Immediate-Past President, M. Patricia Rivera, MD, ATSF M. Patricia Rivera hands over the ceremonial gavel to ATS President, Irina Petrache, MD, ATSF Irina Petrache in today’s Plenary Session!👩🏼‍⚖️

Amazing time at the ATS UW PCCSM reception connecting - excited and honored to join such a thoughtful and impactful division! Başak Çoruh Trish Kritek #ats2024

Many congratulations to Dr. Moira Aitken for this well-deserved recognition! UW PulmCritCareSleep #ats2024

I could not agree more- ATS provides the forum and space for old and new meaningful connections- great way to round out the meeting UW PulmCritCareSleep American Thoracic Society (ATS) #ats2024

Excellent work by Amy H Attaway MD MS - leveraging Cleveland Clinic sleep registry with novel findings: nocturnal hypoxemia worsens pectoralis muscle loss associated with COPD American Thoracic Society (ATS) CCF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellows Rachel Scheraga Raed Dweik, MD, MBA #ATS2024

Thrilled that Molly Billings is taking the reins as the ATS SRN Assembly Program Committee Chair! UW PulmCritCareSleep

Congrats to our APP, Wendy on poster presentation of impact of PAP on cardiometabolic parameters.Dont miss her oral presentation tomorrow at 4:45 pm,room 372 ⁦Baptist Health⁩ ⁦Cardiometabolic Center Alliance⁩ ⁦Jonathan Fialkow⁩ ⁦Tom C. Nguyen, MD⁩ #SLEEP2024@AASMorg⁩

You are doing great work, Cinthya, with your passion for sleep science, grit and determination! 👏

Thrilled to see Dr. Megan Mayer, incoming UW PulmCritCareSleep fellow, spotlighted in the Huddle! 🎉 shorturl.at/0airY Hard to believe our next class of fellows will be here in ten short days! UW Department of Medicine UW GME UW Medicine

Many congratulations to Molly Billings!

In a cohort study of 13,657 patients with obstructive sleep apnea and #obesity, metabolic surgery was significantly associated with a 42% lower risk of #MACE and a 37% lower risk of death. bit.ly/3Ro7ZaQ #JACC Ali Aminian Catherine M Heinzinger, DO, MS Reena Mehra MD MS

MOSAIC was published today in JACC Journals Bariatric surgery in patients with obstructive #sleep apnea (#OSA) and #obesity: ✨42% ⬇️ MACE ✨37% ⬇️ Death ✨70% ⬇️ Heart Failure ✨24% weight loss at 10-years dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc… #cardiactwitter

Congrats to Dr. Oliver McElvaney of UW PulmCritCareSleep for receiving the LeRoy Matthews Physician-Scientist Award from the Cure Cystic Fibrosis! UW Department of Medicine ATS Early Career

Sleep Apnea #OSA guidelines recommend wt loss/lifestyle changes. Rather than focusing on lifestyle alone, treating #obesity with more effective/durable methods such as tirzepatide (NEJM) or bariatric surgery (JACC Journals) is required to improve outcomes bit.ly/3Ro7ZaQ

Our collaborative work with Ali Aminian -metabolic surgery vs non-surgical control confers profound reduction in 10-year MACE and mortality in OSA and obesity in a large clinical cohort. American Academy of Sleep Medicine AASM Membership JACC Journals ATS_Assemblies jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Congratulations to Atul Malhotra, MD and all authors!! ATS SRN Assembly AASM Foundation AASM Membership American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Neomi Shah Oren Cohen Atul Malhotra, MD ATS SRN Assembly AASM Foundation AASM Membership American Thoracic Society (ATS) Congratulations Atul Malhotra, MD ! Would also encourage everyone to read the insightful editorial by Sanjay Patel. This is definitely a new era!

Our newest UW PulmCritCareSleep fellows have officially started! 🥳 UW Department of Medicine ATS Early Career APCCMPD

Important work led by Catherine M Heinzinger, DO, MS identifying model based clusters of sleep symptoms and physiologic indices related to new onset atrial fibrillation. American Academy of Sleep Medicine American Thoracic Society (ATS) UW PulmCritCareSleep Cleveland Clinic ATS SRN Assembly

Conference season is here! Our VAS Team is looking forward to meeting you in Boston! 🫁🤩 #interventionalpulmonology #ystent #3Dstent #CAO