Presentations from November 3, 2017 Asthma Network Forum

 

Promoting Housing Security and Healthy Homes for Families Served by Public Health

Speaker:

Karen Cohn, MS, CIH (Children's Environmental Health Promotion Program / CEHP, San Francisco Department of Public Health / SFPDH)

Learning Objective:

Describe San Francisco public housing environmental hazards that impact asthma control.

Additional resource:

Promoting Housing Security and Healthy Homes for Families Served by Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Programs

 

Discrimination, Psycho-Social Stress and the Relationship to Non-Atopic Neutrophilic Asthma and other Asthma Phenotypes

Speaker:

Neeta Thakur, MD, MPH (San Francisco General Hospital / SFGH)

Learning Objective:

Discuss the impact of psychosocial stress on asthma risk and how to manage these in clinical practice.

 

Bronchiectasis: Asthma Masquerader

Speaker:

Sachin Gupta, MD, FCCP (Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Kaiser Permanente - San Francisco / KPSF)

Learning Objective:

Distinguish between bronchiectasis and asthma and manage them accordingly.

 

Asthma Therapy: Update in Asthma Medications

Speaker:

Joshua S. Jacobs, MD (Allergy & Asthma Medical Group of the Bay Area / AAMG)

Learning Objective:

Appropriately prescribe maintenance and rescue inhalers and describe the currently available biologics that may come available in the near future.

 

To Feed or Not to Feed: Food Allergy Update

Speaker:

Myngoc "Mina" Nguyen, MD (Allergy Department, Kaiser Permanente - East Bay / KP-EBA)

Learning Objective:

Incorporate the LEAP study in preventing peanut allergy, using screening guidelines for infants at risk.

 

Understanding Racism to Better Care for Patients of Color

Speaker:

Zea Malawa, MD, MPH (San Francisco Department of Public Health / SFDPH)

Learning Objective:

Discuss the relationship between structural racism and health.

 

Whole Genome Sequencing of Bronchodilator Response in Minority Children with Asthma

Speaker:

Marquitta White, MS, PhD (Asthma Translational Genomics Collaborative / ATGC, University of California, San Francisco / UCSF)

Learning Objective:

Explain how asthma risk, asthma mortality, and bronchodilator response in children can vary by racial / ethnic groups and genetic factors.

 

Safety - A Team Sport: Human Factors & Teamwork & Communication

Speaker:

Paul Preston, MD (San Francisco Department of Public Health / SFDPH)

Learning Objective:

Practice the "Ask me 3" model of patient communication and practice key behaviors to build teams.