Target Audience

This activity addresses the needs of clinical immunologists, pulmonologists, and other physicians involved in the management of patients with severe asthma.

Program Description

Best practices within the management of severe asthma require the integration of evidence-based guidelines, the latest scientific information, and an accumulation of clinical experience—all which inform individualized treatment selection and chronic care decisions. To better mirror real-world practice, this Case-in-Point™ severe asthma enduring program will utilize a case-based format to actively engage learners while emphasizing knowledge consolidation and translation. Within the context of these representative, challenging case studies, a multidisciplinary panel of expert faculty will review and discuss key topics including newer insights into type 2 (T2) high and T2 low asthma pathophysiology, the longitudinal assessment of severe disease, and the latest evidence and rationale for the implementation of available and emerging targeted therapies.

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  • Describe clinically relevant pathophysiologic processes in severe asthma, including implications for new targeted treatment options
  • Comprehensively assess patients with asthma for disease severity, lung function, and treatment responses
  • Discuss the mechanisms of action and clinical profiles of new and emerging targeted therapies for severe asthma
  • Individualized treatment regimens for patients with severe asthma based on symptoms, phenotypes, and patient preferences

Faculty

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr, MD (Moderator)
Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Vice Chancellor, Translational Medicine and Science
Director, Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Child Health Institute of New Jersey
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Monica Kraft, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chair, Department of Medicine
The Robert and Irene Flinn Endowed Chair in Medicine
University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine – Tucson
Deputy Director, UA Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center
Tucson, Arizona

Anju T. Peters, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Department of Allergy and Immunology
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Director of Clinical Research
Division of Allergy and Immunology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Physician Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Global Education Group (Global) and Integritas Communications. Global is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Physician Credit Designation

Global designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurse Practitioner Continuing Education

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) through the joint providership of Global Education Group and Integritas Communications. Global Education Group is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 110121. This activity is approved for 1.0 contact hour (which includes 0.2 hour(s) of pharmacology).

Term of Offering

This activity was released on January 18, 2022, and is valid for one year. Requests for credit must be made no later than January 18, 2023.

Global Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program, please contact Global at 303-395-1782 or cme@globaleducationgroup.com.

Instructions to Receive Credit

In order to receive credit for this activity, the participant must complete the preactivity questionnaire, score 75% or better on the posttest, and complete the program evaluation.

Fee Information & Refund/Cancellation Policy

There is no fee for this educational activity.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Integritas Communications (Integritas) adheres to the policies and guidelines, including the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited CE, set forth to providers by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and all other professional organizations, as applicable, stating those activities where continuing education credits are awarded must be balanced, independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous. All persons in a position to control the content of an accredited continuing education program provided by Integritas are required to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company within the past 24 months to Integritas. All financial relationships reported are identified as relevant and mitigated by Integritas in accordance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited CE in advance of delivery of the activity to learners. The content of this activity was vetted by Integritas to assure objectivity and that the activity is free of commercial bias. 

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

The faculty have the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies:

Reynold A. Panettieri, Jr, MD: Consulting Fee: AstraZeneca plc, Bayer AG, Genentech, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.; Contracted Research: ACTIV-1, AstraZeneca plc, Genentech, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Medimmune, LLC, Novartis International AG, Origo Biopharma, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Vault Health, Inc.; Speakers Bureau: AstraZeneca plc, Genentech, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Sanofi S.A.

Monica Kraft, MD: Consulting Fee: AstraZeneca plc, Sanofi S.A.; Contracted Research: ALA Pharma Ltd., AstraZeneca plc, Chiesi USA, Inc., Sanofi S.A.

Anju T. Peters, MD: Consulting Fee:  AstraZeneca plc, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis International AG, Optinose US, Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sanofi S.A.; Contracted Research: AstraZeneca plc, Merck & Co., Inc., Optinose US, Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sanofi S.A.

The following planners and managers have reported no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies:

Kristin Delisi, NP, Lindsay Borvansky, Andrea Funk, Liddy Knight, Ashley Cann, Celeste Collazo, MD, Rose O’Connor, PhD, CHCP, Jim Kappler, PhD

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Global and Integritas Communications do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of any organization associated with this activity. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

System Requirements

PC
1.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent)
Windows 10, 8.1 (32-bit/64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later, Windows Edge browser, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome
For HTML Client – Google Chrome (v70.0 & above), Mozilla Firefox (v65.0 & above), and Edge (v42.0 & above)

MAC
1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster processor
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
MAC OS X 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14
Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome
For HTML Client – Google Chrome (v70.0 & above), Apple Safari (v12.0 & above), and Mozilla Firefox (v65.0 & above)

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Case-in-Point™

Cause for Alarm

New Avenues to the Management of Severe Asthma