Early Career Professionals Working Group

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RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group
Ciara M. Shaver, MD, PhD

Working Group Chair
Ciara M. Shaver, MD, PhD

Welcome to the RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group.  The goal of this working group is to promote and facilitate the involvement of junior ATS members (students, fellows, and junior faculty) in the RCMB Assembly and the ATS as a whole.  Towards this end, we have several ongoing projects:

  • We organize the annual RCMB reception and dinner, which are held and the ATS International Conference.  One of the main purposes of these events is to facilitate interaction between junior and senior RCMB members.
  • We have developed an RCMB Brochure, which highlights the benefits of, and mechanisms for, involvement in the RCMB Assembly.  View the brochure.
  • We program education sessions at the ATS Internation Conference geared towards junior professionals.
  • We organize an annual mentoring program to help trainees and junior faculty members navigate the seemingly complex environment of the American Thoracic Society so that they can get the most out of their ATS International Conference experience and the Society as a whole.

The RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group welcomes new members. It is limited to 25 members and members rotate in order to allow new members to participate. 

If you would like to become actively involved in the Working Group, please send the WG chair your CV and a brief paragraph outlining your background, why you are interested, and what committees you would like to join.

Yael Aschner, MD
Yael Aschner, MD
University of Colorado
Committee Member

 

Scott J. Denstaedt, MD
Scott J. Denstaedt, MD
University of Michigan
Committee Member

 

James Londino, PhD
James Londino, PhD
The Ohio State University
Committee Member

 

Jeremy Katzen, MD
Jeremy Katzen, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Committee Member

 

Laurie C. Eldredge, MD, PhD
Laurie C. Eldredge, MD, PhD
University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital
Committee Member

 

Kosuke Kato, PhD
Kosuke Kato, PhD
Emory University
Committee Member

 

Joseph S Bednash, MD
Joseph S Bednash, MD
Ohio State University
Chair, Seminar Comittee

 

Mareike Lehmann
Mareike Lehmann
Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany
Chair, Communications Committee

 

Rachel Knipe, MD
Rachel Knipe, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Chair, Mentoring Program

 

Saleela Ruwanpura, PhD
Saleela Ruwanpura, PhD
Hudson Institute, Monash University and Monash Health, Victoria, Australia
Committee Member

 

Elizabeth Middleton, MD
Elizabeth Middleton, MD
University of Utah
Committee Member

 

Chi Hung, MD
Chi Hung, MD
University of Washington
Committee Member

 

Aparna Sundaram, MD
Aparna Sundaram, MD
UCSF
Committee Member

 

Hilary Faust, MD, MS
Hilary Faust, MD, MS
University of Wisconsin
Committee Member

 

Tania Zyrianova, PhD
Tania Zyrianova, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Committee Member

 

Divay Chandra, MD
Divay Chandra, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Committee Member

 

Luisa Morales-Nebreda, MD
Luisa Morales-Nebreda, MD
Northwestern University
Committee Member

 

Eleanor Valenzi, MD
Eleanor Valenzi, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Committee Member

 

Jennifer Larson Casey, PhD
Jennifer Larson Casey, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Committee Member

 

David Ziehr, MD
David Ziehr, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Committee Member

 

Yifan Yuan, Phd
Yifan Yuan, Phd
Yale University
Committee Member

 

Patrick Hume, MD, PhD
Patrick Hume, MD, PhD
National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Committee Member