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New ATS President Seeks to Raise Profile of Respiratory Diseases
Article courtesy of Edna Fiore at EFFORTS, a USCC member organization
At this year's international conference in San Francisco, Dr. Monica Kraft
said more public awareness of COPD and sleep disorders is needed, and the
workforce shortage in pulmonary and critical care is a concern.
The 2012-2013 president of the American Thoracic Society, Dr. Monica Kraft,
says one of her goals for her terms as the society's top officer is to
increase public awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
and sleep disorders. In the same interview published in the ATS Daily
Bulletin for May 22, a newspaper reporting activities at the ATS 2012
International Conference taking place in San Francisco, Kraft said the
workforce shortage in pulmonary and critical care is a concern.
"Certainly, we want to work to increase recognition of respiratory disease -
globally, nationally, and locally," she said in reply to a question asking
how ATS can better help patients. "The public doesn't recognize that COPD is
now the third-leading killer worldwide, that asthma can be a very serious
disease, or that certain types of interstitial lung disease carry a high
mortality. There also needs to be more understanding of sleep disorders,
which affect the function of many organ systems, and the issue of workforce
shortage in pulmonary care," she continued.
She said the society should work with medical schools to ensure more
graduates go into internal medicine and pediatric residency programs, and
from there into fellowships in pulmonary medicine and critical care
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