2024 Educational Objectives
As of April 14, 2024.
To date, conference educational objectives are to recognize, discuss and debate the following (to be announced)
Allergy and Food Allergy
- Understand new Immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated food allergy clinical findings discussed over the last year.
- Discuss novel aspects of non-IgE mediated food allergy discussed over the last year.;
- Explain the impact of food allergy on patient and family quality of life.
- Describe resources to help mitigate psychosocial impacts of food allergy, including anxiety, worry and depression.
- Identify conditions that are considered non-lgE mediated food allergies.
- Understand the symptoms non-IgE mediated food allergy conditions.
- Recognize the need to refer to an allergist for diagnosis and management of non-IgE mediated food allergy.
- Learn commonly used diagnostic tests in allergy, asthma and immunology (AAI).
- Review AAI diagnostic tools through interactive questions highlighted by clinical scenarios.
- Recognize mechanisms of anaphylaxis.
- Identify specific risk factors associated with anaphylaxis and occult conditions presenting with anaphylaxis.
- Learn appropriate and evolving therapy for anaphylaxis.
- Discuss developing non-injectable therapies for anaphylaxis.
- Review clinical cases involving food-based gastrointestinal (GI) problems that arose from real Alaskan lifestyles and adventures.
- Recognize various GI issues through compelling tales of the Last Frontier, understanding that we are what we eat.
Immune System
- Hear real-world cases that highlight challenging allergy and immunology conditions.
- Understand the role of reduced immunoglobulin (Ig) levels in Secondary Hypogammaglobulinemia (SHG).
- Review tools and tests used to diagnose SHG.
- Discuss practical methods and approaches for managing SHG. Review the latest updates regarding diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis.
- Discuss how mast cell disorders, including mastocytosis, present.
- Describe how to approach the patient suspected of having a mast cell disorder.
- Identify specific immunologic changes that occur with aging.
- Review approaches to evaluate immune system health.
- Learn potential management options for patients with aging immune systems
Respiratory and Pulmonary Disease
- Distinguish between clinical presentations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma COPD overlap (AC).
- Identify tools and tests used to diagnose and distinguish COPD and ACO Develop a differential diagnosis for bronchiectasis.
- Learn how to properly evaluate patients with asthma-like presenting symptoms.
- Implement an effective treatment strategy for patients with challenging respiratory disease diagnoses.
- Review current recommendations from the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA).
- Recognize the important themes and changes in the 2024 GINA update.
- Understand the rationale for changes in the 2024 GINA update.
- Perform differential diagnosis of eosinophilic disorders.
- Identify patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES).
- Review HES management options, including current and novel therapies.
Current Issues
- Describe major areas of health disparities in the field of allergy/immunology
- Understand how literacy and illness representation affect health and wellness.
- Review interventions that can help allergy/immunology health care providers to improve health disparities.
- Integrative medicine and artificial intelligence (AI).