ITS Member Awarded Cournand Lecture
Dr. Silke Ryan of St. Vincent’s and UCD has been awarded the prestigious Cournand Lecture by the European Respiratory Society for her work over the last decade in relation to the regulation of inflammatory pathways in obstructive sleep apnoea, and their involvement in the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic co-morbidities. The Cournand Lecture is awarded every 3 […]
ITS – A. Menarini ATS Travel Bursary 2015
The Irish Thoracic Society is pleased to invite applications for a Travel Bursary to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Meeting taking place in Denver Colorado on the 15th – 20th May 2015. This bursary is to the value of €5,000.00 and is kindly supported by A. Menarini Pharmaceuticals. This award is open to SpRs on […]
Irish Thoracic Society Award for Outstanding Contribution to Respiratory Medicine
Professor Pat Finnegan pictured receiving the ITS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Respiratory Medicine with Prof JJ Gilmartin, Galway University Hospitals and Prof Anthony O’Regan, Presdent the Irish Thoracic Society Professor Pat Finnegan, Professor Emeritus, and previous Dean of Medicine at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG); and retired respiratory consultant at University College Hospital Galway […]
ITS Research Grant in Respiratory Medicine 2014
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Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2014
Irish Thoracic Society Boehringer Ingelheim Travelling Fellowships 2014 ANAIL Awards
Minister Varadkar Launches Ireland’s first National Lung Health Awareness Week
A new nationwide survey by Ipsos MRBI has revealed that one in every two people (49 per cent) nationwide has experienced lung disease, either personally or through a member of their family. Yet relatively few have had their lungs tested over the past five years (18 per cent) and significant numbers of people were unable […]
Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2014
7th and 8th November, Radisson Blu Hotel Galway Abstract deadline – Friday 15th August 2014 More>
The ITS Welcomes Cabinet Approval of Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Legislation
The Irish Thoracic Society welcomes the government’s decision to approve the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Legislation – paving the way for Ireland to become the first country in the EU to introduce this important public health measure. Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in Ireland, killing one in two of all users. 5,200 […]
World TB Day 2014
The Irish Thoracic Society (ITS) urges against complacency in the fight against Tuberculosis (TB) – a contagious but controllable disease that continues to pose significant public health challenges as Ireland sees a rise in cases of difficult to treat multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB. To mark World TB Day, Monday 24th March, the ITS has identified […]
Dr William D Linehan MD FRCPI – An Appreciation
Dr William D Linehan, who died on October 11th 2013, was a doctor of medicine who in the first stage of his career was involved in the fight against the scourge of tuberculosis and who later focused on the treatment of patients with asthma and other respiratory diseases. Born in 1926 in Singapore he was […]