Graduate students and faculty present at ATS International Conference

Faculty, residents, fellows and graduate students participate in the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Francisco.

Representatives from the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine and USA Health attended the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, held last month in San Francisco, to present and learn about the latest advances in pulmonary disease, critical illness and sleep disorders.

Numerous faculty, residents, fellows and graduate students participated in the meeting, which drew nearly 14,000 physicians, scientists and healthcare professionals from around the globe.

The following Ph.D. students in the Basic Medical Sciences Graduate Program were poster presenters: Aritra Bhadra, Grant Daly, Meredith Gwin, Jenny Hewes, Jennifer Knighten, Sunita Subedi Paudel, Pallavi Sen and Reece Stevens. Viktor Pastukh, Ph.D., pharmacology instructor; Nida Ahmed, M.D., pulmonary fellow; and Taylor Cook, M.D., internal medicine resident, also presented posters at the conference.

Natalie Bauer, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology, was selected as co-chair of the Assembly on Pulmonary Circulation planning committee and will serve as chair for 2023-2024. She also organized the ATS Science and Innovation Center (SIC) reception, hosted the SIC/Ph.D., Basic and Translational Scientists Working Group reception, chaired a faculty development session, and facilitated a poster discussion session.

Karen Fagan, M.D., professor of internal medicine and pharmacology and director of the pulmonary and critical care division, facilitated a poster discussion session. Troy Stevens, Ph.D., professor and chair of physiology and cell biology and director of the Center for Lung Biology, organized an endothelial workshop.

Also in attendance were Phillip Almalouf, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine; Mark Gillespie, Ph.D., professor and chair of pharmacology; Raymond Langley, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology; Ji Young Lee, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, physiology and cell biology; and Robert Petrossian, M.D., pulmonary fellow.