Improved Care for Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Asthma: Reflecting on Errors and Missed Opportunities
Program Overview
The goal of this activity is to foster recognition of missed opportunities and suboptimal care among patients with moderate-to-severe asthma, thereby helping clinicians who treat these patients to examine best practices for management.
The target audience for this activity is allergy/immunology and pulmonology physicians practicing outside of the United States, who manage patients with moderate-to-severe asthma.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:
Distinguish between the different types of asthma based on underlying pathophysiology and biomarkers of disease in order to make personalized treatment decisions
Identify patients with poorly-controlled or difficult-to-treat asthma who are eligible for step-up therapies, including new and emerging biologics
Incorporate new and emerging targeted biologics into the management of patients with severe or poorly-controlled asthma, when appropriate
Activity Faculty
Ratko Djukanovic, MD, DM, FRCP (Chair)
Professor, Medicine Director, Southampton NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit Director, NIHR Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research
Southampton, UK
Stephen P. Peters, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, FACP, FCCP, FCPP
Thomas H. Davis Chair, Pulmonary Medicine Chief, Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy & Immunologic Diseases Professor, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Translational Science
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, NC
Michael E. Wechsler, MD, MMSc
Co-Director, The Cohen Family Asthma Institute Professor, Department of Medicine
National Jewish Health
Denver, CO