The Northeast Pulmonary Teaching Conference

The American Lung Association of Central New York and the New York State Society for Respiratory Care

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Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 9:45	Welcome. Etc	Russ , Patty, Ron
9:45 - 10:45	NIPPV across the Continuum	Bob Kacmarek, PhD,RRT
10:45 - 11:45	A Method to Decrease Risk and Cost in the ICU	Jim Maguire
11:45 -12:00	Break
12:00 - 1:00	Stepwise Approach to Acid/Base Disturbances	Russ Acevedo, MD
	Long Term Oxygen Therapy	Neil MacIntyre, MD
	Federal & State Government Affairs Update	Cheryl West
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 2:50	Lung Recruitment and the Setting of PEEP in ARDS	Bob Kacmarek, PhD,RRT
	Effective Communication between Therapist and Physician	Michael Baur, MD, James Meyer, RRT
	The Three Minute Approach To Successfully Treating Hospitalized Smokers	Jeffery J. Belle, MD
3:00 - 3:50	Respiratory Care in the 21st Century	Dave Pierson, MD
	Ventilator Graphics and Waveforms	Vijay Deshpande,MS,RRT
	A Tool for Increasing FTEs and Improved Outcomes	George Gaebler, MS, Ed, RRT
4:00 - 5:30	Interactive Panel Discussion	MacIntyre, Pierson, JP Papadokas, Kacmarek
5:30 - 7:30	Finger Lakes Wine Reception Trillium/Exhibit Area