Credits Available: 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Description: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide, is a heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms caused by persistent airflow limitation due to airway and alveolar abnormalities. Initial COPD management relies on bronchodilators with the addition of inhaled corticosteroids for those at high risk for exacerbations. However, up to half of patients on triple therapy still experience exacerbations, highlighting a need for new therapies. Biologic therapy targeting type 2 inflammation, which is common in COPD and associated with exacerbation risk, has recently been approved for clinical use as add-on maintenance treatment of adult patients with inadequately controlled COPD and an eosinophilic phenotype. This educational program is designed to get pulmonology experts up to date on these rapid treatment advances for COPD as well as to bolster standard-of-care fundamentals.

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Target Professions: DO, MD, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Associate/Assistant
Target Specialties: Pulmonary/Respiratory Physician

Majid Shafiq

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Dr. Majid Shafiq is an interventional pulmonologist who performs minimally invasive diagnostic procedures such as flexible bronchoscopy with endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), robotic bronchoscopy, electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy and transthoracic biopsy of lung nodules, medical thoracoscopy (also known as pleuroscopy), and pleural biopsy. He also performs minimally invasive therapeutic procedures such as indwelling pleural catheter placement for recurrent pleural effusion, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using endobronchial valves for severe COPD (emphysema), bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma, whole lung lavage for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, rigid bronchoscopy and tumor debulking for benign and cancerous airway tumors, and airway stenting for tracheomalacia, tracheobronchomalacia (TBM), airway stenosis, and airway compression.