Asthma

Asthma 101™ : What You Need to Know, created by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest, is an excellent starting point for learning about asthma. The 47-page booklet describes how asthma impacts the lungs, signs and symptoms, medication and environmental treatment, and self-management strategies. An asthma action plan and medication delivery device instruction sheets are also included. Asthma 101™ : What You Need to Know in English Asthma 101™ : What You Need to Know in Spanish Community Asthma Program on the Navajo Nation - This video version of Asthma 101™ was created for the Navajo Community Asthma Program in response to requests from Navajo Nation community members. Additional asthma resources are available on the American Lung Association's website. The Asthma Challenge Game consists of an asthma education text and an interactive on-line tool to reinforce the learning. Asthma Booklet - education about asthma facts Asthma Challenge - corresponding interactive game to test asthma knowledge

Western States Pediatric Pulmonary Case Studies

The University of Arizona Pediatric Pulmonary Center facilitates a monthly Western States Pediatric Pulmonary Case Study for pediatric pulmonologists, fellows, and trainees. These case studies have grown from only including the Western States to national and international participants. Each month there is a new presenter from one of the participating institutions. 

19-20 Archived Presentations:

• 'Occams Razor Fail' - Dr. Mfon Udoko from Children's Hospital Colorado
• Western States Pulmonary Case Conference Presentation - Dr.  Janet Trang Lim of UCSF
• 'An Atypical Wheeze' - Dr. Cissy Si from Stanford University
• 'Congenital Thoracic Abnormalities & Their Pulmonary Associations' - Dr. Nastasia Nianiaris from University of California Irvine / Miller Children's & Women's Hospital, Long Beach
• 'The Alphabet Soup of Bronchiectasis' - Dr. Daniel Hinds from Children's Hospital Colorado
• 'Non-COVID infections still a problem' - Dr. Leah Nuss from Seattle Children's Hospital
• 'Walking through the EVALI of Death' - Dr. Katherine Lewinter from Children's Hospital Los Angeles
• 'Effusion Confusion!' - Holly Vo, MD, MPH, MSc from Seattle Children's Hospital
• 'Incidentaloma: Now what?' -Nina Suresh, MD, MS from Stanford

18-19 Archived Presentations

• 'An Interesting Case of Neonatal Tachypnea'- Dr. Laura Ellington, Seattle Children's Hospital
• 'Chronic Cough: The Long and the Thin of it...' - Dr. Monica Vielkind, CHCO
• 'A Case of Recurrent Pneumonia: Navigate and Treating an Unexpecting Finding' - Dr. Ruth Siew, UCSD
• 'Not Your Ordinary Teenage Drama Queen: An Unusual Etiology of Chest Pain' - Dr. Michelle Sobremonte-King, CHCO
• '(Un)even Steven: An Unusual Complication of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome' - Dr. Eric Hamerger, Stanford University
• 'Why is He Still So Hypoxic?' - Dr. Nancy Hong, CHCO

To be included in future case studies or to view an archived case study, please contact Amanda Sharpe, BS at Ajsharpe@arizona.edu