2009 Annual Meeting

The Environment and the Lung:
Detection, Prevention and Mechanisms of Disease

June 10-13, 2009

Lee Newman , M.D. , Chair
Arnold Brody, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Lisa Maier, M.D., Co-Chair

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Aspen, Colorado

The theme of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference is “The Environment and the Lung: Detection, Prevention and Mechanisms of Disease”.  With an emphasis on integration between basic, translational, clinical sciences, the meeting will address important issues relevant to public health and medicine.  Anchored by eleven “State-of-the-Art” presentations, thematic sessions will address new emerging exposures, nanoparticles and respiratory health, inorganic dust exposure and lung disease in agricultural workers, biomass fuels, the impact of global climate change on respiratory health, epigenetic and genetic influences on the risk for environmental and occupational respiratory disorders, experimental models at the interface of occupational asthma and skin sensitization, advances in exposure assessment and control, the immune response in environmental and occupational disorders, and mechanisms of fibrosis, including the role of stem cells in changing disease outcomes.  David Christiani, M.D. M.P.H., Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, will be the Conference Summarizer.  Abstract deadline is February 14, 2009.  For more information, contact: Lee S. Newman, M.D., M.A., c/o Jeanne Cleary, Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference, 1414 S. Lima Street, Aurora, CO 80012. Phone: (303) 724-6038; (303) 752-2681. Fax: (303) 752-2678.
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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

2010 Annual Meeting
Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference
53rd Annual Meeting
June 9-12, 2010
"Systems Biology of the Lung"
Mark W. Geraci, M.D., Chair
Ivor S. Douglas, M.D., Co-Chair