Thursday, October 15, 2026

TopicSpeakerTime
Opening Remarks

Lu Wilford, BS, RRT

Director, Respiratory Care Department, Iowa Health Care

8:00-8:15 AM
Code Blue/ERT/Rapid Response

Nicholas Arnold, MD

Cardiologist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine, Iowa Health Care
 
Jessie Upah, ARNP
Nurse Practitioner, Iowa Health Care 
8:15-9:15 AM
Transmission dynamics in key hospital infections

Karen Brust, MD

Infectious Disease Specialist, Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiologist, Infectious Disease, Iowa Health Care

9:15-10:15 AM
Break 10:15-10:30 AM
Seeing the Breath: A Practical Introduction to Electrical Impedance Tomography at the Bedside 

 

Roger D. Struble, MD, MPH

Pulmonologist, Instructor, Lung Services, Iowa Health Care

10:30-11:30 AM
Lunch/Vendor Hall 11:30AM-1:00PM
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

John (Jack) Wren, Jr., MD, PhD

Neonatologist, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology, Iowa Health Care

1:00-2:00 PM
UIHC Trach Team

Ryan Frede, RRT

Adult Respiratory Care Clinical Supervisor,  Iowa Health Care

2:00-3:00 PM

Friday, October 16, 2026

TopicSpeakerTime
Opening Remarks

Lu Wilford, BS, RRT

Director, Respiratory Care Department, Iowa Health Care

8:00-8:15 AM

Bite Size Talks:

  • Physiology and clinical applications of waveform capnography
  • Innovative ventilation strategies in Status Asthmaticus
  • Artificial Intelligence for mechanical ventilation-reality or dream?

     

Kevin Doerschug, MD, MS

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

Desmond Barber, MD, MME

Pulmonologist

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

8:15-9:15 AM
Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency – Role of the Respiratory Therapist

Jeff Wilson, MD

Pulmonologist

Clinical Professor, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Medical Director, Iowa Health Care

9:15-10:15 AM
Break 10:15-10:30 AM
PMV/Speaking Valves

Scott Dailey, PhD 

Speech-Language Pathologist, Iowa Health Care

Speech-Language Pathologist, Iowa Health Care
 

10:30-11:30 AM
Lunch 11:30-12:30 PM
TBA 12:30-1:30 PM
Pulmonary Fungus Among Us 

Douglas Hornick, MD 

Pulmonologist

Clinical Professor, Lung Services, Iowa Health Care

 

1:30-2:30 PM