ATS Patient Voices is published by the American Thoracic Society Public Advisory Roundtable (ATS PAR). Since 2001, ATS PAR has been a core component of the Society and a mutually beneficial partnership wherein organizations that represent persons affected by respiratory diseases, illnesses requiring critical care, sleep-related disorders collaborate with the ATS to advance their shared educational, research, patient care, and advocacy goals.
The ATS strives to improve health worldwide by advancing research, clinical care, and public health in respiratory disease, critical illness, and sleep disorders. The roots of the ATS reach back to 1905, when a small group of physicians and researchers began sharing information about tuberculosis. Since then, it has grown into an international society with more than 15,000 members.
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Foreward
Greg Downey, MD, ATSF, ATS President and Karen Collishaw, CAE, ATS Chief Executive Officer
Chair's Message
Michele Manion, Chair, ATS PAR
Caitlyn & Elizabeth Hilton
Children's Interstitial Lung Disease
Conor & Carey Kauffman
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Erica Courtenay-Mann
Sarcoidosis
Jeanie Hanley
Cystic Fibrosis
Jon Hagstom
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Pat Owens
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Rebecca Stanfel
Sarcoidosis
Sarah Jones
Vasculitis
Epilogue
Courtney L. White, CAE, Senior Director, Patient Outreach, Equality and Engagement
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This publication includes stories of lung disease patients as told to the American Thoracic Society by the patients or their representatives. The views expressed in these stories do not reflect those of the ATS. The ATS makes no claim as to the efficacy of treatments, veracity of diagnoses, or competency of any physician or medical institution referenced herein.
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