Breathe Easy Podcasts
Thank you for visiting the home page of the Breathe Easy Podcasts from the American Thoracic Society. Our podcasts are discussions about pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine from our assemblies, sections and committees as well as discussions of general interest to the ATS community. I hope you enjoy them 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
*The opinions expressed on the podcasts represent those of the discussants only and do not reflect the position of the American Thoracic Society unless otherwise stated.
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General Interest
- Patient Voices: Living with Lung Diseases
January 2018
Allergy, Inflammation and Immunology
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Part 2
November 2018 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Part 1
November 2018 - A Grants Timeline for Young Investigators: From Fellow to Junior Faculty
November 2018 - Approaching the ATS international Meeting as a Young Investigators
May 2018 - Grant Writing Tips and Tricks for R Level Grants
April 2018 - AII Assembly Programs ATS 2018
April 2018 - Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
February 2018 - 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
- Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies: Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals
February 2019 - Interview with Andrea Apter, MD, MSc, MA, Recipient of the 2018 BSHSR Assembly Lifetime Achievement Award
December 2018 - Programming from the BSHSR Assembly for the 2018 ATS International Conference
May 2018 - Thoughts from the other side of the ventilator
April 2018 - 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
Career Development
- How to Negotiate Your First Contract
February 2019 - How I Recreated My Career When....I Returned to Academics
January 2019 - International Medical Graduates and Careers in Academic
January 2019
Clinical Ethics
- Burnout in the ICU
March 2019 - How do I know what to disclose? Common questions about managing professional relationships with industry and other partners.
January 2019 - Medical Ethics Education
May 2018 - Clinical Ethics in Critical Care: Surrogate Decision Makers
December 2017 - 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
Clinical Problems
- SUNSET Trial: De-escalating ICS Therapy in COPD
September 2018 - Overcoming challenges to the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis
April 2018
Critical Care
- Critical Perspective: The PreVent trial, assessing the role of bag-mask ventilation during tracheal intubation in critically ill adults
February 2019 - Critical Perspective: Designing ARDS Trials in the 21st century with Drs. Lanspa and Gong
December 2018 - Critical Perspective: Medical Education in the ICU with Drs. McSparron and Hayes
November 2018 - Critical Perspective: Forming Therapeutic Relationships in the ICU with Dr. Rana Awdish
September 2018 - Critical Perspective: Novel data display in the ICU with Dr. Vitaly Herasevich
August 2018 - Eddy Fan talks about ECMO and EOLIA
August 2018 - Critical Perspective: Low tidal volume ventilation in ARDS with Dr. Allan Walkey
July 2018 - Critical Perspective: Sepsis Endotypes with Dr. Christopher Seymour
June 2018 - Volume Chaser
May 2018 - Critical Perspective: ARDS Sub-phenotypes with Dr. Carolyn Calfee
May 2018 - SAGE Study
May 2018 - Critical Perspective: Precision Medicine in the ICU with Dr. Derek Angus
April 2018 - Critical Care Echo Boards
April 2018 - Critical Perspective: Recovery from sepsis with Dr. Hallie Prescott
March 2018 - Critical Perspective: Measuring Sepsis with Dr. Mike Klompas
February 2018 - Critical Perspective: Optimal fluid choice and titration in the ICU with Dr. Simon Finfer
January 2018 - Clinical Ethics in Critical Care: Surrogate Decision Makers
December 2017 - Ramped versus sniffing position for intubation in critically ill adults
December 2017 - Advanced Care Nurse Practitioners in the ICU
November 2017 - ICU care during Hurricane Harvey
September 2017 - Women in Critical Care Medicine - Episode 2
August 2017 - 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
- The role of the home environment in pediatric respiratory disease: a case presentation and discussion
February 2018 - Lung Health in the California Wildfires
December 2017 - Occupational Asthma and COPD: The Making of a Career
July 2016
Fellow Chat
- Fellow Chat with Dr. Mark Gladwin
April 2018 - Fellow Chat with Dr. Aldo Iacono
March 2018 - Fellow Chat: How to have a Rewarding Academic Career with Dr. Mark Metersky
February 2018 - Fellow Chat: Transitioning from a Fellow to an Attending with Dr. Cynthia Kim
January 2018 - Fellow Chat: On the Interview Trail? Some pointers from Dr. Dan Herr
December 2017 - Fellow Chat: How to Develop Research Collaborations with Dr. Gregory Martin
November 2017 - Fellow Chat: Pursuing a Career as an Industry Scientist with Dr. Timothy Watkins
October 2017 - Fellow Chat: A Career in Medical Education (Part III) with Dr. M. Iain Smith
September 2017 - Fellow Chat: A Career in Medical Education (Part II) with Dr. Burton Lee
August 2017 - Fellow Chat: A Career in Medical Education (Part I) 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
- Palliative Care in Chronic Lung Disease
July 2018 - Highlights for Nurses at the 2018 ATS International Conference
May 2018 - Advanced Care Nurse Practitioners in the ICU
November 2017 - 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
- Sodium oxybate for pediatric narcolepsy
March 2019 - Updates on childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) network
March 2019 - Pulmonary and sleep issues in children with achondroplasia
March 2019 - Prader Willi Syndrome, Sleep, and Growth Hormone
February 2019 - The Restless Sleeper
December 2018 - CPAP in Children: Practical Tips and Tricks to Improve Adherence
November 2018 - Bacteriophages as a therapy for Cystic Fibrosis
May 2018 - The role of the home environment in pediatric respiratory disease: a case presentation and discussion
February 2018 - Providing Charitable Medical Care
November 2017 - 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 Infections and Tuberculosis
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- ATS Mentoring Program
November 2018 - Exercise training in individuals with lung cancer
January 2018 - ATS 2017 - Highlights of the assembly on Pulmonary Rehabilitation
January 2018 - An introduction to genomics in COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation
December 2017 - Lung Transplant Rehabilitation
October 2017 - 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
- Complement Modulation in Asthma and COPD
March 2019 - Cigarettes, Flu, and Fibrosis
February 2019 - Therapeutic Advances for Cystic Fibrosis
February 2019 - Understanding Early Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
January 2019 - Discussing ATS 2019 with Professor Melanie Königshoff, chair of the Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (RCMB) assembly
October 2018 - Mitochondria and Lung Disease
March 2018 - 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
- Ask the Inventor: On Micro Optical Coherence Tomography, Cross-Country Collaboration, and Physician-Scientist Careers
January 2019 - Work/Life Balance in Academia: Having the difficult conversation
August 2017 - 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
- Precision Medicine, Genetics and Genomics at ATS
January 2019 - Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
February 2018 - 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
- Practical Tips for Academic Writing: the Results Section
March 2019 - Practical Tips for Academic Writing: the Methods Section
February 2019 - Practical Tips for Academic Writing: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Title, Abstract, and Odds and Ends
December 2018 - Structured Simulation Debriefings: An Interview with Demian Szyld
October 2018 - The Job Search with TIME
April 2018 - Highlights from the ATS 2018 Conference Roadmap for Medical Educators
April 2018 - Team-Based Learning (TBL): A Practical Approach
March 2018 - Adult Learning Theories and Active Learning Modalities
January 2018 - 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
- Academic Sleep Medicine: Past, Present and Future
March 2019 - Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies: Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals
February 2019 - CPAP Adherence
December 2018 - Sleep and Physician Burnout
November 2018 - Journal Club Podcast: Oral appliances for the management of OSA: An updated review of the literature
July 2018 - A Roadmap to Sleep Programming and Content at ATS 2018
April 2018 - Sleep in Autism Spectrum Disorders
February 2018 - SRN Journal Club: Gray Matter Hypertrophy and Thickening with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Middle-aged and Older Adults
February 2018 - Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers: What Do We Do Now?
November 2017 - Journal Club Podcast: Association of Positive Airway Pressure With Cardiovascular Events and Death in Adults With Sleep Apnea A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
September 2017 - 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
- Thoracic Oncology Assembly ECPWG Podcast series – Been There, Done That: Sage Advice
January 2019 - Preview of Thoracic Oncology Programming at ATS2018
May 2018 - An Interview with Dr. Lowy, Deputy Director of the NCI
December 2017 - 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
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