CHEST Pulse American College of Chest Physicians

“I learned how scary it was to be on that side of medicine... I had gone from being a healthydoctor to a patient with cancer, and I had a lot of anxiety about reentering the world, especiallyas a doctor.”
In a recording of a live performance from the CHEST 2023 annual meeting in Honolulu, LilitSargsyan, MD, FCCP, shares her experience in the health care system as a patient with thyroidcancer.
Dr. Sargsyan had to advocate for herself—and fight too hard, she said—to receive the tests andcare she knew she needed. As a physician, she was in a place of privilege to do that. But itchanged her entire outlook as a medical professional.
Listen to her story of how she overcame the feelings of fear, anger, and anxiety to reclaim herlife—and her voice.
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This podcast highlights a clinician's experience with climate change and its impact on lung health. Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a clinician educator, and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as the CHEST representative on the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
 
Read a CHEST Advocates article, “Tackling the Massive Threat of Climate Change,” written by Dr. Maximous: https://www.chestnet.org/Guidelines-and-Topic-Collections/Publications/CHEST-Advocates/Tackling-the-Massive-Threat-of-Climate-Change
 
All CHEST members are encouraged to learn how you can become a force for climate and health in your community. To get involved with the Consortium, visit https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org.

In this episode, expert faculty Julie Morisset, MD, and Ayodeji Adegunsoye, MD, MSc, PhD, FCCP, talk with moderator Mary Beth Scholand, MD, FCCP, on the health inequities that are important to factor into interstitial lung disease (ILD) diagnosis and care. They discuss the symptoms and patient profiles associated with ILD, appropriate tests that may help validate a suspicion of ILD, and next steps in the process, including how to document and when and where to refer.
 
Access more ILD resources from CHEST at https://www.chestnet.org/guidelines-and-topic-collections/topic-collections/interstitial-lung-disease.
 
Claim 1 CME/CE/MOC credit for listening to this podcast at https://education.chestnet.org/url/product/92917.1.
 
This project is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through a grant program administered by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe) has become an influential advocacy and education nonprofit run and powered by passionate volunteers across the country. The organization serves as the national parent voice fighting the predatory behavior of Big Tobacco as it relates to vaping and targeting youth.
PAVe parents advocate at the local, state, and national levels for ending the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes and all menthol and other flavored tobacco products. They also provide free resources, training, and materials that empower parents to educate others in their own communities about the dangers of youth vaping. 
Together with Dina Alessi and Dorian Fuhrman, Meredith Berkman is one of the founding partners of PAVe. This podcast, part of summer 2023 issue of CHEST Advocates, shares her story.
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Kara L. Dupuy-McCauley, MD, highlights the group of disorders that make up central sleep apnea (CSA). Because there are a variety of different CSA types, treatment can be challenging, as there is no one-size-fits-all approach to treatment. Gain an understanding of the types and their pathophysiology to help you decipher which treatment methods are best for your patients.
This webinar was developed by the Respiratory-Related Sleep Disorders Section of CHEST’s Sleep Medicine Network.

In this episode of CHEST Morning Preview, Aneesa Das, MD, FCCP, Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for CHEST 2023, previews the final day of CHEST 2023 while speaking with Gabriel T. Bosslet, MD, FCCP, Chair of the Scientific Program Committee for CHEST 2024, about what to expect from next year’s meeting in Boston.
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