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This Network enhances the scientific knowledge, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practices for health care providers in the areas of interstitial lung diseases, lung transplant, occupational health, and pulmonary physiology and rehabilitation.
CHEST members can join this Network for leadership and networking opportunities, plus the chance to hear the latest news first.
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Focusing on advancing the clinical practice, knowledge, promotion, and advancement related to interstitial and diffuse lung diseases
Focusing on advancing the clinical practice, knowledge, promotion, and advancement related to transplantation medicine
Focusing on advancing the clinical practice, knowledge, promotion, and advancement of patient care and public health to reduce the incidence of occupational and environmental lung diseases and other conditions attributed to inhalation exposures
Focusing on advancing the clinical practice, knowledge, promotion, and advancement related to pulmonary physiology, function, and rehabilitation
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By Drew Harris, MD, FCCP | August 2, 2023 In a New York Times opinion article, CHEST member Dr. Harris shares his thoughts on a recent proposal by federal regulators to improve silica dust exposures in coal mines, which is hoped to reverse the epidemic of severe black lung (progressive massive fibrosis) ongoing in Central Appalachia.
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By Aaron Holley, MD, FCCP
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Said Chaaban, MD, FCCP
Network Chair
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Corey Kershaw, MD, FCCP
Network Vice-Chair
Tejaswini Kulkarni, MD, MBBS, FCCP Chair, Interstitial Lung Disease Section
Adrian Shifren, MBBCh, FCCP Vice-Chair, Interstitial Lung Disease Section
Gabriel Loor, MD Chair, Lung Transplant Section
Joshua Diamond, MD Vice-Chair, Lung Transplant Section
Nitin Bhatt, MD Chair, Occupational and Environmental Health Section
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, MD, FCCP Vice-Chair, Occupational and Environmental Health Section
Thomas W. Decato, MD Chair, Pulmonary Physiology and Rehabilitation Section
Alexander O. Sy, MD, MBA, FCCP Vice-Chair, Pulmonary Physiology and Rehabilitation Section
Humayun Anjum, MD, FCCP Network Member-at-Large
Interstitial Lung Disease Section
Tejaswini Kulkarni, MD, MBBS, FCCP
Chair
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Adrian Shifren, MBBCh, FCCP
Vice-Chair
Members-at-Large Brad Bemiss, MD, BS Ryan Boente, MD Sean Callahan, MD Giuliana Cerro, MD Samantha D'Annunzio, MD Swati Gulati, MD Saniya Khan, MBBS Rachana Krishna Tessy Paul, MD
Fellows-in-Training Mamta Chhabria, MD Matthew Huang, MD
Ex-Officio Corey Kershaw, MD, FCCP
Lung Transplant Section
Gabriel Loor, MD
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Joshua Diamond, MD
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Members-at-Large Hakim Ali, MBBS, FCCP Satish Chandrashekaran, MD, FCCP Laura Kathleen Frye, MD Melissa Lesko, DO, FCCP Gloria Li, MD Jules Lin, MD, FCCP Sadia Shah, MD, MBBS, FCCP Grant Turner, MD Keith M. Willie James Yun, MD, PhD, FCCP
Fellow-in-Training Juan Deleija, MD Erin Meier David Sanborn, MD
Occupational and Environmental Health Section
Nitin Bhatt, MD
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, MD, MS, FCCP
Vice Chair
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Members-at-Large Sean Callahan, MD Dixie Lee Harris, MD, FCCP Scott Helgeson, MD Yuh-Chin Huang, MD, FCCP Maeve Georgia MacMurdo, MBChB Alexys L. Monoson Michelle Sharp, MD, MHS
Fellows-in-Training Matthew Glick, MD Alexys Monoson, MD
Ex-Officio Amy Ahasic, MD, MPH, FCCP
Pulmonary Physiology and Rehabilitation Section
Thomas W. Decato, MD
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Alexander Sy, MD, MBA, FCCP
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Members-at-Large Saqib Baig, MD Alan Betensley, MD, FCCP Debapriya Datta, MD, FCCP Malvika Kaul Malik Khurram Khan, MD, FCCP Michael Lazar, MD, FCCP Rania Abdallah, MD, FCCP Fatima Zeba, MD
Fellows-in-Training Joseph Russo, MD Ruchika Sangani
Ex-Officio Fred Jaffe, DO