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Pulmonary Division Excels at CHEST Conference in Boston
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Department of Medicine faculty members, residents, and APPs showcased their research and delivered lectures at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST).
Sandhya Khurana, MD, who served as vice-chair for the scientific program, delivered the esteemed Mark J. Rosen Honored Lecture, and received the Distinguished CHEST Educator Award. She participated in the conference podcast, Morning Preview. Khurana is scientific program chair for next year’s conference.
Presentations, in alphabetical order:
- Presentation: Wildfires, Your Patients, and You: Fires, Firefighting, Facemasks, and Filters
- Wildfires and Health: An Overview
- Poster: Acute Forearm Compartment Syndrome as a Complication of Radial Artery Catheterization
- With Lisa Cardamone, NP
- Moderator: Critical Care Case Reports Posters
- Presentation Chair: Updates to the Asthma Diagnostic Toolbox: Bronchodilator Response, Bronchoprovocation Testing, FENO, and Oscillometry
- Introduction and Case Presentation, and Detecting Asthma by Measuring Peripheral Airways Dysfunction
- Presentation: Effects of Obesity on Lung Function and Respiratory Diseases
- Pulmonary Mechanics in Obesity
- Presentation: Creating a clinical team, optimizing documentation and scheduling to improve patient outcomes in an occupational pulmonary medicine clinic
- With Croft, Steve Georas, MD, Khurana, and Mark Utell, MD
- Master Class Co-Chair: Advanced Management Strategies in Severe Asthma and COPD
- Audience Response Questions in Asthma, Evidence from Recent Studies, Switching Biologic Agents in Asthma, and Case Studies in Asthma
- Presentation: Management of Pulmonary and Pulmonary Vascular Disease in Pregnancy
- Review of the Management of Asthma in Pregnancy
- Presentation: Women in Chest Medicine Speed Mentoring - Trainee Lounge Presentation
- Authentic Self-Promotion & Advocacy
- Session Chair: Biologics in Asthma: Session 2 - Beyond the Basics
- What's New for Biologics in 2024
- Speaker: Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Endowed Memorial Lecture
- Breathing Easier: The Evolution and Future of Asthma Care
Filip Koritysskiy, MD – Internal Medicine Resident
- Poster: Worsening Air Quality During the Canadian Wildfires Not Observed to Increase Pert Activation Rates
- With Croft, Lachant, Dominick Roto, DO, and Mark Marinescu, MD, from Cardiology
- Presentation: CHEST Guidelines on Biologics for Severe Asthma: Evidence, Recommendations, and Clinical Implications
- Guideline Methodology
- Speaker: Meet the Professor - How to give a great presentation
Seif Nasir, MD – Internal Medicine Resident
- Presentation: It's (Not) All In Your Head - A Case Of MRSA Ventriculitis in the Setting of Immune Reconstitution Syndrome
- With Roto and Erin Kelly, MD, from Primary Care
- Session Chair: New Horizons in COPD
- Digital technologies and AI in COPD
- Patricia Rivera, MD – Division Chief
- Speaker: Meet the Professor 2024 - Setting Up a Lung Cancer Screening Program
Anne Zhang, MD – Internal Medicine Resident
New Grant Will Boost Training in Lung Disease Research
Friday, July 12, 2024
Steve Georas, MD, from Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, and Michael O’Reilly, PhD, from Pediatrics, received a $2.5 million multidisciplinary training grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This T32 Training Grant aims to educate and support basic scientists and physician-scientists conducting high impact and innovative research that will improve the health of people suffering from lung diseases. The grant will enable them to recruit and train both postdoctoral fellows and predoctoral trainees from diverse backgrounds, and provide multifaceted and personalized training opportunities. Stay tuned for more information, including a call for applications for mentors to nominate trainees for support.
DOM Faculty Shine as Rivera Reflects on 20 Years of ATS Research
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Thousands of physicians, researchers, and trainees gathered in San Diego for the annual conference of the American Thoracic Society (ATS). The event showcases recent developments in patient care and respiratory research from across the globe. The Department of Medicine had a strong presence, as faculty from three divisions, Pulmonary and Critical Care fellows, and Internal Medicine residents shared posters and abstracts, and facilitated sessions.
One point of pride for the DOM is that Patricia Rivera, MD, division chief of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, is the president of the ATS, which created the video, “Breath: Celebrating 20 Years of the ATS Research Program.” In this inspiring segment, Rivera reflects on how “research grows and builds. It’s really through collaboration, because ultimately it all goes to one mission: improve the lives of our patients.” She expresses appreciation to those who have come before, and reinforces the importance of supporting early-career researchers to carry things onward.
URMC Presents at NY State Thoracic Society Meeting
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Members of the Department of Medicine recently showcased their expertise through posters and presentations at the annual conference of the New York State chapter of the American Thoracic Society, held at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY.
Augusto Litonjua, MD, MPH, a professor from Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, delivered the prestigious Trudeau Lecture, “Early Life Origins of Asthma and Lung Disease.” Paritosh Prasad, MD, an associate professor from Infectious Diseases, engaged the audience with his lecture “Pro/Con – Steroids in CAP.”
Louis Arens, MD, an Internal Medicine resident, earned second-place in the poster session with his case report, “Respiratory Failure in a Patient with Pleural-Based Extramedullary Plasmacytoma.” The first-place poster went to medical student Emma Mathers, for “Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) disguised as Lung cancer in a Heart.”
Of special note, Manoj Mammen, MD, associate professor from Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, holds a significant role within the New York chapter. He has served as the vice-president, and at this meeting was advanced to president-elect. He will serve in that role from 2024 – 2025. “The NYS Thoracic Society is a state chapter of the American Thoracic Society,” said Mammen, “representing the state’s Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine physicians. The chapter enables members and trainees a regional forum to pursue valuable opportunities in education, networking, advocacy, and service.”