Teaching Slides on Viral Respiratory Infections and Airway Diseases

Through the support of an unrestricted educational grant from ViroPharma Incorporated and Aventis Pharmaceuticals, the ATS is pleased to make available online to ATS physicians and other interested physicians a set of fifty-eight (58) slides and accompanying lecture notes on "Viral Respiratory Infections in the Morbidity and Mortality of Airway Diseases and Immunocompromised States: Acute and Chronic Bronchitis, COPD, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Immunocompromised Cancer Patients."

Contributors and Disclosures

This program is the result of an ATS roundtable held in March 2002 under the direction of ATS President-elect Dr. Homer Boushey, Professor of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco. Other contributors included Drs. Gerald Bodey, James Gern, Ethan Halm, Frederick Hayden, Sebastian Johnston, Arnold Monto, Harley Rotbart, Sanjay Sethi, and Ronald Turner. The roundtable and slide-lecture program were coordinated for ATS by SCIENS Worldwide Medical Education Network.

In keeping with the American Thoracic Society's faculty disclosure requirements, the following speakers have disclosed the following pertaining to this presentation:

A significant relationship with industry:

That they have referenced "off label" uses of a commercial product or an investigational use not yet approved:

That they had nothing pertinent to disclose:

Gerald P. Bodey, MD
Homer A. Boushey, MD
Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH
Sebastian L. Johnston, MD
Sanjay Sethi, MD

Limited Quantity of CD-ROM Version Also Available

Complimentary copies of a CD-ROM version of the slide-lecture program were made available at the ViroPharma and Aventis booths at ATS-2002 in Atlanta. Both the CD-ROM version and ATS website version are presented in Microsoft PowerPoint and available for your downloading and non-commercial use in education on viral respiratory infections and airways diseases.

Additional complimentary copies of the CD-ROM version may still be available. To request a CD, please contact Ek Chinda, Account Coordinator, SCIENS Worldwide Medical Education Network at e-mail address echinda@sciensww.com or fax number 212-894-6351.

• Click here to download slides in MS Powerpoint.
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• Click here to download zip file of the Slides.
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If you have difficulty with the online version, please notify Deborah Moy, ATS Online Services Manager, by e-mail at dmoy@thoracic.org.