of Tumor Promotion And Molecular Targeted Therapy InLung Cancer
D99Repair By Stem Cells: Paracrine Mechanisms And Induced Pluripotent StemCells (IPSCS)
D100 The Big Role Of Small Airways
D101 Animal Models Of Emphysema
D102 Quality Improvement In Critical Care Medicine
D103 Case Reports: General Pulmonary
D104Connective Tissue Disease Related-Interstitial Lung Disease: Clinical FeaturesAnd Treatment
D105 COPD: Phenotypes And Outcomes
D106 Case Reports: Tumors
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D107 Pediatric Sleep Disorders
D108 Out Of Control: Proliferative And Fibrotic Remodeling Of The Lung
D109Sleep Disordered Breathing And Heart Failure: Mechanisms, Consequences,And Treatment
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