2023 ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Non-CME

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Meet & Greet Reception - Sponsored by: Sanofi REGENERON
Topic: Who's in Your Waiting Room?
Speaker: Jamie Rutland, MD (CEO and Medical Director Rutland Medical Group/West Coast Lung Newport Beach)

Friday March 17, 2023

Non-CME

7:00 am – 7:45 am Non-CME Breakfast - Sponsored by: ASTRAZENECA/AMGEN
Topic: Looking from the top down: A New Understanding of Epithelial Alarmins in Asthma
Speaker: Matthew Drake, MD (Oregon Health & Science University)

Pulmonary Physiology

8:00 am – 8:15 am - Introduction and Pre-Test Reminder
8:15 am – 9:00 am - Keynote - The New Frontier of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
•William Stringer, MD (Harbor-UCLA)
9:00 am – 9:30 am - The Role of Race/Ethnicity in Interpreting Clinical Spirometry (The Exception that Proves the Rule)
•Aaron Baugh, MD (UC San Francisco)
9:30 am – 10:00 am - Crash Course on Pediatric Physiology for Adult Provider
•Diana Chen, MD (Stanford)
10:00 am - 10:10 am Question and Answer

10:10 am – 10:40 am Break

Ventilator Management

10:40 am – 11:10 am - What Do Those Lines Mean? Troubleshooting the Ventilator Waveform
•Justin Phillips, RRT (UC San Francisco)
11:10 am – 11:40 am - Outside the ICU - Home Non-Invasive and Invasive Device Management
•Jeremy Orr, MD (UC San Diego)
11:40 am – 12:10 pm - Denied Again - Navigating Approval from Insurance Companies and DME Barriers for
Oxygen Delivery and Home Ventilation
•Krystal Craddock, RRT (UC Davis)
12:10 pm – 12:20 pm Question and Answer
12:20 – 12:30 pm – Awards Ceremony

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

Hands-On Session

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
•Remote Spirometry - William Auyeung, MD (Stanford)
•CPET Bike Equipment and Interpretation - William Stringer, MD (Harbor-UCLA)
•Secretion Clearance 1 - Meghan Marmor, MD (Stanford)
•Secretion Clearance 2 - Justin Phillips, RRT (UC San Francisco)

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break

Infectious Diseases

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Infectious Diseases are Funi-gi: Update on Fungal Lung Disease and Coccidioidomycosis
•George Thompson, MD (UC Davis)
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm - The Conundrum of Treatment: Update on Pulmonary NTM Guidelines
•Shoshana Zha, MD PhD (UC San Francisco)
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm - Long COVID is No Joke: Multidisciplinary Approach to Management of Long COVID
•Nisha Viswanathan, MD (UC Los Angeles)
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Question and Answer

4:40 pm – 5:10 pm Break

Non-CME

5:10 pm – 6:00 pm Well-Being in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Ni-Cheng Liang, MD (Scripps Health) - Sponsored by: California Thoracic Society
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Women in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Ni-Cheng Liang, MD (Scripps Health) - Sponsored by: REGENERON

 

Saturday March 18, 2023

Non-CME

7:00 am – 7:45 am Non-CME Breakfast - Sponsored by: FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE
Topic: An Objective Tool for HFNC Assessments
Speaker: Naomi Bugayong, MSRC, RRT, RRT-ACCS, AE-C

Update on Critical Care

8:00 am – 8:10 am - Introduction and Pre-Test
8:10 am – 8:55 am - Keynote - How to Decide Who Decides: Surrogate Decision Making in California ICUs
•David Chooljian, MD (Loma Linda)
8:55 am – 9:25 am - Rehabilitation and Nutrition in the Intensive Care Unit
•Isabel Pedraza, MD (Cedars-Sinai)
9:25 am – 9:55 am - Sedation and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
•Javier Lorenzo, MD (Stanford)
9:55 am – 10:05 am Question and Answer

10:05 am – 10:30 am Break

Pulmonary Embolism

10:30 am – 11:00 am - Creating a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team
•Janine Vintch, MD & Srikanth Reddi, MD (Harbor-UCLA)
11:00 am – 11:30 am - Interventional Modalities for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
•Jemianne Bautista, MD (UCSF)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm - The Current State of CTED/CTEPH and the Post Pulmonary Embolism Syndrome
•Richard Channick, MD (UC Los Angeles)
12:00 pm – 12:10 pm - Pro: Catheter Directed Therapy Should be Used for Intermediate-High Risk PE
•Jemianne Bautista, MD (UC San Francisco)
12:10 pm – 12:20 pm - Con: Catheter Directed Therapy Should Not be Used for Intermediate-High Risk PE
•Richard Channick, MD (UC Los Angeles)
12:20 pm – 12:30 pm Question and Answer

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

Hands-On Session

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
•New Generation PAP Devices for OSA - Chirag Pandya, MD (Stanford)
•Home Ventilators and Mouthpiece Ventilation - Michelle Cao, DO (Stanford), Kirat Gill, MD (Stanford) and
Christal Hawkins, RRT (UC San Diego)
•Oxygen Delivery - Chris Garvey, FNP MSN (UC San Francisco) & Krystal Craddock, RRT (UC Davis)
•Ventilator Waveforms - Brooks Kuhn, MD (UC Davis)

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break

Hot topics in Pulmonary: From One Size Fits All to Targeted Therapy

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm - Update on Antifibrotics for Interstitial Lung Disease
•Brett Ley, MD (Kaiser San Francisco)
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm - Update on Biologic Therapy for Asthma
•Lauren Eggert, MD (Stanford)
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm - Update on Targeted Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
•Andrea Glassberg, MD (Kaiser Sacramento) & Alica Mirza, MD (Stanford)
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Question and Answer

4:40 pm – 5:10 pm Break

Non-CME

5:10 pm – 7:30 pm Fellows/Multidisciplinary Poster Session
Sponsored by: The California Thoracic Society

 

Sunday March 19, 2023

Non-CME

8:30 am – 9:30 am Non-CME Breakfast - Sponsored by: Sanofi REGENERON
Topic: Clinical Implications of Uncontrolled Type 2 Inflammation in Asthma and COPD
Speaker: Reynold Panettieri Jr., MD