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Membership & Community

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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Mentor and mentee

Apply to mentor the next generation of medical educators

CHEST is partnering with the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors to provide a Medical Educator Diversity Scholar Fellowship. Applications to be a mentor are due Wednesday, May 1.

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Find your community in CHEST Networks

Become a CHEST member, and join a CHEST Network to have the space to explore areas of chest medicine that interest you. Plus, gain access to leadership opportunities and opportunities to collaborate with chest professionals.

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CHEST 2024

Have a role in abstracts and case reports for CHEST 2024

Become a moderator for CHEST 2024 to review assigned submissions prior to the meeting and facilitate discussion and Q&A during your assigned session(s) in Boston. Applications are due Monday, June 3.

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Conversation starters: Topics you want to discuss

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Can VAP be prevented? New data suggests so

In a new CHEST Physician® article, the Chest Infections and Disaster Response Network's Chest Infections Section Fellow-in-Training, Reid Eggleston, MD, highlights recent studies on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) that show antibiotic prophylaxis may reduce VAP risk.

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Empowering ICU physicians in MCS critical care

Pulmonary Vascular and Cardiovascular Network members, Bindu Akkanti, MD, FCCP, and Mark Warner, MD, FCCP, discuss the need for comprehensive systematic training on cardiogenic shock recognition and management in fellowship programs. They recommend intensive care physicians seek out mechanical circulatory support (MCS) training like the courses offered at CHEST HQ.

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Submit an idea

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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