The Oregon Thoracic Society Bylaws were updated at the annual OTS meeting in February.
If you are an OTS member and have not received a copy,
please email us at ots@lungoregon.org or call 503-718-6146.
The 49th Annual Chest Disease Congerence will be held February 17th-20th, 2011. Contact ots@lungoregon.org for information.
About
the Society
The Oregon Thoracic Society is a professional organization
of Oregon physicians, respiratory care practitioners, nurses,
and scientists dedicated to promoting continuing medical education,
research, collegiality, and excellence in patient care in
all aspects of respiratory diseases and critical care medicine. OTS is the medical advisory section of the American Lung Association
of Oregon and is dedicated to assisting the ALAO in program
development and delivery, fundraising, and public education
for patients with respiratory diseases. OTS is a recognized
chapter of the American
Thoracic Society.
Thoracic Society Objectives:
- Promote collegial interaction among clinicians, other
health care providers, and basic scientists concerned with
respiratory diseases and critical care medicine.
- Provide clinicians and other health care providers with
current information--including the best current opinions--on
the detection, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation
of respiratory diseases and on current practices of critical
care medicine.
- Promote through grants and publications scholarly investigation
into clinical, pathological, epidemiological, and basic
science research covering the entire field of respiratory
diseases.
- Hold an annual scientific meeting and sponsor other continuing
educational activities to promote postgraduate education
in respiratory diseases and critical care.
- Advise the American Lung Association of Oregon on medical
and scientific aspects of its program. Also to support ALAO
in its efforts to promote community health.
- Promulgate practice standards and outcome measures for
clinical care of respiratory and critical illnesses.
- Assist state and county health programs to control and
eradicate health problems related to respiratory disease,
such as tuberculosis, environmental air pollution, and smoking.
2009-2010 OTS Executive Committee
The OTS is
the Medical Section of the American Lung Association of
Oregon. It is administered by a Steering Committee, which
consists of officers, the ATS Representative Councilor, the
immediate past-president, the chairmen of any standing
committees, and the ALAO President-Elect. OTS is represented
on various committees of the American Lung Association of
Oregon with the President serving on its Board of Directors.
President
Matthew Walter,
M.D., Bend
President-Elect
David Schmidt, M.D., Clackamas
Secretary
Rhett Cummings, M.D., Portland
Past President
Marc Jacobs, M.D.,
Portland
ATS Representative
John Gotchall, M.D.,
Portland
CDC Conference Co-Chairs
Catherine Markin, M.D., Portland
Stephanie Nonas, M.D., Portland
ALAO Liaison
Bev Stewart , Tigard
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