Speaker: Dinushan Kaluarachchi, MBBS

Title: Less Invasive Surfactant Therapy for Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Preterm Infants

As a result of participating in this educational activity, learners as members of the healthcare team will be able to:

1. Outline less invasive surfactant administration techniques

2. Discuss administration and outcomes of aerosolized surfactant

3. Discuss criteria for surfactant administration

Speaker: Hara Levy, MD, MMSc

Title: Molecular underpinnings of clinic heterogeneity in cystic fibrosis (CF)

As a result of participating in this educational activity, learners as members of the healthcare team will be able to:

1. Define cystic fibrosis as a disease spectrum

2.  Describe clinical heterogeneity in CF  and its role in genotype-phenotype correlation 

3. Examine latest genetic and genomic techniques to tease out molecular underpinnings of disease severity