Eugene R. Bleecker, MD, has been added to the Winter Series Lung Conference schedule with a presentation scheduled Thursday, Feb. 4, noon-1 p.m., in UA College of Medicine Room 8403.
His topic will be: “Asthma and COPD - Heterogeneity and Severity: Phenotypes and Endotypes.”
Dr. Bleecker is a professor and director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research at Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine. He practices at Wake Forest Baptist Health in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases.
He’s also principal investigator on a $2.41 million, NIH-funded study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as part of the SPIROMICS Research Group, as well as another NIH-funded study of “Longitudinal Phenomics and Genetics of Severe Asthma.”
Dr. Bleecker also spoke at last year’s Winter Series Lung Conference on the topic: “Personalized Medicine in Asthma: Towards a Personalized Approach to Asthma Diagnosis and Treatment.”
He is hosted by Donata Vercelli, PhD, the director of the University of Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD), a professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and associate director of the Arizona Respiratory Center. The ABCD is also hosting a weekly series of related spring lectures as part of its Colloquium on Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases (learn more). That series continues through April.
For more information (and a schedule of speakers) on the Winter Series Lung Conference, please visit the “Research & Education” webpage of the UA Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine (PACCS). PACCS co-hosts the conference with the Arizona Respiratory Center. The 2015-16 lectures continue through March.