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CHEST 2017 offers several contests and opportunities to win great prizes! Are you ready to take home the prize?
 

CHEST Events App Game: Click Game

Rules of participation

Are you a VITweep?

Get active on Twitter, and share your latest highlights for #CHEST2017! Sitting in on an interesting session? Having a great time visiting the posters? Let us know! The most active tweeters for the day will receive a special prize!

Share your selfies!

See a selfie spot and take advantage of it! We know there’s more to your trip than lectures and keynote speakers, and we want to see it!

Throughout the convention center, you’ll find many designated areas to snap and share photos of yourself and colleagues! Be sure to find them all and share your images on Twitter or Instagram using our #CHEST2017 hashtag. We’ll choose our favorite photo of the day and reshare your pic­ture with our social media followers. Don’t miss your chance to be featured!
 

Don’t miss out on CHEST Bingo

Take advantage of one of the many opportunities in the Exhibit Hall during CHEST. Play CHEST Bingo daily, starting Monday, October 30, through Wednesday, November 1, for a chance to win a prize!

How to play:

Find your bingo card in the program guide that you will receive during registration. Get each bingo letter to spell out C-H-E-S-T as you visit each of the five sponsors’ booths. You will then have a chance to win a $75 gift certificate to the CHEST bookstore. There will be a winner drawn every night!

Win an iPad®!

This year, attendees will have the opportunity to win a refurbished iPad for playing one of our Simulation Center’s arcade style GAMEs (Games Augmenting Medical Education). Last year, we gave away 15 refurbished iPad 2s; this year, we hope to give away 30 refurbished iPad 2s!

iPads will be awarded for the following:

• One each day for the fastest time on Aspirated!
• One each day for whoever has played the most games and Virtual Patient Tours (VPTs).
• Several for playing the games Peer Pressure and Nodal Nemesis.

Please refer to the program schedule in the CHEST Events app for dates and times of the GAMEs and VPTs.

CHEST 2017 offers several contests and opportunities to win great prizes! Are you ready to take home the prize?
 

CHEST Events App Game: Click Game

Rules of participation

Are you a VITweep?

Get active on Twitter, and share your latest highlights for #CHEST2017! Sitting in on an interesting session? Having a great time visiting the posters? Let us know! The most active tweeters for the day will receive a special prize!

Share your selfies!

See a selfie spot and take advantage of it! We know there’s more to your trip than lectures and keynote speakers, and we want to see it!

Throughout the convention center, you’ll find many designated areas to snap and share photos of yourself and colleagues! Be sure to find them all and share your images on Twitter or Instagram using our #CHEST2017 hashtag. We’ll choose our favorite photo of the day and reshare your pic­ture with our social media followers. Don’t miss your chance to be featured!
 

Don’t miss out on CHEST Bingo

Take advantage of one of the many opportunities in the Exhibit Hall during CHEST. Play CHEST Bingo daily, starting Monday, October 30, through Wednesday, November 1, for a chance to win a prize!

How to play:

Find your bingo card in the program guide that you will receive during registration. Get each bingo letter to spell out C-H-E-S-T as you visit each of the five sponsors’ booths. You will then have a chance to win a $75 gift certificate to the CHEST bookstore. There will be a winner drawn every night!

Win an iPad®!

This year, attendees will have the opportunity to win a refurbished iPad for playing one of our Simulation Center’s arcade style GAMEs (Games Augmenting Medical Education). Last year, we gave away 15 refurbished iPad 2s; this year, we hope to give away 30 refurbished iPad 2s!

iPads will be awarded for the following:

• One each day for the fastest time on Aspirated!
• One each day for whoever has played the most games and Virtual Patient Tours (VPTs).
• Several for playing the games Peer Pressure and Nodal Nemesis.

Please refer to the program schedule in the CHEST Events app for dates and times of the GAMEs and VPTs.

CHEST 2017 offers several contests and opportunities to win great prizes! Are you ready to take home the prize?
 

CHEST Events App Game: Click Game

Rules of participation

Are you a VITweep?

Get active on Twitter, and share your latest highlights for #CHEST2017! Sitting in on an interesting session? Having a great time visiting the posters? Let us know! The most active tweeters for the day will receive a special prize!

Share your selfies!

See a selfie spot and take advantage of it! We know there’s more to your trip than lectures and keynote speakers, and we want to see it!

Throughout the convention center, you’ll find many designated areas to snap and share photos of yourself and colleagues! Be sure to find them all and share your images on Twitter or Instagram using our #CHEST2017 hashtag. We’ll choose our favorite photo of the day and reshare your pic­ture with our social media followers. Don’t miss your chance to be featured!
 

Don’t miss out on CHEST Bingo

Take advantage of one of the many opportunities in the Exhibit Hall during CHEST. Play CHEST Bingo daily, starting Monday, October 30, through Wednesday, November 1, for a chance to win a prize!

How to play:

Find your bingo card in the program guide that you will receive during registration. Get each bingo letter to spell out C-H-E-S-T as you visit each of the five sponsors’ booths. You will then have a chance to win a $75 gift certificate to the CHEST bookstore. There will be a winner drawn every night!

Win an iPad®!

This year, attendees will have the opportunity to win a refurbished iPad for playing one of our Simulation Center’s arcade style GAMEs (Games Augmenting Medical Education). Last year, we gave away 15 refurbished iPad 2s; this year, we hope to give away 30 refurbished iPad 2s!

iPads will be awarded for the following:

• One each day for the fastest time on Aspirated!
• One each day for whoever has played the most games and Virtual Patient Tours (VPTs).
• Several for playing the games Peer Pressure and Nodal Nemesis.

Please refer to the program schedule in the CHEST Events app for dates and times of the GAMEs and VPTs.

John Studdard, MD, FCCP, has been a member of the American College of Chest Physicians for 36 years, and, this November, he will be inaugurated as CHEST President. This will not be Dr. Studdard’s first time in a presidential role for CHEST, as he served as CHEST Foundation President in 2013 and 2014. Currently, Dr. Studdard serves as a pulmonologist at Jackson Pulmonary in Jackson, Mississippi. Being a physician and being as heavily involved with an organization as Dr. Studdard is takes a lot of prioritizing, hard work, and dedication. Get to know CHEST’s new President through this interview.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Dr. Studdard says there were four factors that inspired him to become a physician:

1. I have always loved people and working with them, and I always admired the respect that physicians received in my community.

What are some of the biggest challenges you have encountered throughout your career?

Private practice makes you gain more independence and autonomy; you have to become more agile, more efficient, and you have awfully big workloads. However, you give up the academic stimulation of being in an academic center. It is a tough discipline in the private practice of medicine to try to stay up to date. Whether going to the CHEST Annual Meeting, reading our journal CHEST, or looking at CHEST education online products, those of us in the clinical practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine are more dependent than any group on what our clinical educators write and teach.
 

How do/did you balance work and your personal life?

We are busy in practice, particularly when taking on volunteer opportunities, and that time comes out of something: time with family, hobbies, it has to come from somewhere. But it is not unique to those of us in medicine. My daughter is a 33-year-old mother to a 20-month-old beautiful granddaughter of ours and is pregnant with another child, and she and her husband both work full time. Our son and his wife also both work and must find ways to balance work/life issues. So work-life balance, particularly in today’s world, is more difficult than ever for everyone. I am blessed that my wife is the daughter of a general surgeon, and she understood a little bit about stressors in a physician’s life – sometimes she seems to understand more than others—she is a unique person. Work-life balance is all about priorities – our priority was our family. We spent a ton of time with our children, great vacations, rarely missed a program or ballgame (there were lots of them), and frequently that involved going to work early in the morning, coming home early in the evening, and going back to the hospital to finish up late at night. A lot of being a good parent is being lucky. We either did a lot of things right, or were lucky, or a combination of both, because I think our kids turned out pretty darn well.
 

What has been your favorite project throughout your involvement with CHEST?

Early in my days as a member of CHEST, a mentor of mine from training at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Doug Gracey, gave me the opportunity to join the CHEST Government Relations Committee, which he chaired. After a few years, I was given the opportunity to serve as its Chair. We became heavily involved in the tobacco wars, as some people called them. Our Attorney General in Mississippi at the time, Mike Moore, and a plaintiff’s attorney in Mississippi, Dick Scruggs, whom I knew from some work I had done from the defense side of asbestos litigation, took a lead role in the Attorney General’s Master Settlement - a group of attorney generals suing the tobacco industry (basically, state’s Medicaid was suing the tobacco industry for reimbursement of funds). It was a completely different approach. The tobacco industry turned its nose up at it at first – they did not think it had a chance to fly, but it did. CHEST got involved early on, and then a big a group of people, including Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, and many others in the public health space, got involved. CHEST represented the public health community during part of the negotiations that led to the Attorney General’s Master Settlement. We should be very proud of the role CHEST played in this critical public health effort. If I can look back at my time spent in CHEST leadership, and see it as fondly as I do when I look back at my time just being a part of our CHEST Foundation, I will feel incredibly fulfilled.
 

What made you want to be President of CHEST?

I believe it is always important to give back to the people who gave you something. CHEST has given me a ton over the last 36 years, so giving back to CHEST is easy.
 

What are you looking forward to as President of CHEST?

On a personal level, I am looking forward to what we are doing right now, meeting new people, and learning from young people.

Because of my background and upbringing, I have a passion for diversity and inclusion; I think we need to continue to talk about, learn about, care about, be open about, and be transparent about diversity of thought, inclusion, and care disparity. The word “diversity” means something different to every person, and, for that, we have to have respect.

As Dr. Studdard prepares to take on his new role in CHEST leadership this October, he is optimistic about what the future will bring and about the things that he will learn. He considers himself incredibly lucky to be in the position that he is in, and he values each relationship he has made during his involvement with CHEST. He is looking forward to all that is in store during his time as President. He left us with a quote from Wyatt Cooper:

“The only immortality we can be sure of is that part of ourselves we invest in others—the contribution we make to the totality of man, the knowledge we have shared, the truths we have found, the causes we have served, the lessons we have lived.”

John Studdard, MD, FCCP, has been a member of the American College of Chest Physicians for 36 years, and, this November, he will be inaugurated as CHEST President. This will not be Dr. Studdard’s first time in a presidential role for CHEST, as he served as CHEST Foundation President in 2013 and 2014. Currently, Dr. Studdard serves as a pulmonologist at Jackson Pulmonary in Jackson, Mississippi. Being a physician and being as heavily involved with an organization as Dr. Studdard is takes a lot of prioritizing, hard work, and dedication. Get to know CHEST’s new President through this interview.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Dr. Studdard says there were four factors that inspired him to become a physician:

1. I have always loved people and working with them, and I always admired the respect that physicians received in my community.

What are some of the biggest challenges you have encountered throughout your career?

Private practice makes you gain more independence and autonomy; you have to become more agile, more efficient, and you have awfully big workloads. However, you give up the academic stimulation of being in an academic center. It is a tough discipline in the private practice of medicine to try to stay up to date. Whether going to the CHEST Annual Meeting, reading our journal CHEST, or looking at CHEST education online products, those of us in the clinical practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine are more dependent than any group on what our clinical educators write and teach.
 

How do/did you balance work and your personal life?

We are busy in practice, particularly when taking on volunteer opportunities, and that time comes out of something: time with family, hobbies, it has to come from somewhere. But it is not unique to those of us in medicine. My daughter is a 33-year-old mother to a 20-month-old beautiful granddaughter of ours and is pregnant with another child, and she and her husband both work full time. Our son and his wife also both work and must find ways to balance work/life issues. So work-life balance, particularly in today’s world, is more difficult than ever for everyone. I am blessed that my wife is the daughter of a general surgeon, and she understood a little bit about stressors in a physician’s life – sometimes she seems to understand more than others—she is a unique person. Work-life balance is all about priorities – our priority was our family. We spent a ton of time with our children, great vacations, rarely missed a program or ballgame (there were lots of them), and frequently that involved going to work early in the morning, coming home early in the evening, and going back to the hospital to finish up late at night. A lot of being a good parent is being lucky. We either did a lot of things right, or were lucky, or a combination of both, because I think our kids turned out pretty darn well.
 

What has been your favorite project throughout your involvement with CHEST?

Early in my days as a member of CHEST, a mentor of mine from training at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Doug Gracey, gave me the opportunity to join the CHEST Government Relations Committee, which he chaired. After a few years, I was given the opportunity to serve as its Chair. We became heavily involved in the tobacco wars, as some people called them. Our Attorney General in Mississippi at the time, Mike Moore, and a plaintiff’s attorney in Mississippi, Dick Scruggs, whom I knew from some work I had done from the defense side of asbestos litigation, took a lead role in the Attorney General’s Master Settlement - a group of attorney generals suing the tobacco industry (basically, state’s Medicaid was suing the tobacco industry for reimbursement of funds). It was a completely different approach. The tobacco industry turned its nose up at it at first – they did not think it had a chance to fly, but it did. CHEST got involved early on, and then a big a group of people, including Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, and many others in the public health space, got involved. CHEST represented the public health community during part of the negotiations that led to the Attorney General’s Master Settlement. We should be very proud of the role CHEST played in this critical public health effort. If I can look back at my time spent in CHEST leadership, and see it as fondly as I do when I look back at my time just being a part of our CHEST Foundation, I will feel incredibly fulfilled.
 

What made you want to be President of CHEST?

I believe it is always important to give back to the people who gave you something. CHEST has given me a ton over the last 36 years, so giving back to CHEST is easy.
 

What are you looking forward to as President of CHEST?

On a personal level, I am looking forward to what we are doing right now, meeting new people, and learning from young people.

Because of my background and upbringing, I have a passion for diversity and inclusion; I think we need to continue to talk about, learn about, care about, be open about, and be transparent about diversity of thought, inclusion, and care disparity. The word “diversity” means something different to every person, and, for that, we have to have respect.

As Dr. Studdard prepares to take on his new role in CHEST leadership this October, he is optimistic about what the future will bring and about the things that he will learn. He considers himself incredibly lucky to be in the position that he is in, and he values each relationship he has made during his involvement with CHEST. He is looking forward to all that is in store during his time as President. He left us with a quote from Wyatt Cooper:

“The only immortality we can be sure of is that part of ourselves we invest in others—the contribution we make to the totality of man, the knowledge we have shared, the truths we have found, the causes we have served, the lessons we have lived.”

John Studdard, MD, FCCP, has been a member of the American College of Chest Physicians for 36 years, and, this November, he will be inaugurated as CHEST President. This will not be Dr. Studdard’s first time in a presidential role for CHEST, as he served as CHEST Foundation President in 2013 and 2014. Currently, Dr. Studdard serves as a pulmonologist at Jackson Pulmonary in Jackson, Mississippi. Being a physician and being as heavily involved with an organization as Dr. Studdard is takes a lot of prioritizing, hard work, and dedication. Get to know CHEST’s new President through this interview.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Dr. Studdard says there were four factors that inspired him to become a physician:

1. I have always loved people and working with them, and I always admired the respect that physicians received in my community.

What are some of the biggest challenges you have encountered throughout your career?

Private practice makes you gain more independence and autonomy; you have to become more agile, more efficient, and you have awfully big workloads. However, you give up the academic stimulation of being in an academic center. It is a tough discipline in the private practice of medicine to try to stay up to date. Whether going to the CHEST Annual Meeting, reading our journal CHEST, or looking at CHEST education online products, those of us in the clinical practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine are more dependent than any group on what our clinical educators write and teach.
 

How do/did you balance work and your personal life?

We are busy in practice, particularly when taking on volunteer opportunities, and that time comes out of something: time with family, hobbies, it has to come from somewhere. But it is not unique to those of us in medicine. My daughter is a 33-year-old mother to a 20-month-old beautiful granddaughter of ours and is pregnant with another child, and she and her husband both work full time. Our son and his wife also both work and must find ways to balance work/life issues. So work-life balance, particularly in today’s world, is more difficult than ever for everyone. I am blessed that my wife is the daughter of a general surgeon, and she understood a little bit about stressors in a physician’s life – sometimes she seems to understand more than others—she is a unique person. Work-life balance is all about priorities – our priority was our family. We spent a ton of time with our children, great vacations, rarely missed a program or ballgame (there were lots of them), and frequently that involved going to work early in the morning, coming home early in the evening, and going back to the hospital to finish up late at night. A lot of being a good parent is being lucky. We either did a lot of things right, or were lucky, or a combination of both, because I think our kids turned out pretty darn well.
 

What has been your favorite project throughout your involvement with CHEST?

Early in my days as a member of CHEST, a mentor of mine from training at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Doug Gracey, gave me the opportunity to join the CHEST Government Relations Committee, which he chaired. After a few years, I was given the opportunity to serve as its Chair. We became heavily involved in the tobacco wars, as some people called them. Our Attorney General in Mississippi at the time, Mike Moore, and a plaintiff’s attorney in Mississippi, Dick Scruggs, whom I knew from some work I had done from the defense side of asbestos litigation, took a lead role in the Attorney General’s Master Settlement - a group of attorney generals suing the tobacco industry (basically, state’s Medicaid was suing the tobacco industry for reimbursement of funds). It was a completely different approach. The tobacco industry turned its nose up at it at first – they did not think it had a chance to fly, but it did. CHEST got involved early on, and then a big a group of people, including Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, and many others in the public health space, got involved. CHEST represented the public health community during part of the negotiations that led to the Attorney General’s Master Settlement. We should be very proud of the role CHEST played in this critical public health effort. If I can look back at my time spent in CHEST leadership, and see it as fondly as I do when I look back at my time just being a part of our CHEST Foundation, I will feel incredibly fulfilled.
 

What made you want to be President of CHEST?

I believe it is always important to give back to the people who gave you something. CHEST has given me a ton over the last 36 years, so giving back to CHEST is easy.
 

What are you looking forward to as President of CHEST?

On a personal level, I am looking forward to what we are doing right now, meeting new people, and learning from young people.

Because of my background and upbringing, I have a passion for diversity and inclusion; I think we need to continue to talk about, learn about, care about, be open about, and be transparent about diversity of thought, inclusion, and care disparity. The word “diversity” means something different to every person, and, for that, we have to have respect.

As Dr. Studdard prepares to take on his new role in CHEST leadership this October, he is optimistic about what the future will bring and about the things that he will learn. He considers himself incredibly lucky to be in the position that he is in, and he values each relationship he has made during his involvement with CHEST. He is looking forward to all that is in store during his time as President. He left us with a quote from Wyatt Cooper:

“The only immortality we can be sure of is that part of ourselves we invest in others—the contribution we make to the totality of man, the knowledge we have shared, the truths we have found, the causes we have served, the lessons we have lived.”

Don’t forget how valuable the Vascular Educational and Self-Assessment Program can be in keeping with all things vascular-related. And the mobile app (Apple products only) for off-line use is expected to be available within days.

The fourth edition launched just two months ago. Besides the app, VESAP4 also offers syncing between the companion app and desktop version; expanded bookmarking and annotation, easier navigation and simplified tracking of CME/MOC certificates.

Costs are $450 for candidates, $550 for members and $650 for non-members. A total of 75 CME (7.5 for each of the 10 sections) will be available. For information, email [email protected] or call 800-258-7188. 

Don’t forget how valuable the Vascular Educational and Self-Assessment Program can be in keeping with all things vascular-related. And the mobile app (Apple products only) for off-line use is expected to be available within days.

The fourth edition launched just two months ago. Besides the app, VESAP4 also offers syncing between the companion app and desktop version; expanded bookmarking and annotation, easier navigation and simplified tracking of CME/MOC certificates.

Costs are $450 for candidates, $550 for members and $650 for non-members. A total of 75 CME (7.5 for each of the 10 sections) will be available. For information, email [email protected] or call 800-258-7188. 

Don’t forget how valuable the Vascular Educational and Self-Assessment Program can be in keeping with all things vascular-related. And the mobile app (Apple products only) for off-line use is expected to be available within days.

The fourth edition launched just two months ago. Besides the app, VESAP4 also offers syncing between the companion app and desktop version; expanded bookmarking and annotation, easier navigation and simplified tracking of CME/MOC certificates.

Costs are $450 for candidates, $550 for members and $650 for non-members. A total of 75 CME (7.5 for each of the 10 sections) will be available. For information, email [email protected] or call 800-258-7188. 

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.

Membership dues statements for 2018 were emailed to all members at the beginning of October. Members have until Dec. 31 to pay their dues, ensuring that they continue to receive all the benefits of SVS membership, including discounted registration fees for the Vascular Annual Meeting and the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference as well as educational opportunities; subscriptions to the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications; grant programs; practice resources and reporting standards. Members also get legislative access and advocacy –important as the health care field changes dramatically; branding and public relations to raise public awareness of the specialty; and more.

Visit vascular.org/invoices or call the Membership Department, 312-334-2313, to pay dues.  

Membership dues statements for 2018 were emailed to all members at the beginning of October. Members have until Dec. 31 to pay their dues, ensuring that they continue to receive all the benefits of SVS membership, including discounted registration fees for the Vascular Annual Meeting and the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference as well as educational opportunities; subscriptions to the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications; grant programs; practice resources and reporting standards. Members also get legislative access and advocacy –important as the health care field changes dramatically; branding and public relations to raise public awareness of the specialty; and more.

Visit vascular.org/invoices or call the Membership Department, 312-334-2313, to pay dues.  

Membership dues statements for 2018 were emailed to all members at the beginning of October. Members have until Dec. 31 to pay their dues, ensuring that they continue to receive all the benefits of SVS membership, including discounted registration fees for the Vascular Annual Meeting and the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference as well as educational opportunities; subscriptions to the Journal of Vascular Surgery publications; grant programs; practice resources and reporting standards. Members also get legislative access and advocacy –important as the health care field changes dramatically; branding and public relations to raise public awareness of the specialty; and more.

Visit vascular.org/invoices or call the Membership Department, 312-334-2313, to pay dues.  

Be sure to check out our ever-growing presence at CHEST 2017, showcasing the numerous ways we support CHEST members, patients, and the community. Have time for a break or interested in networking with leaders in CHEST medicine? Stop by one of our many open invitation activities listed below to learn more about how the CHEST Foundation can support you in your efforts to champion lung health through clinical research grants, community service, and patient education.
 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Open Invitation)

SUNDAY OCTOBER 29

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B



3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Foundation Session: Severe Asthma Care at Its Best: Shared Decision Making
Convention Center, 716A



4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Foundation Session: No Money, No Mission: Tips for Getting Your Grant Funded
Convention Center, 716B
 

MONDAY OCTOBER 30

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

TUESDAY OCTOBER 31

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

ADD YOUR VOICE

and champion lung health at the Actelion Booth #1322. For every addition to the graffiti wall, Actelion will donate $25 to the CHEST Foundation.
 

Thank you for your support of the CHEST Foundation and our mission of championing lung health!

Be sure to check out our ever-growing presence at CHEST 2017, showcasing the numerous ways we support CHEST members, patients, and the community. Have time for a break or interested in networking with leaders in CHEST medicine? Stop by one of our many open invitation activities listed below to learn more about how the CHEST Foundation can support you in your efforts to champion lung health through clinical research grants, community service, and patient education.
 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Open Invitation)

SUNDAY OCTOBER 29

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B



3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Foundation Session: Severe Asthma Care at Its Best: Shared Decision Making
Convention Center, 716A



4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Foundation Session: No Money, No Mission: Tips for Getting Your Grant Funded
Convention Center, 716B
 

MONDAY OCTOBER 30

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

TUESDAY OCTOBER 31

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

ADD YOUR VOICE

and champion lung health at the Actelion Booth #1322. For every addition to the graffiti wall, Actelion will donate $25 to the CHEST Foundation.
 

Thank you for your support of the CHEST Foundation and our mission of championing lung health!

Be sure to check out our ever-growing presence at CHEST 2017, showcasing the numerous ways we support CHEST members, patients, and the community. Have time for a break or interested in networking with leaders in CHEST medicine? Stop by one of our many open invitation activities listed below to learn more about how the CHEST Foundation can support you in your efforts to champion lung health through clinical research grants, community service, and patient education.
 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Open Invitation)

SUNDAY OCTOBER 29

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B



3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Foundation Session: Severe Asthma Care at Its Best: Shared Decision Making
Convention Center, 716A



4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Foundation Session: No Money, No Mission: Tips for Getting Your Grant Funded
Convention Center, 716B
 

MONDAY OCTOBER 30

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

TUESDAY OCTOBER 31

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Donor Lounge
Convention Center, 803B
 

ADD YOUR VOICE

and champion lung health at the Actelion Booth #1322. For every addition to the graffiti wall, Actelion will donate $25 to the CHEST Foundation.
 

Thank you for your support of the CHEST Foundation and our mission of championing lung health!

A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.

By Dr. M. W. Semler, et al.

Sleep Apnea and Hypertension: Are There Sex Differences? The Vitoria Sleep Cohort.

By Dr. I. Cano-Pumarega, et al.

A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.

By Dr. M. W. Semler, et al.

Sleep Apnea and Hypertension: Are There Sex Differences? The Vitoria Sleep Cohort.

By Dr. I. Cano-Pumarega, et al.

A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Ramped Position vs Sniffing Position During Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults.

By Dr. M. W. Semler, et al.

Sleep Apnea and Hypertension: Are There Sex Differences? The Vitoria Sleep Cohort.

By Dr. I. Cano-Pumarega, et al.

There will be a number of changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes of interest to pulmonary/critical care providers in January 2018. A thorough understanding of these changes is important for appropriate coding and reimbursement for the services described by these codes.

There are two changes in the CPT codes for bronchoscopy involving 31645 and 31646. CPT code 31645 describes a therapeutic bronchoscopy, eg, removal of viscous, copious or tenacious secretions from the airway. It had previously included wording that suggested it was used for abscess drainage, and this has been removed. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is repeated during the same hospital stay, then CPT code 31646 should be utilized. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is performed in the non-hospital setting and later repeated, then CPT code 31645 would be used for both procedures.

CPT code 94620 Pulmonary stress testing; simple (eg, 6-minute walk test, prolonged exercise test for bronchospasm with pre- and post-spirometry and oximetry) has been deleted and replaced by two new codes. CPT code 94617 Exercise test for bronchospasm, including pre- and postspirometry, electrocardiographic recording(s), and pulse oximetry describes the procedure used to assess for exercise-induced bronchospasm. CPT code 94618 Pulmonary stress testing (eg, 6-minute walk test), including measurement of heart rate, oximetry, and oxygen titration, when performed, describes the typical simple pulmonary stress test. After January 1, 2018, if CPT code 94620 is used, the claim will be denied. CPT code 94621 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, including measurements of minute ventilation, CO₂ production, O₂ uptake, and electrocardiographic recordings has been reworded to better describe the procedure of cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Additionally, there are numerous parentheticals appended that list the CPT codes that may not be used in conjunction with 94617, 94618, and 94621. Please refer to the 2018 CPT manual for further information on these exclusions.

There will be a number of changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes of interest to pulmonary/critical care providers in January 2018. A thorough understanding of these changes is important for appropriate coding and reimbursement for the services described by these codes.

There are two changes in the CPT codes for bronchoscopy involving 31645 and 31646. CPT code 31645 describes a therapeutic bronchoscopy, eg, removal of viscous, copious or tenacious secretions from the airway. It had previously included wording that suggested it was used for abscess drainage, and this has been removed. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is repeated during the same hospital stay, then CPT code 31646 should be utilized. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is performed in the non-hospital setting and later repeated, then CPT code 31645 would be used for both procedures.

CPT code 94620 Pulmonary stress testing; simple (eg, 6-minute walk test, prolonged exercise test for bronchospasm with pre- and post-spirometry and oximetry) has been deleted and replaced by two new codes. CPT code 94617 Exercise test for bronchospasm, including pre- and postspirometry, electrocardiographic recording(s), and pulse oximetry describes the procedure used to assess for exercise-induced bronchospasm. CPT code 94618 Pulmonary stress testing (eg, 6-minute walk test), including measurement of heart rate, oximetry, and oxygen titration, when performed, describes the typical simple pulmonary stress test. After January 1, 2018, if CPT code 94620 is used, the claim will be denied. CPT code 94621 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, including measurements of minute ventilation, CO₂ production, O₂ uptake, and electrocardiographic recordings has been reworded to better describe the procedure of cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Additionally, there are numerous parentheticals appended that list the CPT codes that may not be used in conjunction with 94617, 94618, and 94621. Please refer to the 2018 CPT manual for further information on these exclusions.

There will be a number of changes to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes of interest to pulmonary/critical care providers in January 2018. A thorough understanding of these changes is important for appropriate coding and reimbursement for the services described by these codes.

There are two changes in the CPT codes for bronchoscopy involving 31645 and 31646. CPT code 31645 describes a therapeutic bronchoscopy, eg, removal of viscous, copious or tenacious secretions from the airway. It had previously included wording that suggested it was used for abscess drainage, and this has been removed. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is repeated during the same hospital stay, then CPT code 31646 should be utilized. If a therapeutic bronchoscopy procedure is performed in the non-hospital setting and later repeated, then CPT code 31645 would be used for both procedures.

CPT code 94620 Pulmonary stress testing; simple (eg, 6-minute walk test, prolonged exercise test for bronchospasm with pre- and post-spirometry and oximetry) has been deleted and replaced by two new codes. CPT code 94617 Exercise test for bronchospasm, including pre- and postspirometry, electrocardiographic recording(s), and pulse oximetry describes the procedure used to assess for exercise-induced bronchospasm. CPT code 94618 Pulmonary stress testing (eg, 6-minute walk test), including measurement of heart rate, oximetry, and oxygen titration, when performed, describes the typical simple pulmonary stress test. After January 1, 2018, if CPT code 94620 is used, the claim will be denied. CPT code 94621 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, including measurements of minute ventilation, CO₂ production, O₂ uptake, and electrocardiographic recordings has been reworded to better describe the procedure of cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Additionally, there are numerous parentheticals appended that list the CPT codes that may not be used in conjunction with 94617, 94618, and 94621. Please refer to the 2018 CPT manual for further information on these exclusions.

Don't let the federal government keep money -- in the form of Medicare reimbursements -- to which you are entitled!

Learn all about coding and reimbursement, from the essentials to modifiers to future initiatives, at the SVS Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, Oct. 13-14, in Chicago. Cost is $880 for an SVS member or staff, $955 for a non-member and $250 for residents and trainees. Cost for an optional session is $100 for an SVS member or staff, $215 for a non-member and $50 for residents and trainees.

Learn more, register and access the full agenda here.

Don't let the federal government keep money -- in the form of Medicare reimbursements -- to which you are entitled!

Learn all about coding and reimbursement, from the essentials to modifiers to future initiatives, at the SVS Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, Oct. 13-14, in Chicago. Cost is $880 for an SVS member or staff, $955 for a non-member and $250 for residents and trainees. Cost for an optional session is $100 for an SVS member or staff, $215 for a non-member and $50 for residents and trainees.

Learn more, register and access the full agenda here.

Don't let the federal government keep money -- in the form of Medicare reimbursements -- to which you are entitled!

Learn all about coding and reimbursement, from the essentials to modifiers to future initiatives, at the SVS Coding and Reimbursement Workshop, Oct. 13-14, in Chicago. Cost is $880 for an SVS member or staff, $955 for a non-member and $250 for residents and trainees. Cost for an optional session is $100 for an SVS member or staff, $215 for a non-member and $50 for residents and trainees.

Learn more, register and access the full agenda here.

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.

The SVS Foundation highlights innovation and the connection between research bench and patient bedside in its just-published 2017 Annual Report, now available online.

Read about the Foundation’s expanded mission, emphasizing disease prevent and patient education along with the core commitment to fund basic and clinical research. Read why Michael C. Dalsing, MD, gives and how Ulka Sachdev, MD, has utilized her Foundation awards to try to unlock the suffering caused by chronic venous insufficiency. Read about this year’s grant recipients, Foundation financial details, lists of donors to not only the Foundation but also the new Alexander Clowes Lecture Fund, award opportunities and how every gift helps. Read, and donate today.