CHEST Annual Report 2025

Leadership and Learning

The core of CHEST as an organization lies in its educational programs, which received accolades in 2025 speaking to the power of associations. CHEST educational offerings are made possible by the dedication of our members, who generously volunteer their time to serve as faculty and take on leadership roles.

A sincere thank you is extended to every member of CHEST who takes the time to lend their expertise to improve chest medicine and patient care.

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CHEST Annual Meeting 2025

Annual Meeting attendees posing with a Love Your Lungs frame

This year’s meeting was especially meaningful as the CHEST organization celebrated 90 years of history. Since the first annual meeting in 1935, CHEST has been driven by a commitment to advancing science, education, and patient care, and Chicago was the perfect setting to honor that legacy while looking ahead to the future of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. With more attendees than ever before, a Mayoral Proclamation, and session after session highlighting the latest medical advances, CHEST 2025 in Chicago was one CHEST to remember.

10,238
ATTENDEES
4,180
ACCEPTED ABSTRACTS
AND CASE REPORTS
10.1 M
SOCIAL MEDIA
IMPRESSIONS
31
CHEST EDUCATION
CURRICULUM CATEGORIES

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Interactive education

In addition to featuring top-tier research and 200 clinical sessions, CHEST 2025 debuted new educational digital games, live games, and a Chicago-themed live escape room experience that attracted 280 participants. Challenge yourself with the online version of the escape room »

Attendees practiced their clinical skills during simulation training led by renowned CHEST faculty. There were 36 on-site courses, including five that debuted at CHEST 2025:

  • Airway Heroes: Rescue of Failing Awake Intubations
  • ECMO Cannulation and Initiation
  • Ominous Airways: Conquer Your Worst Fears
  • One-on-One Coaching: Ultrasound Needle Guidance for Vascular and Pleural Procedures
  • VV ECMO: Who, When, and How to Manage Emergencies

CHEST 2025 RESEARCH ABSTRACTS »
MORE ABOUT SIMULATION OFFERINGS »

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CHEST staff volunteering in Boston
Love Your Lungs Day 2025

Love Your Lungs Day

In recognition of CHEST’s 90th anniversary and Healthy Lung Month, Chicago’s Mayor, Brandon Johnson, signed a Mayoral Proclamation declaring Sunday, October 19, as Love Your Lungs Day. Coinciding with the first day of CHEST 2025, Love Your Lungs Day celebrated the dedication of health care workers while highlighting the critical importance of respiratory health. Read more in Pulmonology Advisor »

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Community engagement

We partnered with three local Chicago organizations as part of our CHEST Community Connections initiative. CHEST volunteers spent a morning with the Chicago Asthma Consortium and their partner, the Community Health Worker program at Malcolm X College, to provide asthma education. Read more about CHEST Community Connections in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging section of the CHEST Annual Report.

a group of volunteers
A mural of Chicago
A mural of Chicago

CHEST 2025 also featured:

  • an on-site volunteer event open to all meeting attendees that provided care kits to Chicago individuals with intellectual disabilities transitioning to independent housing;
  • a visit from the American Lung Association lungs;
  • popular live games such as Hocus POCUS Diagnosis and Zombie Dx;
  • education tracks for advanced clinicians, trainees, advanced practice providers (APPs), and more;
  • the fourth annual CHEST After Hours, an emotional evening event that featured personal stories and reflections celebrating the whole clinician; and
  • a collaborative mural in the Wellness Zone, which was donated to Community Health.
An attendee posing with people in lung costumes
Attendees in front of Windy City Secrets

#CHEST2025

With more competing content than ever on social media, videos highlighting the meeting are the most effective way to catch the attention of users. They also build excitement and engage attendees, giving them strong content to share on their own channels. Leading up to the meeting, CHEST shared countdown videos, and during the meeting, CHEST shared daily recap videos.

10.1 M
IMPRESSIONS
127,024
INTERACTIONS
37%
INCREASE IN #CHESTSoMe AMBASSADORS

Meeting coverage

CHEST 2025 magazine cover

Rebranded for 2025, CHEST 2025: Inside Look (formerly CHEST Daily News) provided coverage of the meeting for attendees who may have missed a session and for those at home wanting to follow along. Producing the highly valued meeting program and 16 emails before, during, and following the conference, Inside Look provided 72 pieces of content covering the annual meeting.

In recognition of the Mayoral Proclamation of Love Your Lungs Day, both FOX32 and ABC7 film crews were present at the CHEST 2025 Opening Session. ABC7 ran their coverage during that night’s newscast, featuring an interview with CHEST President John Howington, MD, MBA, FCCP.

In addition, CHEST welcomed 15 on-site members of the press and 13 who covered the meeting remotely.

Notable coverage

Physician’s Weekly: CHEST 2025: 90th Anniversary Meeting to Feature Cutting-Edge Pulmonary and Critical Care Research

HealthDay: CHEST 2025: GLP-1 Meds Help Protect Against Sleep Apnea and Drugs That Improve Asthma Control

HCP Live: Dry Powder Treprostinil Tolerated Among Patients with PH-ILD, with Nicholas Kolaitis, MD (Video)

Healio Pulmonology: Beta-blocker esmolol more effective than landiolol in septic shock

VIEW ALL 2025 MEDIA COVERAGE »

CHEST Annual Meeting 2026 logo

#CHEST2026

In 2026, the CHEST Annual Meeting will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 18 to 21.

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CHEST Networks

Airways Disorders Network icon Chest Infections and Disaster Response Network icon Critical Care Network icon Diffuse Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Network icon Pulmonary Vascular and Cardiovascular Network icon Sleep Medicine Network icon Thoracic Oncology and Chest Procedures Network icon

Offering forums for leadership, education, and advocacy, CHEST Networks—communities that focus on specific areas of chest medicine designed around the CHEST educational curriculum—are a way for members to collaborate and create resources that widely share expertise.

Network leaders contribute columns to each CHEST Physician® issue as part of a series called Network News, and each Network recognized one of its members at the CHEST Annual Meeting as Rising Stars.

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Notable accomplishments in 2025

Early Cycle Dyssynchrony infographic
CRITICAL CARE NETWORK
This infographic breaks down the conditions for patient-ventilator synchrony, what happens in early cycle dyssynchrony, and causes of early cycle dyssynchrony. This infographic was incredibly popular on social media, garnering 3,300 clicks to view the larger infographic.

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Measles infographic
CHEST INFECTIONS AND DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK
In response to a measles outbreak in the United States, the Network created an infographic on the diagnosis and treatment of the measles. The infographic includes information on risk factors, complications, treatment, and more.

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CHEST education

Committed to providing the best clinician education to improve clinical skills and patient outcomes, CHEST pushes toward learning solutions that are both innovative and effective.

Offerings include traditional learning formats such as the CHEST SEEK® Library and hands-on learning through interactive resources, including knowledge-based gaming, renowned simulation courses, and more.

14,635
UNIQUE LEARNERS
23.25
HOURS OF APP-FOCUSED CONTENT

Hands-on education through simulation

CHEST’s clinical education program is internationally recognized and accredited. In 2025, CHEST offered 16 different courses at the Innovation, Simulation, and Training Center at CHEST Headquarters in Glenview, Illinois—including Diagnostic Bronchoscopy 201: Mastering Advanced Tools and Techniques for Optimizing EBUS Outcomes, Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography Image Acquisition and Interpretation, and more.

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1,916
COURSE ATTENDEES IN 2025
1:5
(OR BETTER) FACULTY TO LEARNER RATIO
94%
WORKSHOP SATISFACTION RATE BY ATTENDEES
93%
OF ATTENDEES WOULD RECOMMEND COURSES TO THEIR COLLEAGUES
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Continuing to innovate

In 2025, CHEST’s educational offerings expanded to meet the needs of a variety of learners:

  • CHEST hosted six Clinical Immersion courses for over 400 industry partner attendees, providing a deeper clinical understanding of disease states including COPD, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension.
  • CHEST released the Airway Management Pocket Guide, which brings together evidence-based checklists, algorithms, and visual aids to streamline decision-making in high-stakes situations.
  • CHEST launched Critical Care Ultrasonography: Image Acquisition and Interpretation to provide instruction in the cognitive aspects of critical care ultrasonography, image acquisition, and image interpretation.
  • The organization collaborated with physician assistants/associates and nurse practitioners to create several educational courses for APPs in critical care. The Growth and Impact Section of the report shares more details on this initiative.

Interactive gaming

With five CME-accredited titles available to learners, CHEST games offer an opportunity to play games while continuing your education. To support discovery and adoption, free game samples are now available to provide learners with a hands-on preview experience. In 2025, six new games were developed, including two exclusive launches at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

VISIT THE CHEST PLAYER HUB »

Interactive gaming

CHEST gaming had an impressive 2024, with a 44.3% increase in engagement compared with the prior year. The organization recently received an ELB Learning award for Unveiling RSV and has games featured on the education hub of the American Medical Association, including Hocus POCUS Diagnosis! With most offering CME credit/MOC points, CHEST games mix advanced education with interactive participation and peer-to-peer competition.

VISIT THE CHEST PLAYER HUB »

13
GAMES
1,189
PLAYERS
2,762
PLAYED SESSIONS

Premium study resources

CHEST SEEK®

A trusted study tool for more than three decades, CHEST SEEK (Self-Education and Evaluation of Knowledge) added 150 new pulmonary questions to the SEEK Library and launched the newest print book, Pulmonary Medicine: 35th Edition.

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CHEST Curriculum Pathways

With credit claiming opportunities for the whole care team in either asthma, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, or interstitial lung disease, CHEST Curriculum Pathways offers certificates of completion to prove continued education for learners. The course material is consistently updated to reflect best practices, including educational assets added to the CHEST Curriculum Pathway for Asthma in 2025 to reflect newly available therapies.

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