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Asthma Guidelines Stakeholder Webinar

Virtual meeting

Description

On Dec. 3, 2020, the NHLBI released updates to the national guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of asthma. To announce  the release, NHLBI hosted a webinar about the 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines that were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and posted to the NHLBI website. The report, coordinated and supported by the NHLBI’s National Asthma Education Prevention Program, is designed to improve patient care and support informed decision making about asthma management in the clinical setting in six priority areas of asthma care.

Speakers included:

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., Director, NHLBI

James P. Kiley, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI

Michelle M. Cloutier, M.D., Chair of the NAEPPCC Expert Panel Working Group; Professor Emerita, UCONN School of Medicine

George A. Mensah, M.D., Director of the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, NHLBI

Materials

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Access Guideline related materials

Learn more about the updated asthma guidelines