The Northeast Pulmonary Teaching Conference

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

Tom Petty, MD

 


A native of Boulder, Colorado, he received his undergraduate and Medical Degrees at The University of Colorado. He completed his residency training at Philadelphia General Hospital, The University of Michigan, and at The University of Colorado School of Medicine.

His contributions to Pulmonary and critical care medicine can easily fill volumes and volumes of books!! He has received numerous awards and honors through out his career. He has written and edited extensively.

He is currently on The Board for the National Emphysema Foundation and also The Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation, which he was President from 1990 to 1993.

He serves on the Editorial Boards of Post Graduate Medicine and Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine.

He is Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Professor of Medicine at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.  

"COPD, the Challenge for 2002," Early Diagnosis and Management

Objectives:  

1. To describe the pathogenesis of COPD  

2. To describe the course and prognosis of COPD.  

3. To stress early identification and treatment of COPD.  

4. To discuss management of the progressive stages of COPD.

 

Program

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For more program information, contact Glenn Ivers at the American Lung Association of Central New York at 1620 Burnett Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13206,   tel:    
e-mail: Russ Acevedo, Program Chair and Webmaster:  russ
              Glenn Ivers, Co-Chair: glenn
              Chuck Svoboda, Co-Chair: chuck
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