The ATS’s essential update across key elements of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine will be presented in person for the first time. A new installment with a different focus will be presented each morning, Sunday through Wednesday.
Rana L. Awdish, MD, and Megan M. Hosey, PhD, will use a storytelling framework to illustrate how the narratives of health care professionals, patients, and their families can provide a foundation for healing and moving forward collectively.
Jesse Roman, MD, a founding leader of the Health Equity Subcommittee within the ATS Health Equity and Diversity Committee, will be the keynote speaker at the Diversity Forum on Sunday. The Minority Trainee Development Scholarships also will be presented.
The return to an in-person format allows for an array of networking opportunities at ATS 2022, including the Clinicians Center, International Participants Center, Center for Career Development, and Science and Innovation Center. All centers will be open Sunday to Tuesday.
Here’s what conference participants can expect Sunday from the Exhibit Hall, the Mentoring Meeting Spot, the ATS Center, Meet the Experts sessions, and Outside Organization sessions.
The ATS invites all International Conference attendees to engage with #ATS2022 on social media. Below are snippets of the dialogue about the conference taking place on Twitter.
Drawing on her experience aboard the International Space Station, former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel Catherine Grace “Cady” Coleman, PhD, will provide guidance on how to return to normalcy following two years of managing feelings of isolation and challenges to maintaining connections due to COVID-19.
The Keynote Series will address timely topics in respiratory medicine with special presentations from Rana L. Awdish, MD, MS; Megan M. Hosey, PhD; Mary Berlik Rice, MD, MPH; U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry; and Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA.
John Huston, MD; Miho Jeong, PharmD, PhD; and Maged Hassan Fayed, PhD, will compete for a grand prize of $10,000 in a live pitch session where they will showcase their innovative ideas for a panel of judges comprised of veterans of translational science in the areas of academia, industry, and government.
IPC programming is designed to illuminate common disease themes from different regional perspectives around the world, focusing on the social and cultural challenges, and local solutions, related to each topic.