Spring Series

Register for the San Diego Community Connections live webinar today!

Community Connections, nicknamed "Dinner with The Docs", is brought to you by
Burr Heart and Lung Clinic at Sharp Grossmont Hospital.

Co Hosted by American Lung Association Board Members Tony Gwynn Jr of the San Diego Padres and Dr. Tim Morris of UCSD.

Topics will include culinary medicine, catching up with your healthcare, asthma management and early detection of lung cancer.

Apr 6 | Asthma management
Praveen Akuthota MD (UCSD)

Apr 13 | Environmental effects on lung health
Brian D’Agostino, Fire Science & Climate Adaptation (SDG&E)

Apr 20 | Culinary Medicine
Sabrina Falquier MD (Sensations Salud)

Apr 27 | Vaping, smoking, flavored tobacco, synthetic tobacco
Laura Crotty Alexander MD (UCSD)

May 4 | Lung cancer screening
Philippe Montgrain MD (UCSD)

May 11 | Lung cancer detection and evaluation
Mark Fuster Md (UCSD)

Special thanks to our presenters and panelists who are members of the American Lung Association Mission Committee listed here.

San Diego Mission Committee

Tim Morris, MD (Chair), UCSD
Gabe Gutierrez, County of San Diego
Philippe Montgrain, MD, UCSD/VA
Becky Hart, RN, Naval Hospital
Michael Welch, MD, Allergy and Asthma
Laura Crotty-Alexander, MD, UCSD
Captain Alma A Lowry, San Diego Fire and Rescue
Mark Fuster, MD, UCSD/VA
Shelane Paraiso, RN, VA
Praveen Akuthota, MD, UCSD
Evan Snyder, MD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute & UCSD
Sandra Leibel, MD, UCSD & Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Aida C. Castaneda, Principal, ACC, LLC.
Afif El-Hasan, MD, Kaiser Permanente

We hope you'll watch previous episodes from Series One:

• March 31st | Maintaining your overall health during the COVID19 pandemic | Michael Welch MD
• April 7th | Vaccinations to prevent COVID19 | Sydney Ramirez MD, PhD
• April 14th | How to get vaccinated and what happens once you are vaccinated | Sayone Thihalolipavan MD
• April 21st | COVID19 and stress, mental health | Ni-Cheng Liang MD & Sabrina Falquier Montgrain MD
• April 28th | COVID19 in persons with chronic lung disease | Mark Fuster MD & Phillippe Montgrain MD
• May 5th | How to avoid COVID19 infection | Lucy Horton MD
• May 12th | Recovery from acute COVID19 illness (Persistent systems “long haulers”) | Angela Wang MD

And Series Two:

• Sep 29 | Defeating COVID-19 in the World’s Busiest Border Region | Dr. Tim Morris-UCSD and Guests
• Oct 6 | On the front lines: Emergency Responders and COVID-19 | Captain Alma Lowry-San Diego Fire & Rescue and Local ICU Nurses
• Oct 13 | Lung Cancer Screening during the Pandemic | Dr. Kaveh Bagheri-Sharp Grossmont Hospital, Burr Heart & Lung Clinic and Dr. Mark Fuster & Dr. Philippe Montgrain-VA San Diego Healthcare
• Oct 20 | Health Effects of Wildfires } Captain Alma Lowry-San Diego Fire & Rescue and Brian D’Agostino, Director of Fire Science & Climate Adaptation, SDG&E.
• Oct 27 | COVID-19 among Children, Adolescents and College Students | Dr. Mike Welch-Allergy & Asthma Medical Group & Research Center Rady Children's Specialists, Allergy and Immunology and Dr. Nanda Ramchandar- Rady Children's Hospital
• Nov 3 | Biology of COVID-19 infection | Dr. Evan Snyder and Dr. Sandra Leibel-UCSD & Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
• Nov 10 | San Diego’s County Response to COVID-19 | Gabe Gutierrez-San Diego County Health & Human Services and Dr. Sayone Thihalolipavan-San Diego County Public Health
• Nov 17 | A Lung Healthy Diet & Mindfulness | Dr. Ni Cheng Liang-Coastal Pulmonary Associates Scripps Health Network and Dr. Sabrina Falquier-Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group

San Diego Local Leadership Board

Jeni Reynolds, San Diego Gas & Electric (Chair)
Kevin Narcomey, Osceola Consulting LLC (Vice Chair)
David Lipschutz, EY
Dr. Tim Morris, UCSD
Tony Gwynn, Jr., San Diego Padres
Natasha Dowling, Capgemini
Mark Johnson, Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Aaron Saint, Accenture
Scott Evans, SHARP Grossmont Hospital

Community Connections in San Diego was made possible thanks to a grant from
The San Diego Foundation.

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