Thank you for visiting the home page of the American Thoracic Society Podcasts -- Breathe Easy: Conversations with Leaders in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. Our podcasts are concise, 20 minute discussions with ATS experts on the important topics in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine that most interest the various ATS assemblies.
Below this introduction, you will find the podcasts that have been hosted by our assemblies archived in reverse chronological order. I hope you enjoy the series and feel free to contact me with your feedback about the podcasts or ideas for future podcasts!
Best Regards,
Nitin Seam, MD
Chair, Thoracic.org Editorial Committee
Updates from ATS Leadership
Allergy, Inflammation and Immunology
- Genetics of Asthma in Latinos
April 2017 - Biologic Therapies for Severe Asthma
January 2017 - Biobanking for Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Research
September 2016
Behavioral Science and Health Services Research
- Dehumanization in Medicine
June 2017 - Programming from the BSHSR Assembly for the upcoming 2017 ATS International Conference
May 2017 - Involving end-users in designing a PCORnet trial -- lessons learned from the RELIANCE study
April 2017
Critical Care
- Clinical ethics in Critical Care: Is it ethically acceptable to honor previous wishes to withhold life-sustaining treatments in the setting of suspected suicide?
June 2017 - Making the most of presenting and facilitating poster sessions at ATS
May 2017 - Women in Critical Care Medicine Episode 1
April 2017 - Tools for Studying Long Term Outcomes in Critically Ill
April 2017 - The Art of Mentoring
February 2017 - Pro-Con Debate: The Sepsis-3 definitions
December 2016 - A conversation about the ATS critical care assembly early career professionals working group
October 2016 - Checklists in the ICU and the CERTAIN Project
September 2016 - How to submit a session proposal for ATS 2017
June 2016 - Biotrauma Mediated Ventilator-induced Lung Injury: Where We Are and Where Are We Going?
January 2016
Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health
Fellow Chat
- >Fellow Chat: A Career in Medical Education with Dr. Jason Poston
July 2017 - >Fellow Chat: How to develop your clinical research career with Dr. Michelle Ng Gong
June 2017 - Fellow Chat: Developing your Academic Career with Dr. Polly Parsons
May 2017 - Fellow Chat: Work/Life Balance with Dr. Atul Malhotra
April 2017
Nursing
- What’s in it for me? The 2017 ATS International Conference, Nursing highlights
May 2017 - The Growing Field of Pediatric Palliative Care
February 2017 - Oxygen... there's something in the air
October 2016 - Nursing Assembly: Everything You Wanted to Know About the ATS International Conference But Did Not Know Who to Ask
May 2016 - A multidisciplinary approach to pulmonary rehabilitation
February 2016
Pediatrics
- ATS Conference 2017 Preview: Pediatrics Assembly
May 2017 - Interview with Elizabeth Matsui, MD: a Career Focused on Pediatric Asthma and the Inner-City Environment
March 2017 - Interview with new ATS President, David Gozal
September 2016
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pulmonary rehabilitation with minimal resources
June 2017 - PR assembly review of ATS 2016 conference
December 2016 - Measuring outcomes of pulmonary rehabilitation
June 2016 - Simple physical performance measures in patients with COPD
April 2016 - Advancing our Understanding of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): A Conversation with Dr. Augustine Choi
April 2016 - Self-management in COPD and chronic lung disease
October 2015 - Pulmonary rehabilitation in non-obstructive lung disease
May 2015
Respiratory Cell Molecular Biology
- Epigenetic and Lung Disease
May 2017 - Matrix Metalloproteases and COPD
April 2017 - The Biology of Lung Aging
March 2017 - The Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology Assembly and ATS 2016: A Conversation with Dr. Naftali Kaminski
May 2016 - Cell-Cell Adhesions, A conversation with Dr. Cara Gottardi
March 2016
Respiratory Structure Function
- Work/Life Balance in Academia: Time Management
March 2017 - Work/Life Balance in Academia: Energy and State of Mind
February 2017 - Work/Life Balance in Academia: Digital Boundaries as they relate to Mindfulness
January 2017 - A dialogue between the new editor of the Red Journal and the RSF Assembly chair
December 2016 - Work/Life Balance in Academia: Stress and Anxiety
November 2016 - Brexit and Its Impact on Research in Academia
October 2016 - The future is bright and pluripotent for Lung Stem Cell research
January 2016
Section on Genetics and Genomics
- Genetics of Asthma in Latinos
April 2017 - Biologic Therapies for Severe Asthma
January 2017 - Biobanking for Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Research
September 2016
Section on Medical Education
- SOME series on validating assessment tools
June 2017 - Critical Thinking in Critical Care
May 2017 - The Section on Medical Education 2017 conference roadmap
April 2017 - Interview with the chair of the ATS Section on Medical Education, Patricia Kritek, MD
March 2016 - How to teach during ICU rounds
May 2016 - A conversation on Medical Education professional development programs and qualitative research with Lynne Robins
June 2016
Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology
- A Roadmap to Sleep Programming and Content at ATS 2017
March 2017 - CPAP for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Results of the SAVE Trial
December 2016 - Arts, Sleep and Medicine: An Image Guided Interview with Professor Meir Kryger
November 2016 - A Roadmap to Sleep Programming and Content at ATS 2016
May 2016 - Personalized Medicine for OSA - Are we there yet?
March 2016 - Sleep Disordered Breathing and Congestive Heart Failure
December 2015
Thoracic Oncology
- Preview of Thoracic Oncology Programming at ATS2017
May 2017 - Lung Cancer Screening Implementation: A Serial Discussion
March 2015 - The Future on Lung Cancer Screening
May 2015


