Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend?

One of the great strengths of the ATS International Conference is that it’s multidisciplinary. Beyond the Society’s three pillars—pulmonary, critical care and sleep-clinicians and researchers in many other fields attend the conference, enriching the conversation and leading to insights that ultimately improve patient care.

There are many other specialties that are well represented at the ATS International Conference and sessions of particular interest within these specialties (return mid-January to review individual session details, including session topics and speakers). Among those specialities are Allergy/Immunology; Behavioral Science; Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery; Environmental & Occupational Health; Hospitalists; Infectious Disease; Nursing; Pediatric Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep; Respiratory Therapy & Other Allied Health Professions; and Thoracic Surgery.

Allergy/Immunology

Phenotyping of Obstructive Airway Disease: Will It Improve Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment?
Sensors, Danger Signals, Peptides & Cell Suicide: New Concepts of Host Infection Control
Understanding & Managing Exercise-Induced Bronchosconstriction+
Asthma & Allergic Diseases: State of the Art in Biology & Therapeutic Targets*
Air Pollution & Immunity: Innate & Adaptive
Putting the Brakes on TH17-Mediated Inflammation in the Lung
Clinical Implications & Management of Multi-Drug-Resistant Pathogens
Biomarkers in Asthma & COPD*
NHLBI & NIAID Recommendations for Standardized Asthma Outcomes in Clinical Research
What’s New in LTBI Treatment?
Lung Innate Immunity: At the Front Lines of Host Defense*
Tuberculosis & Tobacco: New Advances from Bench to Bedside in Immunology, Epidemiology & Prevention
The Human Microbiome & Development of Asthma & Allergy
COPD: Biological Pathways, Phenotypes & Their Clinical Implications
Understanding & Identifying Non-Adherence to Better Treat Asthma, COPD & OSA

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop

Behavioral Science

The Science of Disseminating & Implementing Interventions: Efficacy Versus Effectiveness Research
Improving Communication & Resolving Conflict at the End of Life+
Obesity & Clinical Implications for the Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Physician
Health Outcomes Assessment in Research & Quality Improvement: Challenges & Opportunities*
Tuberculosis & Tobacco: New Advances from Bench to Bedside in Immunology, Epidemiology & Prevention
Tobacco Dependence: From Genes to CNS Pathways to Diagnosis & Treatment*
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Why Now?
Mars, Venus & Disparities in Lung Diseases
Scientific Writing: Publishing for Academic Success*
Understanding & Identifying Non-Adherence to Better Treat Asthma, COPD & OSA
Integrated Care in Interstitial Lung Disease: A Focus on Comprehensive Management
Phenotyping of Obstructive Airway Disease: Will It Improve Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment?
Patient Comfort During Mechanical Ventilation
Translating Self-Management in COPD to Practice
A Large, Multi-Center, Cross-Sectional Clinical, Radiographic & Genomic Characterization Study in COPD: Lessons from COPD Gene

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop

Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery

How Are We Using Mechanical Ventilation? A New Approach
Incorporating Ultrasound & Echocardiography into ICU Practice*
Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Beyond Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Right Ventricular Dysfunction: The Other Heart Failure
Physiology Master Class: Hemodynamic Assessment & Management in the ICU*
Implications of US Healthcare Reform for Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep
Lung Cancer in 2011: The State of the Art*
Mechanical Ventilation: State of the Art*
ICU Monitoring: Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask*
Advances in Stage III & IV Lung Cancer
Practical Approach to Pulmonary Hypertension: A Case-Based Discussion*
Bioengineering for Lung Diseases: Progress in Rebuilding the Lung
Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Half-Century of Discovery
Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Cardiac Arrest: A Review of the Physiology, Evidence and a Practical Approach to Implementation*
Long-Term Outcomes after the Intensive Care Unit

*Postgraduate course

Environmental & Occupational Health

Clinical Year in Review: Occupational Lung Disease
Respiratory Outcomes from Community Exposures to Occupational/Environmental Hazards
Air Pollution & Immunity: Innate & Adaptive
The Environment & The Host: Crossroads of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria & Bronchiectasis
Using a Job-Exposure Matrix to Assess Exposure in Epidemiologic Studies of Asthma
Prenatal Exposures & Predisposition to Adult Lung Disease
Global Health & Pulmonary Medicine: Voices from the Field
Pulmonary Epidemiology: Methods & Real-Life Examples*
COPD in Non-Smokers: The Forgotten Epidemic
Tuberculosis & Tobacco: New Advances from Bench to Bedside in Immunology, Epidemiology & Prevention
Mars, Venus & Disparities in Lung Diseases
Occupational Lung Diseases in US Military Personnel Deployed to Iraq & Afghanistan
Sensors, Danger Signals, Peptides & Cell Suicide: New Concepts of Host Infection Control
NHLBI & NIAID Recommendations for Standardized Asthma Outcomes in Clinical Research
Comparative Effectiveness Research: Why Now?

*Postgraduate course

Hospitalists

Bronchiectasis: An Approach to Diagnosis & Review of Specific Causes
Right Ventricular Dysfunction: The Other Heart Failure
Mechanical Ventilation: State of the Art*
Obesity & Clinical Implications for the Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Physician
A Review of Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Cardiac Arrest*
Management of Sarcoidosis
Mechanisms & Advances in Therapy of COPD
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep
Incorporating Ultrasound & Echocardiography into ICU Practice*
Management of Interstitial Lung Disease*
Implications of US Healthcare Reform for Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep

*Postgraduate course

Infectious Disease

Clinical Implications & Management of Multi-Drug-Resistant Pathogens
What’s New in LTBI Treatment?
Sensors, Danger Signals, Peptides & Cell Suicide: New Concepts of Host Infection Control
Mycobacterial & Fungal Diagnostics+
Evaluation & Treatment of Patients with NTM Disease+
Air Pollution & Immunity: Innate & Adaptive
Tuberculosis & Tobacco: New Advances from Bench to Bedside in Immunology, Epidemiology & Prevention
Global Health & Pulmonary Medicine: Voices from the Field
The Environment & the Host: Crossroads of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria & Bronchiectasis
Infections & Asthma: Causative or Protective?
Lung Innate Immunity: At the Frontlines of Host Defense*
Bronchiectasis: An Approach to Diagnosis & Review of Specific Causes
Racial Disparities in Pulmonary & Critical Care
Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Lung Disease & Critical Illness: The Enemy Within
Cutting-Edge Technology for the Diagnosis & Management of Pneumonia

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop

Nursing

Dyspnea Crisis: State of the Science for Palliative Management
Patient Comfort During Mechanical Ventilation
Charting the Future of Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Cutting-Edge Debates
The Implications of U.S. Healthcare Reform for Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Nursing Year in Review
Integrated Care in Interstitial Lung Disease: A Focus on Comprehensive Management
The Importance of Communication in Creating Partnerships for Patient-Centered Care
The Science of Disseminating & Implementing Interventions: Efficacy Versus Effectiveness Research
Improving Communication & Resolving Conflict at the End of Life+
Racial Disparities in Pulmonary & Critical Care
Preventing & Treating ‘The Dwindles’ of Chronic Critical Illness
Global Health and Pulmonary Medicine: Voices from the Field
Understanding & Identifying Non-Adherence to Better Treat Asthma, COPD & OSA
The Intensity of Intensive Care: Is More Better?
Tuberculosis & Tobacco: New Advances from Bench to Bedside in Immunology, Epidemiology & Prevention

+Workshop

Pediatric Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep

Diagnostic Tests for the Pediatric Pulmonologist*
New Advances in Understanding & Treating PAH in Children
Prenatal Exposures & Predisposition to Adult Lung Disease
Pediatric Year in Review
Applying New ATS Consensus Guideline Recommendations for chILD+
Nuts & Bolts of Aerosol Delivery: Theory, Guidelines & Practice*
Clinical Year in Review: Cystic Fibrosis & Pediatrics
Pediatric Clinical Chest Rounds
Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Beyond Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
Functional Modeling of the Pediatric Upper Airway
The Environment & the Host: Crossroads of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria & Bronchiectasis
Evolution of Lung Disease in the Premature Infant
Obesity: Implications for the Clinical Practice of the Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Physician
Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Beyond Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
Understanding & Identifying Non-Adherence to Better Treat Asthma, COPD and OSA

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop

Respiratory Therapy & Other Allied Health Professions

Patient Comfort During Mechanical Ventilation
How are We Using Mechanical Ventilation? A New Approach
Clinical Year in Review: ARDS
ICU Monitoring: Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask*
Interstitial Lung Disease in the ICU
Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Beyond Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
Clinical Year in Review: Mechanical Ventilation
Mechanical Ventilation: State of the Art*
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
Long-Term Outcomes After ICU
Clinical Year in Review: Quality Performance Assessment Metrics in Your Practice
The Implications of US Healthcare Reform for Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Making Sense: Neurocritical Care in 2011
Non-Invasive Ventilation from ICU to Home: Evidence, Guidelines & Best Practice*
Clinical Year in Review: Non-Pulmonary ICU

*Postgraduate course

Thoracic Surgery

Advances in Stage III & IV Lung Cancer
Quantitative Thoracic Imaging: The Past, the Present & the Future
Endobronchial Ultrasound in 2011+
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Year: Progress in Lung Tissue Engineering
Lung Cancer in 2011: The State of the Art*
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials
Charting the Future of Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Cutting-Edge Debates
Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine in Lung Disease & Transplantation
The Importance of Communication in Creating Partnerships for Patient-Centered Care
Thoracic Imaging*
Tobacco Dependence: From Genes to CNS Pathways to Diagnosis & Treatment*
Evolving Concepts in Lung Transplantation*
The Implications of US Healthcare Reform for Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Half-Century of Discovery
Bioengineering in Lung Diseases: Progress in Rebuilding the Lung

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop

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