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Asthma is estimated to affect over 260 million people worldwide,1 and despite a range of available treatments, asthma continues to cause a substantial burden to patients and reduce their quality of life.2-4 Continued treatment optimisation using a patient-centric approach is crucial to addressing these unmet needs and improving patient outcomes.5 Clinical remission has emerged as an ambitious and achievable treatment goal in the asthma management treatment paradigm5, targeting drivers of disease burden to restore patients’ health.3,4,6,7 In this global webinar for World Asthma Day 2025, leading respiratory experts Prof. Oppenheimer, Prof. William Busse, and Prof. Peter Gibson provide an overview of clinical remission in asthma, what it means to patients, and discuss how clinical remission can be implemented in routine practice.
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Prof. Oppenheimer is the Clinical Professor of Medicine at UMDNJ-Rutgers, and Director of Clinical Research at Pulmonary and Allergy Associates. He has also served as the Chairman of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology and is a member of the Joint Task Force of the Practice Parameter Committee for Allergy Immunology. Prof. Oppenheimer is also currently the Executive Editor of the Annals of Allergy Asthma and Immunology journal.
Adjucation Committees and Data Safety Monitoring Boards for Abbvie, AstraZeneca, GSK, Novartis, and Sanofi-Regeneron. Grants and personal fees from GSK. Speaker fees from GSK. Consultant/Advisor for Aquestive, ARS, AstraZeneca/Amgen, DBV, GSK, and Teva.
Prof. Busse is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He has served as the President of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, and Chair of the US National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. He has also been a member of various national and international guidelines committees for the treatment of asthma, and served on the Advisory Council and Board of External Experts of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Advisory boards for GSK, Regeneron, and Sanofi.
Prof. Gibson is Professor at the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, and Respiratory Physician and Clinical Scientist in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, Australia. He serves as Director and Chief Investigator for the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Excellence in Asthma Treatable Traits, and is Project co-Lead of the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry.
Research grants from GSK and Sanofi. Speaker fees from AstraZeneca and GSK. Advisory boards for GSK.




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Date of preparation: October 2025
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