**Working Group Chair**
Ciara M. Shaver, MD, PhD

Welcome to the RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group. The goal of this working group is to promote and facilitate the involvement of junior ATS members (students, fellows, and junior faculty) in the RCMB Assembly and the ATS as a whole. Towards this end, we have several ongoing projects:

We organize the annual RCMB reception and dinner, which are held and the ATS International Conference. One of the main purposes of these events is to facilitate interaction between junior and senior RCMB members.
We have developed an RCMB Brochure, which highlights the benefits of, and mechanisms for, involvement in the RCMB Assembly.
We program education sessions at the ATS Internation Conference geared towards junior professionals.
We organize an annual mentoring program to help trainees and junior faculty members navigate the seemingly complex environment of the American Thoracic Society so that they can get the most out of their ATS International Conference experience and the Society as a whole.

The RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group welcomes new members. It is limited to 25 members and members rotate in order to allow new members to participate.

If you would like to become actively involved in the Working Group, please send the WG chair your CV and a brief paragraph outlining your background, why you are interested, and what committees you would like to join.

Chair

Scott John Denstaedt, MD

Ann Arbor, MI

**Yael Aschner, MD**
*University of Colorado*
Committee Member

**Scott J. Denstaedt, MD**
*University of Michigan*
Committee Member

**James Londino, PhD**
*The Ohio State University*
Committee Member

**Jeremy Katzen, MD**
*University of Pennsylvania*
Committee Member

**Laurie C. Eldredge, MD, PhD**
*University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital*
Committee Member

**Kosuke Kato, PhD**
*Emory University*
Committee Member

**Joseph S Bednash, MD**
*Ohio State University*
Chair, Seminar Comittee

**Mareike Lehmann**
*Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany*
Chair, Communications Committee

**Rachel Knipe, MD**
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School
Chair, Mentoring Program

**Saleela Ruwanpura, PhD**
Hudson Institute, Monash University
and Monash Health, Victoria, Australia
Committee Member

**Elizabeth Middleton, MD**
*University of Utah*
Committee Member

**Chi Hung, MD**
*University of Washington*
Committee Member

Aparna Sundaram, MD UCSF — **Aparna Sundaram, MD**
*UCSF*
Committee Member

**Hilary Faust, MD, MS**
*University of Wisconsin*
Committee Member

**Tania Zyrianova, PhD**
*University of California, Los Angeles*
Committee Member

**Divay Chandra, MD**
*University of Pittsburgh Medical Center*
Committee Member

**Luisa Morales-Nebreda, MD**
*Northwestern University*
Committee Member

**Eleanor Valenzi, MD**
*University of Pittsburgh*
Committee Member

**Jennifer Larson Casey, PhD**
*The University of Alabama at Birmingham*
Committee Member

**David Ziehr, MD**
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School
Committee Member

**Yifan Yuan, Phd**
*Yale University*
Committee Member

**Patrick Hume, MD, PhD**
*National Jewish Health, Denver, CO*
Committee Member