CONTINUING EDUCATION

Objectives as of April 22, 2025.

To date, conference educational objectives are to recognize, discuss and debate the following:

Allergy

• Learn commonly used diagnostic tests in allergy.
• Review allergy diagnostic tools highlighted by clinical scenarios.
• Learn the natural course of allergic rhinitis, common triggers and approach to management. 
• Learn which allergic rhinitis therapies and treatments to avoid due to the potential for adverse effects. 
• Learn emerging diagnostic modalities in immunoglobulin E (IgE) mediated food allergy diagnosis. 
• Understand the role of omalizumab, oral immunotherapy, and intranasal epinephrine in current food allergy management. 
• Become familiar with emerging food allergy treatments. 
• Learn how environmental exposures like emollients, food intervention and breastfeeding can be used to prevent disease.

Immune System

• Discuss possible reasons for the increasing prevalence of atopic diseases. 
• Describe the ways in which atopic disease may be beneficial. Explain how atopic disease may protect from respiratory viral infections. 
• Describe autoinflammatory disorders as clinically unique in the spectrum of inborn immunity errors. 
• Recognize the shared and unique clinical presentations of autoinflammatory disorders.
• Learn the initial clinical workup for suspected autoinflammatory disorders, and describe treatment options.
• Outline the components of the immune system. Understand how immune system components work together to prevent infection and repair tissue damage.

Asthma and Respiratory Disease

• Outline optimal intervention strategies for preschool children with mild persistent asthma and severe episodic wheezing.
• Develop strategies for phenotype directed therapy in preschool children.
• Describe the pathophysiology and clinical presentations typically seen in patients with long COVID.
• Discuss useful approaches to diagnose and treat patients with long COVID.
• Review the efficacy of existing and emerging asthma therapeutics.

Skin Deep

• Describe the pathophysiological basis for patients presenting with various forms of angioedema.
• Discuss approaches to efficient diagnosis and effective therapy in managing patients presenting with angioedema.
• Understand the efficacy of systemic agents for atopic dermatitis.
• Understand the efficacy of topical agents for atopic dermatitis.
• Learn about new treatments for atopic dermatitis, including mechanism of action and potential side effects of the agents.
• Distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2b Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria.
• Learn how management differs between autoallergic and autoimmune types of Chronic Sponstaneous Urticaria.

Social and Environmental

• Discover what’s new at the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI).
• Recognize and describe the pros and cons of artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of medicine.
• Understand the future of AI in medicine. Understand effect of rising pollen on allergies and asthma.
• Learn mitigation strategies that can better protect public health.
• Recognize the impact of climate change on increased prevalence and severity of atopic dermatitis
• Understand the role of climate change in the increased prevalence of food allergy.
• Learn the global impact of climate change on nutrition.
• Discuss cases demonstrating health disparities.
• Understand the framework of health disparities.
• Describe the office strategies to promote health equity.
• Learn about ways to maintaining the three pillars of health – physical, mental and social health - in a changing environment.