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There is no denying that over the last few months, the world has become a very different and uncertain place. We all are slowly adjusting to our new “normal” and whether it has been through longer and more grueling hours, volunteering in areas of greater need, or switching your practice to function through an online platform, I commend you for the extra time, focus, and energy you have undoubtedly put into your everyday patient care routines throughout the pandemic.
There have been a lot of questions coming in about what the plan is for CHEST Annual Meeting 2020 in October. Will we be able to gather in large groups at that time? Will there be alternative education options if some are unable to travel to Chicago, Illinois, due to travel restrictions or an increased workload? What is our plan?
As the Program Chair of this year’s meeting, and as a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician, I will be honest with you. There is still a lot of unknown. We cannot confidently say what the world will look like come October. We do not know what travel restrictions will still be in place, or if any new ones will have been implemented. We do not know what the volume of COVID-19 cases will be at that point in time. But, we do know that the community of clinical professionals that has grown at previous CHEST Annual Meetings, and at other live CHEST education courses, is eager for an opportunity to once again connect with their peers, make new connections, and learn in new ways at the premier event in clinical pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Not forgetting, that now, more than ever, colleagues outside of our specialties are looking for the education that CHEST has to offer in management of coagulation and ARDS, and more.
I do not have all of the answers, but I do know that the staff at CHEST Global Headquarters are working tirelessly to build a meeting that is at present, still planned to take place in Chicago, but that also will be translated onto an online platform that will allow for anyone and everyone to participate, either in person or online. The CHEST team is working closely with our Scientific Program Committee to produce an innovative meeting with live interactive education, networking events, CHEST Games, and so much more.
Here at CHEST, the hope is to create a “light at the end of the tunnel,” to give you and your colleagues something to look forward to – an opportunity to relax, learn, explore, and reconnect with your peers in the chest medicine field. CHEST leadership and staff are continually monitoring the pandemic, weighing the shifting trajectory of the infection and infection control measures implemented nationally and locally, while ensuring that we have flexible offerings available to meet your short- and long-term educational needs.
There will be more updates available in the coming months, so I encourage you to visit chestmeeting.chestnet.org to stay up to date. I am looking forward to seeing the great community of clinical professionals at CHEST Annual Meeting 2020, this October 17-21, whether it is in-person, or online.
Best,
Victor Test, MD, FCCP
There is no denying that over the last few months, the world has become a very different and uncertain place. We all are slowly adjusting to our new “normal” and whether it has been through longer and more grueling hours, volunteering in areas of greater need, or switching your practice to function through an online platform, I commend you for the extra time, focus, and energy you have undoubtedly put into your everyday patient care routines throughout the pandemic.
There have been a lot of questions coming in about what the plan is for CHEST Annual Meeting 2020 in October. Will we be able to gather in large groups at that time? Will there be alternative education options if some are unable to travel to Chicago, Illinois, due to travel restrictions or an increased workload? What is our plan?
As the Program Chair of this year’s meeting, and as a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician, I will be honest with you. There is still a lot of unknown. We cannot confidently say what the world will look like come October. We do not know what travel restrictions will still be in place, or if any new ones will have been implemented. We do not know what the volume of COVID-19 cases will be at that point in time. But, we do know that the community of clinical professionals that has grown at previous CHEST Annual Meetings, and at other live CHEST education courses, is eager for an opportunity to once again connect with their peers, make new connections, and learn in new ways at the premier event in clinical pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Not forgetting, that now, more than ever, colleagues outside of our specialties are looking for the education that CHEST has to offer in management of coagulation and ARDS, and more.
I do not have all of the answers, but I do know that the staff at CHEST Global Headquarters are working tirelessly to build a meeting that is at present, still planned to take place in Chicago, but that also will be translated onto an online platform that will allow for anyone and everyone to participate, either in person or online. The CHEST team is working closely with our Scientific Program Committee to produce an innovative meeting with live interactive education, networking events, CHEST Games, and so much more.
Here at CHEST, the hope is to create a “light at the end of the tunnel,” to give you and your colleagues something to look forward to – an opportunity to relax, learn, explore, and reconnect with your peers in the chest medicine field. CHEST leadership and staff are continually monitoring the pandemic, weighing the shifting trajectory of the infection and infection control measures implemented nationally and locally, while ensuring that we have flexible offerings available to meet your short- and long-term educational needs.
There will be more updates available in the coming months, so I encourage you to visit chestmeeting.chestnet.org to stay up to date. I am looking forward to seeing the great community of clinical professionals at CHEST Annual Meeting 2020, this October 17-21, whether it is in-person, or online.
Best,
Victor Test, MD, FCCP
There is no denying that over the last few months, the world has become a very different and uncertain place. We all are slowly adjusting to our new “normal” and whether it has been through longer and more grueling hours, volunteering in areas of greater need, or switching your practice to function through an online platform, I commend you for the extra time, focus, and energy you have undoubtedly put into your everyday patient care routines throughout the pandemic.
There have been a lot of questions coming in about what the plan is for CHEST Annual Meeting 2020 in October. Will we be able to gather in large groups at that time? Will there be alternative education options if some are unable to travel to Chicago, Illinois, due to travel restrictions or an increased workload? What is our plan?
As the Program Chair of this year’s meeting, and as a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician, I will be honest with you. There is still a lot of unknown. We cannot confidently say what the world will look like come October. We do not know what travel restrictions will still be in place, or if any new ones will have been implemented. We do not know what the volume of COVID-19 cases will be at that point in time. But, we do know that the community of clinical professionals that has grown at previous CHEST Annual Meetings, and at other live CHEST education courses, is eager for an opportunity to once again connect with their peers, make new connections, and learn in new ways at the premier event in clinical pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Not forgetting, that now, more than ever, colleagues outside of our specialties are looking for the education that CHEST has to offer in management of coagulation and ARDS, and more.
I do not have all of the answers, but I do know that the staff at CHEST Global Headquarters are working tirelessly to build a meeting that is at present, still planned to take place in Chicago, but that also will be translated onto an online platform that will allow for anyone and everyone to participate, either in person or online. The CHEST team is working closely with our Scientific Program Committee to produce an innovative meeting with live interactive education, networking events, CHEST Games, and so much more.
Here at CHEST, the hope is to create a “light at the end of the tunnel,” to give you and your colleagues something to look forward to – an opportunity to relax, learn, explore, and reconnect with your peers in the chest medicine field. CHEST leadership and staff are continually monitoring the pandemic, weighing the shifting trajectory of the infection and infection control measures implemented nationally and locally, while ensuring that we have flexible offerings available to meet your short- and long-term educational needs.
There will be more updates available in the coming months, so I encourage you to visit chestmeeting.chestnet.org to stay up to date. I am looking forward to seeing the great community of clinical professionals at CHEST Annual Meeting 2020, this October 17-21, whether it is in-person, or online.
Best,
Victor Test, MD, FCCP