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Michael Wechsler, MD: Hello. I'm Dr Mike Wechsler. Welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on moderate to severe asthma. Today we'll be discussing emergency care of pediatric severe asthma with Dr Todd Florin. Dr Florin is associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He's also director of research for the Division of Emergency Medicine and director of the Grainger Research Program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He's hosted the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on pediatric pneumonia. Todd, it's great to have you today. Welcome to our program. Tell us a little bit about yourself. What kind of research do you specialize in?
Todd A. Florin, MD, MSCE:Thanks so much, Mike. I'm a pediatric emergency medicine clinician-scientist. My research focus is risk stratification and improving management of kids with lower respiratory tract infections. These kids can present numerous different ways. Sometimes it can be hard to parse out which kids you have to worry about and which kids you can safely send home and feel like they can just be managed at home or in the community.
