“Severe asthma: using phenotypes to improve treatment”

Sally E. Wenzel, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute @UPMC/UPSOM

Pittsburgh, PA

The Joseph P. Lynch III Lecture

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1) Describe the evolution of asthma phenotyping

2) Discuss the development of molecular phenotyping approaches to asthma phenotyping in relation to Type 2 immunity

3) Use phenotyping to begin to direct personalized approaches to treatment

Sally Wenzel, MD

Dr. Wenzel's career began at University of Florida Medical School, followed by Internal Medicine studies at Wake Forest University and Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1986, Dr. Wenzel took a position at University of Colorado/National Jewish Health, rising to rank of Professor of Medicine with an endowed chair.  In 2006, the University of Pittsburgh recruited Dr. Wenzel to establish the Asthma Institute. She is currently a tenured professor, UPMC endowed Chair in Translational Airway Biology, as well as Director of the Asthma Institute. She leads the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Division’s Allergy Program.

Dr. Wenzel received the Elisabeth Rich MD Award for serving as a role model of women in medicine/science and received the ATS 2010 Recognition Award for Scientific Accomplishments.  She was named Top Doctors in America from 2001 to present and in 2014 elected into the American Association of Physicians.  She has authored/co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in various scientific journals.

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