President's Message Archive
2024
- Governance Changes Promise a Stronger, More Transparent ATS
- ATS Statement on Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform Act
- Creating a Fairer, More Equitable Future for the Global Respiratory Community
2023
- The Black Angels: A Message from ATS President M. Patricia Rivera, MD, ATSF
- Bringing Together the Global Respiratory Community at ATS 2023
- ATS: Moving the Needle on Climate Change
- Stabilizing the Nursing Shortage Through Partnership
- Year-Round Learning at ATS
2022
- Now is the Time for Giving...and Supporting the Next Generation
- Considerations and Challenges in the Selection of Conference Venues
- The Sleeping Giant: Sleep Disorders and Opioid Use Disorder
- Medical Misinformation is a Public Health Crisis That Divides and Kills
2021
- Equity Matters
- Transitions and New Beginnings
- A Time for Thanksgiving: My Year as ATS President
- An Ounce of Prevention: The American Thoracic Society’s Role in Public Health
- Bringing the ATS Home: The ATS Regional Chapters
- The Best Generation
- Facing the Unexpected: The ATS Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
2020
- Staying at the Forefront of Education
- Advocacy at the ATS: Speaking Truth to Power
- Helping the World Breathe
- The Importance and Impact of Biomedical Research
- Strength in Diversity
- Addressing Respiratory Health Disparities
- Looking Back: My Year as ATS President
- Coming Together Amid a Crisis
- How Members Helped Turn ATS 2020 Green
- ATS and Climate Change: Making the Case for Action
- ATS Welcomes Fundraising for the Research Program into the Fold
2019
- ATS Activities for Early Career Professionals
- How to Get (More) Involved with the ATS
- ATS International Activities: 2019 and Beyond
- ATS Scholar: A Welcome Addition to the ATS Family of Journals
- ATS Governance: Best Practices for the Future
- A New Year for ATS
- Looking Back, 2018-2019
- ATS Board Releases New Non-Discrimination and Harassment Policy
- Sneak Peek into Hot Topics at ATS 2019
- Interactions with the Cannabis Industry
- New Directions for the ATS Foundation
2018
- ATS and the Fight Against Tobacco
- RIS@ATS
- Journals at the ATS
- Pursuing the ATS Mission on the Global Stage
- ATS Clinical Guidelines
- Taking Collaboration into the New Year
- Legacy and the ATS
- Diversity and the ATS
- Top Picks ATS 2018
- The Burnout Problem
- Mentoring Month: The Importance of Mentorship
2017
- Future Generations & the ATS Foundation
- The Tobacco Problem
- Collaborating with Patients, Collaborating With PAR
- Hazards from Harvey
- World Lung Day: Join the Call
- Three of Life’s Greatest Lessons
- Final Reflections as 2016-2017 President
- Standing Partnerships: A Story of Medicine
- Preparing Our Early Career Professionals
- 2017 Public Health Resolutions: Breathe Cleaner
2016
- Leaders of the Lung World: Global Health and ATS
- Healthy Sleep for a Lifetime
- Patients as Teachers: ATS PAR Patient Voices
- Masterful Clinicians: Models for the Future and Ourselves
- Our Greatest Investment
- Life and Leadership: Q&A with President David Gozal
- Vision for the Future of Lung Health
- Reflection and an Opportunity: Greater Society Diversity
- In Pursuit of Science: Revisiting a Speech by President Reagan
- Advocating for the Lung Health of the World’s Refugees
- Top Five Reasons to Attend ATS 2016 San Francisco
2015
- My Family
- Why Sleep Research Matters
- Why I’m Dedicated to Research
- Why Join the ATS?
- Support the ATS Foundation
- Focusing on the Next Generation
- Oh, The Places We Have Gone
- Our Voice
- Our Past is Prologue
- Make a Difference
- My First ATS International Conference
2014
- Helping Patients Live Their Lives
- ATS Journals: The Voice of the Society
- Helping the World Breathe
- Teaching the Teachers
- The Vanishing Pulmonary Clinician-Scientist
- ATS Poised to Contribute to Countless Advances
- Looking Back at the Past Year, Looking Forward to Many More
- After World TB Day is When It Really Matters
- For Lessons in Leadership, Look to Dr. King and Mandela
- ATS Publication Milestones and the Talented People Behind Them
- ATS Budgetary Decisions Reflect the Strength of our Programs and the Progress of out Mission
2013
- Spread Compassion And Warmth This Holiday Season
- Thoracic Surgery Milestone Reminds Us of How Disparties
- How the ATS Continues to Fight the Global Spread of TB and MDR-TB
- FIRS Prepares for 2014 United Nations Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases
- Addressing Green Matters at the White House: A Climate Change Discussion
- How Health Equality Impacts Disease Outcomes and How the ATS Can Help
- Reflecting on Our Accomplishments
- A Crucial Moment for the ATS: Research Funding and Physician Reimbursement
- Patients and the ATS International Conference
- Remembering My First International Conference
- UN Focuses on Chronic Disease
2012
- Message from the President: Climate Change and Respiratory Disease
- Statistics Showing ATS Growth
- ATS Leadership Summit
- Court Decisions Important to Our Advocacy Mission
- Our Boots on the Ground in Washington
- How BREATHE Describes Our Goals
- Message from the President
- Is the International Conference Obsolete?
- Raising Public Awareness
- Remembering Jo Rae
- New Direction for Proceedings of the ATS
Last Reviewed: May 1 2023
