Onslow Medical Specialties Clinic
Jacksonville, NC  
American Thoracic Society's  State of the Art
(SOTA) Conference in Pulmonary & Critical
Care Conference, San Diego, California -
March 3 - 6, 2011. - 30 CME Credits
Jesse Hall, MD
University of Chicago

Gregory Schmidt, M.D
University of Iowa

John Badesch, M.D.
University of Colorado Denver

John Bach, M.D.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Meyer Balter, M.D.
Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto

Alfred Bove, MD,PhD
Temple University School of Medicine

David Bowton, MD
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Kevin Brown, MD
National Jewish Health

Antonio Catanzaro, MD
University of California San Diego

David Feller- Kopman, MD
The Johns Hopkins University

Kevin Flaherty, MD
University of Michigan Health System

Chris Goss, M.D.
University of Washington

John Heffner, MD
Providence Portland Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University

Douglas Hogarth, MD
University of Chicago

Robert Hyzy, MD
University of Michigan

Charles Irvin, PhD
Vermont Lung Center, University of Vermont

Jeffrey Kern, MD
National Jewish Health, University of Colorado Denver
Seth Koenig, MD
Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New york

John Kress, MD
University of Chicago

Michael Krowka, MD
Mayo Clinic Transplant Center

Anand Kumar, MD
University of Manitoba Health Sciences Center

Craig Lilly, MD
University of Massachusetts

Greg Martin, MD
Emory University School of Medicine

Lisa Moore, MD
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Dennis Niewoehner, MD
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, University of Minnesota

Anne O' Donnell, MD
Goergetown University Hospital

Albert Polito, MD
Mercy Medical Center

Jay Ryu, MD
Mayo Clinic

Gerald Smetana, MD
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto

Keith Walley, MD
University of British Columbia

Arthur Wheeler, MD
Vanderbilt University

Program:

Thursday - March 3, 2011
7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Prevention of Respiratory Failure/ Extubation Failure in Neuromuscular Disease - Bach
Managing ILD patients without tissue - Flaherty
ICU Ultrasound - Koenig
Lung Cancer  - Kern
Diving Medicine - Bove
Meet the Professors
Interstitial lung disease - Brown
Pulmonary Arterio-Venous Malformations  - Krowka
Rational Antibiotic Use in the ICU  -  Kumar
Bronchiectasis  - O'Donnell
Meet the Professor

Friday - March 4, 2011
7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Anti-TNF  -  Polito
LAM  - Ryu
Managing Surgical Urgencies in the ICU  -  Tremblay
Thermoplasty, Computer Guided biopsy and bronchoscopic valve placement  - Hogarth
EBUS  - Feller-Kopman
Meet the Professor
Hemorrhagic emergencies  - Wheeler
Pleural Diseases  - Heffner
Sarcoidosis  - Balter
A New View of post Primary TB  - Catanzaro

Saturday - March 5, 2011
7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Spirometry   -  Irvin
Vasoactive therapy - Walley
General management of the mechanically ventilated patients - Hyzy
Venous thromboembolism in the ICU  -  Moore
Meet the Professor
Sepsis  -  Martin
Optimal managment of COPD  -   Niewoehner
Obesity and the lung -  Kress
Telemedicine -  Lilly
Meet the Professor


Sunday - March 6, 2011
7:30 am - 11:20 am
Rescue therapy for ARDS   - Bowton
Pre-operative Assessment of the Patient with Lung Disease
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension   - Bodesch
Meet the Professor