Thursday, October 16, 2025

TopicSpeakerTime
Opening Remarks

Lu Wilford, BS, RRT

Director, Respiratory Care Department, Iowa Health Care

8:00-8:15 AM
PTSD & TBI Treatment

Andrew Kozminski, MD, MSE

Clinical Assistant Professor - Emergency Medicine & Anesthesia, Iowa Health Care

8:15-9:15 AM
Neonatology Hemodynamics

Amy Stanford, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics & Neonatology - Iowa Health Care

9:15-10:15 AM
Break 10:15-10:30 AM
Timing is Everything: When to Refer for Lung Transplantation 

Raul Villacreses, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care & Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

10:30-11:30 AM
Lunch/Vendor Hall 11:30AM-1:00PM
Management of Burn Inhalation Injury

Samuel Jones, MD, FACS

Clinical Professor of Surgery- Burn Treatment Unit, Iowa Health Care

1:00-2:00 PM
Environmental Determinants of Lung Function

Robert Blount, MD, MAS

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care & Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

2:00-3:00 PM

Friday, October 17, 2025

Topicspeakertime
Opening Remarks

Lu Wilford, BS, RRT

Director, Respiratory Care Department, Iowa Health Care

8:00-8:15 AM

Bite Size Talks:

  • Research Review: PREOXI
  • Awareness with Paralysis
  • Bag-mask ventilation during RSI

Kevin Doerschug, MD, MS

Medical Director, MICU and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

Yana Zemkova, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

Desmond Barber, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

8:15-9:15 AM
Topic TBA

Annika Storey, DO

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery - Acute Care Surgery, Iowa Health Care

9:15-10:15 AM
Break 10:15-10:30 AM
ECMO Management + Goals on RT Side

Mark Pedersen, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Iowa Health Care

10:30-11:30 AM
Lunch 11:30-12:30 PM
  • Medical Education and Simulation
  • Extubation to NIV

Desmond Barber, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

Yana Zemkova, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, Iowa Health Care

12:30-1:30 PM
Impulse Oscillometry

Daniel Hinds, MD, MS

Clinical Assistant Professor-Pulmonary Medicine, Iowa Health Care 

1:30-2:30 PM