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The Oregon Thoracic Society – Save the date! The 50th Annual OTS Chest Disease Conference will be February 16th – 19th, 2012 at the Sunriver Homestead Conference Center in Sunriver, Oregon.
Register for the Chest Disease Conference
The Oregon Thoracic Society is a professional organization of Oregon physicians, respiratory care practitioners, nurses, and scientists dedicated to promoting continuing medical education, research, collegiality, and excellence in patient care in all aspects of respiratory diseases and critical care medicine. OTS is the medical advisory section of the American Lung Association in Oregon and is dedicated to assisting the ALAO in program development and delivery, fundraising, and public education for patients with respiratory diseases. OTS is a recognized chapter of the American Thoracic Society.
To become a member or renew your membership to the Oregon Thoracic Society, register online or contact us via email.
Thoracic Society Objectives:
- Promote collegial interaction among clinicians, other health care providers, and basic scientists concerned with respiratory diseases and critical care medicine.
- Provide clinicians and other health care providers with current information--including the best current opinions--on the detection, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of respiratory diseases and on current practices of critical care medicine.
- Promote through grants and publications scholarly investigation into clinical, pathological, epidemiological, and basic science research covering the entire field of respiratory diseases.
- Hold an annual scientific meeting and sponsor other continuing educational activities to promote postgraduate education in respiratory diseases and critical care.
- Advise the American Lung Association of Oregon on medical and scientific aspects of its program. Also to support ALAO in its efforts to promote community health.
- Promulgate practice standards and outcome measures for clinical care of respiratory and critical illnesses.
- Assist state and county health programs to control and eradicate health problems related to respiratory disease, such as tuberculosis, environmental air pollution, and smoking.
2011-2012 OTS Executive Committee
The OTS is the Medical Section of the American Lung Association of Oregon. It is administered by a Steering Committee, which consists of officers, the ATS Representative Councilor, the immediate past-president, the chairmen of any standing committees, and the ALAO President-Elect. OTS is represented on various committees of the American Lung Association in Oregon with the President serving on its Leadership Council.
President
David Schmidt, M.D., Clackamas
President-Elect
Rhett Cummings, M.D., Portland
Secretary
Stephanie Nonas, M.D., Portland
Past President
Matt Walter, M.D., Eugene
ATS Representative
John Gotchall, M.D., Corvallis
CDC Conference Co-Chairs
Catherine Markin, M.D., Portland
Wayne Strauss, M.D., Portland
ALAO Liaison
Bev Stewart , Tigard
Questions about the Oregon Thoracic Society? Contact us.
