Expensive pals,
I’m happy to announce that registration opens Friday for the Pulmonary Hypertension Affiliation (PHA) PH Skilled Community Symposium. PHA seems to be ahead to welcoming well being care professionals to Arlington, Virginia, Sept. 28-30, for this invaluable alternative to study the newest science about pulmonary hypertension (PH).
We’re notably excited as a result of that is the primary time since 2019 that our PHPN Symposium will happen in particular person. We perceive that not everybody can take part in particular person, so we’re additionally providing an internet possibility. As you might keep in mind, PHPN Symposium was on-line in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Till the pandemic, PH professionals gathered each two years within the Washington, D.C., space for this persevering with training and networking occasion. Historically, attendees have included tons of of suppliers who take care of folks with PH, corresponding to nurses, respiratory therapists, docs, pharmacists and trainees.
The PH professionals who attend Symposium achieve information and sources to raised care for his or her sufferers and take concepts and inspiration again to their clinics and colleagues. In the end, folks with PH profit most from this information.
That’s more true than ever with this yr’s speaker line-up. We’re notably proud to host Marc Humbert, M.D., Ph.D., the first writer of recent suggestions for PH prognosis and remedy.
Dr. Humbert’s session is predicted to be extensively attended. The rules, developed by a European Society of Cardiology and European Respiratory Society taskforce and printed final August, will have an effect on PH care all over the world for years to come back.
Dr. Humbert, the director of respiratory and intensive care on the French Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Centre, will clarify how new hemodynamic definitions of PH and pulmonary arterial hypertension may result in earlier detection. Don’t miss your alternative to listen to about up to date diagnostic algorithms and really helpful testing straight from the supply.
This yr’s Symposium additionally will give attention to wellness and psychological well being, a well timed subject as professionals and sufferers alike proceed to face pandemic burnout. Joan Cain, M.S., FNP-BC, ACHPN, and Jeffrey Lauzon, M.A., Ph.D., will draw consideration to supplier fatigue and affected person response associated to traumatic occasions.
As all the time, Symposium attendees will study tricks to advocate for his or her sufferers. For the primary time since 2019, attendees will return to Capitol Hill for PHPN Advocacy Day. The Sept. 28 occasion is a becoming opening to Symposium, as well being care professionals deliver their distinctive views and affected person issues to Congress.
This yr, it’s extra necessary than ever to take part in Advocacy Day, as we’ve the chance to teach greater than 80 new lawmakers about PH and treatment-access challenges that threaten the well being and wellbeing of the PH group.
One other new characteristic this yr is Drag Bingo, that includes the favored D.C.-area performer Tara Hoot. Previously, we’ve raised cash for scholarships to attend PHA’s biennial PH Worldwide Convention and Scientific Periods by means of PHPN Trivia Night time. This yr, we hope to boost much more cash for PHA 2024 scholarships by means of this humorous, cheeky, musical bingo night time.
We look ahead to seeing our well being care professionals for one more inspirational, partaking and academic occasion. Don’t miss this yr’s PHPN Symposium, whether or not you be part of us in Alexandria, Virginia, or on-line.
As all the time, I look ahead to listening to from you.
With gratitude and respect,