Event Title: | 12th Annual Asthma and Allergy Conference- Girdwood, Alaska |
Event Date / Time: |
Start
8th Sep, 2017 11:30PM
End
9th Sep, 2017 6:00PM |
Event Description: |
Conference educational objectives are to recognize, discuss and debate the following: current guidelines for recognizing and managing drug allergy new concepts in managing and treating anaphylaxis mechanisms behind allergic rhinoconjunctivitis current treatments for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis possible causes of rhinitis symptoms that may be mistaken for allergic rhinitis new concepts and current guidelines for managing and treating food allergy changes to food allergy treatment related to primary and secondary prevention immunotherapy and desensitization options for food allergy treatment how people with asthma and allergies respond to ozone and other pollutants interventions that can help people with asthma and allergies to adapt to ozone and other pollutants effect of climate change on exposure to environmental allergens effects of pollutants on immunoglobulin E (IgE) immune system response diagnosis and treatment of occupational lung disease diagnosis and treatment of occupational contact dermatitis diagnosis, management and treatment of environmental airway disease transplant challenges in patients with primary immunodeficiency disease (PIDD) diagnosis and the devastating impacts of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) disorder newborn screening to improve the outcome for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) diagnosis identifying SCID in Alaska through newborn T cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) screening challenges and successes in Alaska for newborn TRECs screening to diagnose SCID diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases that present puzzling symptoms recognizing sinus disease with causes other than bacterial current literature and research related to asthma, allergy and immunology new guidelines and therapies in the treatment of asthma, allergy and immunology identification of phenotypes and endotypes to better classify severe asthma patients use of phenotype and endotype biomarkers to develop more targeted treatment for severe asthma current guidelines for the diagnosis, management and treatment of eosinophilic lung disease diagnosis and treatment of irritant and allergic contact dermatitis in children common pediatric skin diseases, including diaper dermatitis, lip licker’s dermatitis, food dermatitis, allergens and phytophotodermatitis prevalence and classification of chronic urticaria ruling out chronic urticaria underlying pathology through appropriate patient history and physical exam determining appropriate differential diagnosis and best treatment options for chronic urticaria |
Website: | http://conference.aafaalaska.com/index.html |