Events

The Forum of International Respiratory Societies is pleased to host a webinar and provide resources marking World Lung Day 2025.

Join ATS at LaCentral YMCA in the Bronx, New York for an afternoon of health awareness activities supporting World Lung Day.

The panel will discuss the process of successfully applying for a grant in medical education.

A panel will discuss this recently published article and the role of anticoagulants in acute sickle cell crises. The applicability to pediatric patients with sickle cell disease will also be discussed.

The first case will be presented by Meltem Çakar Kürtül, MD, from Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, and discussed by Assoc. Prof. Gökçen Dilşa Tuğcu from Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Türkiye. The second case will be presented by Gamze Akça Dinç, MD from Ankara Bilkent City Hospital and discussed by Dilber Ademhan Tural, MD, from Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara, Türkiye. The session will be chaired by Samya Nasr, MB BCH, from the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US.

AII Assembly abstract scholarship awardees at ATS 2025, Leander Jonckheere, MD, Leonoor Boers, MD, and Andres Villabona-Rueda, MD will share their research findings, joined by an expert panelist, Fernando Holguin, MD.

This live webinar will feature 2025 Joseph R. Rodarte for Scientific Distinction Award winner, Chun Seow, PhD, ATSF, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, The University of British Columbia. Jeffrey Fredberg, PhD, will be giving introductory remarks concerning Dr. Rodarte's impact on respiratory medicine. The webinar will be moderated by Christopher Pascoe, PhD, University of Manitoba, and Carolyn Wang, PhD, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation.

AII Assembly abstract scholarship awardees at ATS 2025, Shiqi Zhang, MB, MD, PhD, Divya Bhatia, PhD, MPhil, MS, Nathanial Tolman, MEd, MD, and Ruihua Ma, BS, MS will share their research findings, joined by an expert panelist, Benjamin Medoff, MD.

A panel will discuss the landmark Nature Immunology study, “A single-cell spatial chart of the airway wall reveals proinflammatory cellular ecosystems and their interactions in health and asthma” published in June 2025. This study applied advanced single-cell spatial transcriptomics to map the human airway wall and uncovered previously unrecognized proinflammatory niches, providing critical insights into how distinct cellular ecosystems contribute to asthma pathology.

AII Assembly abstract scholarship awardees at ATS 2025, Luke Forde, BM BCh, Adam Boulton, PhD, MS, BS, and Samuel Mailhot-Larouche, MD, MSc, will share their research findings, joined by an expert panelist Jeffrey Sturek, MD, PhD.