The ATS is also sponsoring 30 other postgraduate courses on Friday, May 14, and Saturday, May 15, before the official start of the 2010 International Conference.
Speakers at these courses are considered among the world’s experts, and they offer in a very concentrated form the benefit of their clinical and research experience. As one frequent attendee of these courses put it, “The speakers are very well prepared, they cover everything and they give a lot of detail on topics that can be hard to learn.”
The postgraduate courses that will be offered at ATS 2010 are:
Friday, May 14
PG1 Functional Contributions to Respiratory Disorders in Children and Adults
PG2 Practical Issues in the Management of Interstitial Lung Disease
PG3 Interventional Pulmonology with Practical Demonstration: Tools and Knowledge to
Empower Your Practice
PG4 Update on Cystic Fibrosis 2010: Pathobiology, Genomics and Treatment
PG5 Pulmonary and Critical Care Reviews: Built Around ABIM 2009 Modules (Updates) in Pulmonary and Critical Care
PG6 Practical Approach to Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease: A Case-Based Discussion
PG7 Challenges and Opportunities for TB Control
PG8 Host Defense Mechanisms in Pulmonary Infection
PG9 Update in Pulmonary Hypertension: Conventions and Controversies
PG10 Advances in the Comprehensive Management of COPD
PG11 Conquering Population Biology: ‘Ome My Gosh!
PG12 Cased-Based Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation
PG13 The Cutting Edge of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Diagnosis and Management
PG14 Quality Measurement and Improvement: A Practical Guide
PG15 Bench to Bedside: The Art and Science of Translational Research
Saturday, May 15
PG16 Novel Research Opportunities in Clinical Research Utilizing Existing Data
PG17 Thoracic Imaging
PG18 State of the Art Controversies in COPD: A Pro-Con Debate
PG19 Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing for the Practicing Clinician
PG20 ICU-Acquired Weakness: The Current State of the Art
PG21 The Science of Healthcare Delivery in the Intensive Care Unit
PG22 Gene-by-Environment Interactions on Lung Disease
PG23 Challenges in Management of Pulmonary Infections
PG24 A Physiologic Approach to Pediatric Lung Diseases
PG25 Grant Fundamentals
PG26 The Translational Biology of Lung Cancer
PG27 Quantitative Assessment of Lung Structure: Principles and Practical Applications
PG28 Clinical Respiratory Physiology and Pathophysiology Master Class
PG29 Respiratory Neurobiology: What is the Latest?
PG30 Mastering Clinical Teaching Skills for Pulmonary and Critical Care
For more information, please visit the ATS Web site at www.thoracic.org/go/pgcourses. Registration forms for the 2010 International Conference and these postgraduate courses are available online. Since postgraduate courses require an additional registration fee and seating is limited, plan to register early to ensure admittance to the course of your choice.