Issue 2 2024
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Port of San Diego Celebrates Refreshed Tree Canopy, Improved Air Quality in Embarcadero Park With Donation by the ATS, AstraZeneca & Breathe Southern California
The Port of San Diego, the San Diego Convention Center, the ATS, AstraZeneca, Breathe Southern California, and other partners, teamed up in Embarcadero Marina Park North to donate twenty Tipuana tipu trees and seven pink Coral Gum trees to the Port of San Diego.
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Meet the 2024 Respiratory Health Award Recipients
Daily award presentations during the ATS 2024 International Conference recognized exemplary contributions to respiratory health and elevated the influential work of this year’s honorees. Get to know this year’s 14 Respiratory Health Award recipients and learn about their exemplary work.
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Opening Ceremony: Doctor-Comedian Recounts How Humor Helped Him Through Medical Crises
William Flanary, MD, better known for his on-stage persona Dr. Glaucomflecken, was the featured speaker at the ATS 2024 International Conference Opening Ceremony. The doctor-comedian delivered a humorous and harrowing account of his own medical issues and how humor, his wife, and care providers helped him survive.
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Claim MOC and CME Credits from ATS 2024
The ATS 2024 International Conference offered six days of content with multiple opportunities—Scientific Symposia, Clinical Year in Review sessions, Core Curriculum Symposia, and more—to earn Continuing Medical Education credits and Maintenance of Certification points. Learn how to claim credits for your continuing education.
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Monday Keynote Recounts Gripping Developments of Mechanical Ventilation and Intensive Care Units
In her book, The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care, Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, traced the origins of mechanical ventilation and the ICU back to a polio epidemic in 1952. Dr. Wunsch will recount this gripping story of historic innovation in medicine during Monday’s Keynote Series session.
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Nursing Year in Review to Examine How Implementation Science Helps Close Gaps in Patient Care
The Monday, May 20, session of the Nursing Year in Review will explore the ongoing challenges and opportunities for implementation science — promoting the uptake of best practices based on knowledge gained from clinical and translational research — in critical care, pulmonary, and sleep medicine.
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First Critical Care Core Curriculum Session to Cover Identification and Management of Cardiac Conditions
The first session of the Adult Critical Care Clinical Core Curriculum begins on Tuesday, May 21, emphasizing cardiac considerations in critical care. Tuesday’s presentations will discuss managing unstable arrhythmias in the ICU, pulmonary embolisms, right ventricular failure, and the use of vasopressors for hemodynamic support.
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Final Adult Sleep Clinical Core Curriculum Session to Examine Key Innovations in Sleep Medicine
The final session of the Adult Sleep Clinical Core Curriculum will cover several recent innovations in sleep medicine on Monday, May 20. Session presentations will explore cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, new developments in pediatric sleep testing, and strategic interventions to improve patients’ sleep in care facility settings.
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Pediatric Clinical Core Curriculum Explores the Pulmonologist’s Role in the PICU
The Pediatric Clinical Core Curriculum kicked off with its first (of three) session on Sunday, May 19, and continues on Monday, May 20. This year’s curricular theme is assessing the pulmonologist’s role in the pediatric ICU.
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Amberson Lecturer to Share How the ‘Right Question’ Upended IPF
Moisés Selman, MD, an investigator whose work redefined idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as an epithelial-driven fibrosis and has contributed to the pioneering research identifying the transcriptional signatures that distinguish some of the fibrosing lung diseases, will deliver this year’s J. Burns Amberson Lecture, “The Importance of Asking the Right Questions to Decipher Unknown Disease Mechanisms” on…