Winners-All at CHEST 2016

January 6, 2017|CHEST Physician

We all know that, with the great success of CHEST 2016, everyone who shared that event is a winner. But, we would especially like to call out some of the special winners who were recognized during our annual meeting.

CHEST Awards

College Medalist Award

Lewis J. Rubin, MD, FCCP

Distinguished Service Award

Kim D. French, MHSA, CAPPM, FCCP

Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence

Seth J. Koenig, MD, FCCP

Master Clinician Educator Award

Jack D. Buckley, MD, MPH, FCCP

Distinguished Scientist Honor Lecture

Jay Nadel, MD

Edward C. Rosenow III, MD, Master FCCP/Master Teacher Honor Lecture

Suhail Raoof, MBBS, FCCP

Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture

Michael Niederman, MD, FCCP Pasquale Ciaglia Memorial Lecture Kevin L. Kovitz, MD, FCCP

Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture

Robert A. Berg, MD Thomas L. Petty, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS, FCCP Margaret Pfrommer Memorial Lecture in Long-term Mechanical Ventilation Thomas G. Keens, MD Om P. Sharma, MD, Master FCCP Memorial Lecture Robert P. Baughman, MD, FCCP

Early Career Educator

Gabriel Bosslet, MD, FCCP

CHEST Challenge Championship 2016

1st Place

The University of Arizona

Huthayfa Ateeli, MBBS Naser Mahmoud, MD

Muna Omar, MD, MBBS

PD: James L. Knepler Jr.

2nd Place

New York Methodist Hospital

Anu R. Jacob, MD

Stephen D. Milan, MD

Jordan Taillon, MD

PD: Anthony G. Saleh, MD, FCCP

3rd Place

Interfaith Medical Center

Chidozie C. Agu, MD

Saroj P. Kandel, MBBS Divya Salhan, MD, MBBS

PD: Marie Frances J. Schmidt, MD, FCCP

CHEST Foundation Grant Winners

GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health

Don Hayes Jr., MD, FCCP The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Implications of the Lung Allocation Score in Prioritizing Critically Ill Patients for Lung Transplantation

Supported by GlaxoSmithKline.

2016 Research Grantees

Alice Turner, MBChB, MRCP, PhD

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

CHEST Foundation and the Alpha-1 Foundation Research Grant in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

Improving Access to Augmentation: A Propensity-Matching Study Between the UK AATD Registry and AlphaNet

This grant is jointly supported by the CHEST Foundation and the Alpha-1 Foundation.

Robert Busch, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Channing Division of Network Medicine

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Methylation Quantitative Trait Loci: Markers of Race-Specific Disparities in African Americans With COPD

This grant is supported by AstraZeneca.

Clemens Grassberger, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard University

CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Lung Cancer

Dynamic FLT-PET as Biomarker for Early Response in Locally Advanced Lung Cancer Patients

This grant is supported by Genentech Inc.