Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The American Thoracic Society (ATS) hosted a live webinar on Sept 28 that featured a presentation about LungMAP and the importance of better understanding lung development for better treatment of rare pediatric lung disease. 

This is a link to the recorded session The webinar entitled "New Developments: Children's Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Diseases" is a number of brief presentations by experts in the field. Martha Fishman, MD and Alicia Casey, MD of Boston Children's Hospital give an overview of current chILD research; Anne-Karina Perl, PhD of the LungMAP Consortium gives an update on the LungMAP program; and Vivian Saper, MD of Stanford School of Medicine speaks on lung involvement in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.