After many long years of competing from behind computer screens, the CHEST Challenge Championship is back, live and in person.
This year’s annual meeting will feature more hands-on experiences than ever before, including everything from virtual reality and on-site escape rooms to video games.
Welcome back to immersive sessions, full of the latest research and practice-changing updates, and an energetic atmosphere that fosters connections and collaboration.
CHEST 2022 promises to be an unforgettable opportunity for trainees, especially those who began their chest medicine careers amid the isolation of a worldwide pandemic.
Sessions will explore the many factors that hold back and harm diverse populations, from entrenched biases in the health care system to emerging effects from global crises.
CHEST’s largest-ever selection of medical simulations — 48 courses in total, including a dozen new opportunities — awaits attendees in Nashville, said Nicholas J. Pastis, MD, FCCP.
The majority of the postgraduate courses will be half-day sessions in order to give attendees more flexibility and more opportunities to learn, said Education Committee Chair Amy E. Morris, MD, FCCP.
Stephen Kirkby, MD; Amik Sodhi, MBBS, FCCP; and Sumita Khatri, MD, MS, FCCP, discussed the latest findings on the role of gender and sex hormones in asthma, including how best to manage the disease through the various stages of a woman’s life.
“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another person, listening with the ears of another person, and feeling with the heart of another person,” said Demondes Haynes, MD, FCCP, in his CHEST 2021 Keynote Address.
Jennifer D. Possick, MD; Ajay Sheshadri, MD, MSCI; and Munish Luthra, MD, FCCP, provided updates on ICI-related pneumonitis and other immunotherapy-related adverse events.
Ilene M. Rosen, MD, MSCE, and Lucas Donovan, MD, shared their visions for the future of sleep medicine amid growing recognition of sleep disturbances and a diminishing workforce of sleep specialists.
CHEST Guideline Oversight Committee Chair Kevin M. O’Neil, MD, MHA, FCCP, was joined by panelists Peter J. Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP; Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP; Scott M. Stevens, MD, FCCP; and Scott C. Woller, MD, FCCP.