NHLBI Workshop on Health Disparities in Pulmonary Vascular Disease

The Department of Medicine’s Franz Rischard, DO, will host a free virtual workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 22, and Wednesday, Oct. 23, on “Disparities Across the Spectrum of Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PVD)” that’s sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a unit of the National Institutes of Health.

The event will take place from 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m AZT (10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT), both days.

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Flyer for this event:  nhlbi_pvd_workshop_agenda_10.22-23.2024_flyer.pdf

Serving as chair of the workshop, Dr. Rischard is a professor and director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, and site principal investigator for the U of A in the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Phenomics, or PVDOMICS, study, through the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.

Dr. Rischard will layout the workshop’s goals and objectives at 7:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, and present on “Self-Reported Racial and Ethnic Differences Among participants in the PVDOMICS Cohort,” at 10:30 a.m. AZT, Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Also from the U of A, Chris Lim, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Community, Environment and Policy at the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will present on “Air Pollution, Social Determinants of Health, and Pulmonary Hypertension Outcomes in the PVDOMICS Cohort,” 7:30 a.m. AZT, Oct. 23. And Karim El-Kersh, MD, a professor and head of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix, was among six PVD and social disparties experts invited as workshop discussants.

See the event summary, full agenda and register at this link.

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