54th Congress

Welcome

It’s Time for More!

Come to the AARC’s International Respiratory Congress, where you can expect more of everything.

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There will be more attendees, with more diversity in professional roles. See more respiratory therapists, managers, educators, physicians, and clinicians of all types. Meet more people from more countries around the world. You’ll get to interact with more of the experts in respiratory care—the researchers, the authors, the thought leaders.

Get more in the way of education with more tracks, lectures, and poster presentations. You’ll have more opportunities for networking, more time to make business contacts, more ways to make new friends.

Expect more than 150,000 square feet of every conceivable product and service in respiratory care. See more distributors, manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, and service organizations. Expect more exhibitors than ever before with more cool ideas, products, and trends.

There will be more social activities…more awards…more to see and do than ever before.

When all is said and done, we’ll pack more into four days than you could dream possible.

Don’t miss this opportunity to rejuvenate your professional spirit. If you miss it you’ll miss the most important professional event of the year.

Program Committee

  • Michael A Gentile
    RRT FAARC/Chair
  • Roger L Berg
    PhD RRT-NPS
  • Ira M Cheifetz
    MD FAARC
  • Bill Galvin MSEd RRT
    CPFT AE-C FAARC
  • David J Pierson
    MD FAARC
  • Colleen L Schabacker
    BA RRT FAARC
  • Karen J Stewart
    MS RRT FAARC
  • Dean R Hess
    PhD RRT FAARC
    Consultant

Disclosure of Faculty Conflict of Interest

  • The AARC remains strongly committed to providing the best available evidence-based clinical information to participants of this educational activity and requires an open disclosure of any potential conflict of interest identified by our faculty members.
  • It is not the intent of the AARC to eliminate all situations of potential conflict of interest, but rather to enable those who are working with the AARC to recognize situations that may be subject to question by others.
  • All disclosed conflicts of intesest are reviewed by the AARC Program Committee to ensure that such situations are properly evaluated and, if necessary, resolved.
  • The AARC educational standards pertaining to conflict of interest are intended to maintain the professional autonomy of the clinical experts inherent in promoting a balanced presentation of science.
  • Through our review process, all AARC CRCE activities are ensured of independent, objective, scientifically balanced presentations of information.
  • Disclosure of any or no relationships will be made available on-site during all educational activities. 

Industry Support Statement

  • The AARC is proud of the collaboration we have had with friends in industry for many years, and we wish to acknowledge our appreciation for their unrestricted educational grants for the International Respiratory Congress.
  • All sponsored sessions are identified by the program, handouts, and signage.
  • The AARC accepts support only on the condition that the Program Committee be the sole organizer of all sessions, including selection of speakers and topics.
 

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