ATS Breathe Easy: The Latest - Putting Patients in the Spotlight

This latest episode in the series "What You May Have Missed at ATS 2025," features Donna Appell, RN, immediate-past-chair of  the Public Advisory Roundtable (PAR), a unique feature of the American Thoracic Society. Helping to integrate the patient perspective in research and clinical care, PAR is comprised of nearly 15 respiratory-related patient organizations. Ms. Appell sat down with host Patti Tripathi to discuss PAR events at ATS 2025 as well as the work of the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network, Inc, of which Ms. Appell is founder and executive director.

6:40 How do groups like the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network work with the ATS on grand funding?
16:35 Why is it important that PAR have a presence at the International Conference?
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