ATS 2020 Virtual - Less Than One Week Away!
Join us for ATS 2020 Virtual! Featuring two sessions on Global Perspectives on COVID-19, ATS 2020 Virtual offers scientific sessions, Industry Insights, virtual exhibits, and live Expert Chats!
Simply register for the conference, and starting Aug. 5, you’ll be able to log-in and view on-demand scientific sessions, ePosters and more. Every day from Aug. 5 to Aug. 10, the duration of ATS 2020 Virtual, we’ll release new content that will remain on-demand for 90 days.
MECOR Latin America
Join us for Methods in Epidemiologic, Clinical, and Operations Research (MECOR) Latin America! The application portal is now open, and applications will be accepted through Aug. 31, 2020. The course itself will be held virtually on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. GMT-3, from Oct. 17 - Nov.21, 2020.
The ATS MECOR Program is a multi-level research methods training course intended for clinicians, investigators, academicians, and public health professionals who primarily work with pulmonary diseases. The objective of the MECOR Program is to prepare current or aspiring investigators, academicians, clinicians and public health practitioners to design and conduct research that is relevant to the needs of the settings in which they work.
For additional information in Spanish and Portuguese, please click here to visit the ALAT website.
New Guidance for Clinicians
The ATS has published new resources for clinicians on the following topics:
- New Clinician Resource, "SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and the Risk of Aerosol Generating Procedures"
- Restoring Pulmonary and Sleep Services as the COVID-19 Pandemic Lessens: From an Association of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division Directors and American Thoracic Society-coordinated Task Force
- Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
ATS Patient Resources
The ATS Patient Information Series and Public Health Information Series include more than 100 fact sheets on topics ranging from bronchoscopy, and arterial catheterization to sleep studies, smoking cessation, and pulmonary rehabilitation. Select resources are available in multiple languages!
We have recently updated our resources to include a new resource, "Managing the ICU Experience: A Proactive Guide for Patients and Families," also available in Spanish!
Other Highlights
- Blue Journal Highlights
- Red Journal Highlights
- AnnalsATS Journal Highlights
- ATS Scholar: New Issue!
- ATS Journals Impact Factors Increase!
- Blue Journal Editor-in-Chief Announcement!
- "Life at the Editorial 'COVID Frontline:" The ATS Journal Family
- Industry Innovations Webinar Series
- ATS and CHEST launch "For My Lung Health" Campaign
- COVID-19 Resources
- View Guidelines Implementation Tools
- Just Approved and Launched
- Archives
