Harvard Update on Severe Asthma 2026

1. Live Lectures

1. Conversations in Severe Asthma: Exploring a New Biologic Treatment Option in Patients with an Eosinophilic Phenotype – Y. Goldman

2. Welcome and Introduction – Elliot Israel, MD

3. “Can’t Miss Articles” in Severe Asthma – Nora Barrett, MD; Benjamin Medoff, MD

4. Asthma Insights: The View from the Airways – Benjamin Medoff, MD

5. Diagnostic Assessment of Severe Asthma – Nora Barrett, MD

6. Managing Asthma with Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease – Tanya Laidlaw, MD

7. Virtual Panel Discussion: Is the Primary Prevention of Asthma in Sight? – Abimbola Akenroye, MD; Kevin Nadeau, MD; Scott Weiss, MD; Wanda Phipatanakul, MD

8. Occupational Exposures and Severe Asthma – Robert McCunney, MD

9. Starting at the Top: A Different Approach to Severe Asthma and CRSwNP – Samina Mustafa, MD

10. Asthma Genetics and the Environment in Severe Asthma – Benjamin Raby, MD, MPH

11. Diagnostic Considerations in Children with Severe Asthma – Jonathan Gaffin, MD, MMSc

12. Guest Virtual Lecture: Bronchiectasis and Asthma: Is There an Overlap? – James Chalmers, MBChB, PhD

13. Guest Lecture: Precision Medicine Approaches to Severe Asthma – Lessons from the PreCISE Trial – Stephen Georas, MD

14. Interactive Case Discussions (Diagnosis) – Abimbola Akenroye, MD; Elliot Israel, MD; Wanda Phipatanakul, MD; Benjamin Medoff, MD

2. Pre-Recorded Lectures

1. Asthma Mimics: Consider Tracheobronchomalacia – Adel El-Boueiz, MD, MS; Majid Shafiq, MD, MPH

2. New Recommendations for the Interpretation of Pulmonary Function Tests – Nancy Lange-Vaidya, MD, MPH

3. Airway Oscillometry in Adults and Very Young Children – Adel El-Boueiz, MD, MS; Peter Moschovis, MD, MPH

4. Exercise-Induced Asthma – Terence B. Kinane, MD

1. Live Lectures

1. Fasenra: One Approach, Many Patients – Addressing Eosinophilic Inflammation – Jason Leung, MD

2. Bi- and Tri-Specific Antibodies: The Wave of the Future? – Abimbola Akenroye, MD

3. Choosing Among the Biologics for Severe Asthma – Elliot Israel, MD

4. Guest Virtual Lecture: Clinical Remission in Asthma – What Is It and Is It an Achievable Goal of Therapy? – Ian Pavord, DM

5. Guest Virtual Lecture: Asthma, Anxiety, and Depression – Eve S. Brown, MD

6. Eosinophilic Lung Disease and Asthma – Joshua Boyce, MD

7. Guest Virtual Lecture: Managing Severe Asthma in Children – Sejal Saglani, MD

8. Type 2 Inflammation and the Lungs: Implications for COPD and Asthma – Matthew Sharpe, MD

9. Obesity, Diabetes, and Asthma – Dinah Foer, MD

10. Cigarette Smoking, COPD, and Chronic Obstructive Asthma – Carrie Pistenmaa, MD

11. “Anti-Inflammatory Rescue”: Options and Challenges – Nancy Lange-Vaidya, MD, MPH

12. Severe Asthma, the Biologics, and Population Health Management – Abimbola Akenroye, MD

13. Case Discussions (Treatment) – Abimbola Akenroye, MD; Jonathan Gaffin, MD, MMSc; Elliot Israel, MD; Benjamin Medoff, MD

2. Pre-Recorded Lectures

1. Gastroesophageal Reflux and Severe Asthma – Christopher Velez, MD

2. Laryngeal Disordered Breathing Mimicking Severe Asthma – Thomas Carroll, MD; Lindsey Gordon, MS, CCC-SLP

3. Treating Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyposis – Alice Maxfield, MD