Massachusetts Thoracic Society
2025 Chadwick Medal Recipient
The Massachusetts Thoracic Society is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 Henry D. Chadwick Medal.

Hardy Kornfeld, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Program for 2026
8:25-8:30am: Welcome Remarks
Updates in Lung Transplant 2025
Brian Keller, MD, PhD
Director of the MGH Lung Transplant Center
Mechanical Ventilation
Elias Baedorf Kassis, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
Break
Rising Star
Polygenic Risk Scores for COPD Prediction and Phenotyping
Jingzhou Zhang, MD,
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
L. Jack Faling Best cases
Moderated by: Lauren Kearney, M.D.
Case: 1
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LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION
Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Lecia Sequist, MD MPH
Program Director, Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic
Landry Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Chadwick Intro and Talk
BREAK
Multi-disciplinary management of pulmonary nodules
Moderated by: Rey Chakraborty, M.D.
Interstitial Lung Disease Specialist Panel
Moderated by: Kostas Alysandratos, MD PhD.
Q &A session
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Thoracic Society and the Massachusetts Thoracic Society. The American Thoracic Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Thoracic Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.