PHA Achieves Educational
Breakthrough With
New Interactive CD-ROM
Imagine an interactive, virtual diagnostic assessment of a
patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension reconstructed for
you step by step with every essential aspect covered, from
history and physical, including heart tones, to echocardiograms,
x-rays, lung scans, and catheterization. It is animated, contains
videos, and allows you to interact with the diagnostic assessment
to determine your next move. All captured on a CD-ROM
by the world’s leading experts in diagnosing pulmonary hypertension. Better yet,
all you need do to obtain this CD-ROM is request a complimentary copy via a
Web site, as indicated on page 5.
For most of this year the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) has
been developing this dynamic multimedia project on the diagnosis of pulmonary
hypertension through the support of a $25,000 grant from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Leading cardiologists and pulmonologists have
posted their insights and findings of diagnostic assessments on a Web site
established specifically to create the information on the CD-ROM. This project
was recently completed, enabling PHA to offer the only CD-ROM of its kind to
guide physicians through the myriad situations arising in clinical practice, exactly
as presented by a patient suspected of having pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Working with multimedia specialists David Criley and John Criley of Blaufuss
Medical Multimedia, San Francisco, a PHA committee has contributed a wealth
of information from real-life scenarios. Complete with real-time videos and allowing
the viewer to interact, even at the level of moving a stethoscope’s chestpiece
on screen to elicit different heart tones, the CD-ROM is part of a growing
resource of educational materials available to physicians and patients at no
charge from PHA. For example, free copies are available of the new American
College of Chest Physicians PAH Practice Guidelines. Six programs this fall,
entitled Shedding Light on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: The Journey Toward
a Brighter Future, will be held at regional locations around the country, with
Continuing Medical Education credit offered.
The newly published Pulmonary Hypertension: A Patient’s Survival Guide may
be obtained through the PHA Web site or call
(301) 565-3004. It is a 280-page guide for patients and medical professionals.
And from September 30 to October 1, the 2005 PH Resource Network Symposium
will be held in Bethesda, Maryland. More information and registration
On behalf of PHA and its Scientific Leadership Council, I urge you to take
advantage of the growing network and library of educational offerings as we work
together toward a cure for pulmonary hypertension.
Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD
Editor-in-Chief
Articles
Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension,
Autumn 2005, Vol. 4, No. 3
Editor-in-Chief Ronald J. Oudiz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension
Division of Cardiology
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California
Immediate Past Editor Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Editor-in-Chief Elect Richard Channick, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
San Diego, California
Associate Editors Erika Berman Rosenzweig, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
Robert Frantz, MD
Consultant in Cardiovascular
Diseases and Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Srinivas Murali, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Medical Director, Gerald McGinnis Cardiovascular Institute
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Publisher
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
Jack Stibbs, Board Chair
Rino Aldrighetti, President
Donica Merhazion, Medical Services Associate Director
Publishing Staff
Stu Chapman, Executive Editor
Susan Chapman, Managing Editor
Heidi Green, Associate Editor
Gloria Catalano, Production Director
Michael McClain, Design Director
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Board.
Editorial Mission Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension is committed
to help physicians in their clinical decision
making by informing them of important
trends affecting their practice. Analyzing the
impact of new findings and covering current
information in the peer-reviewed literature,
Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension is published
four times a year. Advances in Pulmonary
Hypertension is the official journal
of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
Each article in this journal has been reviewed
and approved by members of the Editorial
Advisory Board.
Editorial Board
Todd Bull, MD
Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado
Murali Chakinala, MD
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Kristin Highland, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Jim Maloney, MD
Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado
Ioana Preston, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts - New England Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Zeenat Safdar, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Section
Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Rajan Saggar, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine and Hospitalists
David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA
Los Angeles, California
Robert Schilz, DO, PhD
Medical Director of Lung
Transplantation and Pulmonary Vascular Disease
University Hospital of Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Francisco Soto, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Roxana Sulica, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director, Beth Israel Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York, New York
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