Events

2015 American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting Highlights: Wrapping it Up
After attending many informational sessions at the American Thoracic Society’s Annual Meeting, National Emphysema Foundation President, Laurence G. Nair, offered a summary of some of the most interesting topics brought up during the conference.

2015 American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting Highlights: Approaches to Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) for Emphysema and Heterogeneity of COPD
National Emphysema Foundation President, Laurence G. Nair also attended another session at the American Thoracic Society’s annual meeting, titled “Approaches to Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) for Emphysema,” which highlighted the strides that lung volume reduction techniques have made since introduced about 20 years ago.

2015 American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting Highlights: Year in Review - Literature
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) held its annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on May 15-20 this year, where chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was a topic that many physicians decided to head to the Rockies to discuss.

September 15, 2009
Medical Conference Notes - ACCP #2
These were some of the developments that were presented at an American College of Chest Physicians meeting that will be interesting to follow over the coming years.

September 15, 2009
Medical Conference Notes - ACCP
At a recent conference of the American College of Chest Physicians held in Canada some of the topics discussed there were relevant to COPD.