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79th Massachusetts Thoracic Society Meeting 
April 9, 2026

An exciting agenda is being finalized and registration will open soon. Please see preliminary details below. 

2025 Chadwick Medal Recipient

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

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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

              Speaker:

                Panelist 1: 

 Case 2:

              Speaker: 

                Panelist 2: 

Case 3:

             Speaker: 

               Panelist 3:

 

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

                        

 

Course Evaluation Link: 

Apr 10, 2025, 8:20 AM
Somerville

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.

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