Save the date–Friday, September 4, 2026 for our 20th Annual COPD Education Day, “20 Years of Better Breathing!” Topics will include: Mythbusters (Intro to COPD, NTM & Bronchiecatsis); Advances in COPD Treatments; Complementary COPD Treatments; Exercising When You Can’t Breathe; Expanding Horizons (Travel); and What’s Reliable Medical Info and What’s Not? It will be both live and via zoom with speakers and exhibitors! Register now! You can also just come and bring your friends, family, loved ones, neighbors and register on-site! Event is FREE; light lunch is also included! Validated and valet parking is available for a charge.
In person meeting exhibits begin at 9am and the event ends at 2pm. The live event is at Queen’s Conference Center, 1301 Punchbowl Street (the old Mabel Smyth Auditorium). The zoom is 9:45am-1:15pm Hawaii Standard Time (3:45-7:15pm Eastern). The link is also on the Calendar of the webpage. Parking map–validation only available for $5 for POB1 and POB2 and $8 for valet parking at Queen’s Medical Center. Remember to bring a jacket–it is cold. Also, bring your inhalers, spacers and mucus clearance devices so the respiratory therapy students can help your with your technique.
17th through 19th Annual COPD Education Day, were successes as hybrid events–at Queen’s Conference Center as well as via zoom. Here is the link for the video of the Hawaii COPD Coalition’s 17th Annual COPD Education Day, “Emerging with Aloha.” Enjoy and please share this with others who may be interested.
Starting in January, 2023, we have also been holding zoom and in-person support group meetings at Straub Library, 888 S. King Street, in basement, down the hall from the Straub Lung Center, Strode-Milnor wing, see map. They continue to be held 2nd Wednesdays, 10-noon, HST. More details will be on calendar, www.hawaiicopd.org. There were lots of meetings at Right2Breathe.org and on the calendar of www.hawaiicopd.org, some of which are archived. Register here!
Parking map–please be sure to only park in POB1 or POB2, for validation. If you have inhalers and/or mucus clearance device and/or spacers, please bring them and our respiratory therapy students will help you use them effectively and review your technique.
Special thanks to Kapiolani Community College Respiratory Therapy Program and Queens Medical Center!
P.S. Mark your calendars to save the date for 21st COPD Education Day on Friday, September 17, 2027, 9am-2pm again at Queen’s Conference Center!
