Women and Asthma Across the Lifespan
By attending this event, you will be able to self-report increased knowledge of the impact of social determinants of health, rurality, and life-stage transitions - from childhood through menopause and older adulthood - on asthma prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and management considerations in women across the lifespan.
Topics
- Impact of social determinants of health, rurality, and women’s experience influence asthma across their lifespan
- Changing prevalence, morbidity and mortality trends in asthma across in pre-menopausal women from childhood through menopause
- How asthma affects older adult women from menopause onward
- Potential causes and solutions to addressing older women with asthma in current asthma management landscape
Featured Speaker
Andrea Pappalardo Wlochowicz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Dr. Pappalardo Wlochowiz is board certified in three specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics and allergy/immunology and serves as the Allergy Service Director. Dr. Pappalardo recently served as the Medical Director for the Mobile Care Asthma Van, where she provided school-based asthma and allergy subspecialty care throughout Chicagoland in front of schools.
1.0 Nurse Contact Hour
Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the VTL Center for Professional Development, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Criteria for successful completion: attend the full event and complete the online evaluation.
A relevant financial relationships was identified for the presenter, which has been mitigated.
There is no charge to attend. This program is supported by a grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health for the Asthma Quality Improvement in Critical Access Hospitals project.
