2025 LSRC Speaker Lineup
Prepare to be inspired as we introduce the dynamic voices set to captivate, enlighten, and energize at this year’s speaker lineup.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
8:00 am
President’s Welcome & Award Ceremony
Melissa Smith
President
BS, RRT
9:00 am
The Dennis Wissing Honorary Lecture
OXYGEN-The Benefits, Use and How to Maximize It’s Use for Your Patients-AND for YOU!
Andrea Girod Espinoza
MD, FCCP, DipABLM
10:00 am
Excellence Defines Us – An Update from the NBRC
Lori Tinkler
MBA, ICE-CCP
11:00 am
Lunch on your own or Pre Register for a Luncheon.
- Jackie Bush Student and Early Professional Luncheon
- Duke Johns Leadership and Management Luncheon
1:00 pm
Bronchiectasis Overlap Syndromes: What’s the Big Deal?
Ashley Feighery
BHA, RRT
2:00 pm
Sleep and Chronic Diseases
David Asbury
MA-RRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-SDS, RPSGT
3:00 pm
Open Forum for Abstracts
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Getting to know you Exhibitors Social & Pelican Bowl Preliminaries/RC Video Competition
Thursday, April 24, 2025
8:00 am
Anticipating and Managing Post-Extubation Respiratory Failure
Dr. Ugo Ezema
9:00 am
AARC Update
Teri Miller
MEd, RRT, CPFT, FAARC
10:00 am
Nasal High Flow: Mechanisms to Evidence to Hot Topics
Chris Hutchinson
PGDip, BE
11:00 am
Controversies in Spirometry – Addresses Ethnicity, Z-Scores and BD Response
Carl D. Mottram
RRT, RPFT, FAARC
12:00 am – 2:00 pm
Open Exhibit Session – Lite Refreshments served. Lunch on your own.
2:00 pm
HOSA
Teri Miller
MEd, RRT, CPFT, FAARC
3:00 pm
Standardizing High Performance Aerosol Drug Delivery
Dan Cary
RRT
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
5 pm Pelican Bowl Finals/ RC Video Awards
5:30 pm LSRC Annual Crawfish Boil Poolside
Friday, April 25, 2025
9:00 am
ECMO and Respiratory Therapy: A Perfect Team
David Hebert
RRT, NPS, CES-P
10:00 am
Personalized Medicine for Pulmonary Hypertension: Are We There Yet?
Dan Stewart
MD, FAAP
11:00 am
Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn and Neonatal Pneumonia
Peter Joslyn
MD