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Every month, our CHEST Networks, special interest groups that focus on specific areas of chest medicine, submit original articles to the publication CHEST Physician®. Check them out and if something piques your interest, considering joining one of the groups!
The NetWorks Challenge is back, and this year, we want everyone to get involved. We’re challenging you to a virtual competition in honor of the CHEST Foundation’s 25th anniversary. Run 25k, read 25 books, knit 25 hats, binge 25 Netflix shows – just get involved! Tweet your action shots at #CHESTFoundation25. All proceeds go toward our health disparities and travel grant initiatives.
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Sometimes our journey toward becoming a physician takes us to unexpected places. For Tara Brown, MD, that is certainly true. Read as she shares the story of what prompted her to join the United States Military and how she feels about that decision 11 years later.
While COVID-19 infections are steadily decreasing in the United States, so are vaccine rates. Here, CHEST’s COVID-19 Task Force outlines reasons why, along with ways we can combat vaccine hesitancy.
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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.
How do you combat vaccine hesitancy with your patients or your family and friends? Use our hashtag #CHESTConvoStarters, and let’s start a conversation.
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Diagnosis and Evaluation of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Obesity and ventilator-associated pneumonia
Gender minorities in lung cancer
Managing Pulmonary Complications From Cancer During the Pandemic and Beyond: Pleural Effusion, Airway Obstruction, and Pneumonitis
Sex-Related Differences in Dynamic Right Ventricular-Pulmonary Vascular Coupling in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Impact of RV Dysfunction on Short- and Long-Term Mortality in Sepsis
Critical Care, Pulmonary, Sleep
CME credits/MOC points available
Annual Meeting Oct. 17-20
Each year, the CHEST Foundation offers grants to worthy research candidates, generous community service volunteers, and distinguished scholars. View the 2021 Requests for Proposals below for more information on the available opportunities. Access the Grants Management System to apply, submit reports, or request a no‑cost extension.
We value and respect all chest medicine clinicians, which is why our membership is so diverse. Wherever you fall on the spectrum, know your peers will always surround you.
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.
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