• CHEST keynote speaker will address implicit bias and discrimination in health care

    CHEST keynote speaker will address implicit bias and discrimination in health care

    CHEST Annual Meeting’s keynote speaker, Quinn Capers, IV, MD, will address implicit bias—the unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group—on Sunday during the Opening Session.

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  • Social media visuals can be effective educational tools

    Social media visuals can be effective educational tools

    Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP, and her co-presenters will share how visual educational tools can increase learner engagement and improve retention in “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Increasing Engagement of Patients and Learners Using Visual Tools” on Sunday.

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  • Make some furry friends while at CHEST 2019

    Make some furry friends while at CHEST 2019

    Miss your furry friend? CHEST has partnered with Take Paws Rescue, a local nonprofit animal rescue in New Orleans to bring dogs to the annual meeting. You can even adopt one!

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  • Vasculitis takes a team-based treatment approach

    Vasculitis takes a team-based treatment approach

    Back by popular demand, Corey Kershaw, MD, and his co-presenters have brought the session “Pulmonary Vasculitis Syndromes: A Case-Based Overview of Diagnosis and Treatment for the Pulmonologist” to CHEST 2019.

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  • Mastering PAP device downloads help optimize patient care

    Mastering PAP device downloads help optimize patient care

    “It’s very important to understand PAP (positive airway pressure) devices that are used for sleep apnea and complex sleep-disordered breathing syndromes since the technology for these devices is advancing so quickly,” says Michelle Cao, DO, FCCP, chair of Sunday’s “Mastering PAP and Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIV) Downloads.”

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  • The Curbsiders to host live podcast at CHEST 2019

    The Curbsiders to host live podcast at CHEST 2019

    The Curbsiders, an internal medicine podcast, will host a live show during this year’s CHEST Annual Meeting. The hosts ask experts to deconstruct various topics in medicine, providing clinical pearls, practice-changing knowledge, and bad puns.

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  • #TBT 1997: The last time CHEST was in New Orleans

    #TBT 1997: The last time CHEST was in New Orleans

    The last time CHEST held its annual meeting in New Orleans was 1997. Read about what’s changed—and what hasn’t—in the city and in chest medicine from this year’s Program Chair William Kelly, MD, FCCP.

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  • Fluid resuscitation in sepsis: crystalloids or colloids?

    Fluid resuscitation in sepsis: crystalloids or colloids?

    Sepsis treatment continues to plague the medical community with fairly significant mortality, but new advancements in the field are a chance to improve outcomes. Gustavo Cumbo-Nacheli, MD, and his co-presenters will raise awareness of those advances during “Resuscitation in Sepsis: Now What Should We Do?” on Sunday.

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  • Multiple risk factors are likely for ILD development

    Multiple risk factors are likely for ILD development

    “One of our goals with this session is to raise awareness of the possibility of inhalational exposures in a variety of hobbies, the workplace, and home and, thus, to encourage physicians to take a really careful history of the patient’s home and work environment,” says Mary Strek MD, FCCP, chair of the Sunday session “Occupational…

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  • CHEST 2019 Attendee Profile: Laren D. Tan, MD, FCCP

    CHEST 2019  Attendee Profile: Laren D. Tan, MD, FCCP

    Find out what CHEST 2019 attendee Laren Tan, MD, FCCP, enjoys about the annual meeting, his favorite hobbies outside of work, and who he would arrange a one-on-one mentor session with in this attendee profile.

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  • CHEST 2019 Speaker Spotlight: Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP

    CHEST 2019 Speaker Spotlight: Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP

    Learn how one speaker at CHEST 2019 plans to take this year’s ‘Big Easy’ message back to her practice and whether or not her pet knows she’s away from home in this speaker spotlight.

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  • Black lung disease resurges with no signs of slowing

    Black lung disease resurges with no signs of slowing

    A steady and ongoing increase in progressive massive fibrosis related to coal workers’ pneumoconiosis has been recognized in the United States over the last few years through epidemiologic investigations. Drew Harris, MD, FCCP, and Amy M. Ahasic, MD, MPH, FCCP, ATSF, will share likely reasons for this trend and ways clinicians can help patients in…

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