DONOR SPOTLIGHT

December 2019

The Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Endowment 8

The People for Whom Erin Popovich Fights 2

CHEST FoundationBoard of Trustees

Executive CommitteeEdward J. Diamond, MD, MBA, FCCP

President & TrusteeIan T. Nathanson, MD, FCCP

President-Elect & TrusteeDoreen J. Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP

Immediate Past President & TrusteeRobert De Marco, MD, FCCP

President-Designate & TrusteeStephanie M. Levine, MD, FCCP

CHEST PresidentClayton T. Cowl, MD, MS, FCCP

CHEST Past PresidentRobert A. Musacchio, PhD

CHEST Executive Vice President and CEO

TrusteesChristopher L. Carroll, MD, FCCPSai P. Haranath, MD, MPH, FCCPCandace A. Huebert, MD, FCCPRoozehra Khan, DO, FCCPBurton L. Lesnick, MD, FCCPDonald A. Mahler, MD, FCCPJairo A. Melo, MD, FCCPBarbara A. Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCPJill PopovichDavid J. Steiger, MBChB, FCCPPatti Tuomey, EdD

CHEST Foundation StaffRobert A. Musacchio, PhD

CHEST Executive Vice President and CEORudy Anderson, CAE

Associate Executive Director, CHEST FoundationAngela Perillo, MBA

Director, Development & Foundation OperationsCaitlin Moroney, MA

Individual Giving Manager, CHEST FoundationAndrew Gillen

CHEST Foundation Programs and Development Specialist

CHEST Foundation Founder and Honorary PatronBart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP and Peggy Chernow

CHEST Publishing & Production Staff Nicki Augustyn, CAE

SVP, Marketing, Communications, and PublishingKavitha Reinhold | Director, PublishingPam Goorsky | Manager, Editorial ResourcesMartha Zaborowski

Publications & Digital Content EditorClaudia Egresits | Senior Branded Design Specialist

CONTENTS

The People for Whom Erin Popovich Fights 2

The Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Endowment 8

Foundation Activities Soared at CHEST 2019 10

New CHEST Foundation Board Members Hope to Spearhead Community Building, International Expansion, and Technologic Innovation 14

Champion’s Circle 16

Founder’s Society 21

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PRESIDENT’S LETTERI am so very excited to become the 13th President of the CHEST Foundation. The Foundation is in its strongest position since it was founded in 1996. We continue to support and produce high quality programs that build upon our overarching pillars of patient access, empowerment, and clinical research. Rudy Anderson, Angela Perillo, Caitlin Mahoney, and Andrew Gillen comprise our core staff, each with a different focus and amazing passion and teamwork. Robert Musacchio is the CEO of both CHEST and the CHEST Foundation. He is intensely engaged and supportive of the Foundation. A new President is given the opportunity to influence strategy and vision. My goal is to enhance recognition and awareness of our many great programs, projects, and other accomplishments.

This year, Hans Lee, MD, from Johns Hopkins, led a team to Uganda to implement bronchoscopy and thoracoscopy by implanting the equipment and training five physicians to provide advanced airway and pleural procedures. This project was just one leg of long-term enduring efforts to improve the provision of respiratory health care to this population. Uganda is a low income country with a largely rural population of 37 million, so the impact of this CHEST Foundation community service grant is enormous. The Foundation will continue to prioritize empowerment of communities in need throughout the new year.

The Uganda effort, another impactful program, was led by Dana Hickman, a nurse practitioner. She identified the need in Forsyth County, Georgia, to empower patients with COPD, along with their families and caregivers. Forsyth County is a rapidly growing county near the Blue Ridge Mountains with much of its growth in senior housing, assisted living, and multigenerational homes. Many of the over 500,000 Georgia residents with COPD reside there. This program developed a center-of-excellence for COPD that prioritizes education, compassionate support, and personal guidance in addition to high quality medical care.

These are just a few examples that I find particularly exciting. They represent only a small portion of the CHEST Foundation activity that includes additional community service and clinical research grants, disease-specific tool kits for patients and caregivers, and 80 patient education publications that have been translated into multiple languages. In 2019, the Foundation funded 80 travel grants to bring early career chest physicians to our national meeting where they engaged in Foundation meetings and events. Through additional grant support and distribution, the Foundation delivers on its goal of supporting research – including research on specific diseases and research to assess and optimize patient-provider interactions.

We have enjoyed great success with our fundraising events. This year, Dr. Doreen Addrizzo-Harris chaired the Kentucky Derby event in New York City. The Feldman Family Foundation hosted their annual Poker Night in Chicago and also supported Casino Night at our annual CHEST meeting in New Orleans. We held our first golf outing in Chicago. Kim French and Patrice Diamond hosted a “Girls Night Out” event at a boutique in Chicago. At the time of this writing, we are preparing to attend the Golden Era of Erin Popovich event in San Antonio, Texas. This is the largest fundraising event in our history and represents the public kick-off of the Erin Popovich Endowment that supports patient access, empowerment, and research directed toward interstitial lung disease.

The Foundation continues to produce The Lung Health Experience in cities across the nation. Participants undergo spirometry screening and obtain lung health education. This is one of many ways that the Foundation has demonstrated and will continue to realize its goal of access – which means giving patients, families, and caregivers access to medical specialists for information and second opinions, and removing barriers that patients face in obtaining the tools and knowledge they need to improve their health.

It is a privilege to support the CHEST Foundation; 95% of our dollars directly support our programs. I encourage you to join me, along with the Foundation staff and Board of Trustees, in our ongoing efforts to crush lung disease, as we avail our patients to access, empowerment, and research. An easy way to start is by logging onto chestfoundation.org/donate. I can be contacted at any time via email and mobile number below.

I wish each of you a joyous holiday season, as we appreciate our many blessings and embrace opportunities to help those who are less fortunate.

Sincerely,

Ed Diamond, MD, MBA, FCCPedward.diamond@sublung.com +1 (847) 652-5622

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It’s a December evening at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. A special crowd of

San Antonians and many others from across the US have donned their best cocktail attire and sock hop shoes to dance the night away to top hits of the 1950s. Interactive attractions capture all eyes, making the multigenerational guests nostalgic for the era of Rock & Roll, Doo-Woop, and Motown. Everyone can still taste the fine dinner prepared by San Antonio’s top chefs Andrew Weissman, Pieter Sypesteyn, and Manuel Aredondo.

What’s dominant on everyone’s minds, however, is not the catchy tunes or the upscale dinner. This is not the holiday party to end all holiday parties; it’s The Golden Era of EP, a fundraiser benefiting the Erin Popovich Endowment and its mission—to promote access, empowerment, and research for patients living with interstitial lung disease and for their oft-forgotten caregivers.

Erin Popovich suffered from an interstitial lung disease for more than 10 years. This evening event’s co-hosts are Erin Popovich’s daughter, new CHEST Foundation Board member Jill Popovich, and Dr. Jairo Melo, a Board member and the doctor who guided the Popovich family through Erin’s experience with ILD. Jill provides

some personal insight into the Endowment’s mission and the evening’s event: “Lung disease isn’t the most talked about, most popular thing that people give to or try and support, but in order, to help patients who have trouble breathing and don’t have access to a lot of vital things to help them survive and maintain a somewhat good quality of life, we must share our stories and try to get as much care as we can for those patients. They are out there. They are hurting. And they need help. To have the support of the CHEST Foundation for that purpose is just fantastic.”

Jill’s sense of the night’s goals is echoed by her long-time best friend Meghan, who was also her mother’s caregiver: “I think she would be so excited about everything going into the Erin Popovich Endowment and about reaching as many families as possible. She would talk about that. She’d be like, ‘I wonder how other people with ILD are dealing with this.’ She had oxygen machines at her house, and she was like, ‘I wonder what people with ILD who don’t have oxygen machines are doing, and what those who can’t afford to have them do.’ She was concerned about this and wanted to help people.”

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The People for Whom Erin Popovich Fights

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The People for Whom Erin Popovich Fights

It is in honor of Erin’s desire to help anyone she could—whether she had known them for five minutes or a lifetime—that the CHEST Foundation has partnered with the Popovich family to create the Erin Popovich Endowment. It sheds light on the stories of people with ILD and strives to empower those patients to gain access to the right resources and have research to support their cause.

These are the people for whom Erin Popovich fought in her lifetime and for whom she fights now in spirit.

* * * *Waking up in her Jackson, New Jersey, home the morning of Sunday, January 8, 2006, Jeanmarie DeBiase thought about turning 44 years old that day. Preparations for a big family dinner celebration were already underway. She would savor her favorite foods with the guys she loved most—her husband, Mark, and their three grade school-age sons—eating, laughing, and sharing their dreams for the new year.

Mark was nursing a cold for the last week, but it was nothing serious, she thought. He had weathered a much more formidable challenge on September 11, 2001, as the National Guard helicoptered him to Staten Island to set up a wireless network for the emergency workers descending upon

She would savor her favorite foods with the guys she loved most—her husband, Mark, and their three grade school-age sons—eating, laughing, and sharing their dreams for the new year.

U S Navy Photo/Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres

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Ground Zero in Manhattan. Her almost preternaturally strong husband was also a Coast Guard veteran whose long devotion to vigorous exercise and a healthy diet was matched only by his commitment to his wife and sons. But that night, as Jeanmarie celebrated her birthday at the dinner table, her husband suddenly began sobbing alongside her. “Something is wrong,” he told her. “I want to be here to watch the boys grow up and meet our grandchildren. I don’t want to die.”

For Jeanmarie, what was especially terrifying about her husband’s outburst was that he felt that death was imminent, yet he could not explain exactly why. He had been diagnosed with pneumonia, but he was unresponsive to the antibiotics his doctor prescribed. Radiographs only added to the mystery, as Jeanmarie remembered: “There was so much stuff in his lungs I don’t think [doctors] could pinpoint anything. They really didn’t know how to treat it.” The DeBiases spent that winter racing to find treatment from the most prestigious doctors they could find and fighting for Mark to get a double-lung transplant. Mark suddenly died on April 9, 2006 – a mere 3 months after he had revealed to his wife, through those sobs, that he was afraid he would not even live long enough to see any of their three sons as teenagers. He was 41 years old.

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“Something is wrong,” he told her. “I want to be here to watch the boys grow up and meet our grandchildren. I don’t want to die.”

Mark DeBiase proudly wears his FDNY hat in the days before his ILD diagnosis.

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Ten years after this mysterious illness left Jeanmarie DeBiase a widow, 3 1/2-year-old Harper Mitchell Hyslop asked her parents if she might have some ice cream. They were traveling in Spain, where the weather was significantly warmer than what they were accustomed to back home in Scotland. Some general exhaustion caused by the heat wave seemed the only downside to their holiday. “We could all use something cold and sweet,” Jodie thought.

But the family of three had only been enjoying their ice cream for only a few minutes when Harper became violently ill. She began turning gray and vomiting for days on end. Harper’s parents had known since she was 2 years old that she might have health issues, but they had never seen anything akin to this before. Like Mark DeBiase an ocean and a decade away, Harper had initially been diagnosed with pneumonia before radiographs revealed something at once ominous and obscure. Her lung tissues appeared to be inflamed, but doctors were at a loss for words when asked to explain how or why. She had endured 100 additional tests that left Harper and her parents with more questions than answers.

Fully 2 years after the horror holiday in Spain, doctors finally concluded that Harper had a form of ILD characterized by lung inflammation, which could be exacerbated by hot weather. Her reaction to eating the ice cream in the heat proved to be just one episode in a continuous illness. The now 5-year-old Harper was required to carry oxygen with her in a suitcase. Her parents had to visit her in bed throughout each night to ensure that the cable from her oxygen canister was not wrapped around her neck. When dancing at school, she now had to have her oxygen suitcase

Her parents had to visit her in bed throughout each night to ensure that the cable from her oxygen canister was not wrapped around her neck.

Harper Mitchell Hyslop, diagnosed with ILD age 5, happy in cold weather.

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affixed to her on a wheeled trolley. She was unable to play with her friends without needing to stop for frequent rests. Thoughts of holidays abroad were now as distant and foreign to the Hyslops as Jackson, New Jersey; they would be unable to carry the oxygen out of the country, and they doubted that sourcing it on foreign soil would be an easy endeavor. At 5 years old, Harper Mitchell Hyslop’s greatest fear was summer vacation.

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Although they will never meet because one died years before the other was born, Mark DeBiase and Harper Mitchell Hyslop share the devastating experience of ILD – interstitial lung disease. ILD is an umbrella term for a large group of disorders that cause scarring or fibrosis of the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. According to Mount Sinai School of Medicine pathology professor Dr. James Strauchen, the toxins, contaminants, smoke, and other materials Mark DeBiase absorbed while working at Ground Zero without protective gear caused him to develop ILD – just as it did for other first responders. Doctors in the United Kingdom are still investigating all of the causes of Harper’s ILD. The causes for ILD may be as diverse as chemotherapy, bird dropping exposure, and extended time in hot tubs, but a cure remains elusive. At best, most treatments improve symptoms and temporarily slow the disease’s progress – leaving people of all ages and ethnicities desperately in need of empowerment, research, and support for access to health care.

The endowment gives Erin new life by saving others, all in her name. We at the CHEST Foundation are now ready to give adults and children all over the world hope through our partnership with the Popovich family. The new year is destined to be an especially fruitful period in the young endowment’s history due to several initiatives the CHEST Foundation is excited to announce.

Although they will never meet because one died years before the other was born, Mark DeBiase and Harper Mitchell Hyslop share the devastating experience of ILD – interstitial lung disease

Harper Mitchell Hyslop’s form of ILD can make outdoor summer activities uncomfortable and even life-threatening.

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To provide caregivers and patients with resources for self-empowerment and enhanced access to health care, the Erin Popovich Endowment’s Oxygen Toolkit will serve as a guide for patients with lung disease along their journey as external oxygen users. Patients and caregivers can visit the CHEST Foundation website to find tools designed to meet the mission of the Erin Popovich Endowment. It represents a major step in helping people diagnosed with ILD and other oxygen-related diseases understand and cope with the experience of daily external oxygen dependency.

The Erin Popovich Endowment Task Force is developing several other resources for patients and caregivers, including the ILD Tree, Get a Second Opinion, You’re Not Alone Patient Journey, Mnemonic for ILD Patients, the Patients’ Bill of Rights, and a comorbidities one-page information sheet.

Finally, the Erin Popovich Endowment is funding a multifaceted digital hub with connectivity to local groups devoted to improving the quality of life for patients with ILD and their families. This gives them access to the expertise of ILD specialists, connecting them to other patients and families, and helps to pursue life-changing oxygen and treatments on their behalf through research. It will establish a powerful community response to ILD, harnessing the expertise of 20,000 physicians worldwide to support those impacted by ILD for as long as their needs exist.

Through its support for those initiatives, the CHEST Foundation has already helped to implement many of the goals of the Erin Popovich Endowment in the areas of access, empowerment, and research, with people as near as San Antonio, Texas, and as far as Japan, benefiting. As an initiative of the CHEST Foundation, the Erin Popovich Endowment will change what it means to live with ILD.

To help us provide better outcomes for those with this devastating and often mysterious disease – to make it possible for them to live fully, longer, and with greater optimism that they might someday live without ILD – visit chestfoundation.org/EP, and make a donation in support of the Erin Popovich Endowment now.

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Dr. Mark J. Rosen’s contributions to medicine included more than 4 decades in pulmonary and critical care medicine, service as CHEST President from 2006

to 2007, leadership in CHEST education and board review initiatives for more than a quarter-century, and a lifetime’s worth of education and mentorship around the world. His passing on July 3, 2019, left an immeasurable void in many of our lives. In recognition of Dr. Rosen’s profound contributions to CHEST and to society at large, the CHEST Foundation has established an endowment with two major areas of focus, reflecting what was loved most about Dr. Rosen by so many people.

THE ROSEN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDDr. Rosen always believed the core strength of CHEST was education. He was a gifted lecturer in board review and launched innumerable international courses in many countries around the world. Dr. Rosen also had a soft spot for pulmonary fellows and always managed to ensure fun and humor maintained their rightful place in training and education. He always made himself accessible to a willing learner because he believed in the power of mentorship.

Dr. Rosen’s passion for the pulmonology community in China is something that his good friend and mentee, Dr. Lisa Moores, recalled with particular fondness during an October interview with CHEST: “Mark was instrumental in developing our international outreach and was one of the key players in helping our Chinese colleagues establish pulmonary specialty training in their country. Bringing all the amazing faculty we have at CHEST to teach in the countries of members around the world is a huge contribution that I believe will directly impact patient care in those regions for many years.”

In honor of Dr. Rosen’s commitment to elevating students and clinicians overseas, the CHEST Foundation will endow the Rosen International Scholar by raising $100,000 to support deserving international clinicians and access to CHEST programming and educational opportunities. The $100,000 support allows the Foundation to provide an annual $3,000 scholarship that supports that access.

THE MARK J. ROSEN, MD, MASTER FCCP ENDOWMENT

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CHEST CHALLENGE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER’S TROPHY: THE ROSEN CUP “My favorite memory by far is Mark as the emcee for CHEST Challenge,” Dr. Moores said. “He had a good time joking with the contestants and keeping the audience engaged…. [W]e had a tradition of going out with several other close friends for Chinese food each year after the CHEST Challenge Championship. Those were always so much fun!” The CHEST Challenge and Dr. Rosen are forever intertwined in many of our best memories for that very reason. In honor of Dr. Rosen’s contributions to the championship event, held at the CHEST Annual Meeting each year, the CHEST Challenge winner’s trophy has officially been renamed the Rosen Cup.

To help advance Dr. Rosen’s legacy of education, mentorship, community building, and laughter, please go to chestfoundation.org/MarkRosen to make a contribution in support of the Mark J. Rosen, MD, FCCP Endowment today.

Celebrating the newly named CHEST

Challenge Rosen Cup are (L-R): Mark’s

daughters, Betsy Siegel and Emily Cooperman; Mark’s wife, Lenie; and

Dr. Bill Kelly.

“ My favorite memory by far is Mark as the emcee for CHEST Challenge! He was always having a good time joking with the contestants and keeping the audience engaged.”

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We want to thank all of you for making CHEST 2019 our most successful

annual meeting. Attendees had the opportunity to get involved and learn more about the CHEST Foundation through our first Casino Night; the Mark J. Rosen, MD, Master FCCP Endowment launch; our fourth annual Women & Pulmonary Program; and many other special events. We value everyone’s contributions immensely. We especially want to thank the Feldman Family Foundation for their partnership in developing the inaugural annual meeting Casino Night, as well as the Rosen family for the continued commitment to CHEST and the CHEST Foundation by creating the endowment in Dr. Rosen’s name. Over the course of the New Orleans meeting, your support of the CHEST Foundation totaled over $230,000—an increase of more than $200,000 from our CHEST 2018 efforts.

FOUNDATION ACTIVITIESSOARED AT CHEST 2019

Thank you all for supporting the CHEST Foundation!

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONSThis year’s Breakfast of Champions, a celebration at the annual meeting traditionally honoring CHEST Foundation research, community service, and travel grant winners, featured brief addresses from CHEST Foundation Immediate Past President Dr. Doreen Addrizzo-Harris; travel grant winner, Dr. Parth Rali; CHEST Foundation Research Grant winner, Dr. Kathleen Ramos; and Dr. Lisa Moores. Dr. Rali and Dr. Moores discussed the value of the CHEST Foundation’s mentorship program that is offered to CHEST Foundation travel grant recipients. Dr. Ramos, recipient of the 2019 CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic Fibrosis, spoke to the impact that the grant will have on her research in CF, malnutrition, and associated lung transplant access. We thank our members and sponsors for supporting the ongoing training of lung health champions by making these grants possible.

DONOR LOUNGE The Donor Lounge was one of the liveliest spaces at the annual meeting, with educational sessions about financial planning, health-care trends, the work of the CHEST Foundation, and other timely topics. CHEST Foundation staff and members of the Board of Trustees were on hand to answer questions and help to create a world-class annual meeting experience.

THE CHEST FOUNDATION RECEPTION AND CASINO NIGHTWe celebrated our donors and others during a fun-filled casino night on Sunday. The ticketed event at the New Orleans Marriott’s Mardi Gras Ballroom featured live music and casino prizes plus cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds from the evening help to advance the missions of the CHEST Foundation and the Feldman Family Foundation, supporters of pulmonary fibrosis research.

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LEADERSHIP SCAVENGER HUNT Far from a one-night-only event, the scavenger hunt, in collaboration with NBRC (National Board of Respiratory Care), was an open-invitation, all-conference-long program, challenging participants to scour the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for cardboard cutouts of CHEST and CHEST Foundation leadership. On the hunt, participants learned about the CHEST Foundation’s work in communities across the globe and competed to win fantastic prizes. Our grand prize winner, Rhea Votipka, CRNP, received free registration to a live learning course at CHEST Global Headquarters in Glenview, Illinois. Many other prize winners received CHEST SEEK™ Library and CHEST e-Learning subscriptions. Many thanks to NBRC and Lori Tinkler for their staunch support of the CHEST Foundation and ensuring this fun experience was enjoyed by everyone.

LUNG HEALTH EXPERIENCE NEW ORLEANS Now in its fourth year, the Lung Health Experience has visited nine North American cities and attracted an audience of over 3,000 attendees. The educational offerings and community service opportunities at the Lung Health Experience New Orleans made it one of this annual meeting’s major attractions, with over 300 people participating.

Held the first day of CHEST 2019 at the Spanish Plaza in New Orleans, this free public event built awareness of good lung health. Community participants experienced lung disease states by walking through a virtual patient tour that hosted four stations to educate attendees on

airflow effects of asthma and COPD; spirometry readings; impact of lung disease on everyday activities; and lung capacities. A special feature presented a set of pig lungs that simulated how human lungs appear during inhalation and exhalation.

Watch the CHEST Foundation website for exciting 2020 plans for the Lung Health Experience. If you are interested in becoming involved as a volunteer, email Andrew Gillen, CHEST Foundation Programs and Development Specialist, at agillen@chestnet.org. Thank you for your continued support to make possible this vital community service.

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WOMEN & PULMONARY LUNCHEONThis event brings together leading figures supporting the advancement of women in chest medicine and educating patients and the public on gender differences in major respiratory diseases. The third annual Women & Pulmonary Luncheon was a chance for women in the field to engage with one another and discuss topics of mutual interest. Dr. Arghavan Salles served as keynote speaker, addressing the challenges women face in the health-care workspace. The Women & Pulmonary initiative serves to increase CHEST Foundation efforts to drive awareness to the public on how certain diseases affect women and how women can better advocate for themselves when working with clinicians to achieve optimum health.

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS RECEPTIONA popular event designed exclusively for attendees in training and 5 years out of training, the Young Professionals Reception brought the CHEST Foundation to the French Quarter for a night on the famous Bourbon Street. Attendees enjoyed presentations from a number of CHEST staff and volunteer leaders, including Dr. Viren Kaul of the Social Media Workgroup, Dr. Candace Huebert of the CHEST Foundation Board, and Dr. Melissa Lesko of the Training and Transitions Committee, before they mixed and mingled the night away.

Watch for these future Foundation activities:

Grant submissions Open in early March

The Annual Irv Feldman Poker Tournament March 7

NetWorks Challenge Commencement - April 1

Belmont Stakes Dinner and Auction Event June 6

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As the annual meeting in New Orleans drew to a close, the CHEST Foundation was pleased to formally welcome to its Board of Trustees new CHEST President Stephanie Levine, MD,

FCCP, and Executive Committee Chair of the Council of Global Governors, Sai Haranath, MBBS, MPH, FCCP—who were appointed to their positions—as well as Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP; Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCP; and Jill Popovich—who were elected to their positions. Guided by life-changing experiences with public service, memories of loved ones struggling with lung disease, and a pure and overwhelming desire to help the most vulnerable populations around the world acquire the resources they need to survive, the new CHEST Foundation Board members understand enhancing the CHEST Foundation’s impact on global health over the coming years to be their greatest shared priority.

In support of that goal, the plans presented by each newly elected board member identify communication, industry partnerships, technologic advancements, and ease of accessibility to donation and participation opportunities as central to the CHEST Foundation’s growth. Here we highlight some elements of their visions that will make 2020 an especially exciting year to contribute to the CHEST Foundation.

Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP, has reflected on her own experience in copywriting and graphic design, her childhood family tradition of donating to a mosque or family in need during Ramadan, and occasions when she and others in her community were driven to action by seeing opportunities to help the people immediately in need around them. She has proposed that the CHEST Foundation better enable donations by enhancing the scope and reach of impactful related stories. She strives to aid the CHEST Foundation in leveraging technology and social platforms to prompt simple behavior changes among membership that could lead to easy and no-cost fundraising, such as shifting from Amazon to an Amazon Smile account that enables purchases to benefit the CHEST Foundation and lung health.

NEW CHEST FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS HOPE TO SPEARHEAD COMMUNITY BUILDING, INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION, AND TECHNOLOGIC INNOVATION

“ At the CHEST Foundation’s Breakfast of Champions during the CHEST Annual Meeting in San Antonio, I was blown away after I learned what the community service grant recipients were doing. I thought to myself, why aren’t more people talking about this?”

Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCPKeck Medicine, University of Southern California

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As pressure intensifies for public officials to address the needs of caregivers, both in their campaign platforms and through legislative advocacy while in office, the voice of individuals like Jill Popovich becomes increasingly important. Jill is the daughter of Erin Popovich, who battled interstitial lung disease for many years with the support of her friends and family—including her husband Gregg Popovich, Head Coach of the San Antonio Spurs. Having been one of her mother’s most dedicated caregivers, Jill knows that providing families and caregivers with opportunities to share their thoughts with experts who impact lung health daily is critical. Toward that end, as a new Trustee, she will explore opportunities for the CHEST Foundation to continue building a community of lung health champions in San Antonio and beyond. Jill will help keep front and center the importance and power of patient-family-physician partnerships, such as that she had with Jairo A. Melo, MD, FCCP, her fellow Foundation Trustee who attended to her mother’s illness so compassionately over many years.

A veteran of the CHEST Board of Regents, Dr. Lesnick has already begun realizing his vision for the future of the CHEST Foundation—and it features a psychological thriller! Dr. Lesnick will donate half of the proceeds from his next novel, Bloody Breathless, to the CHEST Foundation, as he did with his previous book proceeds. With a lead character who has COPD, this newest novel will simultaneously serve the CHEST Foundation’s goals of raising awareness of lung health issues and generating funds to address them. Dr. Lesnick is also working on several other creative collaborations with CHEST staff, academia, and an international association. He is working with Dr. Mark Cohen—incoming president of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Torax (ALAT)—to repurpose the CHEST Foundation’s patient education materials for sharing with Central American nurses, most of whom desperately need training in respiratory diseases.

The CHEST Foundation could not be more thrilled to see so many ambitious visions of awareness, international community building, and technologic innovation already coming to life, thanks to the efforts of its newly elected trustees and other board members. To support their initiatives, make a donation today at chestfoundation.org/donate.

Jill PopovichErin Popovich

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“ The lens through which I now view lung disease and the importance of lung health is drastically different after watching my mom struggle to make every breath count and to make a difference in the lives of others who are facing the same battle.”

Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCPChildren’s Healthcare of

Atlanta

“ Our new initiatives, including the Erin Popovich Endowment , has allowed us to focus our renewed energy toward life-changing resources and opportunities to truly advocate in the best interests of our patients and all those suffering from lung disease.”

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Champion’s Circle is the CHEST Foundation’s annual giving club that recognizes our most committed donors in a calendar year, January 1 - December 31, 2019. The donor list below is recognized from January 1st – December 11, 2019.

CHAMPION’S CIRCLE

CHEST FOUNDATION FOUNDER AND HONORARY PATRON

Bart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP and Peggy Chernow

LIFE MEMBERS

Doreen J Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP and Loren J Harris, MD, FCCP

W Michael Alberts, MD, MBA, Master FCCP and Debra Alberts

John C Alexander Jr , MD, MBA, FCCP and Carol C Alexander

Adel Bassily-Marcus, MD, FCCP and Ginger J Gardner, MD

Sidney S Braman, MD, Master FCCP and Judi Braman

Jack D Buckley, MD, FCCP

Cassandra C Carr

Christopher L Carroll, MD, FCCP

Brian Carlin, MD, FCCP

Charles Butt Foundation

Bart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP and Peggy Chernow

Clayton T Cowl, MD, MS, FCCP and Cammy J Cowl

Mark Cuban

Robert De Marco, MD, FCCP and Debbie De Marco

Edward J Diamond, MD, MBA, FCCP and Patrice Diamond, RN, MS

Dobson Family

Feldman Family Foundation

Neil S Freedman, MD, FCCP

Kim D French, MHSA, CAPPM, FCCP

Frost Bank

Allen I Goldberg, MD, Master FCCP and Eveline A M Faure, MD, FCCP

Graham Weston Charitable Fund

Greehey Family Foundation

Gordon Hartman Foundation

David D Gutterman, MD, Master FCCP

Nicola A Hanania, MBBS, MS, FCCP

Julianna Hawn Holt

H-E-B

Corrina Holt Richter & HOLT CATERPILLAR CORP

John A Howington, MD, FCCP and Anne C Howington, RN

Richard S Irwin, MD, Master FCCP

J Tullos Wells

Saleh Jaafer, MD

Jackson Pulmonary Associates

Robert G Johnson, MD, Master FCCP and Cindy Johnson

Paul A Kvale, MD, Master FCCP and Susan Kvale

Las Aguilas Enterprises

Burton L Lesnick, MD, FCCP

Alvin Lever, MA, Honorary FCCP and Norine Lever

Stephanie M Levine, MD, FCCP and Richard T Shaffer, MD

Ramya Lotano, MD, FCCP

Scott Manaker, MD, PhD, FCCP and Alison Manaker

Darcy D Marciniuk, MD, Master FCCP and Carla Marciniuk, MD

James B D Mark, MD

Paul A Markowski, CAE

Janet R Maurer, MD, MBA, FCCP

The Mays Family Foundation

D Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP and Mary Anne McCaffree, MD, FCCP

McCombs Family Foundation

Jairo A Melo, MD, FCCP & Texas IPS

Stephen A Mette, MD, FCCP

Lisa K Moores, MD, FCCP and Leon Moores, MD

Ian T Nathanson, MD, FCCP and Diane Nathanson

Michael E Nelson, MD, FCCP and Loretta R Nelson, MD

NuStar Energy L P

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Jay I Peters, MD, FCCP

Barbara A Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP

Gregg Popovich

Jill Popovich

Udaya B S Prakash, MD, Master FCCP

Suhail Raoof, MBBS, Master FCCP

Michael E Reed, JD

The Richards Group

Rico’s Products

*Mark J Rosen, MD, Master FCCP and Ilene Rosen

Christian E Sandrock, MD, FCCP

Roslyn F Schneider, MD, FCCP

Select Rehabilitation, LLC

Silver Eagle

Spectrum Reach

Spurs Sports and Entertainment

Curtis N Sessler, MD, FCCP and Pamela E Kiser, MD

Maggie Sharma

Gerard A Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP and Joanne Silvestri

Steven Q Simpson, MD, FCCP and Pamela J Nicklaus, MD

David J Steiger, MBChB, FCCP and Bess Steiger

John E Studdard, MD, FCCP and Nancy Studdard

Sugar Film Production

Salim R Surani, MD, MSc, FCCP and Zehra Surani, MS, RRT, PhD

Victor J Test, MD, FCCP

Alvin V Thomas Jr , MD, FCCP and Zorita Thomas

Tito’s Handmade Vodka

Kenneth G Torrington, MD, FCCP

Joseph Varon, MD, FCCP

Stephen J Welch and Beth Welch

Whataburger

*Sandra K Willsie, DO, and Thomas E Syverson, CMPE, MBA

Zachry Industrial

PATRON MEMBERS

Amy Addrizzo, RN

Humayun Anjum, MD, FCCP

George and Maureen Bain

David L Bowton, MD, FCCP

Allan H Bruckheim, MD

Aneesa M Das, MD, FCCP

Michael P Bennett Foundation Inc

Neeraj Desai, MD, FCCP and Judy Desai

Naresh A Dewan, MBBS, FCCP and Meera Dewan, MD

Tim Duncan

Richard B Evans, MD, MPH, FCCP

Becky Hammon

Richard M Hamrick III, MD, MBA, FCCP and Bonny D Hamrick, RN, MS

Hearst Foundation

Carmel Joseph, MBBS, FCCP

Kevin L Kovitz, MD, FCCP

Stephen Lang

Donald A Mahler, MD, FCCP

Marstine Family Foundation

NAT Basketball Trainers Assoc Foundation

National Board for Respiratory Care

Jennifer T Nemkovich, CAE

Alexander S Niven, MD, FCCP and Cathy Niven

Francis J Podbielski, MD, MS

Lois Rainer

Karen and Robert Reuben

Team Jeffery for PF

Patti Tuomey, EdD

Visit San Antonio

Walker Morton, LLP

Wellvana

SUSTAINING MEMBERS

Rudy Anderson, CAE

Preston and Robin Atkinson

David G Bell, MD, FCCP

Michel A Boivin, MD, FCCP

Nancy L Brecheisen, MD, MS, FCCP

John Brozovich

Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum

Marie M Budev, DO, MPH, FCCP

Theodore Chakos

Gilda Cisneros

Comet Signs

Carolyn M D’Ambrosio, MD, FCCP

P Stratton Davies IV, CPA and Joanne Davies

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Darrel W Dodson, MD

Eric S Edell, MD, FCCP

Chip Engelland

Brian and Susan Farley

FGMK, LLC

Stuart M Garay, MD, FCCP

Chitoor S Govindaraj, MD, FCCP

Timothy Grant

Monica and Bill Hall

Gemzel A Hernandez, MD, FCCP

Chef Johnny Hernandez

Norman Kellerman

Sandhya Khurana, MD, FCCP

Koontz Corporation

Lori and Jim Kwiatkowski

Amy Lang, MD

Tom and Renee Lardieri

Deborah Jo Levine, MD, MS, FCCP

Chris Mathis

Robert V McGee, MD, FCCP

Methodist Healthcare System

Ronald M Moen, CAE and Suellen G Moen

Ronald L Morton, MD, FCCP

Thomas Novak

Kevin M O’Neil, MD, FCCP and Debbie O’Neil

Angela Perillo, MBA

Joe and Annette Perri

Robert and Cathy Petrillo

Craig A Piquette, MD, FCCP and Nancy VanderSluis, MD

Laxminarayana C Rao, MD, FCCP

Bernard J Roth, MD, FCCP

Robert F Schmidt

David A Schulman, MD, MPH, FCCP

Sonali Sethi, MD, FCCP

Andrea L Sitterle, CPA

Maximiliano A Tamae Kakazu, MD, FCCP

University of Texas San Antonio

Srinivasa R Venkatesh, MBBS, FCCP

David O Westbrook, MD

Andrew M Wilhelm, DO, FCCP

Brian Wright

Subramanyam Yadam, MD, FCCP and Sundaradevi Yadam

ADVOCATE MEMBERS

Sandra G Adams, MD, MS, FCCP

Muhammad Adrish, MD, FCCP

Arzu Ari, FAARC, PhD

Nicki Augustyn, CAE

Javier Barreda Garcia, MD, FCCP

Sherry Budziak

Kenneth R Casey, MD, MPH, FCCP

Kevin M Chan, MD, FCCP

Nancy A Collop, MD, FCCP

Rany Condos, MD

Bradley Deutsch

Vera A De Palo, MD, FCCP

George A Eapen, MBBS, FCCP

Jean M Elwing, MD, FCCP

David Feldman

Arthur F Gelb, MD, FCCP

David Hiller

Candace A Huebert, MD, FCCP

Chad E Jackson, MS, RRT, FCCP and Katie Jackson

Bruce Jennings

Mitchell Kovitz

Robert A Musacchio, PhD

National Emphysema Foundation

Anne E O’Donnell, MD, FCCP

Robb Rabito, CHCP

Todd W Rice, MD, FCCP

Linda Rogers, MD, FCCP

Edward C Rosenow, III, MD, MS, Master FCCP

Mary K Schroth, MD, FCCP

Mojdeh Talebian, MD, FCCP

Lynn T Tanoue, MD, FCCP

Bob Tober

Rosemary A Zaccanti

MEMBERS

Sandra Albo

Christopher Anderson

Craig A Backous, DO

V Theodore Barnett, MD, FCCP

Michael H Baumann, MD, MS, FCCP

Abbie Begnaud, MD, BS

Rocco Berardi

Eduardo Bossone, MD, PhD, FCCP

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Moises Bucay, MD

Samantha D’Annunzio, MD

Neha S Dangayach, MD

Anthony DiTommaso

Marianne Dowdy

Kevin M Dushay, MD, FCCP

Gary Edidin

Peggy Eighmy

Richard Elliott

Kelley Frost, PhD and Pat Frost

William and Cynthia Gayden

Satish Govindaraj, MD

Harpreet S Grewal, MD

Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, MD, Master FCCP

Will Hardy

Brian E Hudson, MHSA, BS

Melissa R Isbell

Laura S Johnson, MD, FCCP

Lisa C Kanengiser, MD

Alamgir A Khan, MBBS, FCCP

Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP

Gregg E Kiefer

Dan D Kjeldbjerg

Jerry A Krishnan, MD, FCCP

Hans J Lee, MD, FCCP

Teofilo L Lee-Chiong Jr , MD

Jennine Letarte

Rick Liberto

Andrew Harold Limper, MD, FCCP

Ashok and Anne Mehra

Mark L Metersky, MD, FCCP

Josh Miller

Amy E Morris, MD, FCCP

Anoop M Nambiar, MD, FCCP

Ed Nelson

Margaret A Pisani, MD, MS, FCCP

David J Prezant, MD, FCCP

Rene Quiroz, MD

Greg H Ribakove, MD and Risa Ribakove, MD

Richmond University Medical Center

Mark Rudzinski

Jay H Ryu, MD, FCCP

Suzy Sachs

Paul H Sammut, MBBCh

Mark H Sanders, MD, FCCP

Catherine S Sassoon, MD, FCCP

Mike and Kathy Sauer

Daniel H Sterman, MD, FCCP

Diane E Stover, MD, FCCP

William W Stringer, MD, FCCP

Suzy Sulsona

Lura Walden

Patrick Wong Jr , DO

SUPPORTERS

Fadi Abouzahr, MD

Aaron Abramovitz, MD

John Addrizzo

Annette Alonzo

Bravein Amalakuhan, MD

Michael Auerbach

Tracy Ayers

Geoffrey Baron

Mike and Pina Basone

Mark Bernhard

Serge Biberman

Nicholas Boyle

Jeffrey Boyle

Brien Buelow

AmalakuhanVivian Bucay

Pietro Carpenti, MD

Lee Cavender

Cary Claver

Lisa Magnante Clementi

William M Corrao, MD and Carol Corrao

John Daigler

Mauricio Danckers, MD, FCCP

Gianna Defino

Andrew T Denenberg

Frank and Trudi DiTommaso

Peter DiTommaso

Ken Doody

Marcy Shiner Edidin

Larry Elisco

Jorge Elizondo

Laura Evans, MD, FCCP

Douglas Falcone

Po Kai Fok, MBBS, FCCP

Robert Frolichstein

Lou Celia Frost

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Antonio M Garcia, DO

Brandon Gayle

Daniel Genisio

Bruce Gold

Jack Goldberg

Ray Gonzalez

Todd Herst

Deanna Howard

Kathleen Huevler

Manica Isiguzo, MD

Manish Joshi, MBBS, FCCP

Peter Kafaf

Robert and Carol Kafin

Sloane Sydney Kahalnik

Nathan Kahn

Daren Kneezel

Mitchell Knopoff

Joyce Konnerth

Michael Krasny

Chandra Kunavarapu

David and Michelle Kuhl

Bonnie L Kwan

Marianne C La Barbera, MD

Alex Lampert

Dan Latondress

Thomas J Lauman Jr

Wayne Lavigne

Gary Leavenworth

Scott Leisten

Melissa B Lesko, DO, FCCP

Laura J Libby, MD

Tellef Lundevall

Tom McLenithan

Jeffrey Nemetz

Ari Nemetz

Richard W Newman

Terri O’Neil-Titch

Daniel Ocazionez

Michelle Olken

Nadia Pletukhina, MD

David Pollans

Lawrence Popkin

Kevin Proud, MD, FCCP

Donna Pugh

Danny Roseth, CPA

David Rothenberg

David Rouley

Paul Saenz, DO

Doron Scharf and Joanne Levine

Eric Schloss

Pamela Schur

Adrienne S Scott, MS

Eric Shamberg

Michael Shamberg

Michael Shaw

Robbie and Justin Shepherd

Steven W Siegel

Jason Siegellak

Andrew Silver

Karen Solovy

Julia Spigelman

Mary E Stein

Jason Stein

Lawrence Steingold

Andrew Sternberg

Glen and Margaret Swider

John Talken

Laren D Tan, MD, FCCP

Silvia Vettese

Renee Volpe

Garren Warren

Todd R Warren

Peter N Weil

Jeff Wells

Randy Yaffe

CHEST STAFF

Lisa Alvarez

Janet Amesse

Rudy Anderson, CAE

Nicki Augustyn, CAE

Robin Billiter

Karen Caraher

Josh Coe

Beth N Corey

Kristin Crowe

P Stratton Davies, IV, CPA

Jean Davis

Erika Devine, MS, CSM, CSPO

Jody Egel, CMP, CAE

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1996 VISIONARY CIRCLE

Bart Chernow, MD, Master FCCP and Peggy Chernow

Robert G Johnson, MD, Master FCCP and Cindy Johnson

Gregg Popovich

Jill Popovich

1935 MURRAY KORNFELD CIRCLE

W Michael Alberts, MD, MBA, Master FCCP and Debra Alberts

John C Alexander Jr , MD, MBA, FCCP and Carol C Alexander

Robert De Marco, MD, FCCP and Debbie De Marco

Edward J Diamond, MD, MBA, FCCP and Patrice Diamond, RN, MS

Feldman Family Foundation

David D Gutterman, MD, Master FCCP

John A Howington, MD, FCCP and Anne C Howington, RN

Stephanie M Levine, MD, FCCP and Richard T Shaffer, MD

Darcy D Marciniuk, MD, Master FCCP and Carla Marciniuk, MD

D Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP and Mary Anne McCaffree, MD, FCCP

Jay I Peters, MD, FCCP

Curtis N Sessler, MD, FCCP and Pamela E Kiser, MD

Maggie Sharma

Gerard A Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP and Joanne Silvestri

Spurs Sports and Entertainment

John E Studdard, MD, FCCP and Nancy Studdard

Salim R Surani, MD, MSc, FCCP and Zehra Surani, MS, RRT, PhD

*Sandra K Willsie, DO, and Thomas E Syverson, CMPE, MBA

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Doreen J Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP and Loren J Harris, MD, FCCP

Sidney S Braman, MD, Master FCCP and Judi D Braman

Jack D Buckley, MD, FCCP

Clayton T Cowl, MD, MS, FCCP and Cammy J Cowl

Frost Bank

Allen I Goldberg, MD, Master FCCP and Eveline A M Faure, MD, FCCP

Greehey Family Foundation

Nicola A Hanania, MBBS, MS, FCCP

H-E-B

Corrina Holt Richter & HOLT CATERPILLAR CORP

Richard S Irwin, MD, Master FCCP

Paul A Kvale, MD, Master FCCP and Susan Kvale

Alvin Lever, MA, Honorary FCCP and Norine Lever

Scott Manaker, MD, PhD, FCCP and Alison Manaker

McCombs Family Foundation

Jackson Pulmonary Associates

James B D Mark, MD

Janet R Maurer, MD, MBA, FCCP

Michael E Nelson, MD, FCCP and Loretta R Nelson, MD

Barbara A Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP

Udaya B S Prakash, MD, Master FCCP

David J Prezant, MD, FCCP

Michael E Reed, JD

*Mark Rosen, MD, Master FCCP and Ilene Rosen

NuStar Energy L P

Christian E Sandrock, MD, FCCP

Select Rehabilitation, LLC

*Deceased

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Olivia A Garconita

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Pamela L Goorsky

Cole Grover

Lauren Hughes

Chad E Jackson, MS, RRT, FCCP

Morgan Jacobus

Debra J Janiszewski

Kathy Jewett, MA

Casey Keske

Maggie Kosinski, MNM

Michelle Kosobucki

Greg G Lasko, MA, HRD

Ronald M Moen, CAE

Caitlin Moroney, MA

Robert A Musacchio, PhD

Cheryl Myers, MA, CUA, PSM I

Jennifer T Nemkovich, CAE

Richard W Newman

Marianna Pantelin, LPN

Angela Perillo, MBA

Emily M Petraglia

Robb Rabito, CHCP

Robert Ramillosa

Melissa Roberts, SHRM-CP

Susan Rossiello, CPA

Mark Ruenz, CPA, CGMA

Maggie Scarpaci

Richard Lee Schuch, EdD

Suzanne M Sletto, CAE

Anabel Uribe

Mateo Velilla

Julie Weldon

James Young, PhD

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