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Amber Janelle Oberle

Amber Janelle Oberle

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine

Scholarly Works

Biologic Management in Severe Asthma for Adults: An American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline.

Journal article Chest · February 2026 BACKGROUND: Severe asthma affects 5% to 10% of patients with asthma but constitutes close to one-half of the medical costs related to asthma due to higher morbidity and health care utilization. Biologic agents have become a standard of care in those unresp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors Related to Biologic Adherence and Outcomes Among Moderate-to-Severe Asthma Patients.

Journal article J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract · September 2022 BACKGROUND: Adherence barriers to asthma biologics may not be uniform across administration settings for patients with moderate-to-severe asthma. OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in asthma biologic adherence and associated factors, as well as association ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Development and Evaluation of a Small Airway Disease Index Derived From Modeling the Late-Expiratory Flattening of the Flow-Volume Loop.

Journal article Front Physiol · 2022 Excessive decrease in the flow of the late expiratory portion of a flow volume loop (FVL) or "flattening", reflects small airway dysfunction. The assessment of the flattening is currently determined by visual inspection by the pulmonary function test (PFT) ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Therapeutic Inertia in Prescribing Biologics for Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Asthma: Workshop Summary.

Journal article Patient Prefer Adherence · 2021 Moderate-to-severe asthma represents about a quarter of the nearly 10% of Americans diagnosed with asthma. Many patients with moderate-to-severe asthma have uncontrolled symptoms that lead to exacerbations requiring oral corticosteroids. There are many fac ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Precision medicine in asthma

Journal article Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine · May 2017 Full text Cite