LIVE VIRTUAL: Pediatric Asthma & Allergy Updates for Primary Care Providers (March 13, 2026)

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Asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood, affecting approximately 6 million children in the United States. Poorly controlled asthma limits activities, interferes with school attendance and can result, all too often, in emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Our challenge remains to provide safe and effective treatment of asthma and allergies. We developed this program to provide a forum to discuss current topics related to the diagnosis and management of pediatric asthma and allergy with primary care providers, who care for the majority of these children.

Price range: $75.00 through $175.00

Description

Overview

Asthma is the most common chronic illness of childhood, affecting approximately 6 million children in the United States. Poorly controlled asthma limits activities, interferes with school attendance and can result, all too often, in emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Our challenge remains to provide safe and effective treatment of asthma and allergies. We developed this program to provide a forum to discuss current topics related to the diagnosis and management of pediatric asthma and allergy with primary care providers, who care for the majority of these children.

 

Course Format 

This course will be fully digital and presented via Zoom. The dynamic learning format of the course has been optimized for the virtual classroom. 

Presentations will be recorded and available on-demand for all paid attendees for one month after the conference.

 

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

      1. Recognize the impact of environmental factors on asthma
      2. Develop strategies to manage patients with food allergies and asthma
      3. Incorporate asthma education into your practice

 

Registration

To register, please click on the register tab above. If this is your first time registering for a conference at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Returning users can log in to their account to complete the registration process.   

Registration Type Price
Physician $175.00
Nurse, School Nurse $100.00
Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant $100.00
Trainee/Student $75.00

 

Course Cancellation, Transfer & Refund Policy

Online/Virtual Course Registrations: Due to the propriety materials and content of each course, online virtual courses orders are NOT eligible for refund, cancellation or transfer. Online training courses may NOT be transferred to another Participant. Participants have 2 weeks to access any virtual online course content. Participants have until the expiration date to access and complete any enduring material courses. Boston Children’s Hospital CE is not responsible for user technical difficulties including loss of internet, power outages, etc.

In-Person Course Registrations: For in person course registrations, refunds are available on the following schedule: 100% refund up to 8 weeks before the first day of the course; 50% refund up to 2 weeks before the first day of the course; No refunds will be processed for cancellations within 2 weeks of the first day of the course

Boston Children’s offers the opportunity to change your attendance preference: Should your circumstances change after you have registered for either the ONLINE or IN-PERSON program, you have the ability to change from one attendance option to the other up until two weeks before the program begins. Please contact us via email if you would like to make a change.

“No shows” for both in person and virtual courses are subject to the full course fee and no refunds will be issued once the course has started.

Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

*If you have extenuating circumstances, please contact us at continuingeducation@childrens.harvard.edu

Cancellation of Services

Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

 

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

 

Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 6.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

MOC II
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn:

6 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement
The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

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Faculty

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Kenan Haver, MD (Course Director)
Director, Asthma Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Lauren Giancola, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, AE-C
Clinical Coordinator, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital

 

Lisa Bartnikas, MD 
Attending Physician, Division of Immunology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

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Daniel Jackson, MD 
Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology
Professor of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

 

John J. Lee, MD
Director, Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Diseases Program
Attending Physician in Allergy/Immunology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Julie Lee, MD
Attending Physician, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Jonathan Levin, MD, MBI 
Director, Center for Healthy Infant Lung Development
Co-Director, Chronic Pulmonary and Ventilator Program
Attending Physician, Divisions of Newborn Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

 

Kyle Nelson, MD, MPH
Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Ashley L. Saint-Fleur, MD 
Clinical Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

Schedule

Friday, March 13, 2026 

 

Welcome and Introduction
8:30 AM – 8:35 AM
Kenan Haver, MD

 

Pediatric Asthma Updates
8:35 AM – 9:10 AM
Kenan Haver, MD

 

Role of Allergies in Asthma
9:10 AM – 9:45 AM
Lisa Bartnikas, MD

 

Environmental Asthma Triggers
9:45 AM – 10:20 AM
Julie Lee, MD

 

Break
10:20 AM – 10:50 AM

 

RSV – A Preventable Risk Factor for
10:50 AM – 11:25 AM
Jonathan Levin, MD, MBI

 

Lessons Learned from Severe Asthma
11:25 AM – 12:00 PM
Daniel Jackson, MD

 

Lunch
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

 

Emergency Department Asthma Management Updates
1:00 PM – 1:35 PM
Kyle Nelson, MD, MPH

 

Overview of Eosinophilic Esophagitis & Advances in Management of Anaphylaxis
1:35 PM – 2:10 PM
John J. Lee, MD

 

Break
2:10 PM – 2:40 PM

 

Nursing in Asthma
2:40 PM – 3:15 PM
Lauren Giancola, RN

 

Challenging “Asthma” in Kids: Severe Disease and Diagnostic Mimickers
3:15 PM – 3:50 PM
Ashley L. Saint-Fleur, MD

 

Wrap up
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM