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Please join us at the 2026 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in Orlando, FL.

The schedule of our team’s presentations and awards is listed below.

For more schedule details, visit https://site.thoracic.org/conference.

* Denotes presenting author

Flyer for the PAIR Center at ATS 2026 International Conference, Orlando, FL. Sunday May 17 - Wednesday, May 20.
Sunday, May 17

Starving for Attention: A Mixed-Methods Study of Food Insecurity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

*Joanna Hart, Isabella Li, Greer Tiver, Daniel Carter, Sarah Mitchell, Emily Blaum, Eric Underwood, Casey Whitman, Omar Elsakhawy

Disparities in Health‑Related Social Needs Prevalence Among Patients With Asthma: A Retrospective Cohort Study

*Bhavik Patel, Daniel Roth (PAIR Center EAB), Scott Halpern, Rachel Kohn

Embodied Inequality: Analytic Frameworks for Understanding Stress, Stigma and Health Outcomes in Marginalized Communities

*Christopher Chesley

Monday, May 18

Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening

*Joanna Hart, Shira Blady, Brian Bayes, Dorothy Sheu, Vanessa Madden, Emma Britez, Jenny Tian, Casey Whitman, Rachel Kohn, Scott Halpern

Quantifying Nurse and Clinician Contributions to Racial Disparities in Severity of Illness Among Mechanically Ventilated Patients

*Christopher Chesley, Yingying Lu, Scott Halpern, Aerielle Belk, Stefania Scott, Meeta Kerlin

Assessing the Construct Validity of Electronic Health Record-Based Definitions of Early Deep Sedation

*Nicholas Kuhl, Alexander Ortiz, Zhe Chen, Benjamin Schmid, Anuradha Vyas, Gary Weissman, Meeta Kerlin

Characterizing Real-World Use of Time-Limited Trials in Critical Care: A Multi-Center Focused Ethnography

*Emily Campbell, Scott Halpern

(Poster Board # 113) Patient Preferred Language and Continuous Neuromuscular Blockade During Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

*Alexander Ortiz, Christopher Chesley, Benjamin Schmid, Anuradha Vyas, Gary Weissman

Tuesday, May 19

Critical Measurement of Social Determinants of Health

*Joanna Hart

Safety, Conflict, and Care: Characterizing the Role of Uniformed Security in the Medical Intensive Care Unit

*Joanna Hart, Anooshey Ikhlas, Andrew Parra, Brandon Tang, Daniel Carter, Anne Song, Christopher Chesley

(Poster Board # 1019) Validating Clinician Value-added Modeling for Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Quantifying the Roles Physicians and Nurses Play in Disease Trajectory

*Christopher Chesley, Yingying Lu, Rachel Kohn, Aerielle Belk, Stefania Scott, Meeta Kerlin

(Poster Board # 1022) Discrepancies Between Perceived and Objective Health in a Prospective Cohort of Acute Respiratory Failure Survivors

*Abigail Black, Melanie Bahti, Casey Whitman, Saied Beckford, Paola Rosa, Catherine Auriemma

Clinical Remission Rates After Biologic Therapy Initiation in Severe Asthma

Kimberly Lactaoen, Alexander Moffett, Gary Weissman

Absence of Selection Effects in Health‑Related Social Needs Screening Among Asthma and COPD Patients in a National US Health System

*Bhavik Patel, Daniel Roth (PAIR Center EAB), Scott Halpern, Rachel Kohn

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Inpatient Palliative Care Consults in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

*Anne Song, Chelsea K. Brown, Zhe Chen, Michael Harhay, Kate Courtright

Using Large Language Models to Align an Artificial Intelligence Decision Support System With Safe Ventilator Management Practices

*Benjamin Schmid, Antonia Angeli Gazola, Nicholas Bishop, Alexander Ortiz, Gary Weissman

Wednesday, May 20

Implementation Trials as a Means to Support a LHS

*Meeta Kerlin (Chair)

Health-Related Social Needs of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit: A Mixed Methods Study

Joanna Hart

Meaning Over Metrics: Designing and Collecting Trial Outcomes based on the Values of Older Adults

*Catherine Auriemma (Chair)

When Research Listens: A Caregiver’s Voice in the Future of Critical Care Trial Design

*Rebecca Kirch (PAIR Center EAB)

(Poster Board # 201) Restriction With Normal Spirometry: A Retrospective Cohort Study

*Alexander Moffett, Gary Weissman

(Poster Board # 202) Mapping the Zone of Uncertainty in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation

*Alexander Moffett, Gary Weissman

(Poster Board # 222) Organizational Factors and Hospital Adaptation and Resiliency in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Frontline Acute Care Clinicians

*George Anesi, Aerielle Belk, Paola Rosa, Erich Dress, Stefania Scott, Scott Halpern

Awards & Recognition

George Anesi

Cathrine Auriemma

Christopher Chesley

Catherine Auriemma, Joanna Hart, Meeta Kerlin, Rachel Kohn, Anne Song, Gary Weissman