Introducing the BPD Collaborative & Insights into Preterm Lung Health in Later Life

Описание: Adults Born Preterm: The Honesty Sessions is a five-part webinar series that explores the lifelong impact of preterm birth through candid conversations with experts, advocates, and individuals born preterm. Covering topics from advocacy and communication between clinicians and patients to preterm lung health and personal insights, this series provides a platform for sharing experiences and advancing knowledge on preterm birth beyond the neonatal period.

This is the 4th webinar in the series, titled "Introducing the BPD Collaborative & Insights into Preterm Lung Health in Later Life".

Dr. Steven Abman is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Heart Lung Center (PHLC) at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Having completed fellowship training in Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Abman has maintained strong translational research and clinical interests in neonatal lung injury, lung vascular development, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease in the newborn (bronchopulmonary dysplasia, BPD), pulmonary hypertension, and related topics. Dr. Abman was one of the co-founders and is Vice-Chair of the international BPD Collaborative. He recently completed his tenure as President of the American Pediatric Society (APS).

Dr Sharon McGrath-Morrow, MD is a Pediatric Pulmonologist and physician scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Her research centre's around the effects of neonatal lung injuries and infections on lung immune responses, alveolar growth, and adult pulmonary outcomes. Her clinical research focuses on developmental lung diseases caused by preterm birth and the role of environmental modifiers in influencing long-term respiratory outcomes throughout the lifespan.

Dr. J. Michael Collaco is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His primary research interest is in the epidemiology of pediatric respiratory diseases, with a focus on environmental risk factors for cystic fibrosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia as well as a special interest in the effects of second-hand smoke and electronic cigarette emissions.