March 2009 for AAAAI Washington DC abstracts & presentations by IAFAI members.

Posters

COVAR

Does Insurance Coverage Equal Asthma Control in School-Aged Children? T Cruzick, R. Covar, M. Gleason, L.Cicutto, M.White, S.Szefler. National Jewish Health Center, Denver, CO

The Changing Face of Severe Childhood Asthma: A Comparison of 2 Cohorts of Children Evaluated at National Jewish Health over the Past Decade. J Spahn, Rcovar, J Doshi. National Jewish Health Center, Denver, CO

Increased Prevalence of Abnormalities in Glucocorticoid Pharmacokinetics Among Clinically Steroid Resistant Obese Asthmatics. E Goleva, R Covar, ER Sutherland, RJ Martin, SJ Szefler, DY Leung; National Jewish Health Center, Denver, CO

Does Obesity Influence Steroid Absorption, metabolism and In Vitro Steroid Response in Adults with Severe Asthma? JM Davidson, RA Covar, E Brown, JD Spahn; National Jewish Health Center, Denver, CO.

DALAN

Predicted Pollen vs Collected/Sampled Pollen at London, Ontario Canada. JJ Anderson, D Olgeirson, D Dalan; Environmental Allergy Assays London, ON Canada, Allergy and Asthma Center, Fargo, ND.

Predicted Pollen Counts Compared with the Fargo National Buteau Station. D Dalan, D Olgeirson, J Anderson; Allergy & Asthma Center, Fargo, ND, Environmental Assays, London ON, Canada.

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VILLAREAL

Early Predictors of Clinician Diagnosed Eczema at age 4: The Cincinnati Childhood Allergy and Air Pollution(CCAAP) Birth Cohort Study. TG Epstein, DI Bersntein, I Levin, PH Ryan, JE Lockey, GKK Hershey, M Villareal, GK Lemasters; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Asthma in Cincinnati’s Elderly Study: Asthma and Quality of Life in Elderly Adults. AM Smith, M Villareal, DJ Swikert, DI Bernstein; University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, St Elizabeth Medical Center, Edgewood, K

Work-shops

2809. Improving Outcomes with the Help of Technology. Dalan

Objective 1: Use patient-centric outcomes monitoring using new asthma and rhinitis web-based tools to satisfy Institute of Medicine (IOM) directives, as well as practice guidelines in use of subjective questionnaires and objective measures

5713. Q & A: What is the Value in Measuring Quality of Life? DalanPerspectives from Patient Care and Research

Objective 1: Describe how measuring quality of life measures can improve patient adherence and satisfaction

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