Schedule of Press Conferences for ATS 2010 in New Orleans May 14-19, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
All conferences to take place in ATS Press Room, E-1 of the Morial Convention Center, First Level.
Press Conference Schedule
Schedule of Press Conferences
Sunday, May 16
11:15 a.m. COPD
Participants: Anne Hermetet Agler, PhD Candidate, Cornell University (Randomized Vitamin E Supplementation and Risk of Chronic Lung Disease (CLD) in the Women's Health Study), Chris Burtin, PT, MSc, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Relationship between amount and intensity of physical activity in daily life and exercise tolerance in COPD), Isabelle Vivotzev (Molecular mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy after neuromuscular electrical stimulation in patients with severe COPD), Neil Greening, MBBS, MRCP, University Hospitals of Leicester, UK, (The Effects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Extreme Obesity in COPD.)
Moderator: Richard Casaburi, PhD, MD, UCLA
4:30 p.m. Asthma
Participants: Lisa Wood, PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia (A high fat challenge enhances innate immune responses in asthmatic airway), Simone Hashimoto, MD, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam (Monitoring exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) to tailor the lowest effective dose of oral corticosteroids in severe asthma (MONOSA-Study)), Elizabeth A. Townsend, Mayo Clinic Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering (Mechanisms of Estrogen-Induced Bronchodilation in Human Airway Smooth Muscle); Andrew Tai, MBBS, FRACP, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne; Colin Robertson, MBBS, MSc, MD, FRACP, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (Pediatric origins of adult chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD): Childhood asthma).
Moderator: John Mastronarde, MD, Ohio State University
Monday May 17
11:15 a.m. Year of the Lung Conference
Partcipants: Dean Schraufnagel, MD, President-Elect, American Thoracic Society; Teresa Barnes, Chair, ATS Public Advisory Roundtable; Nobert Berend, MD, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, President-Elect, Forum of International Respiratory Societies; Nils Billo, MD, MPH, Executive Director, International Union Against TB
4:30 p.m. Critical Care
Participants: Jae-Woo Lee, MD, University of California San Francisco (Intravenous Allogeneic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Home to The Site of Injury and Restore Alveolar Fluid Clearance to a Normal Level in an Ex Vivo Perfused Human Lung Injured by E.Coli Endotoxin), Katherine R. Courtright, MD, University of Pennsylvania (Publicly Reported Infection Rates are Not Good Markets of Intensive Care Unit Quality), Sarah M. Lyon, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (The Effect of Health Insurance on Intensive Care Mortality and Procedural Utilization).
Moderator: Ellen Burnham, MD, University of Colorado Hospital
Tuesday May 18
11:15 a.m. Sleep
Participants: Euhan John Lee, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Intermittent Hypoxia (IH) Causes Insulin Resistance and Impaired Insulin Secretion in C57BL/6J Mice), Ferran Barbé Illa, MDHospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain (Effect of CPAP Treatment on the Incidence of Cardiovascular Events and Hypertension in Non Sleepy OSAS Patients. A Long-Term RCT).
Moderator: Mary Morrell, PhD, Imperial College, London
4:30 p.m. Late Breaking Clinical Trials Press Availability
Confirmed Participants: Talmadge E. King, Jr. MD, UCSF; William W. Busse, MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Ferran Barbé Illa, MD, Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida, Spain; Robert L. Keith, MD, UC Denver - School of Medicine; David A. Zisman, MD, UCLA
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