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Patients/Caregivers Agenda

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8:30 — 9:30 AM   REGISTRATION, EXHIBITS, BREAKFAST BUFFET
9:30 — 9:45 AM   WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Brenda Figueroa, MBA
Chair, RI Leadership Board
American Lung Association

9:45 — 10:30 AM   RESPIRATORY TRIGGERS & PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING
Makayla Newcomb, RRT, AE-C
Respiratory Therapist, Franciscan Hospital &
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Therapist, Mount Auburn Hospital


Cindy Brosnan, RRT, AE-C, CPFT
Pulmonary Function Program Coordinator
Women’s Medicine Collaborative
10:30 — 10:45 AM   BREAK & EXHIBITS
10:45 — 11:30 AM   FINDING THE RIGHT RESPIRATORY PRODUCTS FOR YOU: OXYGEN THERAPIES & MORE!
Dana Lesperance
Absolute Respiratory Care, Inc.
11:30 — 11:45 AM   LUNG CANCER SCREENING 2019
Saurabh Agarwal, MD
Cardiothoracic Radiologist
Rhode Island Medical Imaging / Rhode Island Hospital
11:45 — 12:45 PM   EXHIBITS, LUNCH & LUNG FORCE PRESENTATION
Joyce Pacheco
Lung Cancer Patient Advocate
12:45 — 1:25 PM   LIFE AFTER SMOKING: FROM FEAR & ANXIETY TO COPING THROUGH ORIGAMI & MARATHONS
Regina Bartlett
Marketing Director & Licensed POUND Pro Group Fitness Instructor, Published Author,
Blogger & TEDx Speaker
The Ocean Community YMCA’s Arcadia Branch
1:25 — 2:00 PM   IMPROVEMENT WITH MOVEMENT 5 STEPS TO INTEGRATE MOVEMENT
Regina Bartlett
Marketing Director & Licensed POUND Pro Group Fitness Instructor, Published Author,
Blogger & TEDx Speaker
The Ocean Community YMCA’s Arcadia Branch
2:00 — 2:55 PM   EMOTIONAL TOLL OF LUNG DISEASE & DEALING WITH THE DIAGNOSIS
Debra Keating-Cole & Lori-Jo Keating-Wahl
COPD & Asthma Patient Advocates

Susan & Peter Quackenbush
Lung Cancer Patient Advocates

Judy & Bob Butzier
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Patient Advocates
2:55 — 3:00 PM   CLOSING REMARKS, EVALUATION, AJOURN

Thank You to Our Local Sponsors

Sunovion RI Department of Health Tobacco Free Rhode Island PhRMA

Nationally Presented by

CVS Health

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