This live virtual session with Dr. Minna Miller took place on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, as part of the 2025 Primary Care Expert Series.
Objectives:
1. Describe the prevalence and economic burden of pediatric asthma in Canada.
2. Discuss asthma pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, triggers, diagnostic criteria and diagnostics.
3. Review evidence-based management strategies and apply to clinical case scenarios.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Miller has been a nurse practitioner at BC Children’s Hospital Asthma Clinic for the past 12 years providing asthma diagnosis, management and education for over 700 patients and their families each year. She teaches asthma related workshops and seminars for NP students across the three BC Universities and is an invited speaker on the topic at local and international conferences. She has recently been invited to author a book of pediatric asthma by Springer Publishers. Dr. Miller holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Western University of Health Sciences, where she also completed a Post-Masters Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate. She has a Master of Science in Nursing from UBC, and a Nursing degree from Grant McEwan University. She is Affiliate Faculty at McMaster University Canadian Centre for Advanced Practice Nursing Research and is Adjunct Professor at UBC and Thompson Rivers University Schools of Nursing. She was the first Canadian NP inducted as a Fellow into the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and serves on the International Committee for the Association. She is the recipient of the Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award by The Nurses and Nurse Practitioners’ Association of BC and has been recognized as a Health Care Hero. Internationally she is recognized as an expert in Advanced Practice Nurse role development, education, regulation and practice and has published her work in peer reviewed journals and book chapters.
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The 2025 Primary Care Expert Series is available on demand, with every session recorded.