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University of Colorado College of Nursing

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Faculty Profile

Suzanne Lareau, RN, MS, FAAN

Senior Instructor

Suzanne.Lareau@ucdenver.edu

Ms Lareau’s clinical expertise is in the management of pulmonary patients. She is internationally known for her work in pulmonary rehabilitations and is former Chair of the Assembly on Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the American Thoracic Society-ATS. She has developed international guidelines on the treatment and management of COPD patients for ATS. She has served on Task Forces to develop Statements by both the ATS and European Respiratory Society-ERS: Pulmonary Rehabilitation (1999, 2006, and 2012); Dyspnea (1999, 2012) and a document on Integrated Care of the patient with COPD (2012). She serves on the Editorial Board of two journals and is a reviewer for numerous medical and nursing journals. She has developed two instruments evaluating symptoms and functional status in pulmonary patients (the Pulmonary Functional Status and Dyspnea Questionnaire-PFSDQ) and the shorter version, the PFSDQ-M. These have been used and translated into eight languages.

Degree Awarding Institution Field of Study Graduation Date
MS University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ Nursing 1973
BS University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Nursing 1969
Diploma Sacred Heart Hospital, School of Nursing, Manchester, NH Nursing 1966
Title Organization Year
Elizabeth Rich MD Award Nominee American Thoracic Society 2001 & 2012
Fellow American Academy of Nursing 2006
Who' Who in ATS American Thoracic Society 2005
Excellence in Nursing Leadership and Clinical Practice Gamma Alpha Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International 1999
Nursing Excellence in Writing Gamma Alpha Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International 1990, 1996, 1999
Excellence in Nursing Award VAMC, Loma Linda CA 1993
Professional Employee of the Year Federal Executive Board of Los Angeles 1993
  1. Nici L, R ZuWallack, S Adams, J Bourbeau…S Lareau… An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: The Integrated Care of the COPD Patient. Proceedings of the Am Thor Soc 2012. 9:9-18. . DOI: 10.1513/pats.201201-0145ST
  2. Parshall, M B, RM Schwartzstein, L Adams, RB Banzett, HL Manning, J Bourbeau, PM Calverley, AG Gift, A Harver, SC Lareau, DA Mahler, PM Meek, & DE O’Donnell. 2012. An Official ATS Statement: Update on the mechanisms, assessment, and management of dyspnea. American Jounal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, 185: 435-452. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201111-2042ST
  3. M Neu, E Corwin, SC Lareau, C Marcheggiani-Howard. A review of nonsurgical treatment for the symptom of irritability in infants with GERD. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing. 2011. Doi: 10.1111/j. 1744-615.2011.00310.x
  4. Lareau S, R Hodder. Teaching inhaler use in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 2012. 24:113-120. Doi: 10:1111/j.1745-7599.2011.00681.x
  5. Lareau SC, BP Yawn. Improving adherence in COPD. International Journal of COPD 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21191434
  6. M Sockrider, S Lareau, B Fahy, L Reinke. The Flu-Prevention and Treatment of Influenza Infection. 2011-2012 update. (online publication October 2011) at http://patients.thoracic.org/information-series/en/resources/influenza-the-flu.pdf
  7. Fahy B, S Lareau, M Sockrider. Pulse Oximetry. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 184:1-2, 2011.
  8. Lareau SC, PM Meek, B Fahy. What to Consider When Referring a Patient for Pulmonary Rehabilitation COPD Foundation Lung Health Professional Magazine 2011; 2:42-43.
  9. Lindell KO, N Kaminski, K Gibson, S Lareau, B Fahy, J Swigris. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183:1-2, 2011.
  10. M Sockrider, S Lareau, B Fahy, L Reinke. The Flu-Prevention and Treatment of Influenza Infection. 2010-2011 update. (online publication December 2010) at http://patients.thoracic.org/information-series/index.php
  11. Lareau, S. (2011). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Pulmonary Rehabilitation. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20850.
  12. Lareau SC. Retirement. Chapter in Encyclopedia of Family Health. Ed. M Craft-Rosenberg & S-R Pehler. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, Inc. 2011, pp. 905-907.
  13. Lareau S, L Nici. Outcomes Obtained with Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Update (PCCU). 2010;24 (Lesson 11) http://www.chestnet.org/accp/pccsu/outcomes-obtained-pulmonary-rehabilitation
  14. Lareau SC. Patient-centered Outcomes. Chapter 6. In: R Crouch, R ZuWallack eds. Guidelines for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs. 4th ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. 2010.
  15. Patwari PP, SC Lareau, M Sockrider, DE Weese-Mayer. Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS). Am J Respir Crit Care Med 182:4-5, 2010.
  16. Nici L, S Lareau, R ZuWallack R. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of the American Family Physician. 82:655-660 2010.
  17. Nici L, S Lareau, R ZuWallack R. Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD. Journal of the American Family Physician. Online supplement at http://familydoctor.org. 2010.
  18. Nici L, J Raskin, C Rochester, SC Lareau et al. Pulmonary Rehabilitation: What we know and what we need to know.  J Cardiopulm Rehab Prev 29:141-151, 2009.
  19. Davis S, E Lombardi, N Beydon, M Sockrider, B Fahy, S Lareau  Pulmonary Function in Children Am J Respir Crit Care Med  179:3-4, 2009.
  20. Coates H, D Wilson, B Fahy, S Lareau, J Jett What is Lung Cancer? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 179:1-2, 2009.
  21. Terry PB, P Lanken, M Sockrider, B Fahy, S Lareau. Palliatvie Care for People with Respiratory Disease and Critical Illness. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:3-4, 2008.
  22. S Lareau, B Fahy, D Appell ATS Patient Series What is Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:1-2, 2008.
  23. M Sockrider, S Lareau, L Reinke ATS Patient Series. Influenza "The Flu".  Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:3-4, 2008.
  24. Garvey C, B Fahy, S Lareau, S Braman, B Laube Using Your New Inhaler with HFA Propellant. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:3-4, 2008.
  25. Kovelis D, NO Segretti, VS Probst, SC Lareau, AF Brunetto, F Pitta Validation of the Modified Pulmonary Functional Status and Dyspnea Questionnaire (PFSDQ-M) and the Medical Research Council scale for use in Brazilian patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia.  34:1008-1018, 2008.
  26. Larson J, S Lareau.  Evolution of Respiratory Health Care, in Respiratory Nursing: A Core Curriculum Eds. M. Geiger-Bronsky, D Wilson New York: Springer Publishing 2008.
  27. Huang T-Y, DK Moser, Y-S Hsieh, SC Lareau, A de Souza Caroci, S-Li Hwang Validation of the Chinese Version of the Modified Pulmonary Functional Status and Dyspnea Questionnaire with heart failure patients in Taiwan. Am J Crit Care. 17:436-442, 2008.
  28. C Michaels, Lareau SC. Symptom Perspectives: Patient-provider differences and communication Dis Manage Health Outcomes 16:359-363, 2008.