Report to IPCRG Family Physician Airways Group of Canada

Who we are 1400 members across Canada Executive from all 10 provinces Chair: Alan Kaplan Vice Chair: Anthony Ciavarella Secretary Treasurer: Robert Hauptman Administrator: Glyn Smith

Things we have done Education Guideline Representation Committee Representation Tools for practice Research

Education Mainpro C Spirometry program done at individual provincial College of Family Physician assemblies, national College of Family Physician assembly, Primary Care Today annual meeting. We have been instrumental in teaching spirometric interpretation to 100s of Canadian physicians and have created abstracts on this at both ERS and IPCRG meetings. Invited speakers for numerous presentations ranging on asthma, COPD, TB, RTI, Pertussis, Rhinitis, Device optimization, Action Plans, influenza and vaccination and smoking cessation. The FPAGC is the Lung Health Portal guide to MD Briefcase, an internet educational program reaching over 2000 doctors per program on topics including TB, Influenza, Asthma, COPD, Rhinitis, Vaccination and Action Plans

Guideline representation Representation on Canadian guidelines for Asthma, COPD, Sinusitis, Alpha-One Antitrypsin deficiency, and Smoking Cessation. Reviewer of GINA guidelines (Kaplan)

Membership in: Public Health Agency of Canada Section of Allergy and Respiratory Therapeutics Health Canada Section of Allergy and Respiratory Therapeutics Canadian Thoracic Society metropolitan TB subcommittee CTS Guidelines dissemination and implementation committee Health Care Ontario programs on COPD utilization. Educational programs for pharmaceutical companies, multiple Educational programs for Allied Health personnel, eg., pharmacy, RTs, CREs. including COPD Trec, AsthmaTrec and SpiroTrec. Canadian Family Physicians of Canada Special Interest Focussed Practice Group in Respiratory Medicine. Canadian Severe Asthma Network Canadian Severe Asthma Working Group Canadian Network for Respiratory Care Advisory Boards for a number of national and international pharmaceutical companies Editorial board, Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Tools available on website: Asthma Action Plan COPD Action Plan Asthma Flow Sheet COPD Flow Sheet Anaphylaxis Action plans Infection predictor models such as BAP 6 Sleep Apnea screeners Spirometry interpretation algorithms and others.

Research Chair, Dr. Andrew Cave Projects on Asthma Tools, COPD Tools, Alpha one antitrypsin deficiency

Education Presentation at IPCRG Athens on Spirometry Technique 6 abstracts submitted to program Previous presentations at IPCRG meetings.

Education: new First (of hopefully annual) Primary Care Respiratory Medical Day in April 2014 in Calgary, Alberta

Recent publications Ciclesonide delivery in the small airways: serving a newfound need. Kaplan A. Hot Topics in Respiratory Medicine. Volume 8, Issue 23: 2013 Asthma Performance Indicators, National Strategy Workshop Proceedings. Quality Indicators and Primary Care; are we ready? Kaplan A. Can Resp J. Volume 20.No 4. July/August e9-10 Barnes N, Calverley PMA, Kaplan A, Rabe KF. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and exacerbations: Patient insights from the global Hidden Depths of COPD survey. BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2013;13:54. Barnes N, Calverley PMA, Kaplan A, Rabe KF. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and exacerbations: Clinician insights from the global Hidden Depths of COPD survey. Current Medical Research & Opinion. doi: / Kaplan A, Gruffydd-Jones K, van Gemert F, Kirenga B, Medford A. A woman with breathlessness: a practical approach to diagnosis and management. Prim Care Respir J 2013; 22 Kaplan A. Canadian Guidelines for chronic Sinusitis, a clinical summary. Canadian Family Physician. December Volume 59. No. 12;