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CHEST Foundation Champions
Champion…. You ARE A CHAMPION for your patients, and as a CHEST Foundation supporter, you are a Champion for Lung Health! These words are now staples in our foundation mission. To champion lung health through clinical research and community service grants, patient education, and community service, the impact your support can have is quite profound. You are a part of an elite group to be called “champions,” and you should be celebrated for all the ways that you have championed lung health in 2017.
- YOU funded more than a half-million dollars in community service grants awarded to the next generation of CHEST leaders.
- YOU educated MILLIONS by supporting nationwide disease awareness campaigns for COPD, asthma, sarcoidosis, and lung cancer.
- YOU brought the Lung Health Experience to communities where over 1,000 people received COPD and asthma education, as well as spirometry screening.
- YOU created awareness in rare disease spaces and raised crucial support by partnering with family foundations, such as the Irv Family Foundation.
- The reach of these activities in 2017 has been astounding, and YOU, as a champion for lung health, have generated a great impact on the chest medicine community and the patients we serve.
- Now, the CHEST Foundation asks YOU to join us and support our efforts for 2018 by giving to the CHEST Foundation Annual Fund today. We ask you to help:
- Meet our fundraising goal of $700,000 for new clinical research and community service grants.
- Support NEW lung health disease awareness campaigns.
- Expand family foundation partnerships to create NEW patient resources.
- Provide NEW e-learning modules to aide patients and caregivers in managing health.
Your support today makes possible tomorrow’s advances in lung health and chest medicine. YOU believe in patient outcomes and, for that commitment, we graciously thank you. YOU save lives by supporting clinical research, patient education, and community service.
Be THE Champion for Lung Health that patients and families count on, and make an impact today. YOU can be a champion and DONATE today through a new gift to the CHEST Foundation. We cannot meet our goals for the health professionals, patients, families, and caregivers we serve without you.
Thank you for your essential continued support!
Champion…. You ARE A CHAMPION for your patients, and as a CHEST Foundation supporter, you are a Champion for Lung Health! These words are now staples in our foundation mission. To champion lung health through clinical research and community service grants, patient education, and community service, the impact your support can have is quite profound. You are a part of an elite group to be called “champions,” and you should be celebrated for all the ways that you have championed lung health in 2017.
- YOU funded more than a half-million dollars in community service grants awarded to the next generation of CHEST leaders.
- YOU educated MILLIONS by supporting nationwide disease awareness campaigns for COPD, asthma, sarcoidosis, and lung cancer.
- YOU brought the Lung Health Experience to communities where over 1,000 people received COPD and asthma education, as well as spirometry screening.
- YOU created awareness in rare disease spaces and raised crucial support by partnering with family foundations, such as the Irv Family Foundation.
- The reach of these activities in 2017 has been astounding, and YOU, as a champion for lung health, have generated a great impact on the chest medicine community and the patients we serve.
- Now, the CHEST Foundation asks YOU to join us and support our efforts for 2018 by giving to the CHEST Foundation Annual Fund today. We ask you to help:
- Meet our fundraising goal of $700,000 for new clinical research and community service grants.
- Support NEW lung health disease awareness campaigns.
- Expand family foundation partnerships to create NEW patient resources.
- Provide NEW e-learning modules to aide patients and caregivers in managing health.
Your support today makes possible tomorrow’s advances in lung health and chest medicine. YOU believe in patient outcomes and, for that commitment, we graciously thank you. YOU save lives by supporting clinical research, patient education, and community service.
Be THE Champion for Lung Health that patients and families count on, and make an impact today. YOU can be a champion and DONATE today through a new gift to the CHEST Foundation. We cannot meet our goals for the health professionals, patients, families, and caregivers we serve without you.
Thank you for your essential continued support!
Champion…. You ARE A CHAMPION for your patients, and as a CHEST Foundation supporter, you are a Champion for Lung Health! These words are now staples in our foundation mission. To champion lung health through clinical research and community service grants, patient education, and community service, the impact your support can have is quite profound. You are a part of an elite group to be called “champions,” and you should be celebrated for all the ways that you have championed lung health in 2017.
- YOU funded more than a half-million dollars in community service grants awarded to the next generation of CHEST leaders.
- YOU educated MILLIONS by supporting nationwide disease awareness campaigns for COPD, asthma, sarcoidosis, and lung cancer.
- YOU brought the Lung Health Experience to communities where over 1,000 people received COPD and asthma education, as well as spirometry screening.
- YOU created awareness in rare disease spaces and raised crucial support by partnering with family foundations, such as the Irv Family Foundation.
- The reach of these activities in 2017 has been astounding, and YOU, as a champion for lung health, have generated a great impact on the chest medicine community and the patients we serve.
- Now, the CHEST Foundation asks YOU to join us and support our efforts for 2018 by giving to the CHEST Foundation Annual Fund today. We ask you to help:
- Meet our fundraising goal of $700,000 for new clinical research and community service grants.
- Support NEW lung health disease awareness campaigns.
- Expand family foundation partnerships to create NEW patient resources.
- Provide NEW e-learning modules to aide patients and caregivers in managing health.
Your support today makes possible tomorrow’s advances in lung health and chest medicine. YOU believe in patient outcomes and, for that commitment, we graciously thank you. YOU save lives by supporting clinical research, patient education, and community service.
Be THE Champion for Lung Health that patients and families count on, and make an impact today. YOU can be a champion and DONATE today through a new gift to the CHEST Foundation. We cannot meet our goals for the health professionals, patients, families, and caregivers we serve without you.
Thank you for your essential continued support!
Urge PAs to Join New SVS Section
SVS members, please remember to urge your physician assistants -- and other PAs you know who work in a vascular setting -- to apply to become charter members of the new SVS section created for them. The first step is becoming an affiliate member of the SVS. For our new charter PA members, SVS is waiving the application fee. For more information, email [email protected] or call the SVS Membership Department at 312-334-2313.
We welcome nurses and nurse practitioners as well. Please consider becoming a part of the Society for Vascular Nursing, which makes its management home at SVS.
SVS members, please remember to urge your physician assistants -- and other PAs you know who work in a vascular setting -- to apply to become charter members of the new SVS section created for them. The first step is becoming an affiliate member of the SVS. For our new charter PA members, SVS is waiving the application fee. For more information, email [email protected] or call the SVS Membership Department at 312-334-2313.
We welcome nurses and nurse practitioners as well. Please consider becoming a part of the Society for Vascular Nursing, which makes its management home at SVS.
SVS members, please remember to urge your physician assistants -- and other PAs you know who work in a vascular setting -- to apply to become charter members of the new SVS section created for them. The first step is becoming an affiliate member of the SVS. For our new charter PA members, SVS is waiving the application fee. For more information, email [email protected] or call the SVS Membership Department at 312-334-2313.
We welcome nurses and nurse practitioners as well. Please consider becoming a part of the Society for Vascular Nursing, which makes its management home at SVS.
Apply for Wylie Scholarship
Applications are due March 2, 2018, for the Wylie Scholar Award, co-sponsored by Vascular Cures and the SVS Foundation. The three-year, $150,000 grant is awarded to a promising vascular surgeon-scientist in North America and is designed to support outstanding surgeon-scientists conducting innovative academic research in the early stages of their careers.
This year's recipient, Dr. Sean English, is conducting research on AAA. Dr. Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD, the 2015 recipient, is investigating why diabetics develop a unique lipid profile leading to PAD. For each $150,000 award, Wylie Scholars have received $3.3 million in subsequent national research funding, for a return on investment of nearly 22 to1.
Applications are due March 2, 2018, for the Wylie Scholar Award, co-sponsored by Vascular Cures and the SVS Foundation. The three-year, $150,000 grant is awarded to a promising vascular surgeon-scientist in North America and is designed to support outstanding surgeon-scientists conducting innovative academic research in the early stages of their careers.
This year's recipient, Dr. Sean English, is conducting research on AAA. Dr. Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD, the 2015 recipient, is investigating why diabetics develop a unique lipid profile leading to PAD. For each $150,000 award, Wylie Scholars have received $3.3 million in subsequent national research funding, for a return on investment of nearly 22 to1.
Applications are due March 2, 2018, for the Wylie Scholar Award, co-sponsored by Vascular Cures and the SVS Foundation. The three-year, $150,000 grant is awarded to a promising vascular surgeon-scientist in North America and is designed to support outstanding surgeon-scientists conducting innovative academic research in the early stages of their careers.
This year's recipient, Dr. Sean English, is conducting research on AAA. Dr. Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD, the 2015 recipient, is investigating why diabetics develop a unique lipid profile leading to PAD. For each $150,000 award, Wylie Scholars have received $3.3 million in subsequent national research funding, for a return on investment of nearly 22 to1.
VRIC Abstracts Now Being Accepted
Abstracts for the 2018 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference are being accepted now, through Jan. 10, 2018. VRIC will be held May 9, 2018, in San Francisco, the day before the American Heart Association’s Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Scientific Sessions. Learn more about VRIC here.
Vascular trainees may apply for a VRIC scholarship until Jan. 10, 2018. The scholarship provides complimentary registration and a $1,000 travel stipend.
Abstracts for the 2018 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference are being accepted now, through Jan. 10, 2018. VRIC will be held May 9, 2018, in San Francisco, the day before the American Heart Association’s Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Scientific Sessions. Learn more about VRIC here.
Vascular trainees may apply for a VRIC scholarship until Jan. 10, 2018. The scholarship provides complimentary registration and a $1,000 travel stipend.
Abstracts for the 2018 Vascular Research Initiatives Conference are being accepted now, through Jan. 10, 2018. VRIC will be held May 9, 2018, in San Francisco, the day before the American Heart Association’s Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Scientific Sessions. Learn more about VRIC here.
Vascular trainees may apply for a VRIC scholarship until Jan. 10, 2018. The scholarship provides complimentary registration and a $1,000 travel stipend.
Letter from the Editor
This month we learned of the passing of Dr. Marv Sleisenger. There are few physicians who have had a greater impact on our field than Dr. Sleisenger. He was a consummate gentleman, enthusiastic teacher, great mentor, authored hundreds of research papers, and edited the most famous textbook of gastroenterology. Our thoughts and hearts are with his family and friends.
I would like to highlight our liver coverage. AASLD had their annual meeting in Washington in November. My colleague at University of Michigan (Anna Lok, MD) is the current president and helped spearhead a meeting that was packed with research and clinical information. We will be covering AASLD in greater depth in the months to come.
And while initial efforts to repeal the ACA have stalled, several key parts of the ACA continue to be modified or repealed either by Executive Orders or as part of the current tax reform efforts. We continue to view these efforts through the lens of our patients’ access to care.
John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF
Editor in Chief
This month we learned of the passing of Dr. Marv Sleisenger. There are few physicians who have had a greater impact on our field than Dr. Sleisenger. He was a consummate gentleman, enthusiastic teacher, great mentor, authored hundreds of research papers, and edited the most famous textbook of gastroenterology. Our thoughts and hearts are with his family and friends.
I would like to highlight our liver coverage. AASLD had their annual meeting in Washington in November. My colleague at University of Michigan (Anna Lok, MD) is the current president and helped spearhead a meeting that was packed with research and clinical information. We will be covering AASLD in greater depth in the months to come.
And while initial efforts to repeal the ACA have stalled, several key parts of the ACA continue to be modified or repealed either by Executive Orders or as part of the current tax reform efforts. We continue to view these efforts through the lens of our patients’ access to care.
John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF
Editor in Chief
This month we learned of the passing of Dr. Marv Sleisenger. There are few physicians who have had a greater impact on our field than Dr. Sleisenger. He was a consummate gentleman, enthusiastic teacher, great mentor, authored hundreds of research papers, and edited the most famous textbook of gastroenterology. Our thoughts and hearts are with his family and friends.
I would like to highlight our liver coverage. AASLD had their annual meeting in Washington in November. My colleague at University of Michigan (Anna Lok, MD) is the current president and helped spearhead a meeting that was packed with research and clinical information. We will be covering AASLD in greater depth in the months to come.
And while initial efforts to repeal the ACA have stalled, several key parts of the ACA continue to be modified or repealed either by Executive Orders or as part of the current tax reform efforts. We continue to view these efforts through the lens of our patients’ access to care.
John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF
Editor in Chief
AGA’s investment in the future of GI
What will the practice of gastroenterology look like in 20 years? It is our hope that physicians will have an abundance of new tools and treatments to care for their patients suffering from digestive disorders.
How will we get there? New treatments and devices are the result of years of research.
A snapshot of the foundation’s impact this year is highlighted in the chart below. The AGA Research Foundation sincerely thanks all of its donors – without your gifts, this work wouldn’t be possible. Please join us in advancing GI research with a tax-deductible gift to the AGA Research Foundation at www.gastro.org/about/aga-research-foundation.
What will the practice of gastroenterology look like in 20 years? It is our hope that physicians will have an abundance of new tools and treatments to care for their patients suffering from digestive disorders.
How will we get there? New treatments and devices are the result of years of research.
A snapshot of the foundation’s impact this year is highlighted in the chart below. The AGA Research Foundation sincerely thanks all of its donors – without your gifts, this work wouldn’t be possible. Please join us in advancing GI research with a tax-deductible gift to the AGA Research Foundation at www.gastro.org/about/aga-research-foundation.
What will the practice of gastroenterology look like in 20 years? It is our hope that physicians will have an abundance of new tools and treatments to care for their patients suffering from digestive disorders.
How will we get there? New treatments and devices are the result of years of research.
A snapshot of the foundation’s impact this year is highlighted in the chart below. The AGA Research Foundation sincerely thanks all of its donors – without your gifts, this work wouldn’t be possible. Please join us in advancing GI research with a tax-deductible gift to the AGA Research Foundation at www.gastro.org/about/aga-research-foundation.
Simplify Your Life; Pay Dues Invoice Online
Don't forget that the end of the year is the time to keep up to date with your SVS membership dues. Invoices were emailed to all members earlier this month and are due by Dec. 31.
It's simple to pay your 2018 dues online -- and there's no need to write out a check or find a stamp! Just log on to vascular.org/payinvoice. (While you're at it, please make sure your record is up to date.) You also can make a donation to the SVS Foundation at the same time. For membership help, e-mail the SVS membership department, or call 312-334-2313
Don't forget that the end of the year is the time to keep up to date with your SVS membership dues. Invoices were emailed to all members earlier this month and are due by Dec. 31.
It's simple to pay your 2018 dues online -- and there's no need to write out a check or find a stamp! Just log on to vascular.org/payinvoice. (While you're at it, please make sure your record is up to date.) You also can make a donation to the SVS Foundation at the same time. For membership help, e-mail the SVS membership department, or call 312-334-2313
Don't forget that the end of the year is the time to keep up to date with your SVS membership dues. Invoices were emailed to all members earlier this month and are due by Dec. 31.
It's simple to pay your 2018 dues online -- and there's no need to write out a check or find a stamp! Just log on to vascular.org/payinvoice. (While you're at it, please make sure your record is up to date.) You also can make a donation to the SVS Foundation at the same time. For membership help, e-mail the SVS membership department, or call 312-334-2313
#Giving Tuesday is Tuesday, Nov. 28
After the turkey, after the frenzy of post-holiday shopping, do something for others by donating to the SVS Foundation on #Giving Tuesday.
This day kicks off the charitable season, when many people focus on holiday and year-end giving. The global day of giving was founded in 2012 and is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, on the heels of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days.
This year, the expanded mission of the SVS Foundation provides even more reasons to give generously. So, on #GivingTuesday, think of the patients you treat and whose lives you’ve impacted – and donate to the SVS Foundation.
After the turkey, after the frenzy of post-holiday shopping, do something for others by donating to the SVS Foundation on #Giving Tuesday.
This day kicks off the charitable season, when many people focus on holiday and year-end giving. The global day of giving was founded in 2012 and is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, on the heels of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days.
This year, the expanded mission of the SVS Foundation provides even more reasons to give generously. So, on #GivingTuesday, think of the patients you treat and whose lives you’ve impacted – and donate to the SVS Foundation.
After the turkey, after the frenzy of post-holiday shopping, do something for others by donating to the SVS Foundation on #Giving Tuesday.
This day kicks off the charitable season, when many people focus on holiday and year-end giving. The global day of giving was founded in 2012 and is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, on the heels of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days.
This year, the expanded mission of the SVS Foundation provides even more reasons to give generously. So, on #GivingTuesday, think of the patients you treat and whose lives you’ve impacted – and donate to the SVS Foundation.
It's American Diabetes Month; Download Infographic
November is American Diabetes Month – and as we know, that disease goes hand in hand (and foot) with vascular disease. SVS has created a handy pdf for your office on how to keep feet healthy despite diabetes, available here, along with a press release on the topic. Please feel free to print the infographic out and share with patients, staff and coworkers.
November is American Diabetes Month – and as we know, that disease goes hand in hand (and foot) with vascular disease. SVS has created a handy pdf for your office on how to keep feet healthy despite diabetes, available here, along with a press release on the topic. Please feel free to print the infographic out and share with patients, staff and coworkers.
November is American Diabetes Month – and as we know, that disease goes hand in hand (and foot) with vascular disease. SVS has created a handy pdf for your office on how to keep feet healthy despite diabetes, available here, along with a press release on the topic. Please feel free to print the infographic out and share with patients, staff and coworkers.
GIs should be able to prescribe the most beneficial treatments
Appealing step therapy protocols can be time consuming and burdensome for physicians and patients, and can takes months to resolve. The Restoring the Patient’s Voice Act (HR 2077), introduced by physicians Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, and Raul Ruiz, D-CA, would provide a clear and timely appeals process when a patient has been subjected to step therapy by their insurance provider.
AGA endorsed this legislation to provide patients with a clear, equitable and fair appeals process when subjected to step therapy protocols. AGA is working with patient advocacy groups, like the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, provider, and professional societies to educate members of Congress on this issue and the implications it has for patients being able to access the right treatment at the right time.
Appealing step therapy protocols can be time consuming and burdensome for physicians and patients, and can takes months to resolve. The Restoring the Patient’s Voice Act (HR 2077), introduced by physicians Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, and Raul Ruiz, D-CA, would provide a clear and timely appeals process when a patient has been subjected to step therapy by their insurance provider.
AGA endorsed this legislation to provide patients with a clear, equitable and fair appeals process when subjected to step therapy protocols. AGA is working with patient advocacy groups, like the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, provider, and professional societies to educate members of Congress on this issue and the implications it has for patients being able to access the right treatment at the right time.
Appealing step therapy protocols can be time consuming and burdensome for physicians and patients, and can takes months to resolve. The Restoring the Patient’s Voice Act (HR 2077), introduced by physicians Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, and Raul Ruiz, D-CA, would provide a clear and timely appeals process when a patient has been subjected to step therapy by their insurance provider.
AGA endorsed this legislation to provide patients with a clear, equitable and fair appeals process when subjected to step therapy protocols. AGA is working with patient advocacy groups, like the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, provider, and professional societies to educate members of Congress on this issue and the implications it has for patients being able to access the right treatment at the right time.