Conversations in Pulmonology: 2025 – Live Virtual Conference on April 26, 2025

Program Summary
Join us online for this live virtual broadcast and stay on track to fulfill your CME/CE requirements from the comfort of your home. With rapid changes in medicine, staying informed about new developments can be equally challenging. Our goal in this CME activity is to help you hone your skills in the diagnosis and management of patients with varied conditions you are likely encountering in your practice. Utilizing an interactive, moderator-led format, this program will present discussions with national thought leaders, who as clinicians themselves, understand the challenges you face every day as a primary care provider. Our faculty will be at your disposal to provide evidence-based science, current treatment guidelines, discuss challenging cases, and provide answers for you that can ultimately lead to better health care for your patients. The presentations will include several interactive cases and discussion sessions to keep you actively learning.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of each of the lectures listed below, learners should be able to:

Novel Topics in Severe Asthma: What’s Possible?

• Explore strategies for the selection of biologics in asthma during pregnancy

• Describe the latest trends of remission in severe asthma

• Evaluate possible strategies for reversal or airway remodeling

Advancing Lung Cancer Screening in Pulmonary Practice

• Evaluate the latest evidence and guideline updates for lung cancer screening in order to apply them to patient care

• Incorporate shared decision-making into workup of lung nodules by assessing individual patient risks, benefits, and barriers

• Enhance lung cancer screening outcomes through effective follow-up strategies, multidisciplinary collaboration, and patient-centered management

Breathing Better Lives: Improving Outcomes with Interventional Pulmonology

• Define Interventional Pulmonology as a field

• Describe the rationale of each procedural approach

• Discuss impact in symptoms and quality of life of patients undergoing airway and pleural interventions

• Review novel techniques for complex benign and malignant airway disease

Agenda*

9:00 – 9:05 am ET
Welcome Remarks
Fernando Martinez, MD, MS and Tyler Kuhk, MN, ARNP, CCRN, AGNP-C

9:05 – 10:05 am
Novel Topics in Severe Asthma: What’s Possible?
Faculty: Diego Maselli, MD, FCCP, ATSF
Moderator: Fernando Martinez, MD, MS

10:05 – 10:20 am
Break

10:20 – 11:20 am
Presentation Theater**: The Importance of a Proactive Approach to the Management of COPD
(CME not offered)

11:20 – 11:30 am
Break

11:30 am – 12:35 pm
Advancing Lung Cancer Screening in Pulmonary Practice
Faculty: Stella B. Ogake, MD, FCCP, ATSF
Moderator: Tyler Kuhk, MN, ARNP, CCRN, AGNP-C

12:35 – 12:45 pm
Break

12:45 – 1:45 pm
Breathing Better Lives: Improving Outcomes with Interventional Pulmonology
Faculty: José De Cárdenas, MD
Moderator: Fernando Martinez, MD, MS

1:45 pm
Closing Remarks

* Subject to change

** A separate URL will be used for all presentation theaters. Participants are required to exit the educational session and enter the presentation theater with the separate URL provided.

Moderators and Faculty
Jose De Cardenas, MD

Tyler Kuhk, MN, ARNP, CCRN, AGNP-C

Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS

Diego Maselli, MD, FCCP, ATSF

Stella Ogake, Md, FCCP, ATSF

Nurse Planner and Peer Reviewer
Angela Golden, FNP-C, DNP, FAANP, FOMA

Bernadette Makar, MSN, NP