ILD in Practice: An immersive day for Community Pulmonologists and Fellows
25 Years Together: Honoring the Past, Building on the Present, Innovating for the Future
ILD in Practice: An Immersive Day for Community Pulmonologists and ILD Fellows
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Chicago VI-VII
Session Chairs: Ayodeji Adegunsoye, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP & Hyun Kim, MD
CLOSED SESSION: Please note that session is for health care providers and allied health professionals only. Pre-registration is required.
Time
8:00 a.m.
8:05 a.m.
Topic
Welcome!
Introduction to the PFF
Care Center Network and the PFF Registry
of Medicine I: How I diagnose ILD
8:30 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.10:15 a.m.
Speakers
Sonye K. Danoff, MD, PhD; Kevin Flaherty, MD
• The art of diagnosis: Mastering lab work in ILD workups
• The art of intervention: Mastering procedures in ILD diagnosis and treatment
• The art of imaging: Decoding HRCT patterns in ILD
• The art of collaboration: Case based discussion
• Panel and all audience Q&A
BREAK
Art of Medicine II: How I manage ILD
10:15 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
10:45 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
• Breathing better: Understanding the benefits of pulmonary rehab
• Optimizing outcomes: Managing PH-ILD care
• Lung cancer and ILD: Understanding risk, diagnosis, and treatment considerations
• What to do when it’s rare: Recognizing and managing rare ILDs - LAM, eosiniphilic granuloma, PAP, eosinophilic pneumonia, pulmonary capillaritis
Shweta Sood, MD, MS
Tejaswini Kulkarni, MD, MPH
Jonathan Chung, MD
Vijayalakshmi
Ananthanarayanan, MBBS, MD All Krishna Thavarajah, MD, MS
Christopher King, MD
Naomi Fujioka, MD, MS
Nishant Gupta, MD
Art
11:15 a.m.
11:30 a.m.
11:45 a.m.
12:15 p.m.1:15 p.m.
1:15 p.m.
1:20 p.m.
1:35 p.m.
1:50 p.m.
2:05 p.m.
2:20 p.m.
2:45 p.m. -
3:00 p.m.
• Interstitial lung abnormalities on the radar: Interpretation, risk, and management pathways for ILAs
• A picture is worth a thousand words: A practical approach to how chest CT imaging is managed
◊ Novelties in 2025: Where we’ve come from and where we’re going
• Panel and all audience Q&A
LUNCH
• Introduction to afternoon session
• Genetics and FPF: Understanding the differences, resources for families, genetic and telomere testing, and more
• Lessons learned: Starting an ILD program
• Getting technical: Supplemental O2
• Knowing the differences and which to prescribe: compressed gas, liquid, O2 concentrators
• Understanding supplier challenges
• Palliative care in ILD: Integrating compassion with clinical practice
• Panel and all audience Q&A
BREAK
Kathryn Friedman Flack, MD, MSCE
Steven Rothenberg, MD
All
Mary Beth Scholand, MD
David Zhang, MD, MS
Ryan Boente, MD
Yet Hong Khor, MBBS, FRACP, PhD
Lanier O’Hare, PhD, CRNP
All
Learning through collaboration: Expert views on tackling complex cases
3:00 p.m.
• Three cases (2 new, 1 follow up)
• Pulmonology
• Radiology
• Pathology
• Rheumatology
• Nurse
Bradford Bemiss, MD, MSCR
Sonye K. Danoff, MD, PhD
David A. Lynch, MB BCh
Emilian Racila, MD
Iazsmin Bauer Ventura, MD, MSc
Heather Bachert, MSN
We know this was a long day! Come enjoy a complimentary chair massage in the Relaxation Room.
