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The foundation has provided almost $10 million in clinical research and community service grants to recognize outstanding projects in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Deciding how to allocate funds, reviewing project proposals, and creating grant criteria takes a dedicated team of professionals. Our Awards Committee ensures we offer support to a wide variety of specialties, and we are awarding projects with the highest potential to have an impact on championing lung health.

Roles and Responsibilities of Committee:

• Establish goals for the clinical research and community service grants program
• Establish criteria for grants
• Establish funding priorities
• Review grant application template and update as necessary
• Review promotion of grant opportunities and update as necessary
• Suggest grant funded programming that helps engage volunteer lung health champions
• Suggest subject matter experts to serve on review panels to review and score grant applications
• Determine survey questions for former grant recipients
• Review survey responses; decide which recipients/projects to highlight in foundation publications and online
• Recruit non-trustees to serve on the committee
• Participate in at least 1 conference call per year

Co-Chair: Doreen Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP
Co-Chair: Robert DeMarco, MD, FCCP

David Gutterman, MD, FCCP
Nicola Hanania, MBBS, MS, FCCP
Candace Huebert, MD, FCCP
Jay Peters, MD, FCCP
Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP

For more information, contact Emily Petraglia.

The Community Programs Work Group will identify and create local programs aligned with CHEST Foundation strategic goals; cultivate and assist in the recruitment efforts of local lung health champions to execute community-based programs; and establish the CHEST Foundation as a national leader in the respiratory health community programming space.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Create procedures to identify and develop sustainable, replicable community-based programming across the United States
• Collaborate as subject matter experts to select high-priority regions within the United States to deploy pilot community-based programs
• Partner with CHEST Foundation staff to prospect and identify partners and funders for community-based programs on the national, regional, and local level
• Cultivate and assist in the recruitment of local lung health champions (individuals, partner organizations, and businesses) to execute programming
• Volunteer to help lead lung health community service events throughout the year (e.g., Lung Health Experience and/or new programs)
• Serve as ambassadors on behalf of the CHEST Foundation by becoming a more educated, public figure within their own community

Work Group Members

Chair: Ian Nathanson, MD, FCCP
Co-Chair:Robert De Marco, MD, FCCP

De De Gardner, RRT, DrPh, FCCP
Michael Nelson, MD, FCCP

For more information, please contact Suzanne Sletto.

As stewards of CHEST Foundation resources, an essential goal established by the Board of Trustees entails strengthening the financial sustainability of the CHEST Foundation. The Funding Strategy Work Group works to strengthen the fostering and growth of funding strategies to support the foundation, cultivating donor prospects and enabling stewardship, and creating and adopting funding strategies to meet the needs of foundation priorities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Creation and adoption of funding strategies to meet the needs of these Foundation priorities, such as: COPD, Shortness of Breath, Women and Pulmonary – Patient/Caregiver/Consumer perspective, Asthma, and ILD.
• Responsible for effective cultivation and stewardship of major funding prospects as defined by the chair of the Funding Strategy Work Group.
• Serve as ambassadors on behalf of the CHEST Foundation by becoming a more educated, public figure.

Work Group Members

Chair: Patti Tuomey, EdD
Co-Chair: Burton Lesnick, MD, FCCP

Kim French, MHSA, CAPPM, FCCP
Roozehra Khan, DO, FCCP
Jairo Melo, MD, FCCP
Michael Nelson, MD, FCCP
Salim Surani, MD, MSc, FCCP

For more information, please contact Suzanne Sletto.

The Patient Education Work Group partners with other patient-centered organizations to identify and execute patient education materials and seeks to distribute education through multichannel programs and disease awareness campaigns that establish leadership and excellence in the area of patient education.

Roles and Responsibilities of Work Group:

• Establish a clear, focused, and current strategy for patient education content development and dissemination.
• Identify CHEST members and other subject matter experts (SMEs) to potentially review new and updated materials.
• Collaborate with CHEST staff to work with CHEST NetWorks, trainees, and key committees to ensure patient education priorities are interwoven into other priorities, programs, and projects.
• Serve as ambassadors on behalf of the CHEST Foundation by becoming a more educated, public figure within their own community.

Work Group Members

Chair: David Steiger, MBChB, FCCP
Co-Chair: Donald Mahler, MD, FCCP

Christopher Carroll, MD, FCCP
Mark Fenton, MD, MSc, FCCP
Sai Haranath, MBBS, MPH, FCCP
Jay Peters, MD, FCCP
Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MA, FCCP
Victor Test, MD, FCCP

For more information, please contact Suzanne Sletto.