“Updates in Interventional Pulmonary Medicine” by Dr. Mihir Parikh of BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship BIDMC Harvard Medical School

🎉 The winner of the 2024 Henry D. Chadwick Medal 🏅 presented by Dr. Taylor Thompson to Dr. Robert Brown both of MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Harvard Medical School MassGeneral News 🎉

Congratulations Dr. Brown!!

Closing remarks from outgoing MTS President Dr. Kai Saukkonen of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Harvard Medical School MassGeneral News. Thank you for your leadership!

Dr. Katherine Dudley and Dr. Chris Worsham Chris Worsham of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Harvard Medical School MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Mass General Brigham discussing “Durable Medical Equipment: How Policies Affect Home Oxygen and Other Devices, and What Can We Do About It?”

Dr. Mary Rice, Director of the Institute for Lung Health at BIDMC BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Harvard Medical School, discussing “Effects of Climate Change on Pulmonary Health”

Dr. Rachel Knipe Rachel Knipe of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Harvard Medical School discussing “Biological Mechanisms Underlying Interstitial Lung Disease”

Check out the Knipe Lab! ➡️ massgeneral.org/medicine/pulmo…

Jenny Shih Brigham & Women's Pulmonary and Critical Care Boston Medical Center BU Pulmonary Finally Case #3 presented by Dr. Anthony El Khoury Anthony El Khoury, MD of Baystate Health University of Massachusetts with faculty discussant Dr. Ben Medoff MedoffLab of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Harvard Medical School MassGeneral News

First talk!

“Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Impact on Pulmonary Medicine” by Deputy Editor of NEJM AI of Harvard Medical School and BIDMC, Arjun (Raj) Manrai!

Next we had the L. Jack Faling Best Cases of the Year presentations!

First up Dr. Mariah Evarts from Boston Medical Center BU Pulmonary Boston University Pulmonary Fellows with faculty expert Dr. Scott Schissel of Brigham and Women's Hospital Mass General Brigham moderated by Dr. Asha Anandaiah of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine!

On pulm consults with Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship BIDMC IM Residency, and consulted on a case of platypnea that is still escaping us. In the spirit of a Staci Saunders intern report today on effective med-ed, here's my general approach to the condition and attempt at an infographic!
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Big thanks to Dr. Nichole T. Tanner for her insightful talk, 'Disparities across the lung cancer continuum' for our Health Disparities lecture series! Dr. Tanner highlighted the disparities in lung cancer risk, screening, and treatment, and suggested some mitigation strategies.

Some great work by F3 Stephen Mein, under the mentorship of Drs. Mary Rice (@BIDMCLungHealth) and Rishi Wadhera (@HarvardChanSPH)!

🚨VV ECMO candidacy decisions are not consistent!

They generally should be.

Just out in CHEST® Journal - the first output of the newly formed EC-YES international study group analyzing the quality of ECMO candidacy decision-making. 🧵 (1/7)

journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-…

Sharing research on climate change and respiratory health in the US Nicholas Nassikas gave an outstanding and inspiring Grand Rounds presentation for the MGH-BIDMC Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program on our warming planet. ATS EOPH BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship

Great opportunity to network with other pulmonary health professionals, and fellows can attend for free!

Always awesome to see our alumni get recognized for their fantastic work. Congratulations Viral!

Lively discussion in Grand Rounds today, led by F1 John Fountain, MD who started by asking the room, 'Do you use procalcitonin in your practice?' Dr. Fountain then reviewed several studies that sought to determine whether procalcitonin could be a useful biomarker of infection.

Big thanks to Marzyeh for her eye-opening talk in our Health Disparities series! Dr. Ghassemi discussed multiple places in AI development where bias can be introduced, and emphasized the need for regulatory oversight to ensure safe + fair deployment of these technologies

Thanks Adam W Gaffney for starting off our 2024 Health Disparities seminar series! 'Uniquely situated at the interface between external and internal - between inner biology and environment - the lungs are a mirror for the inequalities in our society.'

2 great WIPs today! Dr. Rod Rahimi discussed his studies to define the regulatory functions of dendritic cells in allergic airway disease. Dr. Daniel Alape Moya (F3/Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship) presented his work to assess hepatic vascular abnormalities in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia