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Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to look at what’s new in their lives.
This series, and its first segment, was introduced in the CHEST 2014 Daily News in Austin, featuring Dr. Dick Briggs, and will continue on a quarterly basis in the monthly issues of CHEST Physician. Be sure to watch for it.
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Dick D. Briggs Jr., MD, Master FCCP
President 1984-1985
I remember my presidency 30 years ago very well. After chairing the outstanding XV World Congress of Chest Diseases in Sydney, Australia, the 51st Annual ACCP Scientific Assembly in New Orleans was absolute chaos because a hurricane was doing figure-eights all week over lower Louisiana! Those of us who did arrive early to the meeting substituted in lectures, on panels, and in discussion groups for many faculty and registrants who simply could not get to NOLA because of closed airports, train stations, and even highways. Those present got the job done, and my presidential address (Hippocrates’ Blessing or Osler’s Warning: Chest 1986;89:582) was published, thanks to Dr. Al Soffer.
I am now Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Eminent Scholar Chair in Pulmonary Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My trips to the Kirklin Clinic, which I built, are for my own health care, not to practice medicine. While I teach a bit, attend conferences, occasionally see a live patient, frequently present teleconferences and other programs about health care organization and delivery of COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] care to patients, I no longer devote 80-hour weeks to medicine as I did in the good old days. I do miss some of that. I am helping to edit a book about Tinsley Harrison. Instead, I run Annie B and Maggie B (my border collies), travel a bit by air, and fly lower in the Carrera 911 S pictured, and spend a lot of time on tennis courts practicing or playing the USTA National Senior Tennis Circuit. 2014 has not been a great year on the courts since I took some time out to trade in my aortic valve for a new one. But I am now in great condition and back on the tour. I looked forward with great anticipation to visiting with all my friends in Austin gathering to enlighten our minds and add body weight with barbecued brisket and Lone Star ale.
Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to look at what’s new in their lives.
This series, and its first segment, was introduced in the CHEST 2014 Daily News in Austin, featuring Dr. Dick Briggs, and will continue on a quarterly basis in the monthly issues of CHEST Physician. Be sure to watch for it.
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Dick D. Briggs Jr., MD, Master FCCP
President 1984-1985
I remember my presidency 30 years ago very well. After chairing the outstanding XV World Congress of Chest Diseases in Sydney, Australia, the 51st Annual ACCP Scientific Assembly in New Orleans was absolute chaos because a hurricane was doing figure-eights all week over lower Louisiana! Those of us who did arrive early to the meeting substituted in lectures, on panels, and in discussion groups for many faculty and registrants who simply could not get to NOLA because of closed airports, train stations, and even highways. Those present got the job done, and my presidential address (Hippocrates’ Blessing or Osler’s Warning: Chest 1986;89:582) was published, thanks to Dr. Al Soffer.
I am now Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Eminent Scholar Chair in Pulmonary Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My trips to the Kirklin Clinic, which I built, are for my own health care, not to practice medicine. While I teach a bit, attend conferences, occasionally see a live patient, frequently present teleconferences and other programs about health care organization and delivery of COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] care to patients, I no longer devote 80-hour weeks to medicine as I did in the good old days. I do miss some of that. I am helping to edit a book about Tinsley Harrison. Instead, I run Annie B and Maggie B (my border collies), travel a bit by air, and fly lower in the Carrera 911 S pictured, and spend a lot of time on tennis courts practicing or playing the USTA National Senior Tennis Circuit. 2014 has not been a great year on the courts since I took some time out to trade in my aortic valve for a new one. But I am now in great condition and back on the tour. I looked forward with great anticipation to visiting with all my friends in Austin gathering to enlighten our minds and add body weight with barbecued brisket and Lone Star ale.
Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to look at what’s new in their lives.
This series, and its first segment, was introduced in the CHEST 2014 Daily News in Austin, featuring Dr. Dick Briggs, and will continue on a quarterly basis in the monthly issues of CHEST Physician. Be sure to watch for it.
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Dick D. Briggs Jr., MD, Master FCCP
President 1984-1985
I remember my presidency 30 years ago very well. After chairing the outstanding XV World Congress of Chest Diseases in Sydney, Australia, the 51st Annual ACCP Scientific Assembly in New Orleans was absolute chaos because a hurricane was doing figure-eights all week over lower Louisiana! Those of us who did arrive early to the meeting substituted in lectures, on panels, and in discussion groups for many faculty and registrants who simply could not get to NOLA because of closed airports, train stations, and even highways. Those present got the job done, and my presidential address (Hippocrates’ Blessing or Osler’s Warning: Chest 1986;89:582) was published, thanks to Dr. Al Soffer.
I am now Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Eminent Scholar Chair in Pulmonary Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My trips to the Kirklin Clinic, which I built, are for my own health care, not to practice medicine. While I teach a bit, attend conferences, occasionally see a live patient, frequently present teleconferences and other programs about health care organization and delivery of COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] care to patients, I no longer devote 80-hour weeks to medicine as I did in the good old days. I do miss some of that. I am helping to edit a book about Tinsley Harrison. Instead, I run Annie B and Maggie B (my border collies), travel a bit by air, and fly lower in the Carrera 911 S pictured, and spend a lot of time on tennis courts practicing or playing the USTA National Senior Tennis Circuit. 2014 has not been a great year on the courts since I took some time out to trade in my aortic valve for a new one. But I am now in great condition and back on the tour. I looked forward with great anticipation to visiting with all my friends in Austin gathering to enlighten our minds and add body weight with barbecued brisket and Lone Star ale.