2008 Annual Meeting

Golden Anniversary Meeting

Asthma:
Insights and Expectations

June 4 – 7, 2008

Richard J. Martin, M.D. , Chair
Monica Kraft, M.D., Co-Chair
E. Rand Sutherland, M.D., Co-Chair

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Aspen, Colorado

The theme of the Golden Anniversary Meeting of the Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference is “Asthma: Insights and Expectations”. With an emphasis on integration between basic, translational and clinical sciences, the meeting will address important issues in the development and progression of asthma.

Anchored by twelve “State-of-the-Art” presentations, thematic sessions will address the importance of airway inflammation in asthma, the role of innate immunity in asthma development, the contributions of genes and environment to risk and prognosis, the involvement of the epithelium and smooth muscle, the development of airway remodeling, and how abnormalities in these various domains interact to alter airway physiology and influence response to therapy.

Homer A. Boushey, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, California, will be the Conference Summarizer.

Abstract deadline is February 14, 2008.

For more information, contact: Richard J. Martin, M.D., c/o Jeanne Cleary, Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference, Box C272, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80262. Phone: (303) 315-7767; (303) 752-2681. Fax: (303) 752-2678. E-Mail: Jeanne.Cleary@uchsc.edu

Objectives of the Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference

• To provide an international forum for leading clinicians and researchers to exchange of ideas relating to clinical problems and research of the lung.
• To fill a recognized need in a field where knowledge is doubling every five years.
• To focus on a single topic, exhaustively reviewing it with significant time allowed for discussion.
• To provide the stimulus and impetus to further research in pulmonary medicine.

History of the Aspen Lung Conference

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Forty-eight conferences have now been held. Over the years the conference has more than maintained its excellence and has stimulated collaboration among scientist and clinicians. This book is an effort to capture the essence of Aspen Lung Conference proceedings in one volume. Accordingly, all previously published summaries have been included for the convenience of the reader. Additional selected comments and presentations are included. Although this book's major goal is to report some of the fantastic scientific advances presented at the Aspen Lung Conference, it will never be able to capture all of the spirit and camaraderie that has permeated each and every meeting in the invigorating, high altitude atmosphere of the Rocky Mountains.

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Future Topics

2009 Annual Meeting
Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference
52nd Annual Meeting – June 10-13, 2009
“Environmental and Occupational Lung Disease”
Lee S. Newman, M.D., Chair
Arnold R. Brody, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Lisa A. Maier, M.D., Co-Chair