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Assessment and Management of Asthma – A Paradigm Shift in Care
Kenneth R. Chapman, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC, FACP, FERS
Topics: Asthma
- Up to 1.5 CFPC Mainpro+ Credits
Objectives
Faculty
Credit
- Learn how to avoid common errors when managing asthma in primary care.
- Consider patients with severe asthma who may be hiding in plain sight.
- Examine the consequences of poorly managed and unidentified severe asthma.
- Review the impact of biologic therapy for severe asthma.
Kenneth R. Chapman M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC, FACP, FERS
Professor Chapman is Director of the Asthma and Airway Centre of the University Health Network, Founder and Past-President of the Canadian Network for Respiratory Care and Director of the Canadian Registry for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. A graduate of the University of Toronto and a former member of the faculty at Case Western Reserve University, he is now a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Chapman is an internationally respected researcher in the field of asthma, COPD and airway diseases; his publications have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. The titles of more than 600 publications ranged from "Emergency medical services for outdoor rock music festivals" to "The effect of posture on thoracoabdominal movements during progressive hyperoxic hypercapnia in conscious man". With more the 26,000 citations to his work, Professor Chapman is in the top 1% of cited medical researchers.
He chaired Canada’s first Consensus Conference to establish Canadian guidelines for the management of COPD. Professor Chapman was the inaugural holder of the CIHR-GSK Research Chair in Respiratory Health Care Delivery at the University Health Network and was one of five Canadian respiratory physicians awarded Fellowship in the European Society in its Inaugural year.
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This Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the CFPC & has been certified by Queen's University for up to 1.5 Mainpro+ Credits and is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College and approved by Queen's University Office of CPD for up to 1.5 hours.
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