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As a CHEST member, you’re part of a strong network of clinicians representing every profession and experience level in chest medicine. With us, you can develop personal and professional connections, cultivate your leadership skills, advocate for policies that improve access to health, and advance your career.

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CHEST 2024

Catch up with your colleagues at CHEST 2024

Connect with new and old friends at CHEST 2024 in Boston. “There are a million reasons people come to CHEST, but, for me and many others, the top ones are to see everyone and to be around everyone in person,” said Chair of the CHEST 2024 Scientific Program Committee, Gabriel T. Bosslet, MD, FCCP, in a CHEST Daily News article.

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Hassan Bencheqroun, MD, FCCP; Andres Mora Carpio, MD; and Luis Sanchez-Ato, MD

Donor-funded grants support early career clinicians

Luis Sanchez-Ato, MD, and Andres Mora Carpio, MD, attended CHEST 2023 and were each paired with a mentor as CHEST Travel Grant awardees. Learn about how these grants impacted their careers.

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Jack D. Buckley, MD, MPH, FCCP

Read the latest column from CHEST President

In a recent CHEST Physician® article, CHEST President, Jack D. Buckley, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlighted the importance of a multidisciplinary team. "In my experience, I have seen tremendous success in partnering with and complementing each other, rather than competing for space when caring for a patient," Dr. Buckley wrote.

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Short telomere length and immunosuppression: Updates in nonidiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease

In a new CHEST Physician® article from the Interstitial Lung Disease Section, the authors highlight the growing interest in telomere length—particularly as short telomere length is linked to rapid progression, worse outcomes, and poor response to immunosuppressants in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

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Post-intensive care syndrome and insomnia

In a CHEST Physician® article, members of the Nonrespiratory Sleep Section underscore insomnia as the most common sleep impairment seen in post-intensive care syndrome and suggest cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia and pharmacotherapy as potential treatments.

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Do you have a great idea?

If you’re as passionate about pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine as we are, you’re probably bursting with ideas on how we can advance those fields. Maybe you want to create a new practice tool or a different educational approach, or perhaps you want to create a patient resource. Let us know what you’re thinking, and we’ll see if we can get it off the ground together.

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Advance your career. Become an FCCP.

When you become an FCCP (Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians), you play an active role in advancing the field of chest medicine while enjoying the prestige of being associated with a distinctive group of chest medicine professionals.


“I have found being an FCCP to be rewarding on a personal level, as well as a professional level. It has provided me with connections to colleagues nationally and internationally, and it has opened the door to leadership opportunities.”

– Thomas Van der Kloot, MD, FCCP


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