The 51st Annual Swineford Conference

 

The 51st Annual Swineford Conference

Friday, April 13, 2012

PROGRAM AGENDA

Friday, April 13, 2012
Morning Session:   Chairperson, Tom Platts-Mills
8:00 – 8:50 am Registration and continental breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 am Introduction
9:00 – 9:45 am “The future of recombinant allergens.”     
Martin D. Chapman, PhD
9:45 – 10:30 am “Why should chronic urticaria respond to treatment with Anti-IgE?”     
Sarbjit Singh Saini, MD
10:30 – 10:50 am Coffee break
10:50 – 11:35 am “Asthma and allergic disease in Puerto Rico.”     
Juan Celedon, MD
11:35 – 12:10 pm “Mediators in the lung during exercise induced asthma.”     
Teal S. Hallstrand, MD
12:10 – 2:00 pm Lunch - provid
Afternoon Session:  Chairperson, Judith Woodfolk
2:00 – 2:40 pm         
 “Acute asthma in Costa Rica: an interaction between allergy and the common cold.”     
Peter Heymann, MD
2:40 – 3:00 pm “Quantitative measurements of rhinoviral load in natural and induced colds.”      Joshua Kennedy, MD
3:00 – 3:30 pm Tea break 
3:30 4:10 pm “Eosinophilic esophagitis; forms of the disease and response to treatment.”     
Elizabeth Erwin, MD
4:10 – 5:00 pm “T cells producing IL4, IL13 or IL5: relevance to local Eosinophilia.”     
Calman Prussin, MD
5:05 7:00 pm Reception
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Chairperson, Larry Borish, MD
8:15 – 9:00 am Sign in and continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 am “IL4 and Neurological Function (intelligence?)”     
Jonathan Kipnis, PhD
9:45 – 10:15 am      
 “Porkcat syndrome”     
Jonathon Posthumus, MD
10:15 – 10:40 am    
 Coffee break
10:40 – 11:25 am “Relevance of apoptosis to the health of the respiratory epithelium”     
Kodi Ravichandran, PhD
11:25 – 12:05 am “Understanding the relationship between fibrosis and remodeling using     
the sinuses as a model”     
John Steinke, PhD
12:05 – 12:15 pm
 Closing remarks