Dr. Lugogo, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, is the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine’s Asthma Program Director at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lugogo completed her Medical Degree at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. After she completed her Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Duke University, she rose to Assistant Professor. At Duke, Dr. Lugogo served as the Medical Director of the Duke Asthma Allergy and Airway Center and Director of the Asthma Clinical Trials Group and Pulmonary Clinical Research Unit. She joined the University of Michigan Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine faculty August, 2017.

Dr. Skolnik is a practicing family physician who teaches residents and medical students at Abington Family Medicine. He is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, and Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Abington Memorial Hospital. He graduated from Emory University School of Medicine and did his residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. A frequent author and lecturer, he currently coordinates educational podcasts for the American Diabetes Association, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and Family Practice and Internal Medicine News. He has also worked with large organizations including the CDC, the American Thoracic Society, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Yawn is a family physician and clinical researcher with 14 years’ experience as a full time rural physician and 25 years as a clinical researcher. She has authored over 350 peer reviewed published manuscripts, 3 books, and numerous book chapters in a variety of topics from rural primary care to chronic respiratory diseases, primarily asthma and COPD. She was a member of the 2007 Expert Review Panel that developed the current asthma care guidelines and the WHO panel that developed the International Primary Care Respiratory guidelines for obstructive lung disease. She has served on 6 other national evidence based guideline panels in addition to the one for asthma, most recently co-chairing the NHLBI Sickle Cell Disease guideline panel. She developed a research department in a large primary care based medical group in Rochester and SE Minnesota where she led studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for HealthCare Quality and Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and private foundations. She has recently retired from the position as Director of Research at the Olmsted Medical Center but continues working with other research around the US and is participating in educational work directed to primary care physicians and other clinicians.

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Njira Lugogo, MD, MS
Dr. Njira Lugogo discloses that she does research for and serves on advisory boards for Regeneron/Sanofi, Novartis, and Genentech. She does research for Janssen and serves as a consultant for Amgen. In addition, these are the companies for whom she does research, serves on an advisory board, serves as a consultant, and does talks: AstraZeneca, GSK and Teva.

Neil Skolnik, MD
Dr. Neil Skolnik discloses that he receives research support, serves on the advisory board as a consultant and serves as a speaker for: AstraZeneca, Sanofi Pasteur, Bayer, Novo Nordisk and GSK. He receives research support and serves on the advisory board as a consultant for Sanofi Diabetes. He serves on the advisory board as a consultant and as a speaker for Astellas, Lilly, and Boehringer-Ingelheim/Lilly. He serves as a speaker for Teva and Heartland, and is an advisory board member and consultant for Genentech, Abbott, and Idorsia.

Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP

Dr. Barbara Yawn discloses that she serves as a consultant and is on the advisory board for GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva, and AstraZeneca. She serves as a consultant for Regeneron. 

Austin Ulrich, PharmD, editorial support, and Dr. Michael Hanak, CME reviewer, have no disclosures to report.