St. Nicholas Hospital, Prevea Sheboygan Pulmonary Medicine and Sheboygan Lung Specialists are co-sponsoring "Every Breath You Take: A Respiratory Health Fair" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, at St. Nicholas Hospital.

The fair will discuss how people with asthma, emphysema or chronic lung disease can live better with these respiratory ailments. People also should attend the fair if they're interested in learning about prevention and treatment of lung diseases.

The fair helps mark World COPD Day, which raises awareness on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worldwide.

The World COPD Day theme, "Breathless Not Helpless," emphasizes that effective treatments are available for people who have been diagnosed with COPD and raises awareness for people who have not been diagnosed but who may be suffering from breathlessness.

Dr. Tobias Enright will discuss "The Burden of Adult Asthmas in the U.S." Enright is board-certified in internal medicine, allergy and clinical immunology.

He is also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Medical School as well as an assistant professor of immunology at Rush Medical College.

In addition, he is chairman of the Asthma Guideline Committee of Horizon Healthcare, chairman of the Asthma Workgroup of Community Collaboration on Healthcare Quality and an allergy/asthma specialty consultant for PrimeCare and Compcare.

Enright received his medical degree from the University of Illinois.

"An Update on the Newest Advances and Patient Communication Strategies in COPD" will be presented by Dr. Mark T. Dransfield. Dransfield is an associate professor of medicine, division of pulmonary, allergy and critical care, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.

Dransfield is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.

Dransfield received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and proceeded to the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, where he completed his internship, residency and fellowship.

Registration is recommended to attend the fair. To register or for more information, call (920) 459-4636 or visit www.stnicholashospital.org.