Grants: Helping You Advance Health Care

Kathleen Ramos, MD

“This grant was a very cool opportunity to investigate the effects of low BMI on access to transplant. The work from this grant was important when we wrote the expert consensus recommendations for the international transplant community.”

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Joseph Huang, MD

“Our graduates coordinate with [the Ministry of Health] on different policies, especially related to drug-resistant tuberculosis. They’re also training physicians in rural hospitals on basic skills in pulmonary and critical care medicine.”

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Ghada Bourjeily, MD, FCCP

“CHEST Foundation grants helped us transform the care of women that are pregnant and may have sleep-disordered breathing. So many more providers are now screening for this than they were 5 or 10 years ago, and pregnant women are so grateful to have a diagnosis and be offered treatment.”

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Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS

“A big impact was teaching students how they can use science to advocate for their loved ones’ health. We told them, ‘You’ll be playing a role in saving lives more than any physician or nurse ever could by sharing this information.’”

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Adam Silverman, MD

“To go to different pediatric facilities around Haiti and see those [critical care] manuals still dog-eared and coffee-stained, but well-used, is really a testament to how much impact putting on these courses and having French materials available for the learners really provided.”

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