About Conference

This 2-day course will provide insights from a multidisciplinary team representing the Severe Asthma Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Mass General Brigham Asthma Center. The focus will include both pediatric and adult patients with asthma. The organizers will devote one day to assessment of severe asthma and complicating illnesses and one day to its treatment, including novel approaches to management

Highlights

Lectures will cover topics in the immunology and genetics of severe asthma; aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease; eosinophilic lung diseases including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; occupational asthma; obesity and asthma; and special considerations in school-age children. Presentations on the contribution of gastroesophageal reflux disease, upper airway obstruction, and sinusitis/nasal polyposis will be given by a gastroenterologist, voice specialist, otolaryngologist, respectivel