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COPD: Rapid Changes in a Changing World
FIRST ANNUAL BOSTON COPD SYMPOSIUM

Friday, October 1, 2004
12:00 p.m.—5:30 p.m.
The Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge, Mass
 
CONFERENCE AGENDA
12:00 -12:30 p.m. Registration
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 1:35

Introduction
Bartolome R. Celli, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pulmonary Medicine,
Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

1:35 - 2:00 COPD: Today and Tomorrow
Scott Weiss, MD
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
2:00 - 2:30 Pharmacological Therapy: Where Do We Stand?
Donald Mahler, MD
Pulmonary Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH
Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, NH
2:30 - 2:55 Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Improving Success
Richard ZuWallack, MD
Associate Chief, Pulmonary Medicine, St. Francis Hospital
Hartford, CT
Professor of Clinical Medicine,
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Farmington, CT
2:55 - 3:15 Break
3:15 -3:40 Exacerbations: What and Why
Bartolome R. Celli, MD
3:40 - 4:10 Mechanical Ventilation: Who, How and Where
Scott Epstein, MD
Vice Chair of Medicine
Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
 
LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION
4:10 - 4:25 p.m. The Surgery
John Reilly, MD
Medical Director
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Clinical Director
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
4:25 - 4:40

The Valve
Armin Ernst, MD
Director, Interventional Pulmonology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistanct Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

4:40 - 4:55

The Glue
Edward Ingenito, MD
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

4:55 - 5:30 Future Directions in the Therapy of COPD
Bartolome R. Celli, MD
and colleagues