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

Given Institute - www.giveninstitute.org
Aspen, Colorado

TOPICS AND STATE OF THE ART SPEAKERS

"Airway Inflammation:
Lessons from the Bench"
Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D.
Burlington, Vermont

“Airway Inflammation:
Translating the Inflammatory Response to the Patient”
John V. Fahy, M.D.
San Francisco, California

“Innate Immunity”
Patricia W. Finn, M.D.
La Jolla, California

“Bugs and Asthma:
A Different Disease?”
R. Stokes Peebles, M.D.
Nashville, Tennessee

“The Beginnings of Asthma”
Fernando D. Martinez, M.D.
Tucson, Arizona

“Pediatric Asthma:
A Different Disease?”
Erwin W. Gelfand, M.D.
Denver, Colorado

“Genetics and Asthma:
Where We Are At and Where We Are Going”
Dirkje S. Postma, M.D., Ph.D.
Groningen, The Netherlands

“The Epithelium:
Not Just an Innocent Bystander”
Robert P. Schleimer, Ph.D.
Chicago, Illinois

“Smooth Muscle:
The Comeback Kid”
Julian Solway, M.D.
Chicago, Illinois

“Airway Remodeling, is it Real?”
Qutayba Hamid, M.D., Ph.D.
Montreal, Quebec

“Physiologic Dysfunction of the Asthmatic Lung:
What is Going on Down There Anyway”
Charles G. Irvin, Ph.D.
Burlington, Vermont

"Therapies Revisited: What Have we Learned?"
Robert F. Lemanske, Jr., M.D.
Madison, Wisconsin

CONFERENCE SUMMARY
Homer A. Boushey, M.D.
San Francisco, California

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.