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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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Encouraging CMS to Support In-Home Treatment of Chronic Respiratory Failure Related to COPD

In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CHEST showed support for access to in-home noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure related to COPD.

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Exciting opportunities for tobacco treatment: Unpacking the CMS changes

A recent CHEST Physician® article from the CHEST Tobacco/Vaping Work Group discusses changes enacted by CMS that will change the way pulmonologists and medical centers can help treat people with tobacco use disorder.

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Help shape the CHEST 2025 curriculum

CHEST is now accepting topic ideas for CHEST 2025 in Chicago. Submit topic ideas from areas you're passionate about, topics affecting your practice, or new technologies you'd like to learn more about. Applications close December 4, at 2 pm CT.

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AI applications in pediatric pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine

A CHEST Physician® article from the Pediatric Chest Medicine Section highlights the benefit of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools in pediatric pulmonary disease management to analyze patient data on environmental and physiological variables and compliance with therapy. "Asthma specialists can potentially use this knowledge to intervene in real time or more frequent intervals than the current episodic care."

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Major takeaways from the seventh world symposium on PH

An update from the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Section highlights key takeaways from the seventh world symposium on pulmonary hypertension (PH), including a new staging model for group 2 PH, reinforcing a treatment algorithm based on risk stratification, and more.

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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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