NetWork Special Presentations from CHEST 2009

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Airways Disorders NetWork
Title: "Safety of COPD Medications"
Speaker: James Donohue, MD, FCCP

Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery NetWork
Title: "Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels: What Every Chest Physician Should Know"
Speaker: Alan Maisel, MD

Chest Infections NetWork
Title: "Fungal Lung Disease in the Immunocompromised Host"
Speaker: Christopher Mody, MD, FCCP

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine NetWork
Title: "Short- and Long-term Outcome in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia"
Speaker: G. Umberto Meduri, MD, FCCP

Critical Care Institute
Title: "Process and Outcome Measurement in the ICU"
Speaker: Richard Wall, MD, FCCP

Cultural Diversity in Medicine NetWork
Title: "Humanitarian Aid and Cultural Diversity"
Speaker: Silvia Quadrelli, MD, FCCP

Disaster Response NetWork
Title: "The Effects of Health-care Reform on the Prosecution of Disaster Medicine"
Speaker: John Parker, MD, FCCP

Home Care NetWork
Title: "The Role of Telemedicine in Home Care Medicine"
Speaker: COL Ronald Poropatich, MC, USA, FCCP

Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures NetWork
Title: "Molecular Targeting for Malignant Pleural Effusions"
Speaker: Veena Antony, MD

Members in Industry NetWork
Title: "What Good Looks Like: Industry Academia Relations"
Speaker: James Donohue, MD, FCCP

Occupational and Environmental Health NetWork
Title: "An Investigation of Asthma at a Soy Processing Plant"
Speaker: Brett Green, PhD

Palliative and End-if-Life Care NetWork
Title: "Palliative Care for the Transplant Patient"
Speaker: Richard Castriotta, MD, FCCP

Pediatric Chest Medicine NetWork
Title: "The History of Pediatric Pulmonology"
Speaker: Lynn Taussig, MD

Practice Operations NetWork
Title: "ICD-10: Are You Ready? Implications for Clinicians Practicing Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine"
Speaker: Philip Marcus, MD, FCCP

Practice Operations NetWork
Title: "The Characteristics of an Effective Physician/Administrator Team"
Speaker: Richard Hamrick, MD, FCCP
Irby Williams, MBA

Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation NetWork
Title: "Transition of Pulmonary Rehabilitation From Anecdotal to the Standard of Care"
Speaker: John E. Hodgkin, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary Vascular Disease NetWork
Title: "Pulmonary Venous Hypertension"
Speaker: William E. Hopkins, MD

Pulmonary Vascular Disease NetWork
Title: "A Superior Method of Oral Anticoagulation Management to Substantially Reduce Event Rates, Improve Quality of Life, and Reduce Health-Care Costs"
Speaker: Henry I. Bussey, PharmD, FCCP

Respiratory Care NetWork
Title: "Tap Water: An Unrecognized Reservoir of Health-care-Associated Infection Risk"
Speaker: Joseph Cervia, MD

Thoracic Oncology NetWork
Title: "Outcomes-Based Research in Lung Cancer"
Speaker: Farhood Farjah, MD

Transplant NetWork
Title: "Ex Vivo Lung Reconditioning"
Speaker: Shaf Keshavjee, MD, FCCP

Women’s Health NetWork
Title: "Gender Differences as They Relate to Outcome in an Older ICU Cohort"
Speaker: Margaret A. Pisani, MD, FCCP

Women’s Health NetWork
Title: "Investigation and Correction of Gender Disparity in Chest Compression During CPR"
Speaker: Subani Chandra, MBBS