The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at ATS 2024

The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine will be well-represented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Annual Meeting in San Diego from Friday, May 17 to Wednesday, May 22. Our experts will be lecturing and presenting research abstracts on a number of important topics relating to pulmonary medicine.

View the complete list of presentations, workshops, and poster sessions featuring experts from UPMC here.

Below are a list of key sessions including experts from UPMC:

Saturday, May 18

Opening Ceremony

ATS Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science

Presented to: Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD

ATS Fellow

Inductee: Anuradha Ray, MD

Sunday, May 19

PI-TB Rising Star Award

Presented to: Ioannis Konstantinidis, MD MS

An Evening Reception with PACCSM

6 to 9 p.m. at Puesto at The Headquarters

Monday, May 20

Filling in the Gaps: A Novel Air Pollution Curriculum for Pulmonary Fellows

Presented by: Rachel Wojcik, MD

The Post-acute Recovery Center: A Telehealth Care Model to Improve Patient-centered Outcomes for High-risk Survivors of Critical Illness          
Presented by: Hiam Naiditch, MD; Martha Frances Brucato, MD; Victor Talisa, PhD; John R. Hotchkiss, MD; Florian B. Mayr, MD

Does Occam's Razor Even Apply in Severely Immunosuppressed Patients? A Case of a Patient With HIV/AIDS With Opportunistic Infections, Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, and Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

Presented by: Peter Nauka, MD, and Ioannis Konstantinidis, MD, MS

Tuesday, May 21

AMSARS-CoV-2 Viremia Associates With Thrombosis and Mortality in the ACTIV-4a Trial    
Presented by: Seyed Mehdi Nouraie, MD, PhD; Yingze Zhang, PhD; Charles S. Dela Cruz, MD, PhD, ATSF; Lianghui Zhang, MD, PhD; Bryan J. McVerry, MD; Alison Morris, MD, MS; Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD; William Bain, MD

Inflammatory Subphenotype Is Associated with Acute Brain Dysfunction in Mechanically Ventilated Patients      
Presented by: Niall Prendergast, MD; Christopher Franz, MD; Chukwudi Anthony Onyemekwu, DO; Yingze Zhang, PhD; William Bain, MD; Faraaz Ali Shah, MD, MPH; Seyed Mehdi Nouraie, MD, PhD; Bryan J. McVerry, MD; Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD

Macrophage Inflammatory and Metabolic Function Is Reduced with Loss of Adenine Nucleotide Translocase 1 (Ant1) in COPD   
Presented by: Corrine R. Kliment, MD

Increased Gut Permeability Associates with Multimorbidity in COPD         
Presented by: Anne Yang, MD; Seyed Mehdi Nouraie, MD, PhD; Yingze Zhang, PhD; Alison A. Morris, MD, MS; Frank Sciurba, MD; Melanie Koenigshoff, MD; Jessica Bon Field, MD, MS

Wednesday, May 22

Single Nucleotide Variation in CX3CL1 and Risk for Bacterial Pneumonia and ARDS           
Presented by: Lokesh Sharma, PhD; Jessica Bon Field, MD, MS; Charles S. Dela Cruz, MD, PhD, ATSF; Jonathan K. Alder, PhD; Bryan J. McVerry, MD; Patrick J. Strollo, MD; Yingze Zhang, PhD; Georgios Kitsios, MD, PhD; William Bain, MD