This session will address the challenges that environmental exposures and influencers in urban and rural communities impose on the development and/or exacerbation of asthma.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize the challenges in how air pollution in urban areas affects the development and exacerbation of asthma and asthma-COPD overlap
• Outline the challenges in how rural environmental factors affect the development of asthma and asthma-COPD overlap
• Describe the treatment options, focusing on biologics, in environment-related asthma and asthma-COPD overlap

Moderator Introduction
Sharmilee  M. Nyenhuis, MD FAAAAI
University of Illinois at Chicago

Challenges in the Recognition and Diagnosis of Asthma and Asthma-COPD in Rural Versus Urban Environments
Jill Poole, MD FAAAAI
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Impact of Climate Change on Asthma and Other Allergic Disorders
Elizabeth Matsui, MD MHS FAAAAI
Dell Medical School at the University of

Impact of Environmental Exposures on High Risk Populations
Tolly Epstein, MD MS FAAAAI
Allergy Partners of Central Indiana

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