ACCP NetWorks
ACCP NetWorks are interdisciplinary special interest groups that focus on particular areas of chest medicine. By joining any of the NetWorks, you can form alliances with professionals who have similar interests and help plan education sessions; take on leadership roles; participate in the development of policies, opinions, and position statements affecting your field; and more. NetWork membership is open to all ACCP members. The first step to get involved is to attend the NetWork Open Meetings, open to all CHEST 2010 attendees. Each meeting includes a special presentation on a current topic, as well as designated time for open discussion and networking with colleagues. Plan to attend the NetWork Highlights, sessions developed by each of the 24 NetWorks that focus on important issues in each particular area.
Learn more about ACCP NetWorks.
Affiliate
Promotes the prevention and treatment of diseases of the chest and fosters excellence in critical care by providing educational and leadership opportunities to affiliate members of the ACCP.
Monday, November 1
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Affiliate NetWork Open Meeting: Leadership Styles
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Chest CT for the Pulmonologist-in-Training: Anatomic Correlation, Interpretation, and Case Review
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Lung Histopathology Review: Preparation for Certification Exams and for Daily Practice
Airways Disorders
Works to educate physicians and patients about airways disorders.
Monday, November 1
8:00 am - 9:15 am
COPD Exacerbations: State of the Art
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Immunotherapy for Asthma: Pro/Con Debate
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Airways Disorders NetWork Open Meeting: Imaging in Obstructive Lung Disease: Structure-Function Relationships
Allied Health
Promotes the prevention and treatment of diseases of the chest through leadership, education, research, and communication.
Sunday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Allied Health NetWork Open Meeting: Asthma in the 21st Century
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Asthma Screening in Public Places
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Have You Really "Come a Long Way Baby"?
Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery
Focuses on pathophysiology, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, including those issues related to critically ill patients.
Monday, November 1
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery NetWork Open Meeting: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Best Practices in Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Intervention to Prevention
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Pay for Performance: Driving Quality and Value
Chest Infections
Serves as the main resource and forum for issues related to pulmonary infections for the ACCP leadership, membership, and outside organizations.
Sunday, October 31
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Chest Infections NetWork Open Meeting: The H1N1 Pandemic and Its Impact on Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialists
Monday, November 1
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Severe Pneumonia in an Era of Epidemic Viral Infections
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Evolving Diagnostics for and Treatment Approach to TB: Beyond Interferon-Gamma Release Assays and Extensively Drug-Resistant TB
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
Meets the needs of the generalist pulmonary physician or those members who have a broader focus in pulmonary medicine other than disease-specific.
Sunday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome: Current Understanding and Clinical Aspects
Monday, November 1
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine NetWork
Open Meeting: Pulmonary Disorders and Pregnancy
Wednesday, November 3
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
New Frontiers in COPD
Critical Care
Enhances the scientific knowledge, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practices that further our understanding of the mechanism and management of acute and life-threatening critical illness, as well as the organizational attributes associated with the optimal delivery of critical care services.
Sunday, October 31
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Long-term Consequences of Critical Illness
Monday, November 1
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Critical Care Institute Open Meeting: Early Mobilization of Patients Supported by Mechanical Ventilation: Get Them Moving!
A Statewide Program To Effect the Timely Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Sepis: Application of Evidence-Based Principles in Rural and Urban Settings
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Early Goal-Directed Therapy: Beyond the Guidelines
Cultural Diversity in Medicine
Focuses on making a difference in the lung health of minorities and children.
Sunday, October 31
9:45 am - 11:00 am
Health-care Reform and Physicians Caring for Minority Patients
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Cultural Diversity in Medicine NetWork Open Meeting: Identification of Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Sickle Cell Disease
Tuesday, November 2
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Disproportionate Adverse Outcomes of Tobacco Use in the Minority Population: The ACCP Cultural Diversity in Medicine NetWork’s Comments to the FDA on the Family Smoking Prevention Act
Disaster Response
Works to deliver timely and relevant disaster medicine education to ACCP members.
Sunday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Disaster Response NetWork Open Meeting: The Haiti Experience
Wednesday, November 3
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Protecting Ourselves and Our Patients: Current Recommendations To Prevent Influenza Transmission
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Community-Based Critical Care in Areas With Limited Capability: Care in the Austere Environment
Home Care
Comprises members who care for patients in the home or who have special interest in promoting the development of home care as a viable alternative to in-hospital care.
Sunday, October 31
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Home Care NetWork Open Meeting: Home Care and Disasters: More Than a Simple Inconvenience When the Lights Go Out
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Guidelines on Home Mechanical Ventilation
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Monitoring Respiratory Depression in the Postoperative Patient: Pro/Con Debate
Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease
Advocates for patients with IDLDs by educating both health-care providers and patients.
Monday, November 1
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Time Is of the Essence: The Unique Challenge of Diagnosis and Treatment of Interstitial Lung Disease in Young Patients
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Interstitial and Diffuse Lung Disease NetWork Open Meeting: Rates and Seasonal Distribution of Pulmonary Fibrosis-Associated Mortality
Wednesday, November 3
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Biomarkers in Interstitial Lung Diseases
Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures
Focuses on invasive procedures performed by chest physicians.
Monday, November 1
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Endobronchial Ultrasound: Evolving Role in Chest Medicine
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures NetWork Open Meeting: Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES): Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, November 3
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Airway Stents: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Members in Industry
Offers a clinical research and discussion forum for ACCP members employed by the medical industry (not to include marketing).
Tuesday, November 2
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Members in Industry NetWork Open Meeting: The Future of Industry Support of CME
Wednesday, November 3
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
The 2009-2010 Influenza Season: A Postmortem
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Clinical Trial Design: Changing to Meet the Evolving Needs of Society
Occupational and Environmental Health
Promotes the advancement of patient care and public health in order to reduce the incidence of occupational and environmental lung disease and other conditions attributable to toxic inhalation exposures.
Sunday, October 31
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Occupational and Environmental Health NetWork Open Meeting: Is Asbestos in Libby, Montana, More Toxic Than Other Types of Asbestos?
Monday, November 1
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Unusual Presentations of Common Occupational Lung Diseases
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Pulmonary Inhalational Toxicology
Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Focuses on education, awareness, and project implementation related to palliative and end-of-life care. Clinical issues range from pain management to cultural diversity in palliative care.
Sunday, October 31
9:45 am - 11:00 am
Sleep Disorders in Advanced Illness
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Palliative and End-of-Life Care NetWork Open Meeting: Reducing Futility in the
ICU
Wednesday, November 3
8:00 am - 9:15 am
A Tool Kit for Palliative Care in the ICU
Pediatric Chest Medicine
Advances the clinical practice of pediatric chest medicine through the enhancement of knowledge and promotion of best practices and optimum care of patients, pediatric-focused research, and advocacy for pediatric causes.
Monday, November 1
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Inhaled Corticosteroids for Wheezy Infants and Toddlers: Salubrious or Scrofulous?
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Pediatric Chest Medicine NetWork Open Meeting: The PedLung Network and Applications of Technology to Our Field
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
A "Supersized" Problem: Obesity and Pediatric Lung Disease
Practice Operations
Stimulates the active exchange of ideas and knowledge between physicians and practice administrators as it applies to the business side of clinical pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, increasing quality patient outcomes, aiding in the delivery of prompt service, and maximizing reimbursement by optimizing practice efficiency.
Sunday, October 31
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Contracting With Hospitals; What You Need To Know
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Practice Operations NetWork Open Meeting: Health Information Technology and Meaningful Use
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Health-care Reform: Impact on Your Practice
Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation
Focuses on increasing the understanding of pulmonary physiology and function and incorporating that knowledge into clinical practice, including pulmonary rehabilitation.
Monday, November 1
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation NetWork Open Meeting: Dyspnea on Exertion in Obesity: Associations With the Work of Breathing
Tuesday, November 2
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: Case Conference
Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Case Conference: Beyond COPD--What Is Best for Each Patient?
Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Focuses on helping the pulmonary vascular disease community, including physicians, allied health-care professionals, and patients, to achieve the best possible patient-focused care through advancement of education and research.
Monday, November 1
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Acute Venous Thromboembolism: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
"Should I Treat This Patient’s Pulmonary Hypertension?" Case-Based Presentations and Contemporary Management Issues
Tuesday, November 2
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Pulmonary Vascular Disease NetWork Open Meeting: Exercise-Induced PAH
A Superior Method of Oral Anticoagulation Management To Substantially Reduce Event Rates, Improve Quality of Life, and Reduce Health-care Costs
Respiratory Care
Works to improve the knowledge and care of patients requiring respiratory care through education, research, and collaboration of health-care providers, patients, and support groups.
Monday, November 1
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Respiratory Care NetWork Open Meeting: Advanced Respiratory Care Education and Professional Opportunities
The ACCP Chronic Care Model for COPD and Its Comorbidities
Wednesday, November 3
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Ventilator Management Symposium: Practical Application of Graphics and Waveforms
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Dyspnea and Pain at the Very End-of-Life: What To Do When the Ventilator Is Being Withdrawn Now!
Sleep Medicine
Strives to promote sleep medicine as a specialty, provide educational and research opportunities, and raise awareness of issues pertinent to the practice of sleep medicine.
Tuesday, November 2
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Sleep Institute Open Meeting: Dental Sleep Medicine
Wednesday, November 3
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Sleep Deprivation and the Medical Community
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Sleep Issues in the ICU
Thoracic Oncology
Advances the concept of multidisciplinary care of the patient with thoracic cancer.
Sunday, October 31
8:00 am - 9:15 am
From the Pathologist to the Patient: Practical Implications of the New Lung Adenocarcinoma Histologic Classification
Tuesday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Thoracic Oncology NetWork Open Meeting: Chemoprevention: Early Detection and Screening
Wednesday, November 3
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Beyond 5-Year Mortality: Challenges Faced by the Long-term Lung Cancer Survivor
Transplant
Promotes education and advancement in transplantation medicine to health-care providers and patients by identifying clinical problems in this subspecialty and addressing the dissemination of information.
Sunday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Issues in Organ Donation
Tuesday, November 2
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
State-of-the-Art Management of End-Stage Lung Disease
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Transplant NetWork Open Meeting: Role of Autoimmunity in Type V Collagen in Lung Allograft Dysfunction
Women’s Health
Works as an interdisciplinary group of members with common interests unique to patient-based and/or member-based issues in women’s health. This NetWork is open to anyone (men or women) interested in women’s health issues.
Sunday, October 31
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
The New Face of COPD
Tuesday, November 2
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Women’s Health NetWork Open
Meeting: Differences in Respiratory Sleep Parameters in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women With Suspected Sleep-Disordered Breathing
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Viva la Difference: Gender and Pulmonary Disease