Harvard 11th Annual Board Review and Update in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 2026

This Brigham and Women’s Hospital review covers pulmonary, sleep and critical care medicine through clinical updates, board-oriented teaching and case discussion. The October 1–3, 2026 program addresses asthma, COPD, pulmonary vascular disease, interstitial lung disease, infections and lung cancer, then moves into ventilation, sepsis, shock and other ICU problems. It is relevant to pulmonologists, intensivists, fellows and other clinicians reviewing these specialties. The original meeting combined in-person teaching in Boston with online participation and additional prerecorded lectures. The complete listed live and prerecorded session agendas remain below, including their presenters and original sequence.

Package scope: The original venue was Simmons College / Simmons University, Boston. The publisher described 30 additional prerecorded lectures; that is not a verified store file count. The correspondence of the supplied files to this agenda remains unconfirmed. Live attendance, workshops, publisher accounts, 90-day provider access and MOC points are not included.

Course Directors

The official 2026 course directors include:

• Rebecca M. Sternschein, MD
• Kathleen Joanne Haley, MD
• Anthony Francis Massaro, MD
• Gerald Lawrence Weinhouse, MD

Official Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the original educational activity, participants should be better able to:

1. Evaluate recent advances in the assessment and treatment of pulmonary diseases and critically ill patients.
2. Improve clinical management of the spectrum of critical illnesses encountered in intensive care units.
3. Apply updated knowledge in pulmonary medicine relevant to clinical practice and board certification or recertification preparation.

Live Sessions

Day 1: Thursday, October 1, 2026

Day 2: Friday, October 2, 2026

Day 3: Saturday, October 3, 2026

Pre-Recorded Sessions

Thursday, October 1, 2026

• Pulmonary Involvement in Rheumatic Diseases – Paul Dellaripa, MD

• Pneumonia – Rebecca Baron, MD

• Bronchiolitis and Non-CF Bronchiectasis – Manuela Cernadas, MD

• Lung Transplantation – Adil Sheikh, MD

• Cystic Fibrosis in the Adult – Ahmet Uluer, DO, MPH

• Pulmonary Medicine Board Questions/Selected Topics – Rebecca Sternschein, MD

• Pulmonary Vasculitides – Paul Dellaripa, MD

• Assessment and Management of the Patient with Chronic Cough – Paul Dieffenbach, MD

• Occupational Lung Disease – Robert Mccunney

• Aeroallergen Testing Methods and Allergen Immunotherapy: How and Why It’s Done in the Context of Asthma – Dinah Foer

• Nutritional Support – Cagney Cristancho, MD

Friday, October 2, 2026

• Endocrine Emergencies in the ICU – Athanasios Bikas, MD, PhD

• Obstetrical Critical Care – Sarah Rae Easter, MD

• Diagnosis and Management – Rohit Budhiraja, MD

• Pulmonary Infections in the Immunocompromised Host – Lindsey Baden, MD

• Interpretation of Integrated Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing – David Systrom, MD

• Drug-Induced Lung Disease – Gerald Weinhouse, MD

• Critical Care Board Questions/Selected Topics – Rebecca Sternschein, MD

• Non-Sleep Apnea Sleep: Parasomnias and Narcolepsy – Milena Pavlova

• Chronic Hypoventilation and Chronic Non-Invasive Ventilation Nocturnal – Khalid Ismail, MD

• Interventional Pulmonology – Majid Shafiq, MD, PhD

• Critical Care Issues in Patients with Substance Use Disorders – Joji Suzuki, MD

Saturday, October 3, 2026

• Ethical Dilemmas in the ICU – Kathleen Haley, MD

• ICU Pain Management and Opioid Stewardship – Paul Szumita, PharmD

• Acute Hepatic Failure in the ICU – Anna Rutherford, MD, MPH

• Bleeding and Clotting Emergencies in the ICU – Briana Bakow, MD

• Toxidromes – Peter Chai, MD, MS

• Considerations in the Management of Critically Ill Obese Patients – Dong Wook Kim

• State of the Art in Management of Challenging Pleural Effusions – Majid Shafiq, MD, MPH

• Sedation Strategies – John Devlin, PharmD

• Critical Care Issues in Sickle Cell Anemia – Maureen Achebe, MD, MPH

• Use of Biologics in Asthma – Ayobami Akenroye, MBChB, MPH, PhD

• Nutritional Support in Critically Ill Patients – Cagney Cristancho, MD