Pulmonary Hypertension Association Travels to San Diego for PHA On The Road to Help Fight Rare Lung Disease
Silver Spring, Md. (PRWEB) September 16, 2014 -- Pulmonary Hypertension Association Travels to San Diego for PHA On The Road
Free Education Forum for PH Patients and Families to Help Fight Rare Lung Disease
Who:
The Pulmonary Hypertension Association– the country’s leading pulmonary hypertension association that works to find ways to prevent and cure pulmonary hypertension (PH) – a disease of the lungs that affects the functioning of the heart and can lead to right heart failure. Without treatment, mean survivability is only 2.8 years.
What:
PHA On The Road– A free full-day regional education forum that delivers much needed PH education and support to patients and families in areas close to home. The forums feature interactive presentations, education sessions and networking opportunities with other patients, caregivers and medical professionals.
When:
Saturday, September 20, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Where:
Westin San Diego
400 West Broadway
San Diego, CA 92101
619-239-4500
Why:
PHA’s mission is to find ways to prevent and cure pulmonary hypertension and provide hope for the community through support education, research, and advocacy and awareness. PHA does this by connecting and working together with the entire PH community of patients, families and medical professionals. The community of treating physicians has grown from 100 in 1994 to more than 10,000 today. PH has as many or more treatments than all but three of the top rare diseases, growing from one treatment in 1996 to 12 in 2014. Three of those treatments were approved in the last quarter of 2013.
PHA designed the On the Road program to reach PH patients, caregivers and medical professionals across the country every year, especially those who are not able to travel the PHA’s Biennial International Conference and Scientific Sessions. To learn more about pulmonary hypertension and PHA, visit http://www.PHAssociation.org.
Confirmed Speakers and Presenters
William Auger, MD*
Regional Committee Co-Chair
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Vijay Balasubramanian, MD
University of California, San Francisco – Fresno
Thao Drcar, MS, ANP-BC, CNS
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Antoine Hage, MD
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Monica Horn, RN, CCRN, CCTC*
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Trina M. Limberg, BS, RRT, FAARC, MAACVPR
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Michael Lewis, MD*
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Demosthenes Papamatheakis, MD
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Jeffrey Sager, MD, MSc*
Santa Barbara Pulmonary Consultants
Melissa Stinson, NP
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Jacqueline Szmuszkovicz, MD*
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Glenna Traiger, RN, MSN*
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Victor Tapson, MD*
Regional Committee Co-Chair
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Christopher Barnett, MD, MPH*
The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles
Donna Guadiz, RN, BSN, CCRN, CCTC
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Wendy Hill, RN, MSN, NP-C*
VA Greater LA Healthcare System/ University of California, Los Angeles
Kim Kerr, MD*
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Netty Levine, MS, RD, CDE
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Sandra Lombardi, RN*
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
David Poch, MD
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Rajan Saggar, MD*
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Theresa Swartz, RN, MSN, CCRN, CSC
Paloma Medical Group, University of California, Irvine
Diane Tanaka, MD
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
- Regional Committee Member
Renée Hockaday, Pulmonary Hypertension Assoc., http://www.PHAssociation.org, +1 240-485-0774, [email protected]
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