NetWork Special Presentations from CHEST 2008

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Airways Disorders
Title: "Outcome Measures in COPD"
Speaker: Gerard Criner, MD, FCCP

Allied Health
Title: "Patient-Focused Care"
Speaker: Richard Irwin, MD, FCCP

Chest Infections
Title: "CA-MRSA: The Superbug Pandemic"
Speaker: Marcos Restrepo, MD, MSc, FCCP

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
Title: "Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Disease"
Speaker: Daniel Ouellette, MD, FCCP

Critical Care
Title: "Distinguished Scholar in Critical Care: Development and Validation of Critical Care Health Care Team (physician trainees, nurses, respiratory therapists, physician assistants) and Patient Educational Materials for Use in Critical Care Units"
Speaker: Kalpalatha Guntupalli, MD, FCCP

Disaster Response
Title: "Public and Health Diplomacy and the United States of America"
Speaker: CAPT Dennis Amundson, MC, USN, FCCP

Home Care
Title: "Oxygen Therapy: Pulmonary Rehabilitation to Home Care"
Speaker: Vijay Subramaniam, MD

Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease
Title: "Update on Scleroderma: Interstitial Lung Disease"
Speaker: Kristin Highland, MD, FCCP

Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures
Title: "Novel Methods for the Treatment of Emphysema"
Speaker: Joel Cooper, MD, FCCP

Members in Industry
Title: "Evidence-Based Health-care Technology Development: Paradigm for the 21st Century"
Speaker: Marya Zilberberg, MD, FCCP

Occupational and Environmental Health
Title: "Historical Aspects of Occupational Lung Disease: Learning From History To Improve the Future"
Speaker: Paul Blanc, MD, FCCP

Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Title: "What Should Be the Physician's Role in Life Support Decisions in ICU?"
Speaker: Douglas White, MD, MHS

Pediatric Chest Medicine
Title: "Quo Vadis Pediatric Pulmonology?"
Speaker: Daniel Schidlow, MD, FCCP

Practice Administration
Title: "Integrating New Physicians Into Medical Practice: Building our Future Together"
Speaker: Edward Diamond, MD, FCCP

Private Practice
Title: "Developing an Intensivist Program in a Private Community Hospital"
Speaker: Leo Rotello, MD, FCCP; and William Saliski, DO, FCCP

Pulmonary Physiology, Function and Rehabilitation
Title: "Pulmonary Hypertension in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease"
Speaker: Jamil Aboulhosn, MD

Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Title: "Rho Kinase as a Potential Target in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Speaker: Karen Fagan, MD

Respiratory Care
Title: "Using Graphics To Implement Low Tidal Volume Protocols"
Speaker: David Vines, MHS, RRT

Sleep Medicine
Title: "Home-Based Sleep Studies: The Light at the End of the Tunnel or the Train?"
Speaker: Nancy Collop, MD, FCCP

Thoracic Oncology
Title: "Intraoperative Lymph Node Management in Lung Cancer: Sampling vs Complete Lymphadenectomy"
Speaker: Allan Pickens, MD, FCCP

Transplant
Title: "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Waiting List Outcomes"
Speaker: David Lederer, MD, MSc

Women's Health
Title: "Menstrual Differences in Airways Inflammation in Asthma"
Speaker: Anandhi Murugan, MD, MPH