Pre-conference Postgraduate Courses and Meet the Expert sessions at the ATS 2025 International Conference offer young professionals several valuable opportunities to learn from leading pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine experts.

“Both of these supplemental learning programs provide a rare opportunity for participants to interact and absorb lessons from leaders across the fields of respiratory health,” said International Conference Committee Chair Debra Boyer, MD, MHPE.

The pre-conference Postgraduate Courses are offered from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. PT on Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17, with half- or full-day sessions. Some Postgraduate Courses are didactic, lecture-based sessions while others offer a hands-on, skills-based learning approach. Both provide practical opportunities for attendees to gain in-depth perspectives on the latest guidelines and clinical practices from experienced specialists. These courses also integrate group tasks for participants to expand and strengthen their professional networks in an intimate environment.

Pre-registration and payment of a course fee are required to participate in Postgraduate Courses, in addition to attendees’ conference registration. Attendees who wish to attend a Postgraduate Course without registering for the International Conference will have a $60 fee added to their course registration.

Continental breakfast, lunch, and light refreshments will be provided for full-day courses.

The comprehensive list of the 20 Postgraduate Courses offered at ATS 2025 is listed below.

Meet the Expert are informal, small-group sessions for 30-50 individuals (of all ages and skill levels) interested in joining an interactive learning environment led by expert researchers, clinicians, technology or procedural expert speakers, and emerging independent academics.

Meet the Expert and Medical Education Seminars will be offered from 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. from Sunday, May 18, to Tuesday, May 20; they will be scheduled from 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21.

These sessions often begin with a 20- to 30-minute lecture, followed by questions and a group discussion to explore the questions and challenges most urgent to audience members.

Seating is limited, and courses often fill up quickly, so attendees are encouraged to enroll before the International Conference. Registration for each course has a $100 enrollment fee for ATS members and non-members.

See below for the complete listing of this year’s 36 Meet the Expert Seminars.

Postgraduate Courses Schedule

Friday, May 16

• PG1A Critical Care Ultrasound and Echocardiography I & II (2-Day Course)
• PG2 Bronch Day 2025: A Comprehensive, Hands-On Guide to Basic Bronchoscopy, EBUS, and Guided Bronchoscopy
• PG3 Advances in the Management of Complex Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Chronic Respiratory Failure
• PG4 Methodology for Innovative Health Equity Research: A Grant Proposal Workshop
• PG5 Pulmonary Hypertension: What You Need to Know Today
• PG6 Complex Care of Children With Chronic Respiratory Failure
• PG7 A Hands-On Introduction to Studying the Lung Microbiome
• PG8 Innovative Preclinical Models for Human Lung Research: Bridging the Gap From Bench to Bedside
• PG9 Interstitial Lung Disease: Implementing Guidelines for Patient Centered Care
• PG10 Pulmonary Function Testing: State of the Art in 2025
• PG11 Critical Care of the Modern Oncology Patient

Saturday, May 17

• PG1B Critical Care Ultrasound and Echocardiography (2-Day Course)
• PG12 State of the Art: Lung Cancer in 2025
• PG13 Lung Immunity and Respiratory Infection
• PG14 Updates on Lung Transplantation: What Pulmonologists Need to Know
• PG15 Integrative Lung Bioinformatics: From Data to Discovery
• PG16 Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: Advances and Applications
• PG17 Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease 101: Does My Patient Have Occupational Lung Disease?
• PG18 Empowering & Developing the Next Generation of URiM Leaders
• PG19 A Swan Dive Into Hemodynamics: Mastering Pulmonary Artery Catheters
• PG20 Tackling Obesity in Patients With Sleep-Disordered Breathing

Meet the Expert Seminars Schedule

Sunday, May 18

• MTE1 Choosing and Monitoring Immunosuppression in ILD Patients
• MTE2 Making Waves: Oscillometry Basics and Interpretation for Clinical and Research Application
• MTE3 The Approach to a Malignant Pleural Effusion
• MTE4 Bronchiectasis – More Than a Case of Chronic Cough
• MTE5 The Evaluation of Recurrent Pulmonary Infections: Identification of Primary Immunodeficiency and Differential Diagnosis
• MTE6 Hitchhiker’s Guide to Navigating Single Cell RNA Sequencing: Critical Insights for Users
• MTE7 Lung Transplantation Post Childhood Cancer Therapy
• MTE8 Neurologic Consultations in the ICU
• MTE9 Has the Time Come to Aim for Asthma Remission?
• MTE10 Answering Difficult Clinical Questions in Management of Sarcoidosis
• MTE11 Sleep, The Forgotten Dimension of COPD Care

Monday, May 19

• MTE12 Pulmonary Nodule Evaluation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• MTE13 “Hard” Data in Scleroderma ILD: New Guidelines and Management Strategies
• MTE14 Exploring Novel Collaborations and Social Determinants for Health Care Equity
• MTE15 Simply Does It: Delivering Pulmonary Rehabilitation Using Minimal Exercise Equipment
• MTE16 Teaching Cases in Endemic Fungal Pneumonia for the Non-Endemic Clinician
• MTE17 Two Bad Diseases Are Worse Than One: Pulmonary Hypertension in ILD and COPD
• MTE18 Pediatric Airway Sampling: Are We Doing It Right?
• MTE19 Small But Mighty- Isolation and Analysis OFEVS in Lung Health and Diseases
• MTE20 Generative AI for Lung Imaging and Disease Diagnosis
• MTE21 Taking Your Multidisciplinary ICU Teaching Rounds to the Next Level
• MTE22 Professional Identity Formation: Preparing the Next Generation to be More Than Doctors

Tuesday, May 20

• MTE23 Don’t Miss It: Identifying and Managing Exposures Linked to Sarcoidosis
• MTE24 Leveraging Clinical Polysomnography and Electronic Health Record Data for Research
• MTE25 Immunologic Underpinnings of COPD
• MTE26 The ABCs of Ventilator Waveforms
• MTE27 Bronchiectasis: Following the Updated Guidelines and Assessing New Therapeutics
• MTE28 Care Delivery Models for Critical Illness Recovery
• MTE29 Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Pulmonary Medicine
• MTE30 Gray Areas – Management of PAH in the Patient With Comorbidities
• MTE31 How to Diagnose BOS in Pediatric HSCT Patients
• MTE32 Advanced Use of Asthma Biologics: A Case-Based Master Class

Wednesday, May 21

• MTE33 Airway and Pleural Complications Management in Lung Transplant
• MTE34 From Feathers to Antifibrotics: Exposures, Treatment, and Prognosis in Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
• MTE35 How to Implement a Comprehensive Lung Nodule Program
• MTE36 Myositis-Associated ILD: Updates on Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges