AAE 2025 Emerging Breakthroughs in Asthma Education: Shaping the Future

Kansas City, MO US

The Association of Asthma Educators (AAE) is the premier national nonprofit organization devoted to excellence and raising the competency of diverse individuals who educate patients and families living with asthma. The AAE Annual Conference is the most prominent educational offering of AAE, drawing over 250 asthma educators from all professions, including: respiratory therapists, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, community health workers, athletic trainers, and other healthcare professionals. The common denominator of our conference attendees is a passion for improving asthma care through asthma education.

This multidisciplinary approach provides a unique opportunity to reach a diverse, and influential target group. The inter-professional nature of the AAE Conference makes it unique as attendees gain new knowledge, skills, and insights to improve patient care when they return to their practice sites. Our conference will offer AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, ACPE, CE, and CRCE credits. The in-person conference is July, 23, 24, 25, 2025. AAE has responded to the needs of educators and is offering Dual Learning Tracks on Wednesday, July 23. The Exhibit Hall will take place July 23, 24, 25, 2025. Attendee support, presence, and knowledge as well as industry professionals assists our members and attendees to manage asthma more effectively in their community and clinical programs.

Attendees will share the new knowledge gained at this conference with colleagues and patients to improve asthma care within their communities Your support and sponsorship during our 2025 In-Person Conference will provide a partnership that enables the success of our event. Thank you for joining us in beautiful Kansas City, MO.

Target Audience

  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Pharmacists
  • Care Managers
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Medical Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Social Workers
  • School Nurses
  • Educators
  • Other health educators working in the community, ambulatory and acute care settings

Learning Objectives

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

  • Compare and contrast the factors that contribute to non-adherence
  • Identify strategies for overcoming medication non adherence
  • Develop skills to effectively intervene with problem adherence behaviors
  • Explore the social determinants of health to understand their impact on asthma outcomes
  • Identify the many ways that low educational attainment and poverty contribute to sub-optimal disease management
  • Compare and contrast the development and expression of asthma and COPD in older adults
  • Identify considerations for respiratory medication use in the elderly
  • Understand the indications for asthma treatment in pregnancy
  • Identify treatment strategies for effective asthma management in asthma
  • Identify common barriers to medication adherence in asthma patients and how to address them
  • Define food insecurity and explain the differences between food and nutrition security
  • Identify pertinent asthma history in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
  • Identify environmental changes attributable to climate change and the health risks correlated with those changes, specifically around asthma
  • Identify how respiratory viruses can trigger inflammation leading to asthma exacerbations
  • Define gaps in prescription guidance and patient education on the proper administration of inhaler medication
  • Discuss the holistic case management approach needed in identifying and addressing barriers faced by patients and community providers delivering asthma care in rural areas
  • Explain how to use an AI chatbot to prevent readmission Contrast symptom reversibility of asthma and COPD Identifying the need in your community
  • Demonstrate How Technology Supports Asthma Management
  • Explain how the home spirometer and inhaler sensor work together to monitor lung function, track medication adherence, and Improve inhaler technique, ensuring better asthma control for children in rural communities
  • Discuss the different types of biologic therapies available for asthma and how they appear from a patient’s viewpoint
  • Explain how to use technology to understand real- time room-by-room exposures
  • Discuss the health impacts of young children in unsafe environments
  • Discuss the landscape of biologic therapies in asthma
  • Create a needs analysis for school nurses as AE-C's
  • Demonstrate the impact of an academic community outreach program to provide asthma education training to undergraduate nursing and respiratory care students, emphasizing its role in enhancing clinical skills and community health awareness
  • Identify patients with Asthma COPD Overlap Syndrome Detailing Project ECHO = a novel telehealth mentoring program created by the University of MO-Columbia
  • Analyze the clinical presentations of COPD and asthma to identify key similarities and differences
  • Recognize mechanisms by which aerodigestive conditions contribute to asthma control
  • Describe Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (SMART)
  • Determine the Pathophysiology of Inflammation Describe the uniqueness of adolescents and teens as a population.
  • Discuss the role of bronchial challenge testing in the diagnosis of asthma List three indications for performing a spirometry test
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 22.50 Attendance
    Attendance credit.
  • 22.50 CE
    CE credit.
  • 22.50 CME
    CME credit.
Course opens: 
07/23/2025
Course expires: 
07/31/2026
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0
The Marriott on the Country Club Plaza
4445 Main St.
Kansas City, MO 641111
United States

The information disclosed by the presenters and planning committee members was reviewed in accordance with the AAAAI Disclosure Policy.
All potential conflicts of interest were mitigated by the planners, faculty, and reviewers prior to their participation in the development of this activity.

Planning Committee

Kevin P. Collins, PhD RRT RPFT AE-C
Texas State University
Relevant Relationships: None

Cindy L. Cooper, RN, AE-C
Association of Asthma Educators
Relevant Relationships: None

Karen L. Gregory, DNP APRN-BC RRT AE-C
Oklahoma Allergy and Asthma Clinic/Georgetown University School of Nursing
Relevant Relationships: None

Dee Mallam, RN AE-C
Independent contractor 
Relevant Relationships: None

Stefanie Rollins, APRN-CNP
Oklahoma Allergy & Asthma Clinic
Relevant Relationships: None

Anita B. Shuler, RRT, RRT-NPS, AE-C
Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital
Relevant Relationships: None

Melinda Shuler
EBCI Tribal Option
Relevant Relationships: AstraZeneca, Teva (advisory board)

Kylie Smith, RRT-NPS, AE-C
Children's Mercy
Relevant Relationships: None

Teresa M. Summe, BS, RRT, AE-C
Lee Health
Relevant Relationships: None

Elisa C. Thompson, NP
Oklahoma Allergy & Asthma Clinic
Relevant Relationships: None

Marciarose Winston, MSN CPNP AE-C
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Relevant Relationships: None

 

Faculty

Ryan N. Allenbrand
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City - Healthy Homes Program
Relevant Relationships: None

Traci D. Arney, MS NP
Widdle Wheezers Asthma Consultants
Relevant Relationships: None

Anne E. Borgmeyer, DNP RN CPNP AE-C
St. Louis Children's Hospital
Relevant Relationships: None

Kevin P. Collins, PhD RRT RPFT AE-C
Texas State University
Relevant Relationships: None

Suzan Michelle Collins, RRT
Maine Health Pen Bay Primary Care
Relevant Relationships: None

Jessica E. Cowns, RRT-NPS, AE-C
Bethany Children's Health Center
Relevant Relationships: None

Clifton R. Dennis
Association of Asthma Educators
Relevant Relationships: None

Andrea F. D'Mello, MD
UPA
Relevant Relationships: None

Stephanie Duehlmeyer
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Relevant Relationships: None

Matthew Fischer
Altair Labs LLC
Relevant Relationships: None

Elizabeth Friedman, MD, MPH
Children's Mercy, Kansas City
Relevant Relationships: None

Maureen George, PhD RN AE-C
Columbia University School of Nursing
Relevant Relationships: AstraZeneca, Genentech/Roche, Verona (consultant); AstraZeneca (Speaker)

Karen L. Gregory, DNP APRN-BC RRT AE-C
Oklahoma Allergy and Asthma Clinic/Georgetown University School of Nursing
Relevant Relationships: None

Traci Hardin, MPH, AE-C,NCHW
Breathe Well SC, LLC (Owner)
Relevant Relationships: None

Timothy Hudd, ACPE CE
MCPHS University
Relevant Relationships: AstraZeneca (advisory board); AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline (consultant); AstraZeneca (speaker);

Alfred J. Keith, III, BA, CRT, AE-C
CTK Clinical Consultants LLC
Relevant Relationships: None

Erin Khan, MD
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Relevant Relationships: None

Catherine Kier, MD
Stony Brook Medicine
Relevant Relationships: None

Tami H. Kochan, RN MSN CPNP-PC AE-C
Retired
Relevant Relationships: None

Kristen A. Korankyi, PharmD, AE-C
Auburn University
Relevant Relationships: None

John C. Kraemer, PhD
Southeast Missouri State University
Relevant Relationships: None

Ashley R. Lachowicz
Rush University Medical Center
Relevant Relationships: None

Marissa A. Love, MD FAAAAI
University of Kansas Medical Center
Relevant Relationships: None

Todd A. Mahr, MD FAAAAI
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
Relevant Relationships: None

Heather L. Murgatroyd, RRT, CPFT, AE-C
Methapharm Respiratory
Relevant Relationships: Methapharm Respiratory (Other)

Linda Nozart, MPH, BSRT,RRT, AE-C
Noz Health Ed LLC
Relevant Relationships: Monaghan Medical Corporation (speaker); PESI (royalty)

Melissa R. Penkalski, DNP, CPNP-PC, AE-C
Missouri State University
Relevant Relationships: None

Celtina Reinert, PharmD
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Relevant Relationships: None

Tammy Rood, PNP
University of Missouri-Columbia
Relevant Relationships: None

Gary Salzman, MD
Univ. MO Kansas City School Medicine
Relevant Relationships: None

Matthew R. Sharpe, MD
University of Kansas Health System
Relevant Relationships: None

Melinda Shuler
EBCI Tribal Option
Relevant Relationships: AstraZeneca. Teva (advisory board)

Kylie Smith, RRT-NPS, AE-C
Children's Mercy
Relevant Relationships: None

Concettina Tolomeo, DNP APRN FNP-BC AE-C
Yale School of Medicine
Relevant Relationships: None

Jill M. Weeks, Respiratory
El Camino Health
Relevant Relationships: None

Marciarose Winston, MSN CPNP AE-C
Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia
Relevant Relationships: None

 

Content Reviewers

JThomas P. Miller, MD FAAAAI
Allergy Associates of Western Michigan PC
Relevant Relationships: None

Stuart L. Abramson, MD PhD AE-C FAAAAI
Shannon Medical Center
Relevant Relationships: Genentech (advisory board)

Amanda Louise Cox, MD FAAAAI
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Relevant Relationships: Novartis (research grant)

Samuel Gubernick, DO FAAAAI
Family Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Associates
Relevant Relationships: None

Lois A. Nelson, MD FAAAAI
Retired Solo Practice Physician
Relevant Relationships: None

Brian C. Schroer, MD FAAAAI
Cleveland Clinic
Relevant Relationships: Ready Set Food (consultant); Allergenis (stocks)

 

 

AAAAI Disclosure Policy

Pursuant to the Code of Ethics for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) and the Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the AAAAI requires disclosure of certain information from faculty members of educational activities designated for CME credit by the AAAAI. Prior to the activity, authors and reviewers are required to disclose all relationships that meet the following parameters:

  • Employment. Name of employer and job title.
  • Financial interests. All organizations, other than the employer, from which the faculty member receives annual remuneration in any amount (including grants, honoraria and consulting fees).
  • Research interests. All organizations which support research projects for which the faculty member serves as an investigator.
  • Legal Consultation Services/Expert Witness Testimony: All topics on which the faculty member provided legal consultation and/or expert witness testimony during the previous calendar year.
  • Organizational interests: All organizations, other than the AAAAI, for which the faculty member holds volunteer positions.
  • Gifts. All organizations from which the faculty member have received a gift of any amount in the last year.
  • Other interests. All interests of the faculty member that would be judged by a majority of his/her peers to be more than casual and/or likely to impact his/her ability to exercise independent judgment. This includes any financial interest in or relationship with any manufacturer of a commercial product, and any financial interest or relationship with any organization that provides commercial support to AAAAI-sponsored educational activities.

Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AAAAI and the Association of Asthma Educators. The AAAAI is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CE Designation Statement
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) is a Provider, approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #10704, for up to 22.25 Contact Hours.

Credit Claiming Period
Credit claiming for this activity will expire at 11:59 pm on July 31, 2026. Requests to claim credit on or after August 1, 2026, will be subject to an administrative fee.

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Available Credit

  • 22.50 Attendance
    Attendance credit.
  • 22.50 CE
    CE credit.
  • 22.50 CME
    CME credit.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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