Community Education
The Asthma Education Summit is a yearly event. It brings together health care providers, school representatives, faith-based organizations and other community-based organizations. The summit provides asthma information and promotes asthma education.
Information on upcoming events will be posted here when available.
Past summits have included lectures, discussions and workshops around the following topics:
- Asthma Management and Triggers
- Community Health Workers
- Managing Asthma in School
- Green Cleaning
- Managing COVID-19 and Asthma
- Comorbidity of Asthma with Other Health Issues
- Environmental Influences on Asthma
- Tobacco and Vaping
- Participating in Research
- Asthma Guidelines
- Exercise and Asthma
- Social and Emotional Support for Young People with Asthma
Presentations from 2022 Asthma Education Summit
Social and Emotional Support for Young People with Asthma
Alyssa Marchal, LCSW
UChicago Medicine
Panel: Community Health Work in Supporting Family Wellness
Brenda Battle RN, BSN, MBA, UChicago Medicine
Dameka Edwards-Hart, UChicago Medicine
Rhonda Lay, Sinai Urban Health Institute
Mary Kate Wagner, UChicago Medicine
Exercise and Asthma
Nisarg Bakshi, DO
UChicago Medicine
Updates in Asthma Management
Louise Giles, MD, FRCPC
UChicago Medicine
Presentations from 2021 Asthma Education Summit
Comorbidity of Asthma with Other Health Issues
Louise Giles, MD, FRCPC
UChicago Medicine
Panel: Environmental Influences on Asthma
Sola Olopade, MD, MPH, UChicago Medicine
Rob Rottersman, MS, CIH, Ramboll
Laura Garcia, Metropolitan Tenants Organization
Susan Mudd, JD, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Asthma and Vaping
Nicholas Martin, MPH
American Heart Association
Why Participate in Research?
Valerie Press, MD, MPH
UChicago Medicine