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Study Group: Physicians who Treat Asthma (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 456

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Ray Coakley, MD, PHD
Ass. Professor in Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine - CC

Ray Coakley, MD PhD, is a physician scientist / pulmonary & critical care specialist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His clinical and research focus is on COPD, cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation and PAH. Specific research expertise includes airway epithelial ion/fluid transport...

Robert Aris, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - CCRobert Aris, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - CC

Robert Aris, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program, the Lung Transplant Research Program and Inpatient Pulmonary Services. Dr. Aris has expertise in advanced lung diseases including cystic...

Warren Botnick, MD
President
PSS Clinical Research

Warren Botnick, MD, FCCP, DABSM, is a Partner at Pulmonary and Sleep Specialists in Decatur, Georgia, since March 2003. He is Director of Critical Care Unit and Chief of Medicine at DeKalb Medical Center, Medical Director of Southern Sleep Technologies, and Co-Director of two sleep disorders centers...

Michael Wechsler, MD
Associate Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

Michael Wechsler, MD, is an Associate Physician in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the NIH's Asthma Clinical Research Network and is active in both basic and...

Michael Blaiss, MD, Partner, Allergy & Asthma CareMichael Blaiss, MD
Partner
Allergy & Asthma Care

Michael S. Blaiss, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and in private practice at Allergy & Asthma Care in Memphis. Dr. Blaiss’s clinical focus is on allergies and has expertise in outcomes research in allergic disorders, especially...

Dean Traiger, MD, Physician, Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida,P.L.Dean Traiger, MD
Physician
Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida,P.L.

Dean Traiger, MD, is the Owner of Physician's Primary Care of Southwest Florida. Dr. Traiger is board certified in Family Practice and specializes in general primary care across the continuum of pediatrics, adolescent, and adult and geriatric care. He is also focused on diabetes care, hypertension,...

H. Henry Li, MD, PhD
Allergist & Immunologist
Institute for Asthma and Allergy

H. Henry Li, MD, PhD, is board certified in Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Li received his Allergy and Clinical Immunology training from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remains as medical faculty since 2001. In 2002, he joined the Institute for Asthma and Allergy in Chevy Chase, MD. Dr. Li received his...

Mitchell Boxer, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Mitchell Boxer, MD, is Director of the Adult Allergy Section at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Assistant Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein Medical College. Dr. Boxer completed his fellowship at Northwestern University Medical College and has expertise in a wide range of allergic and immunologic...

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Diuretic Use May be Higher Than People Think | 12-03-2008
Analysis of: The Minimal Impact of a Big Hypertension Study | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

I agree with the premise of the article -- that diuretics may be underutilized as a cheap way to get the benefits of antihypertensives. However, more than 40% of my HTN patients are on diuretics, and I think the data presented in the NY Times article may be flawed. Here's why:

Oral Treprostinil: An effective medicine hiding in a study with a challenging design? | 11-18-2008
Author: Robert Aris, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - CC

This phase III study was done without the benefit of conventional drug development with Phase I and Phase II studies (which would have provided more information about the effective dose) preceding it because pharmacokinetic date from IV and SC dosing studies were used to extrapolate for the...

COPD Drugs - Some safer than others | 10-02-2008
Analysis of: COPD Medicines: Risky or Safe? | www.webmd.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

In a recent article it is noted that for users of Ipatropium bromide there was an increase in all death and cardiac death in the group studied.  Theoretically at doses normally used there is not much of a corresponding mechanistic risk.  Therefore at this time additional study must be done...

A rough in the diamond | 08-27-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

If truly an association, this will alter the use of this drug.

Onglyza - ? engagement ring for Astra Zeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb | 07-28-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

DDP4 inhibitor class fairly new.  Another arrow in the theraputic quiver

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