The Award for Outstanding Contribution to Respiratory Medicine 2011 was presented to Dr Cathal Bredin.  This was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and recognise the great contribution that Dr Bredin has made to respiratory medicine, respiratory education and to the ITS down through the years.

Dr Cathal Bredin pictured receiving the ITS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Respiratory Medicine from Dr Terry O’Connor, President, the Irish Thoracic Society