Update on Severe Asthma 2025

Course Overview

Assessment and management of severe asthma are issues currently at the forefront of modern asthma investigation and care. This two-day, live, hybrid (in person and online) course will provide insights from a multidisciplinary team representing the Severe Asthma Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Mass General Brigham Asthma Center. Our focus will include both pediatric and adult patients with asthma. We will devote one day to assessment of severe asthma and complicating illnesses and one day to its treatment, including novel approaches to management. Lectures will cover topics in the immunology and genetics of severe asthma, aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease, eosinophilic lung diseases including allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, occupational asthma, obesity and asthma, and special considerations in school-age children. Presentations on the contribution of gastroesophageal reflux disease, upper airway obstruction, and sinusitis/nasal polyposis will be given by a gastroenterologist, voice specialist, and otolaryngologist, respectively. We will focus on the treatment of asthma, including recent GINA and NAEPP Guidelines, modern biologics, and novel therapies in development. We will review in depth our protocol for the evaluation of severe asthma and have opportunity to discuss interesting cases of severe asthma. This course is appropriate for allergists, pulmonologists, and other specialists with an interest in the management of severe asthma. 

Who Should Attend

• Specialty Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Systematically evaluate difficult-to-control asthma. 
• Identify specific severe asthma phenotypes/endotypes. 
• Utilize novel asthma therapeutics with confidence.