Trip Report – American Thoracic Society, San Diego – Nicola Roberts
by Nicola Roberts
I should start by saying that the ATS conference is huge, it does take a bit of planning to decide what you are going to attend. As such with such a big conference it is expensive to attend, I applied successfully for an ARNS bursary to help with the registration costs.
This year’s conference was in San Diego, I have been part of the pulmonary rehabilitation conference organising committee and submitted an abstract, and a symposium proposal (as a group) around pulmonary rehabilitation education.
I facilitated a pulmonary rehabilitation poster session with 3 colleagues, this was great fun and a good way to hear about lots of new work. My abstract was accepted as an oral presentation on what pulmonary rehabilitation participants want their educational sessions to comprise of. Our pulmonary rehabilitation symposium discussed delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation, focusing on the staff, education, CBT, education, literacy amongst other topics. My final responsibility on the last day was to attend our conference programming meeting to get ready for next year – a bright and early meeting at 6.45 am.
So my highlights, it is great to get a bit more involved, and see other interesting sessions and posters. Thanks ARNS for helping me to attend, it was exhausting but really worthwhile. Do consider applying for a bursary to attend an international conference.
Nicola
N.Roberts@napier.ac.uk