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1st Place

Ohio State University

Elie Homsy, MD

Rachel Quaney, MD

Ryan Story, MD

Program Director: Jennifer McCallister, MD, FCCP
 

2nd Place

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Jeannette Collins, MD

Ian Grasso, MD

Arthur Holtzcalw, MD

Program Director: Aaron Holley, MD, FCCP


3rd Place

Maimonides Medical Center

Sushil Gupta, MBBS

Ankur Sinha, MD

Vignesh Ponnusamy, MD

Program Directors: Yizhek Kupfer, MD, and Stephan Kamholz, MD, FCCP

1st Place

Ohio State University

Elie Homsy, MD

Rachel Quaney, MD

Ryan Story, MD

Program Director: Jennifer McCallister, MD, FCCP
 

2nd Place

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Jeannette Collins, MD

Ian Grasso, MD

Arthur Holtzcalw, MD

Program Director: Aaron Holley, MD, FCCP


3rd Place

Maimonides Medical Center

Sushil Gupta, MBBS

Ankur Sinha, MD

Vignesh Ponnusamy, MD

Program Directors: Yizhek Kupfer, MD, and Stephan Kamholz, MD, FCCP

1st Place

Ohio State University

Elie Homsy, MD

Rachel Quaney, MD

Ryan Story, MD

Program Director: Jennifer McCallister, MD, FCCP
 

2nd Place

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Jeannette Collins, MD

Ian Grasso, MD

Arthur Holtzcalw, MD

Program Director: Aaron Holley, MD, FCCP


3rd Place

Maimonides Medical Center

Sushil Gupta, MBBS

Ankur Sinha, MD

Vignesh Ponnusamy, MD

Program Directors: Yizhek Kupfer, MD, and Stephan Kamholz, MD, FCCP

At CHEST 2019 in New Orleans, the CHEST Foundation was pleased to formally welcome to its Board of Trustees new CHEST President Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP, and Executive Committee Chair of the Council of Global Governors, Sai Haranath, MBBS, MPH, FCCP – who were appointed to their positions – as well as Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP; Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCP; and Jill Popovich – who were elected to their positions. Guided by life-changing experiences with public service, memories of loved ones struggling with lung disease, and a pure and overwhelming desire to help the most vulnerable populations around the world acquire the resources they need to survive, the new CHEST Foundation Board members understand enhancing the CHEST Foundation’s impact on global health over the coming years to be their greatest shared priority.

At CHEST 2019 in New Orleans, the CHEST Foundation was pleased to formally welcome to its Board of Trustees new CHEST President Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP, and Executive Committee Chair of the Council of Global Governors, Sai Haranath, MBBS, MPH, FCCP – who were appointed to their positions – as well as Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP; Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCP; and Jill Popovich – who were elected to their positions. Guided by life-changing experiences with public service, memories of loved ones struggling with lung disease, and a pure and overwhelming desire to help the most vulnerable populations around the world acquire the resources they need to survive, the new CHEST Foundation Board members understand enhancing the CHEST Foundation’s impact on global health over the coming years to be their greatest shared priority.

At CHEST 2019 in New Orleans, the CHEST Foundation was pleased to formally welcome to its Board of Trustees new CHEST President Stephanie Levine, MD, FCCP, and Executive Committee Chair of the Council of Global Governors, Sai Haranath, MBBS, MPH, FCCP – who were appointed to their positions – as well as Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP; Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCP; and Jill Popovich – who were elected to their positions. Guided by life-changing experiences with public service, memories of loved ones struggling with lung disease, and a pure and overwhelming desire to help the most vulnerable populations around the world acquire the resources they need to survive, the new CHEST Foundation Board members understand enhancing the CHEST Foundation’s impact on global health over the coming years to be their greatest shared priority.

CHEST 2019 marked the inaugural FISH Bowl competition for attendees. Inspired by Shark Tank, our kinder, gentler, yet still competitive and cutting-edge FISH Bowl (Furthering Innovation and Science for Health) featured CHEST members disrupting our beliefs about how clinical care and education are performed. As health-care providers, they presented innovative ideas pertaining to education and clinical disease for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Six finalists were chosen from dozens of submissions, and three emerged winners! In this limited series, we introduce you to several of them - beginning with finalist Dr. Ernest Chan.

Name: Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Institutional Affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Position: PGY-4 Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident

Brief Summary of Submission:

My innovative idea for the CHEST FISH Bowl Competition 2019 was a device that monitors the use of the incentive spirometry, as well as makes its use interactive with a postoperative surgical patient. Our device would have several modules that monitor the frequency, volume, and quality of each breath. All of the information will be sent to the electronic medical records, so patients can get feedback from the surgical team in real time. There will also be programmable alarms so that we can create unique treatment plans personalized to each patient. All of these functions will ultimately allow us as physicians to study this incentive spirometry better.


1. What inspired your innovation?

What inspired my innovation is the world we live in today. Everything is automated from your toaster oven to self-driving cars. This automation allows for improved adherence and minimization of confounding variables.


2. Who do you think can benefit most from it, and why?

I think the people who would benefit most are the patients. When you are at your most vulnerable state after surgery, it is important to feel like someone is looking after you. Right now with incentive spirometry, you are given the device, someone tells you how to use it one time, and you are supposed to use it correctly. With our device, not only are you constantly reminded of using the device, as well as using correctly, the medical team is being fed these data to ensure what you are doing maximizes the benefits.


3. What do you see as challenges to your innovation gaining widespread acceptance? How can they be overcome?

I think the initial challenge will be the acceptance in spending more money. Physiologically and scientifically, the use of the incentive spirometry should help decrease postoperative pulmonary complications, but the current data are controversial, at best. I think that if we can show improvement in these postoperative complications, taking on extra upfront cost in investing in our device will ultimately pay off in the end.


4. Why was it meaningful for you to emerge as a finalist in FISH Bowl 2019?

I believe CHEST to be one of if not the most premiere medical organizations in the world. To become a finalist in the inaugural FISH Bowl Competition is a complete honor. Throughout every CHEST annual conference, there is innovation in every corner and every presentation. I hope that becoming a finalist at the FISH Bowl competition is just the first in my participation with CHEST.


5. What future do you envision for your innovation beyond FISH Bowl 2019?

I hope that my innovation will inspire young thinkers to look at any medical device/procedure/protocol and say, “How can I apply technology to this to make this better/safer/more efficient?” Because the future generations are exposed at the youngest of ages to technology that is exponentially getting better each day, they will be the ones to come up with the greatest of ideas.

CHEST 2019 marked the inaugural FISH Bowl competition for attendees. Inspired by Shark Tank, our kinder, gentler, yet still competitive and cutting-edge FISH Bowl (Furthering Innovation and Science for Health) featured CHEST members disrupting our beliefs about how clinical care and education are performed. As health-care providers, they presented innovative ideas pertaining to education and clinical disease for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Six finalists were chosen from dozens of submissions, and three emerged winners! In this limited series, we introduce you to several of them - beginning with finalist Dr. Ernest Chan.

Name: Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Institutional Affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Position: PGY-4 Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident

Brief Summary of Submission:

My innovative idea for the CHEST FISH Bowl Competition 2019 was a device that monitors the use of the incentive spirometry, as well as makes its use interactive with a postoperative surgical patient. Our device would have several modules that monitor the frequency, volume, and quality of each breath. All of the information will be sent to the electronic medical records, so patients can get feedback from the surgical team in real time. There will also be programmable alarms so that we can create unique treatment plans personalized to each patient. All of these functions will ultimately allow us as physicians to study this incentive spirometry better.


1. What inspired your innovation?

What inspired my innovation is the world we live in today. Everything is automated from your toaster oven to self-driving cars. This automation allows for improved adherence and minimization of confounding variables.


2. Who do you think can benefit most from it, and why?

I think the people who would benefit most are the patients. When you are at your most vulnerable state after surgery, it is important to feel like someone is looking after you. Right now with incentive spirometry, you are given the device, someone tells you how to use it one time, and you are supposed to use it correctly. With our device, not only are you constantly reminded of using the device, as well as using correctly, the medical team is being fed these data to ensure what you are doing maximizes the benefits.


3. What do you see as challenges to your innovation gaining widespread acceptance? How can they be overcome?

I think the initial challenge will be the acceptance in spending more money. Physiologically and scientifically, the use of the incentive spirometry should help decrease postoperative pulmonary complications, but the current data are controversial, at best. I think that if we can show improvement in these postoperative complications, taking on extra upfront cost in investing in our device will ultimately pay off in the end.


4. Why was it meaningful for you to emerge as a finalist in FISH Bowl 2019?

I believe CHEST to be one of if not the most premiere medical organizations in the world. To become a finalist in the inaugural FISH Bowl Competition is a complete honor. Throughout every CHEST annual conference, there is innovation in every corner and every presentation. I hope that becoming a finalist at the FISH Bowl competition is just the first in my participation with CHEST.


5. What future do you envision for your innovation beyond FISH Bowl 2019?

I hope that my innovation will inspire young thinkers to look at any medical device/procedure/protocol and say, “How can I apply technology to this to make this better/safer/more efficient?” Because the future generations are exposed at the youngest of ages to technology that is exponentially getting better each day, they will be the ones to come up with the greatest of ideas.

CHEST 2019 marked the inaugural FISH Bowl competition for attendees. Inspired by Shark Tank, our kinder, gentler, yet still competitive and cutting-edge FISH Bowl (Furthering Innovation and Science for Health) featured CHEST members disrupting our beliefs about how clinical care and education are performed. As health-care providers, they presented innovative ideas pertaining to education and clinical disease for pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Six finalists were chosen from dozens of submissions, and three emerged winners! In this limited series, we introduce you to several of them - beginning with finalist Dr. Ernest Chan.

Name: Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Institutional Affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Position: PGY-4 Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident

Brief Summary of Submission:

My innovative idea for the CHEST FISH Bowl Competition 2019 was a device that monitors the use of the incentive spirometry, as well as makes its use interactive with a postoperative surgical patient. Our device would have several modules that monitor the frequency, volume, and quality of each breath. All of the information will be sent to the electronic medical records, so patients can get feedback from the surgical team in real time. There will also be programmable alarms so that we can create unique treatment plans personalized to each patient. All of these functions will ultimately allow us as physicians to study this incentive spirometry better.


1. What inspired your innovation?

What inspired my innovation is the world we live in today. Everything is automated from your toaster oven to self-driving cars. This automation allows for improved adherence and minimization of confounding variables.


2. Who do you think can benefit most from it, and why?

I think the people who would benefit most are the patients. When you are at your most vulnerable state after surgery, it is important to feel like someone is looking after you. Right now with incentive spirometry, you are given the device, someone tells you how to use it one time, and you are supposed to use it correctly. With our device, not only are you constantly reminded of using the device, as well as using correctly, the medical team is being fed these data to ensure what you are doing maximizes the benefits.


3. What do you see as challenges to your innovation gaining widespread acceptance? How can they be overcome?

I think the initial challenge will be the acceptance in spending more money. Physiologically and scientifically, the use of the incentive spirometry should help decrease postoperative pulmonary complications, but the current data are controversial, at best. I think that if we can show improvement in these postoperative complications, taking on extra upfront cost in investing in our device will ultimately pay off in the end.


4. Why was it meaningful for you to emerge as a finalist in FISH Bowl 2019?

I believe CHEST to be one of if not the most premiere medical organizations in the world. To become a finalist in the inaugural FISH Bowl Competition is a complete honor. Throughout every CHEST annual conference, there is innovation in every corner and every presentation. I hope that becoming a finalist at the FISH Bowl competition is just the first in my participation with CHEST.


5. What future do you envision for your innovation beyond FISH Bowl 2019?

I hope that my innovation will inspire young thinkers to look at any medical device/procedure/protocol and say, “How can I apply technology to this to make this better/safer/more efficient?” Because the future generations are exposed at the youngest of ages to technology that is exponentially getting better each day, they will be the ones to come up with the greatest of ideas.

Nine dimensions of wellness help nurses set self-care goals, seek resources, and support others.

Since nursing is a high-stress profession, it’s important to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in yourself or your fellow nurses.

“Nurses and PTSD: Combine Professional Care With Self-Care,” in American Nurse Today notes that one in four nurses will experience PTSD at some point. Symptoms can include agitation, irritability, self-destructive behavior, social isolation, fear, loneliness, and severe anxiety.

Nurse leaders can support their staff by seeking resources, advocating for assistance, and engaging with them. “When you listen, encourage, and support them, you develop trust, which can go a long way toward getting them the help they need,” the article adds.

Within the article is a link to “Wellness 101,” a self-care series that details nine dimensions of wellness to help nurses set goals for the well-being of themselves and others. “Wellness 101: 9 dimensions of wellness,” an introductory article in the series, summarizes each type of wellness:

Physical: Exercise, eat healthy, reduce stress, address medical issues and maintain healthy practices every day.

Emotional: Cognitive behavioral skills and mindfulness can relieve stress and anxiety.

Financial: Plan well and control spending to change how you feel.

Intellectual: Learn a new skill or concept, understand different viewpoints or exercise your mind with puzzles and games.

Career: Engage in work that provides satisfaction and matches your values.

Social: Build a support network based on mutual respect and trust among friends, family and co-workers.

Creative: Doodle, dance or sing without worrying about whether you’re doing it well.

Environmental: Appreciate your responsibility to preserve and protect the environment and connect to nature.

Spiritual: Be open to quiet self-reflection, reading and dialogue. Explore your beliefs and respect those of others.
 

Nine dimensions of wellness help nurses set self-care goals, seek resources, and support others.

Since nursing is a high-stress profession, it’s important to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in yourself or your fellow nurses.

“Nurses and PTSD: Combine Professional Care With Self-Care,” in American Nurse Today notes that one in four nurses will experience PTSD at some point. Symptoms can include agitation, irritability, self-destructive behavior, social isolation, fear, loneliness, and severe anxiety.

Nurse leaders can support their staff by seeking resources, advocating for assistance, and engaging with them. “When you listen, encourage, and support them, you develop trust, which can go a long way toward getting them the help they need,” the article adds.

Within the article is a link to “Wellness 101,” a self-care series that details nine dimensions of wellness to help nurses set goals for the well-being of themselves and others. “Wellness 101: 9 dimensions of wellness,” an introductory article in the series, summarizes each type of wellness:

Physical: Exercise, eat healthy, reduce stress, address medical issues and maintain healthy practices every day.

Emotional: Cognitive behavioral skills and mindfulness can relieve stress and anxiety.

Financial: Plan well and control spending to change how you feel.

Intellectual: Learn a new skill or concept, understand different viewpoints or exercise your mind with puzzles and games.

Career: Engage in work that provides satisfaction and matches your values.

Social: Build a support network based on mutual respect and trust among friends, family and co-workers.

Creative: Doodle, dance or sing without worrying about whether you’re doing it well.

Environmental: Appreciate your responsibility to preserve and protect the environment and connect to nature.

Spiritual: Be open to quiet self-reflection, reading and dialogue. Explore your beliefs and respect those of others.
 

Nine dimensions of wellness help nurses set self-care goals, seek resources, and support others.

Since nursing is a high-stress profession, it’s important to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in yourself or your fellow nurses.

“Nurses and PTSD: Combine Professional Care With Self-Care,” in American Nurse Today notes that one in four nurses will experience PTSD at some point. Symptoms can include agitation, irritability, self-destructive behavior, social isolation, fear, loneliness, and severe anxiety.

Nurse leaders can support their staff by seeking resources, advocating for assistance, and engaging with them. “When you listen, encourage, and support them, you develop trust, which can go a long way toward getting them the help they need,” the article adds.

Within the article is a link to “Wellness 101,” a self-care series that details nine dimensions of wellness to help nurses set goals for the well-being of themselves and others. “Wellness 101: 9 dimensions of wellness,” an introductory article in the series, summarizes each type of wellness:

Physical: Exercise, eat healthy, reduce stress, address medical issues and maintain healthy practices every day.

Emotional: Cognitive behavioral skills and mindfulness can relieve stress and anxiety.

Financial: Plan well and control spending to change how you feel.

Intellectual: Learn a new skill or concept, understand different viewpoints or exercise your mind with puzzles and games.

Career: Engage in work that provides satisfaction and matches your values.

Social: Build a support network based on mutual respect and trust among friends, family and co-workers.

Creative: Doodle, dance or sing without worrying about whether you’re doing it well.

Environmental: Appreciate your responsibility to preserve and protect the environment and connect to nature.

Spiritual: Be open to quiet self-reflection, reading and dialogue. Explore your beliefs and respect those of others.
 

Editorials
Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle Ratio at CTPA Predicts Mortality in Interstitial Lung Disease
By Dr. S. Gaine, et al.

Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Step Forward
By Dr. P. Le Conte, et al.

Original research
The Burden of Substance Abuse-Related Admissions to the Medical ICU
By Dr. D. Westerhausen, et al.

Accuracy of Several Lung Ultrasound Methods for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Prospective Study
By Dr. T. Choulhed, et al.

Editorials
Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle Ratio at CTPA Predicts Mortality in Interstitial Lung Disease
By Dr. S. Gaine, et al.

Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Step Forward
By Dr. P. Le Conte, et al.

Original research
The Burden of Substance Abuse-Related Admissions to the Medical ICU
By Dr. D. Westerhausen, et al.

Accuracy of Several Lung Ultrasound Methods for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Prospective Study
By Dr. T. Choulhed, et al.

Editorials
Right Ventricle to Left Ventricle Ratio at CTPA Predicts Mortality in Interstitial Lung Disease
By Dr. S. Gaine, et al.

Lung Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Step Forward
By Dr. P. Le Conte, et al.

Original research
The Burden of Substance Abuse-Related Admissions to the Medical ICU
By Dr. D. Westerhausen, et al.

Accuracy of Several Lung Ultrasound Methods for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Prospective Study
By Dr. T. Choulhed, et al.

Alfred Soffer Research Award Winners
Johnathan Chung: EVALUATING CLINICAL UTILITY OF A UIP GENOMIC CLASSIFIER IN SUBJECTS WITH AND WITHOUT A HRCT PATTERN OF UIP
Girish Nair, MD: QUANTITATIVE LUNG FUNCTION IMAGING USING NOVEL INTEGRATED JACOBIAN VENTILATION METHOD IN A HEALTHY COHORT WITH NO RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS

Young Investigator Award Winners
Marvi Bikak, MD: APPLICATION OF MARKOV MODELING TO ASSESS OUTCOMES IN COPD
Arunima Bera, MD: SOLUBLE INTRACELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1 (ICAM-1) PREDICTS MORTALITY IN CHILDREN WITH ARDS AND SEPSIS

Top Abstract Poster
Winner: Rachel Naramore: CAUSES OF MORTALITY POST SINGLE VS DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR COPD
Runner-up: Arjun Srinivasan: FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY OF DAY CARE THORACOSCOPY FOR UNDIAGNOSED EXUDATIVE PLEURAL EFFUSIONS

Case Report Slide Winners
Catherine A. Gao, MD: NOCARDIA ABSCESS AND PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS MASQUERADING AS LUNG CANCER WITH LYMPHANGITIC SPREAD IN A 57-YO PATIENT WITH 80 PY SMOKING HISTORY, in Fellows session - Interesting Presentations of Infectious Diseases

Sangita Goel, MD: SUCCESSFUL SINGLE LUNG TRANSPLANT OF A HEPATITIS C POSITIVE DONOR TO AN HIV SEROPOSITIVE RECIPIENT WITH PULMONARY FIBROSIS, in Fellows session, – Pulmonary Pathology

Matthew Lyons, MD: FAMILIAL PULMONARY FIBROSIS SECONDARY TO SHORT TELOMERE SYNDROME, in Medical Student/Resident session – Diffuse Lung Disease

Sarika Savajiyani, DO: MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY HYPERFIBRINOLYSIS IN EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION AS IDENTIFIED BY THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY, in Fellows session – Clinical Conundrums in ECMO

Chase A. Baxter, DO: POLYBIOPSY FULMINANS: PULMONARY LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology

Jason Low, MBBS: THE HURRICANE EFFECT: AN UNUSUAL PHENOMENON IN THE PULMONARY ARTERY, in Fellows session – Bronchoscopic Procedures

Jacob Hupp, MD: ECMO-RELATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA: A CASE SERIES ILLUSTRATING THE ROLE OF PLASMAPHERESIS IN MANAGEMENT, in Fellows session – Plasmapheresis to the Rescue

Nichole A. Smith, MD: BILATERAL CHYLOTHORAX SECONDARY TO SPONTANEOUS THORACIC DUCT ANEURYSM, in Fellows session – Disorders of the Pleura

Ritu Modi, MD: A FLORIST’S OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE, in Fellows session – Chest Infections: Find the Fungus

Ly Tran, DO: A RARE CASE OF PARANEOPLASTIC EDEMATOUS DERMATOMYOSITIS ASSOCIATED WITH SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Unusual Presentations

Abdelhamid Ben Selma, MD: PRIMARY SYNOVIAL SARCOMA OF THE LUNG COMPLICATED WITH POST BIOPSY TUMOR SPREAD TO THE TRACHEAL WALL, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology II

Dhaval Thakkar, MD: A CURIOUS MANIFESTATION OF SARCOIDOSIS, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Isaac N. Biney, MBChB: ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE RIGHT ATRIAL THROMBUS MANAGED BY SUCTION THROMBECTOMY, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Tie: José Antonio J. Meade Aguilar: CROSSFIT TRAINING-RELATED SPONTANEOUS DIAPHRAGMATIC RUPTURE: A CASE REPORT and Abigayle R. Sullivan, DO: A RARE CASE OF CULTURE-NEGATIVE WHIPPLE’S ENDOCARDITIS, in Medical Student/Resident session - Cardiovascular Cases

Yameena T. Jawed: BLUE INSIDE AND OUT: A NOVEL CASE OF HYPOTHERMIC SHOCK SALVAGED BY METHYLENE BLUE, in Fellows session – Unusual Cases and Treatments in the ICU

Rahul Dasgupta, MD: SUPERIOR VENA CAVA (SVC) –TRACHEAL FISTULA: AN UNUSUAL CASE OF HEMOPTYSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Expect the Unexpected

Akshay Bhatnagar, MD: A CASE OF CLINICALLY AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS-RELATED INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE DUE TO ANTI-MDA5 ANTIBODY AND HEPATITIS B INFECTION, in Fellows session – Diffuse Lung Diseases

Kathleen Twomey, MD: A CASE OF RECURRENT ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A GASTRIC BYPASS PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Complications

Jennifer Sunny, DO: MASSIVE BEE ENVENOMATION TREATED BY PLASMAPHERESIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Devices

Hafiz B. Mahboob, MD: PAZOPANIB ASSOCIATED SECONDARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX: NATURAL DISEASE PROGRESSION OR DRUG SAFETY CONCERN? in Fellows session – Lung Cancer

Tie: Andrew DeMaio, MD, A CASE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND PERSISTENT INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION AND HEMORRHAGE: TB OR NOT TB? and Joanna M. Scoon: ATTACK OF THE WILD BOARS, in Fellows session – Chest Infections

Danielle El Haddad, MD: A RIGHT TO LEFT EXTRACARDIAC SHUNT FROM A CHRONIC SUPERIOR VENA CAVA THROMBUS IN A PROTHROMBOTIC PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

John Shumar, DO: MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT: A RARE CASE OF OSSEOUS SARCOIDOSIS PRESENTING TWENTY YEARS AFTER INITIAL DIAGNOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease


Case Report Poster Winners
Jad Sargi, MD: ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME (PRES SYNDROME)

Ankur Sinha, MBBS: LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES BRAIN ABSCESS IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT ADULT

Carla Emille D. Barbon, MD: GIANT PRIMARY LIPOSARCOMA OF THE PLEURA RESECTED THROUGH HEMI-CLAMSHELL THORACOTOMY

Hope F. Johnson, RRT: BRONCHOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF EARLY AND LATE PRESENTATION OF IRON PILL ASPIRATION

Humna Abid Memon, MD: AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A POSSIBLE TREATMENT FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN POEMS SYNDROME

Jordanna Hostler, MD, FCCP: BEYOND STEROIDS: MEPOLIZUMAB FOR CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA

Zahra Zia, MD, MBBS: EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) FOR EMERGENT SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ANAEROBIC PURULENT PERICARDITIS CAUSING CARDIAC TAMPONADE, BRONCHOMEDIASTINAL FISTULA, AND ARDS

Brooke A. McDonald: FATAL CENTRAL PULMONARY CEMENT EMBOLISM AFTER KYPHOPLASTY

Mary E. Richert, MD: A CASE OF RASBURICASE-INDUCED METHEMOGLOBINEMIA DUE TO GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY TREATED WITH HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY

Shiva M. Arjun, MD: AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA DUE TO GRAFT FAILURE: A RARE CAUSE OF HEMOPTYSIS

Harshwant Grover, MD: BLACK MEDIASTINUM: PRIMARY MEDIASTINAL MELANOMA

Neha Agarwal, MD: POSTTRANSPLANT PULMONARY KAPOSI SARCOMA PRESENTING AS CHYLOTHORAX

Alfred Soffer Research Award Winners
Johnathan Chung: EVALUATING CLINICAL UTILITY OF A UIP GENOMIC CLASSIFIER IN SUBJECTS WITH AND WITHOUT A HRCT PATTERN OF UIP
Girish Nair, MD: QUANTITATIVE LUNG FUNCTION IMAGING USING NOVEL INTEGRATED JACOBIAN VENTILATION METHOD IN A HEALTHY COHORT WITH NO RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS

Young Investigator Award Winners
Marvi Bikak, MD: APPLICATION OF MARKOV MODELING TO ASSESS OUTCOMES IN COPD
Arunima Bera, MD: SOLUBLE INTRACELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1 (ICAM-1) PREDICTS MORTALITY IN CHILDREN WITH ARDS AND SEPSIS

Top Abstract Poster
Winner: Rachel Naramore: CAUSES OF MORTALITY POST SINGLE VS DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR COPD
Runner-up: Arjun Srinivasan: FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY OF DAY CARE THORACOSCOPY FOR UNDIAGNOSED EXUDATIVE PLEURAL EFFUSIONS

Case Report Slide Winners
Catherine A. Gao, MD: NOCARDIA ABSCESS AND PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS MASQUERADING AS LUNG CANCER WITH LYMPHANGITIC SPREAD IN A 57-YO PATIENT WITH 80 PY SMOKING HISTORY, in Fellows session - Interesting Presentations of Infectious Diseases

Sangita Goel, MD: SUCCESSFUL SINGLE LUNG TRANSPLANT OF A HEPATITIS C POSITIVE DONOR TO AN HIV SEROPOSITIVE RECIPIENT WITH PULMONARY FIBROSIS, in Fellows session, – Pulmonary Pathology

Matthew Lyons, MD: FAMILIAL PULMONARY FIBROSIS SECONDARY TO SHORT TELOMERE SYNDROME, in Medical Student/Resident session – Diffuse Lung Disease

Sarika Savajiyani, DO: MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY HYPERFIBRINOLYSIS IN EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION AS IDENTIFIED BY THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY, in Fellows session – Clinical Conundrums in ECMO

Chase A. Baxter, DO: POLYBIOPSY FULMINANS: PULMONARY LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology

Jason Low, MBBS: THE HURRICANE EFFECT: AN UNUSUAL PHENOMENON IN THE PULMONARY ARTERY, in Fellows session – Bronchoscopic Procedures

Jacob Hupp, MD: ECMO-RELATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA: A CASE SERIES ILLUSTRATING THE ROLE OF PLASMAPHERESIS IN MANAGEMENT, in Fellows session – Plasmapheresis to the Rescue

Nichole A. Smith, MD: BILATERAL CHYLOTHORAX SECONDARY TO SPONTANEOUS THORACIC DUCT ANEURYSM, in Fellows session – Disorders of the Pleura

Ritu Modi, MD: A FLORIST’S OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE, in Fellows session – Chest Infections: Find the Fungus

Ly Tran, DO: A RARE CASE OF PARANEOPLASTIC EDEMATOUS DERMATOMYOSITIS ASSOCIATED WITH SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Unusual Presentations

Abdelhamid Ben Selma, MD: PRIMARY SYNOVIAL SARCOMA OF THE LUNG COMPLICATED WITH POST BIOPSY TUMOR SPREAD TO THE TRACHEAL WALL, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology II

Dhaval Thakkar, MD: A CURIOUS MANIFESTATION OF SARCOIDOSIS, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Isaac N. Biney, MBChB: ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE RIGHT ATRIAL THROMBUS MANAGED BY SUCTION THROMBECTOMY, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Tie: José Antonio J. Meade Aguilar: CROSSFIT TRAINING-RELATED SPONTANEOUS DIAPHRAGMATIC RUPTURE: A CASE REPORT and Abigayle R. Sullivan, DO: A RARE CASE OF CULTURE-NEGATIVE WHIPPLE’S ENDOCARDITIS, in Medical Student/Resident session - Cardiovascular Cases

Yameena T. Jawed: BLUE INSIDE AND OUT: A NOVEL CASE OF HYPOTHERMIC SHOCK SALVAGED BY METHYLENE BLUE, in Fellows session – Unusual Cases and Treatments in the ICU

Rahul Dasgupta, MD: SUPERIOR VENA CAVA (SVC) –TRACHEAL FISTULA: AN UNUSUAL CASE OF HEMOPTYSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Expect the Unexpected

Akshay Bhatnagar, MD: A CASE OF CLINICALLY AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS-RELATED INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE DUE TO ANTI-MDA5 ANTIBODY AND HEPATITIS B INFECTION, in Fellows session – Diffuse Lung Diseases

Kathleen Twomey, MD: A CASE OF RECURRENT ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A GASTRIC BYPASS PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Complications

Jennifer Sunny, DO: MASSIVE BEE ENVENOMATION TREATED BY PLASMAPHERESIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Devices

Hafiz B. Mahboob, MD: PAZOPANIB ASSOCIATED SECONDARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX: NATURAL DISEASE PROGRESSION OR DRUG SAFETY CONCERN? in Fellows session – Lung Cancer

Tie: Andrew DeMaio, MD, A CASE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND PERSISTENT INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION AND HEMORRHAGE: TB OR NOT TB? and Joanna M. Scoon: ATTACK OF THE WILD BOARS, in Fellows session – Chest Infections

Danielle El Haddad, MD: A RIGHT TO LEFT EXTRACARDIAC SHUNT FROM A CHRONIC SUPERIOR VENA CAVA THROMBUS IN A PROTHROMBOTIC PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

John Shumar, DO: MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT: A RARE CASE OF OSSEOUS SARCOIDOSIS PRESENTING TWENTY YEARS AFTER INITIAL DIAGNOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease


Case Report Poster Winners
Jad Sargi, MD: ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME (PRES SYNDROME)

Ankur Sinha, MBBS: LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES BRAIN ABSCESS IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT ADULT

Carla Emille D. Barbon, MD: GIANT PRIMARY LIPOSARCOMA OF THE PLEURA RESECTED THROUGH HEMI-CLAMSHELL THORACOTOMY

Hope F. Johnson, RRT: BRONCHOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF EARLY AND LATE PRESENTATION OF IRON PILL ASPIRATION

Humna Abid Memon, MD: AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A POSSIBLE TREATMENT FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN POEMS SYNDROME

Jordanna Hostler, MD, FCCP: BEYOND STEROIDS: MEPOLIZUMAB FOR CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA

Zahra Zia, MD, MBBS: EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) FOR EMERGENT SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ANAEROBIC PURULENT PERICARDITIS CAUSING CARDIAC TAMPONADE, BRONCHOMEDIASTINAL FISTULA, AND ARDS

Brooke A. McDonald: FATAL CENTRAL PULMONARY CEMENT EMBOLISM AFTER KYPHOPLASTY

Mary E. Richert, MD: A CASE OF RASBURICASE-INDUCED METHEMOGLOBINEMIA DUE TO GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY TREATED WITH HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY

Shiva M. Arjun, MD: AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA DUE TO GRAFT FAILURE: A RARE CAUSE OF HEMOPTYSIS

Harshwant Grover, MD: BLACK MEDIASTINUM: PRIMARY MEDIASTINAL MELANOMA

Neha Agarwal, MD: POSTTRANSPLANT PULMONARY KAPOSI SARCOMA PRESENTING AS CHYLOTHORAX

Alfred Soffer Research Award Winners
Johnathan Chung: EVALUATING CLINICAL UTILITY OF A UIP GENOMIC CLASSIFIER IN SUBJECTS WITH AND WITHOUT A HRCT PATTERN OF UIP
Girish Nair, MD: QUANTITATIVE LUNG FUNCTION IMAGING USING NOVEL INTEGRATED JACOBIAN VENTILATION METHOD IN A HEALTHY COHORT WITH NO RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS

Young Investigator Award Winners
Marvi Bikak, MD: APPLICATION OF MARKOV MODELING TO ASSESS OUTCOMES IN COPD
Arunima Bera, MD: SOLUBLE INTRACELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1 (ICAM-1) PREDICTS MORTALITY IN CHILDREN WITH ARDS AND SEPSIS

Top Abstract Poster
Winner: Rachel Naramore: CAUSES OF MORTALITY POST SINGLE VS DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR COPD
Runner-up: Arjun Srinivasan: FEASIBILITY AND SAFETY OF DAY CARE THORACOSCOPY FOR UNDIAGNOSED EXUDATIVE PLEURAL EFFUSIONS

Case Report Slide Winners
Catherine A. Gao, MD: NOCARDIA ABSCESS AND PULMONARY ALVEOLAR PROTEINOSIS MASQUERADING AS LUNG CANCER WITH LYMPHANGITIC SPREAD IN A 57-YO PATIENT WITH 80 PY SMOKING HISTORY, in Fellows session - Interesting Presentations of Infectious Diseases

Sangita Goel, MD: SUCCESSFUL SINGLE LUNG TRANSPLANT OF A HEPATITIS C POSITIVE DONOR TO AN HIV SEROPOSITIVE RECIPIENT WITH PULMONARY FIBROSIS, in Fellows session, – Pulmonary Pathology

Matthew Lyons, MD: FAMILIAL PULMONARY FIBROSIS SECONDARY TO SHORT TELOMERE SYNDROME, in Medical Student/Resident session – Diffuse Lung Disease

Sarika Savajiyani, DO: MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY HYPERFIBRINOLYSIS IN EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION AS IDENTIFIED BY THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY, in Fellows session – Clinical Conundrums in ECMO

Chase A. Baxter, DO: POLYBIOPSY FULMINANS: PULMONARY LYMPHOMATOID GRANULOMATOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology

Jason Low, MBBS: THE HURRICANE EFFECT: AN UNUSUAL PHENOMENON IN THE PULMONARY ARTERY, in Fellows session – Bronchoscopic Procedures

Jacob Hupp, MD: ECMO-RELATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA: A CASE SERIES ILLUSTRATING THE ROLE OF PLASMAPHERESIS IN MANAGEMENT, in Fellows session – Plasmapheresis to the Rescue

Nichole A. Smith, MD: BILATERAL CHYLOTHORAX SECONDARY TO SPONTANEOUS THORACIC DUCT ANEURYSM, in Fellows session – Disorders of the Pleura

Ritu Modi, MD: A FLORIST’S OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE, in Fellows session – Chest Infections: Find the Fungus

Ly Tran, DO: A RARE CASE OF PARANEOPLASTIC EDEMATOUS DERMATOMYOSITIS ASSOCIATED WITH SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Unusual Presentations

Abdelhamid Ben Selma, MD: PRIMARY SYNOVIAL SARCOMA OF THE LUNG COMPLICATED WITH POST BIOPSY TUMOR SPREAD TO THE TRACHEAL WALL, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Pathology II

Dhaval Thakkar, MD: A CURIOUS MANIFESTATION OF SARCOIDOSIS, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Isaac N. Biney, MBChB: ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE RIGHT ATRIAL THROMBUS MANAGED BY SUCTION THROMBECTOMY, in Fellows session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Tie: José Antonio J. Meade Aguilar: CROSSFIT TRAINING-RELATED SPONTANEOUS DIAPHRAGMATIC RUPTURE: A CASE REPORT and Abigayle R. Sullivan, DO: A RARE CASE OF CULTURE-NEGATIVE WHIPPLE’S ENDOCARDITIS, in Medical Student/Resident session - Cardiovascular Cases

Yameena T. Jawed: BLUE INSIDE AND OUT: A NOVEL CASE OF HYPOTHERMIC SHOCK SALVAGED BY METHYLENE BLUE, in Fellows session – Unusual Cases and Treatments in the ICU

Rahul Dasgupta, MD: SUPERIOR VENA CAVA (SVC) –TRACHEAL FISTULA: AN UNUSUAL CASE OF HEMOPTYSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Lung Cancer: Expect the Unexpected

Akshay Bhatnagar, MD: A CASE OF CLINICALLY AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS-RELATED INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE DUE TO ANTI-MDA5 ANTIBODY AND HEPATITIS B INFECTION, in Fellows session – Diffuse Lung Diseases

Kathleen Twomey, MD: A CASE OF RECURRENT ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A GASTRIC BYPASS PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Complications

Jennifer Sunny, DO: MASSIVE BEE ENVENOMATION TREATED BY PLASMAPHERESIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Critical Care Devices

Hafiz B. Mahboob, MD: PAZOPANIB ASSOCIATED SECONDARY SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX: NATURAL DISEASE PROGRESSION OR DRUG SAFETY CONCERN? in Fellows session – Lung Cancer

Tie: Andrew DeMaio, MD, A CASE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND PERSISTENT INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION AND HEMORRHAGE: TB OR NOT TB? and Joanna M. Scoon: ATTACK OF THE WILD BOARS, in Fellows session – Chest Infections

Danielle El Haddad, MD: A RIGHT TO LEFT EXTRACARDIAC SHUNT FROM A CHRONIC SUPERIOR VENA CAVA THROMBUS IN A PROTHROMBOTIC PATIENT, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Vascular Disease

John Shumar, DO: MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT: A RARE CASE OF OSSEOUS SARCOIDOSIS PRESENTING TWENTY YEARS AFTER INITIAL DIAGNOSIS, in Medical Student/Resident session – Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease


Case Report Poster Winners
Jad Sargi, MD: ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME (PRES SYNDROME)

Ankur Sinha, MBBS: LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES BRAIN ABSCESS IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT ADULT

Carla Emille D. Barbon, MD: GIANT PRIMARY LIPOSARCOMA OF THE PLEURA RESECTED THROUGH HEMI-CLAMSHELL THORACOTOMY

Hope F. Johnson, RRT: BRONCHOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF EARLY AND LATE PRESENTATION OF IRON PILL ASPIRATION

Humna Abid Memon, MD: AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: A POSSIBLE TREATMENT FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN POEMS SYNDROME

Jordanna Hostler, MD, FCCP: BEYOND STEROIDS: MEPOLIZUMAB FOR CHRONIC EOSINOPHILIC PNEUMONIA

Zahra Zia, MD, MBBS: EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) FOR EMERGENT SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ANAEROBIC PURULENT PERICARDITIS CAUSING CARDIAC TAMPONADE, BRONCHOMEDIASTINAL FISTULA, AND ARDS

Brooke A. McDonald: FATAL CENTRAL PULMONARY CEMENT EMBOLISM AFTER KYPHOPLASTY

Mary E. Richert, MD: A CASE OF RASBURICASE-INDUCED METHEMOGLOBINEMIA DUE TO GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY TREATED WITH HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY

Shiva M. Arjun, MD: AORTOBRONCHIAL FISTULA DUE TO GRAFT FAILURE: A RARE CAUSE OF HEMOPTYSIS

Harshwant Grover, MD: BLACK MEDIASTINUM: PRIMARY MEDIASTINAL MELANOMA

Neha Agarwal, MD: POSTTRANSPLANT PULMONARY KAPOSI SARCOMA PRESENTING AS CHYLOTHORAX

ANNUAL AWARDS

Master FCCP
Darcy Marciniuk, MD, Master FCCP

Distinguished Service Award
Doreen Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP

Master Clinician Educator
Eric Edell, MD, FCCP

Early Career Clinician Educator
Cassie Kennedy, MD, FCCP
Paru Patrawalla, MD, FCCP

Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence
Richard Irwin, MD, Master FCCP

Presidential Citation
Lawrence Mohr, Jr., MD, FCCP
 

HONOR LECTURE AND MEMORIAL AWARDS

Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP/Master Teacher Honor Lecture
Dare We Discuss the Cure for Stage IV Lung Cancer? Next- Generation Sequencing and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors!
James Jett, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture in Cardiopulmonary Physiology
Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension: Translating Pathophysiological Concepts Into Clinical Practice
Eduardo Bossone, MD, PhD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Presidential Honor Lecture
Drug-Induced Lung Disease: Watchful Eyes
Andrew Limper, MD, FCCP

Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
The NHI Phase 3 Trial to Treat Central Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure With Low-Flow Oxygen
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical VentilationChildren Are Not Just Little Adults – Except Sometimes
Howard Panitch, MD, FCCP
The Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical Ventilation is generously supported by International Ventilator Users Network of Post-Polio Health International and the CHEST Foundation.

Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Lecture in Interventional Medicine
Medical Thoracoscopy: Past, Present, and Future
Pyng Lee, MD, PhD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture in Critical CareReducing Mortality in Sepsis: The History of Performance Measures
Mitchell Levy, MD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture
Is It Infection, Inflammation, or…Cancer?
Diane Stover, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Om P. Sharma, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Common Pitfalls in Sarcoidosis
Michael Iannuzzi, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Remembering a Giant in Chest Medicine: The Mark J. Rosen Memorial Lecture
Lisa Moores, MD, FCCP

 

CHEST FOUNDATION GRANT AWARDS

The GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health
Kamran Mahmood, MBBS, FCCP
Lymphocyte Exhaustion Markers in Malignant Pleural Effusions of Lung CancerThis grant is supported by an endowed fund from GlaxoSmithKline.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Lung Cancer
James Tsay, MD
Effect of the Inflammasone Signaling Pathway on Lung Microbiome and Lung Cancer
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Mona Alotaibi, MD
Metabolic Derangements Underlying SSc-PAH
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation and the Alpha-1 Foundation Research Grant in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Derek Russell, MD
Neutrophil-Elastase Positive Exosomes and Emphysema in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
This grant supported by the Alpha-1 Foundation and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Women’s Lung Health
Neelima Navuluri, MD, MPH
Evaluation of Chronic Hypoxemia From Cardiopulmonary Disease Among Patients in Western Kenya and Perspectives on Oxygen Therapy
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Eric Abston, MD
Noninvasive Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis Due to Radiation Induced Lung Injury Using [68Ga]CBP8 Type 1 Collagen Probe
 

Karthik Suresh, MD
Safety and Efficacy of High-Flow Air for Long-term Oxygen Therapy Delivery in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis

These grants are supported by a scientific advancement agreement from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc and by a grant from Genentech.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chris Mosher, MD
Identifying Treatment Outcomes and Early Predictors of Failure in 600 Hospitalized Patients With Acute Exacerbation of COPD Treated with Noninvasive Ventilation
Grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases
Elsje Pienaar, PhD
A Computational Bridge Between In Vitro MIC and In Vivo Efficacy of Antibiotics Against MAC Infection

Elisa Ignatius, MD
Early Bactericidal Activity of Standard Drugs Used to Treat Mycobacterium Avium Complex: A Pilot Study

Supported by a research award grant by Insmed Incorporated.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Venous Thromboembolism
Mitchell Cahan, MD
A Translational Approach to Understanding Venous Thromboembolism in Post-Surgical Patients Using MicroRNAs in the American Black Bear
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Severe Asthma
Vickram Tejwani, MD
Peripheral Immune Cell Landscape in Obese Children With Severe Asthma

Sunita Sharma, MD, MPH
Predictors of Anti-IL-5 Treatment Failure in Severe Asthmatics

Supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca LP.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic Fibrosis
Kathleen Ramos, MD, MS
Underweight Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis and Implications for Lung Transplantation
This grant supported by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP Research Grant in Sarcoidosis
Divya Patel, DO
Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Therapeutic Response to Methotrexate in Patients With Sarcoidosis

Nicholas Arger, MD
Using Serum Interferon-Induced Chemokines to Predict Sarcoidosis Outcomes
This grant is in honor of John R. Addrizzo, MD, and is supported in full by the Addrizzo Family, their friends, and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Sleep Medicine
Irene Telias, MD
Influence of Sleep-Wakefulness Abnormalities on Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony: A Step Towards Improvement of Sleep Quality in Critically Ill Patients

Sushmita Pamidi, MD, MSc
Maternal Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy and Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes in Children: A Follow-Up Study of the 3D Pregnancy and Birth Cohort
This grant supported by Apria Healthcare and Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

CHEST Foundation Community Service Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP
Hans Lee, MD, FCCP
Uganda Bronchoscopy and Pleuroscopy (UBP) Project

Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS
The Lung Health Ambassador Program

Paul Sonenthal, MD
Improving Critical Care Capacity in Sierra Leone

Dana Hickman, ARNP-C, FNP-BC
Living With COPD: Empowering Individuals, Families, and Caregivers

Ann Salvator, MS
Pediatric Asthma Screenings and Education on the Navajo Reservation

Tisha Wang, MD
PAP Foundation Education Days: A Project to Reach Patients, Caregivers, and Physicians

Grants supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

ANNUAL AWARDS

Master FCCP
Darcy Marciniuk, MD, Master FCCP

Distinguished Service Award
Doreen Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP

Master Clinician Educator
Eric Edell, MD, FCCP

Early Career Clinician Educator
Cassie Kennedy, MD, FCCP
Paru Patrawalla, MD, FCCP

Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence
Richard Irwin, MD, Master FCCP

Presidential Citation
Lawrence Mohr, Jr., MD, FCCP
 

HONOR LECTURE AND MEMORIAL AWARDS

Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP/Master Teacher Honor Lecture
Dare We Discuss the Cure for Stage IV Lung Cancer? Next- Generation Sequencing and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors!
James Jett, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture in Cardiopulmonary Physiology
Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension: Translating Pathophysiological Concepts Into Clinical Practice
Eduardo Bossone, MD, PhD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Presidential Honor Lecture
Drug-Induced Lung Disease: Watchful Eyes
Andrew Limper, MD, FCCP

Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
The NHI Phase 3 Trial to Treat Central Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure With Low-Flow Oxygen
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical VentilationChildren Are Not Just Little Adults – Except Sometimes
Howard Panitch, MD, FCCP
The Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical Ventilation is generously supported by International Ventilator Users Network of Post-Polio Health International and the CHEST Foundation.

Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Lecture in Interventional Medicine
Medical Thoracoscopy: Past, Present, and Future
Pyng Lee, MD, PhD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture in Critical CareReducing Mortality in Sepsis: The History of Performance Measures
Mitchell Levy, MD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture
Is It Infection, Inflammation, or…Cancer?
Diane Stover, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Om P. Sharma, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Common Pitfalls in Sarcoidosis
Michael Iannuzzi, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Remembering a Giant in Chest Medicine: The Mark J. Rosen Memorial Lecture
Lisa Moores, MD, FCCP

 

CHEST FOUNDATION GRANT AWARDS

The GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health
Kamran Mahmood, MBBS, FCCP
Lymphocyte Exhaustion Markers in Malignant Pleural Effusions of Lung CancerThis grant is supported by an endowed fund from GlaxoSmithKline.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Lung Cancer
James Tsay, MD
Effect of the Inflammasone Signaling Pathway on Lung Microbiome and Lung Cancer
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Mona Alotaibi, MD
Metabolic Derangements Underlying SSc-PAH
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation and the Alpha-1 Foundation Research Grant in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Derek Russell, MD
Neutrophil-Elastase Positive Exosomes and Emphysema in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
This grant supported by the Alpha-1 Foundation and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Women’s Lung Health
Neelima Navuluri, MD, MPH
Evaluation of Chronic Hypoxemia From Cardiopulmonary Disease Among Patients in Western Kenya and Perspectives on Oxygen Therapy
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Eric Abston, MD
Noninvasive Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis Due to Radiation Induced Lung Injury Using [68Ga]CBP8 Type 1 Collagen Probe
 

Karthik Suresh, MD
Safety and Efficacy of High-Flow Air for Long-term Oxygen Therapy Delivery in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis

These grants are supported by a scientific advancement agreement from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc and by a grant from Genentech.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chris Mosher, MD
Identifying Treatment Outcomes and Early Predictors of Failure in 600 Hospitalized Patients With Acute Exacerbation of COPD Treated with Noninvasive Ventilation
Grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases
Elsje Pienaar, PhD
A Computational Bridge Between In Vitro MIC and In Vivo Efficacy of Antibiotics Against MAC Infection

Elisa Ignatius, MD
Early Bactericidal Activity of Standard Drugs Used to Treat Mycobacterium Avium Complex: A Pilot Study

Supported by a research award grant by Insmed Incorporated.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Venous Thromboembolism
Mitchell Cahan, MD
A Translational Approach to Understanding Venous Thromboembolism in Post-Surgical Patients Using MicroRNAs in the American Black Bear
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Severe Asthma
Vickram Tejwani, MD
Peripheral Immune Cell Landscape in Obese Children With Severe Asthma

Sunita Sharma, MD, MPH
Predictors of Anti-IL-5 Treatment Failure in Severe Asthmatics

Supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca LP.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic Fibrosis
Kathleen Ramos, MD, MS
Underweight Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis and Implications for Lung Transplantation
This grant supported by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP Research Grant in Sarcoidosis
Divya Patel, DO
Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Therapeutic Response to Methotrexate in Patients With Sarcoidosis

Nicholas Arger, MD
Using Serum Interferon-Induced Chemokines to Predict Sarcoidosis Outcomes
This grant is in honor of John R. Addrizzo, MD, and is supported in full by the Addrizzo Family, their friends, and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Sleep Medicine
Irene Telias, MD
Influence of Sleep-Wakefulness Abnormalities on Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony: A Step Towards Improvement of Sleep Quality in Critically Ill Patients

Sushmita Pamidi, MD, MSc
Maternal Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy and Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes in Children: A Follow-Up Study of the 3D Pregnancy and Birth Cohort
This grant supported by Apria Healthcare and Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

CHEST Foundation Community Service Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP
Hans Lee, MD, FCCP
Uganda Bronchoscopy and Pleuroscopy (UBP) Project

Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS
The Lung Health Ambassador Program

Paul Sonenthal, MD
Improving Critical Care Capacity in Sierra Leone

Dana Hickman, ARNP-C, FNP-BC
Living With COPD: Empowering Individuals, Families, and Caregivers

Ann Salvator, MS
Pediatric Asthma Screenings and Education on the Navajo Reservation

Tisha Wang, MD
PAP Foundation Education Days: A Project to Reach Patients, Caregivers, and Physicians

Grants supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

ANNUAL AWARDS

Master FCCP
Darcy Marciniuk, MD, Master FCCP

Distinguished Service Award
Doreen Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP

Master Clinician Educator
Eric Edell, MD, FCCP

Early Career Clinician Educator
Cassie Kennedy, MD, FCCP
Paru Patrawalla, MD, FCCP

Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence
Richard Irwin, MD, Master FCCP

Presidential Citation
Lawrence Mohr, Jr., MD, FCCP
 

HONOR LECTURE AND MEMORIAL AWARDS

Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP/Master Teacher Honor Lecture
Dare We Discuss the Cure for Stage IV Lung Cancer? Next- Generation Sequencing and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors!
James Jett, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture in Cardiopulmonary Physiology
Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension: Translating Pathophysiological Concepts Into Clinical Practice
Eduardo Bossone, MD, PhD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Presidential Honor Lecture
Drug-Induced Lung Disease: Watchful Eyes
Andrew Limper, MD, FCCP

Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
The NHI Phase 3 Trial to Treat Central Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure With Low-Flow Oxygen
Shahrokh Javaheri, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical VentilationChildren Are Not Just Little Adults – Except Sometimes
Howard Panitch, MD, FCCP
The Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical Ventilation is generously supported by International Ventilator Users Network of Post-Polio Health International and the CHEST Foundation.

Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Lecture in Interventional Medicine
Medical Thoracoscopy: Past, Present, and Future
Pyng Lee, MD, PhD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture in Critical CareReducing Mortality in Sepsis: The History of Performance Measures
Mitchell Levy, MD
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture
Is It Infection, Inflammation, or…Cancer?
Diane Stover, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Om P. Sharma, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Common Pitfalls in Sarcoidosis
Michael Iannuzzi, MD, FCCP
The lecture is generously funded by the CHEST Foundation.

Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture
Remembering a Giant in Chest Medicine: The Mark J. Rosen Memorial Lecture
Lisa Moores, MD, FCCP

 

CHEST FOUNDATION GRANT AWARDS

The GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health
Kamran Mahmood, MBBS, FCCP
Lymphocyte Exhaustion Markers in Malignant Pleural Effusions of Lung CancerThis grant is supported by an endowed fund from GlaxoSmithKline.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Lung Cancer
James Tsay, MD
Effect of the Inflammasone Signaling Pathway on Lung Microbiome and Lung Cancer
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Mona Alotaibi, MD
Metabolic Derangements Underlying SSc-PAH
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation and the Alpha-1 Foundation Research Grant in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Derek Russell, MD
Neutrophil-Elastase Positive Exosomes and Emphysema in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
This grant supported by the Alpha-1 Foundation and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Women’s Lung Health
Neelima Navuluri, MD, MPH
Evaluation of Chronic Hypoxemia From Cardiopulmonary Disease Among Patients in Western Kenya and Perspectives on Oxygen Therapy
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Eric Abston, MD
Noninvasive Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis Due to Radiation Induced Lung Injury Using [68Ga]CBP8 Type 1 Collagen Probe
 

Karthik Suresh, MD
Safety and Efficacy of High-Flow Air for Long-term Oxygen Therapy Delivery in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis

These grants are supported by a scientific advancement agreement from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc and by a grant from Genentech.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chris Mosher, MD
Identifying Treatment Outcomes and Early Predictors of Failure in 600 Hospitalized Patients With Acute Exacerbation of COPD Treated with Noninvasive Ventilation
Grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Diseases
Elsje Pienaar, PhD
A Computational Bridge Between In Vitro MIC and In Vivo Efficacy of Antibiotics Against MAC Infection

Elisa Ignatius, MD
Early Bactericidal Activity of Standard Drugs Used to Treat Mycobacterium Avium Complex: A Pilot Study

Supported by a research award grant by Insmed Incorporated.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Venous Thromboembolism
Mitchell Cahan, MD
A Translational Approach to Understanding Venous Thromboembolism in Post-Surgical Patients Using MicroRNAs in the American Black Bear
This grant supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.


CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Severe Asthma
Vickram Tejwani, MD
Peripheral Immune Cell Landscape in Obese Children With Severe Asthma

Sunita Sharma, MD, MPH
Predictors of Anti-IL-5 Treatment Failure in Severe Asthmatics

Supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca LP.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic Fibrosis
Kathleen Ramos, MD, MS
Underweight Individuals With Cystic Fibrosis and Implications for Lung Transplantation
This grant supported by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.

John R. Addrizzo, MD, FCCP Research Grant in Sarcoidosis
Divya Patel, DO
Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Therapeutic Response to Methotrexate in Patients With Sarcoidosis

Nicholas Arger, MD
Using Serum Interferon-Induced Chemokines to Predict Sarcoidosis Outcomes
This grant is in honor of John R. Addrizzo, MD, and is supported in full by the Addrizzo Family, their friends, and the CHEST Foundation.

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Sleep Medicine
Irene Telias, MD
Influence of Sleep-Wakefulness Abnormalities on Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony: A Step Towards Improvement of Sleep Quality in Critically Ill Patients

Sushmita Pamidi, MD, MSc
Maternal Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy and Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes in Children: A Follow-Up Study of the 3D Pregnancy and Birth Cohort
This grant supported by Apria Healthcare and Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

CHEST Foundation Community Service Grant Honoring D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP
Hans Lee, MD, FCCP
Uganda Bronchoscopy and Pleuroscopy (UBP) Project

Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS
The Lung Health Ambassador Program

Paul Sonenthal, MD
Improving Critical Care Capacity in Sierra Leone

Dana Hickman, ARNP-C, FNP-BC
Living With COPD: Empowering Individuals, Families, and Caregivers

Ann Salvator, MS
Pediatric Asthma Screenings and Education on the Navajo Reservation

Tisha Wang, MD
PAP Foundation Education Days: A Project to Reach Patients, Caregivers, and Physicians

Grants supported in full by the CHEST Foundation.

Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community (https://community.gastro.org) to seek advice from colleagues about therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses. In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical discussions shared in the forum recently:

1. Possible congestive heart failure, tuberculosis (http://ow.ly/QdmG30pZqqo) – Join the GI community in discussing the echocardiogram results of a Holocaust survivor with a history of diabetes, hypothyroidism, benign prostate hyperplasia and hypercholesterolemia, and whose daughter was recently found to be QuantiFERON Gold positive.

2. Recurrent diarrhea in Behcet’s disease patient (http://ow.ly/YX6L30pZqws) – A 42-year-old patient diagnosed with Behcet’s disease at age 13 presented with recurrent diarrhea; a colonoscopy revealed terminal ileal and cecal ulcerations.

3. Gastroparesis patient unable to take anti-emetics (http://ow.ly/E5jD30pZqw4) – Help your colleague address a tricky patient with prolonged QT and gastroparesis.

Access these clinical cases and more discussions at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.
 

Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community (https://community.gastro.org) to seek advice from colleagues about therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses. In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical discussions shared in the forum recently:

1. Possible congestive heart failure, tuberculosis (http://ow.ly/QdmG30pZqqo) – Join the GI community in discussing the echocardiogram results of a Holocaust survivor with a history of diabetes, hypothyroidism, benign prostate hyperplasia and hypercholesterolemia, and whose daughter was recently found to be QuantiFERON Gold positive.

2. Recurrent diarrhea in Behcet’s disease patient (http://ow.ly/YX6L30pZqws) – A 42-year-old patient diagnosed with Behcet’s disease at age 13 presented with recurrent diarrhea; a colonoscopy revealed terminal ileal and cecal ulcerations.

3. Gastroparesis patient unable to take anti-emetics (http://ow.ly/E5jD30pZqw4) – Help your colleague address a tricky patient with prolonged QT and gastroparesis.

Access these clinical cases and more discussions at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.
 

Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community (https://community.gastro.org) to seek advice from colleagues about therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses. In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical discussions shared in the forum recently:

1. Possible congestive heart failure, tuberculosis (http://ow.ly/QdmG30pZqqo) – Join the GI community in discussing the echocardiogram results of a Holocaust survivor with a history of diabetes, hypothyroidism, benign prostate hyperplasia and hypercholesterolemia, and whose daughter was recently found to be QuantiFERON Gold positive.

2. Recurrent diarrhea in Behcet’s disease patient (http://ow.ly/YX6L30pZqws) – A 42-year-old patient diagnosed with Behcet’s disease at age 13 presented with recurrent diarrhea; a colonoscopy revealed terminal ileal and cecal ulcerations.

3. Gastroparesis patient unable to take anti-emetics (http://ow.ly/E5jD30pZqw4) – Help your colleague address a tricky patient with prolonged QT and gastroparesis.

Access these clinical cases and more discussions at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.
 

Creating a legacy of giving is easier than you think. As the new year begins, take some time to start creating your legacy while supporting the AGA Research Foundation. Gifts to charitable organizations, such as the AGA Research Foundation, in your future plans ensure your support for our mission continues even after your lifetime.

Here are two ideas to help you get started.

Name the AGA Research Foundation as a beneficiary. This arrangement is one of the most tax-smart ways to support the AGA Research Foundation after your lifetime. When you leave retirement plan assets to us, we bypass any taxes and receive the full amount.

Include the AGA Research Foundation in your will or living trust. This gift can be made by including as little as one sentence in your will or living trust. Plus, your gift can be modified throughout your lifetime as circumstances change.

Want to learn more about including a gift to the AGA Research Foundation in your future plans? Visit our website at https://gastro.planmylegacy.org or contact Harmony Excellent at 301-272-1602 or [email protected].
 

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Creating a legacy of giving is easier than you think. As the new year begins, take some time to start creating your legacy while supporting the AGA Research Foundation. Gifts to charitable organizations, such as the AGA Research Foundation, in your future plans ensure your support for our mission continues even after your lifetime.

Here are two ideas to help you get started.

Name the AGA Research Foundation as a beneficiary. This arrangement is one of the most tax-smart ways to support the AGA Research Foundation after your lifetime. When you leave retirement plan assets to us, we bypass any taxes and receive the full amount.

Include the AGA Research Foundation in your will or living trust. This gift can be made by including as little as one sentence in your will or living trust. Plus, your gift can be modified throughout your lifetime as circumstances change.

Want to learn more about including a gift to the AGA Research Foundation in your future plans? Visit our website at https://gastro.planmylegacy.org or contact Harmony Excellent at 301-272-1602 or [email protected].
 

[email protected]

Creating a legacy of giving is easier than you think. As the new year begins, take some time to start creating your legacy while supporting the AGA Research Foundation. Gifts to charitable organizations, such as the AGA Research Foundation, in your future plans ensure your support for our mission continues even after your lifetime.

Here are two ideas to help you get started.

Name the AGA Research Foundation as a beneficiary. This arrangement is one of the most tax-smart ways to support the AGA Research Foundation after your lifetime. When you leave retirement plan assets to us, we bypass any taxes and receive the full amount.

Include the AGA Research Foundation in your will or living trust. This gift can be made by including as little as one sentence in your will or living trust. Plus, your gift can be modified throughout your lifetime as circumstances change.

Want to learn more about including a gift to the AGA Research Foundation in your future plans? Visit our website at https://gastro.planmylegacy.org or contact Harmony Excellent at 301-272-1602 or [email protected].
 

[email protected]

Bridgette Wilson, PhD, RD, postdoctoral research associate in nutritional sciences, and Kevin Whelan, PhD, RD, professor of dietetics, King’s College London, England, share talking points to help your patients understand what is currently known about the use of prebiotics for GI disorders.

Explaining prebiotics for GI disorders

Different prebiotic supplements have different effects on gut symptoms. For example, lower doses of noninulin type fructans (e.g., beta-galacto-oligosaccharides [GOS], pectin, partially hydrolyzed guar gum) are likely to be better tolerated in patients with functional gut symptoms, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Though prebiotic-containing foods are thought to benefit gut health in general, some prebiotics are FODMAPs that have been associated with symptoms in IBS patients. Individual patients on restrictive diets should systematically introduce prebiotic foods to identify the type and quantity they can tolerate.

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Bridgette Wilson, PhD, RD, postdoctoral research associate in nutritional sciences, and Kevin Whelan, PhD, RD, professor of dietetics, King’s College London, England, share talking points to help your patients understand what is currently known about the use of prebiotics for GI disorders.

Explaining prebiotics for GI disorders

Different prebiotic supplements have different effects on gut symptoms. For example, lower doses of noninulin type fructans (e.g., beta-galacto-oligosaccharides [GOS], pectin, partially hydrolyzed guar gum) are likely to be better tolerated in patients with functional gut symptoms, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Though prebiotic-containing foods are thought to benefit gut health in general, some prebiotics are FODMAPs that have been associated with symptoms in IBS patients. Individual patients on restrictive diets should systematically introduce prebiotic foods to identify the type and quantity they can tolerate.

[email protected]

Bridgette Wilson, PhD, RD, postdoctoral research associate in nutritional sciences, and Kevin Whelan, PhD, RD, professor of dietetics, King’s College London, England, share talking points to help your patients understand what is currently known about the use of prebiotics for GI disorders.

Explaining prebiotics for GI disorders

Different prebiotic supplements have different effects on gut symptoms. For example, lower doses of noninulin type fructans (e.g., beta-galacto-oligosaccharides [GOS], pectin, partially hydrolyzed guar gum) are likely to be better tolerated in patients with functional gut symptoms, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

Though prebiotic-containing foods are thought to benefit gut health in general, some prebiotics are FODMAPs that have been associated with symptoms in IBS patients. Individual patients on restrictive diets should systematically introduce prebiotic foods to identify the type and quantity they can tolerate.

[email protected]