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From the EVP/CEO: Focused on our international initiatives
CHEST is committed to being the global leader in clinical chest medicine. Our vision affirms it: CHEST is the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. Our organization is a diverse community of experts and peers, representing more than 100 countries, giving us ample opportunity to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world. Recently, we reviewed our international work to ensure we’re meeting education needs and fulfilling leadership responsibilities around the world. I’m happy to say we’re in good standing on both counts.
To be effective and efficient in our international education offerings, we have identified premier programs and products that readily allow us to share the CHEST brand and reputation across the globe. We offer standardized delivery and execution to ensure everyone receives the same high-quality CHEST experience. These programs include:
• CHEST live learning events, held in international locations
• CHEST journal-branded meetings
• Grant partnerships for international fellows
• Captured content from live events
Our live learning events are scalable to accommodate larger or smaller meetings, enabling them to be delivered across multiple locations and countries. We invite CHEST leadership and faculty to collaborate with local partners to provide expertise and lead sessions. Similarly, CHEST journal-branded meetings, developed and held in partnership with our journal publisher Elsevier, offer the same value and benefits as our live learning events. Content can focus on a specific disease state or have a broader topic reach. Journal editors or associate editors and top researchers are available to assist by serving as faculty. Both these options mean CHEST-branded education is accessible around the world.
In addition to bringing our programs to international audiences, we’re also able to bring international audiences to our programs, specifically to CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST World Congress. Grant partnership opportunities are extended to sponsoring organizations that wish to cover registration, travel, housing, and per-diem living expenses for international fellows. As part of the program, we assign a CHEST liaison to each sponsored physician to further enhance his or her meeting experience. Again, this program makes CHEST-branded education more accessible throughout the world.
Knowing health-care professionals aren’t always able to travel to our events, we capture education content to make it available on demand. We have hundreds of sessions from our CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST Board Review available for purchase in the CHEST store at chestnet.org/store. Or, international partners can license this content, and provide it to health-care professionals in their areas. Both options extend the reach of our education programs to those who may not be able to participate in a live event.
On the leadership front, we continue to lead the promotion of lung health awareness around the world. A founding member of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), we work with the world’s leading respiratory societies to improve lung health globally. Our initiatives to date include declaring 2016 to 2025 as the Decade of the Lung and engaging organizations to improve lung health through prevention efforts. Under the Decade of the Lung umbrella, FIRS organizations brought awareness to the need for pneumonia prevention and stronger management strategies. More recently, CHEST participated with FIRS to raise global concerns of lung cancer on World Cancer Day, February 2.
As an established and recognized leader in chest medicine, CHEST is in an ideal position to advance lung health around the world. This is an opportunity we take seriously and will continue to focus on meeting our vision.
If you have thoughts or ideas about how we can enhance our work to be a global leader in chest medicine, feel free to connect with me. I invite you to follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP), or look for me at upcoming CHEST events.
CHEST is committed to being the global leader in clinical chest medicine. Our vision affirms it: CHEST is the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. Our organization is a diverse community of experts and peers, representing more than 100 countries, giving us ample opportunity to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world. Recently, we reviewed our international work to ensure we’re meeting education needs and fulfilling leadership responsibilities around the world. I’m happy to say we’re in good standing on both counts.
To be effective and efficient in our international education offerings, we have identified premier programs and products that readily allow us to share the CHEST brand and reputation across the globe. We offer standardized delivery and execution to ensure everyone receives the same high-quality CHEST experience. These programs include:
• CHEST live learning events, held in international locations
• CHEST journal-branded meetings
• Grant partnerships for international fellows
• Captured content from live events
Our live learning events are scalable to accommodate larger or smaller meetings, enabling them to be delivered across multiple locations and countries. We invite CHEST leadership and faculty to collaborate with local partners to provide expertise and lead sessions. Similarly, CHEST journal-branded meetings, developed and held in partnership with our journal publisher Elsevier, offer the same value and benefits as our live learning events. Content can focus on a specific disease state or have a broader topic reach. Journal editors or associate editors and top researchers are available to assist by serving as faculty. Both these options mean CHEST-branded education is accessible around the world.
In addition to bringing our programs to international audiences, we’re also able to bring international audiences to our programs, specifically to CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST World Congress. Grant partnership opportunities are extended to sponsoring organizations that wish to cover registration, travel, housing, and per-diem living expenses for international fellows. As part of the program, we assign a CHEST liaison to each sponsored physician to further enhance his or her meeting experience. Again, this program makes CHEST-branded education more accessible throughout the world.
Knowing health-care professionals aren’t always able to travel to our events, we capture education content to make it available on demand. We have hundreds of sessions from our CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST Board Review available for purchase in the CHEST store at chestnet.org/store. Or, international partners can license this content, and provide it to health-care professionals in their areas. Both options extend the reach of our education programs to those who may not be able to participate in a live event.
On the leadership front, we continue to lead the promotion of lung health awareness around the world. A founding member of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), we work with the world’s leading respiratory societies to improve lung health globally. Our initiatives to date include declaring 2016 to 2025 as the Decade of the Lung and engaging organizations to improve lung health through prevention efforts. Under the Decade of the Lung umbrella, FIRS organizations brought awareness to the need for pneumonia prevention and stronger management strategies. More recently, CHEST participated with FIRS to raise global concerns of lung cancer on World Cancer Day, February 2.
As an established and recognized leader in chest medicine, CHEST is in an ideal position to advance lung health around the world. This is an opportunity we take seriously and will continue to focus on meeting our vision.
If you have thoughts or ideas about how we can enhance our work to be a global leader in chest medicine, feel free to connect with me. I invite you to follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP), or look for me at upcoming CHEST events.
CHEST is committed to being the global leader in clinical chest medicine. Our vision affirms it: CHEST is the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. Our organization is a diverse community of experts and peers, representing more than 100 countries, giving us ample opportunity to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world. Recently, we reviewed our international work to ensure we’re meeting education needs and fulfilling leadership responsibilities around the world. I’m happy to say we’re in good standing on both counts.
To be effective and efficient in our international education offerings, we have identified premier programs and products that readily allow us to share the CHEST brand and reputation across the globe. We offer standardized delivery and execution to ensure everyone receives the same high-quality CHEST experience. These programs include:
• CHEST live learning events, held in international locations
• CHEST journal-branded meetings
• Grant partnerships for international fellows
• Captured content from live events
Our live learning events are scalable to accommodate larger or smaller meetings, enabling them to be delivered across multiple locations and countries. We invite CHEST leadership and faculty to collaborate with local partners to provide expertise and lead sessions. Similarly, CHEST journal-branded meetings, developed and held in partnership with our journal publisher Elsevier, offer the same value and benefits as our live learning events. Content can focus on a specific disease state or have a broader topic reach. Journal editors or associate editors and top researchers are available to assist by serving as faculty. Both these options mean CHEST-branded education is accessible around the world.
In addition to bringing our programs to international audiences, we’re also able to bring international audiences to our programs, specifically to CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST World Congress. Grant partnership opportunities are extended to sponsoring organizations that wish to cover registration, travel, housing, and per-diem living expenses for international fellows. As part of the program, we assign a CHEST liaison to each sponsored physician to further enhance his or her meeting experience. Again, this program makes CHEST-branded education more accessible throughout the world.
Knowing health-care professionals aren’t always able to travel to our events, we capture education content to make it available on demand. We have hundreds of sessions from our CHEST Annual Meeting and CHEST Board Review available for purchase in the CHEST store at chestnet.org/store. Or, international partners can license this content, and provide it to health-care professionals in their areas. Both options extend the reach of our education programs to those who may not be able to participate in a live event.
On the leadership front, we continue to lead the promotion of lung health awareness around the world. A founding member of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), we work with the world’s leading respiratory societies to improve lung health globally. Our initiatives to date include declaring 2016 to 2025 as the Decade of the Lung and engaging organizations to improve lung health through prevention efforts. Under the Decade of the Lung umbrella, FIRS organizations brought awareness to the need for pneumonia prevention and stronger management strategies. More recently, CHEST participated with FIRS to raise global concerns of lung cancer on World Cancer Day, February 2.
As an established and recognized leader in chest medicine, CHEST is in an ideal position to advance lung health around the world. This is an opportunity we take seriously and will continue to focus on meeting our vision.
If you have thoughts or ideas about how we can enhance our work to be a global leader in chest medicine, feel free to connect with me. I invite you to follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP), or look for me at upcoming CHEST events.
From the EVP/CEO: ‘Global’ – more than a name for our new HQ
After months of planning and much anticipation, we have moved to our new location in Glenview, Illinois. February 18 marked the first day in our new space, and there’s much to be proud of in this building. It won the prestigious "Green Development of the Year Award" for 2013 from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, the premier organization for real estate professionals in metropolitan Chicago, and it's under review for Silver LEED certification. It houses our state-of-the-art Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center, with an auditorium, eight breakout rooms, six simulation suites, and wet and dry labs to supplement training. Behind the scenes is an enhanced technological infrastructure to support digital learning. More than a beautiful structure with impressive features, this building is the resource we need to be the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. It’s fitting we have named our new building CHEST Global Headquarters.
For us, being global extends well beyond a name for the building. It’s what we are. A timely testament to this is our CHEST World Congress, taking place this month in Madrid, Spain, where more than 1,500 attendees and faculty from all regions of the world are sharing best clinical practices. We’ve partnered with the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery to develop the scientific program, ensuring topics presented are of educational value to an international audience. And, to keep the momentum of the congress going, we’re already thinking about and planning for CHEST World Congress 2016.
Our other education programs, intended to have meaningful impact on global lung health and patient care, consistently prove to have high value for an international audience as well. Our CHEST annual meeting is always well attended by health professionals from around the world. CHEST 2013 was no exception, with 28% – or 1,450 – of the attendees coming from outside the United States and Canada. And, with CHEST endorsement currently being sought for education activities in other countries, from India to Italy, our global impact continues to reach beyond our annual meeting.
As part of our new brand promise to be an essential connection at a critical time, we are committed to delivering knowledge in formats that meet the needs of busy clinicians worldwide. CHEST Journal is an ideal medium for this, and more than 21,000 subscribers around the world receive it either in print or online. Various international editions have been published, including those for Brazil, China, Greece, India, Italy, the Middle East, Spain, and Turkey. These editions are published in each country’s native language, allowing health-care professionals to read and study the research in a language that is familiar and easily understood.
Our membership reflects our strong representation around the world. We have members in more than 100 countries, and almost 20% of our total membership is from outside the United States and Canada. Our Council of Global Governors, in place to promote leadership opportunities for international members, is operating strong at almost 30 governors. These leaders work to expand our education programs and membership, promote relationships with international industry partners, recruit attendees for CHEST activities, and more. This global community means more ideas, perspectives, and opportunities to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world.
Over the next few months, we’ll be settling into our new CHEST Global Headquarters and establishing ourselves in our new neighborhood. Our presence across the world is already established, and I look forward to watching that grow as we leverage the resources available in our new building. Follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP) to read our progress. And, if you’re in the Glenview, Illinois, area, stop by our new building. We’ll be happy to show you around.
After months of planning and much anticipation, we have moved to our new location in Glenview, Illinois. February 18 marked the first day in our new space, and there’s much to be proud of in this building. It won the prestigious "Green Development of the Year Award" for 2013 from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, the premier organization for real estate professionals in metropolitan Chicago, and it's under review for Silver LEED certification. It houses our state-of-the-art Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center, with an auditorium, eight breakout rooms, six simulation suites, and wet and dry labs to supplement training. Behind the scenes is an enhanced technological infrastructure to support digital learning. More than a beautiful structure with impressive features, this building is the resource we need to be the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. It’s fitting we have named our new building CHEST Global Headquarters.
For us, being global extends well beyond a name for the building. It’s what we are. A timely testament to this is our CHEST World Congress, taking place this month in Madrid, Spain, where more than 1,500 attendees and faculty from all regions of the world are sharing best clinical practices. We’ve partnered with the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery to develop the scientific program, ensuring topics presented are of educational value to an international audience. And, to keep the momentum of the congress going, we’re already thinking about and planning for CHEST World Congress 2016.
Our other education programs, intended to have meaningful impact on global lung health and patient care, consistently prove to have high value for an international audience as well. Our CHEST annual meeting is always well attended by health professionals from around the world. CHEST 2013 was no exception, with 28% – or 1,450 – of the attendees coming from outside the United States and Canada. And, with CHEST endorsement currently being sought for education activities in other countries, from India to Italy, our global impact continues to reach beyond our annual meeting.
As part of our new brand promise to be an essential connection at a critical time, we are committed to delivering knowledge in formats that meet the needs of busy clinicians worldwide. CHEST Journal is an ideal medium for this, and more than 21,000 subscribers around the world receive it either in print or online. Various international editions have been published, including those for Brazil, China, Greece, India, Italy, the Middle East, Spain, and Turkey. These editions are published in each country’s native language, allowing health-care professionals to read and study the research in a language that is familiar and easily understood.
Our membership reflects our strong representation around the world. We have members in more than 100 countries, and almost 20% of our total membership is from outside the United States and Canada. Our Council of Global Governors, in place to promote leadership opportunities for international members, is operating strong at almost 30 governors. These leaders work to expand our education programs and membership, promote relationships with international industry partners, recruit attendees for CHEST activities, and more. This global community means more ideas, perspectives, and opportunities to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world.
Over the next few months, we’ll be settling into our new CHEST Global Headquarters and establishing ourselves in our new neighborhood. Our presence across the world is already established, and I look forward to watching that grow as we leverage the resources available in our new building. Follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP) to read our progress. And, if you’re in the Glenview, Illinois, area, stop by our new building. We’ll be happy to show you around.
After months of planning and much anticipation, we have moved to our new location in Glenview, Illinois. February 18 marked the first day in our new space, and there’s much to be proud of in this building. It won the prestigious "Green Development of the Year Award" for 2013 from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, the premier organization for real estate professionals in metropolitan Chicago, and it's under review for Silver LEED certification. It houses our state-of-the-art Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center, with an auditorium, eight breakout rooms, six simulation suites, and wet and dry labs to supplement training. Behind the scenes is an enhanced technological infrastructure to support digital learning. More than a beautiful structure with impressive features, this building is the resource we need to be the global leader in advancing best patient outcomes through innovative chest medicine education, clinical research, and team-based care. It’s fitting we have named our new building CHEST Global Headquarters.
For us, being global extends well beyond a name for the building. It’s what we are. A timely testament to this is our CHEST World Congress, taking place this month in Madrid, Spain, where more than 1,500 attendees and faculty from all regions of the world are sharing best clinical practices. We’ve partnered with the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery to develop the scientific program, ensuring topics presented are of educational value to an international audience. And, to keep the momentum of the congress going, we’re already thinking about and planning for CHEST World Congress 2016.
Our other education programs, intended to have meaningful impact on global lung health and patient care, consistently prove to have high value for an international audience as well. Our CHEST annual meeting is always well attended by health professionals from around the world. CHEST 2013 was no exception, with 28% – or 1,450 – of the attendees coming from outside the United States and Canada. And, with CHEST endorsement currently being sought for education activities in other countries, from India to Italy, our global impact continues to reach beyond our annual meeting.
As part of our new brand promise to be an essential connection at a critical time, we are committed to delivering knowledge in formats that meet the needs of busy clinicians worldwide. CHEST Journal is an ideal medium for this, and more than 21,000 subscribers around the world receive it either in print or online. Various international editions have been published, including those for Brazil, China, Greece, India, Italy, the Middle East, Spain, and Turkey. These editions are published in each country’s native language, allowing health-care professionals to read and study the research in a language that is familiar and easily understood.
Our membership reflects our strong representation around the world. We have members in more than 100 countries, and almost 20% of our total membership is from outside the United States and Canada. Our Council of Global Governors, in place to promote leadership opportunities for international members, is operating strong at almost 30 governors. These leaders work to expand our education programs and membership, promote relationships with international industry partners, recruit attendees for CHEST activities, and more. This global community means more ideas, perspectives, and opportunities to collaborate and advance chest medicine around the world.
Over the next few months, we’ll be settling into our new CHEST Global Headquarters and establishing ourselves in our new neighborhood. Our presence across the world is already established, and I look forward to watching that grow as we leverage the resources available in our new building. Follow me on Twitter (@PMarkowskiACCP) to read our progress. And, if you’re in the Glenview, Illinois, area, stop by our new building. We’ll be happy to show you around.
