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December 10 - 11, 2008 San Francisco

UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center

CALIFORNIAASTHMA

research summit

 

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Online registration for the California Asthma Research Summit
is now closed.  


If you have not yet registered for the Summit but would like to attend, please call 510-620-3646 or email california.breathing@cdph.ca.gov



 

California Breathing, a program within the California Department of Public Health, and the American Asthma Foundation are hosting a two-day summit highlighting the latest in asthma research. Learn about cutting edge research in genetics, environmental exposures, nutrition, infection, allergic inflammation, molecular shapers of response, and psycho-neurological factors affecting asthma. 

 

speakers


John R. Balmes, MD

School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley
Member, California Air Resources Board

Homer A. Boushey, MD

Esteban González Burchard, MD., MPH 

Michael Cabana, MD, MPH   

Mark D. Eisner, MD, MPH  

university of california san francisco 


Dale T. Umetsu, MD, PhD

harvard university

   

Jane Burns, ScD                                       

harvard school of public health


Benjamin A. Raby, MD.CM, MPH

Rosalind Wright, MD

bringham and women's hospital,
harvard university

             

Margherita Cantorna, PhD                

penn state university                      


Jane A. Hoppin, Sc.D

national institute of environmental

health sciences (niehs)


Mark J. Mendell, PhD, MPH    

lawrence berkeley national laboratory

 

Matthew S. Perzanowski, PhD               

columbia university


Thomas A. Platts-Mills, MD., PhD

university of virginia


Julian Solway, MD                           

university of chicago


Akshay Sood, M.D., M.P.H.

university of new mexico

                  

Sally Wenzel, MD    

university of pittsburgh


David Callahan, MD

centers for disease control

and prevention (cdc)

sponsored by

who should attend


  1. Researchers

  2. Health care providers

  3. Public health professionals

  4. Health educators

  5. Coalition members

  6. Asthma advocates

  7. Anyone interested in learning

about asthma research