Reflecting on Global Pulmonary Medicine Insights at ATS 2025

At the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2025 International Conference, attendees shared how the conference is a representation of knowledge exchange, collaboration, and advancing medical understanding in the pulmonary and critical care fields.

Here is what the following attendees who spoke with The American Journal of Managed Care® during the meeting had to say about why they attend the event:

• Michael Goulet, DO, pulmonary and critical care fellow, Temple University Hospital
• Sanjay Ramakrishnan, MD, senior lecturer, University of Western Australia
• Kiyomi Komori, PhD, immunologist, senior director of translational medicine, Uniquity Bio

This transcript was lightly edited; captions were auto-generated.

Transcript

What do you enjoy most about attending ATS?

Goulet: I think my favorite thing about being here is just being able to interact with our pulmonary and critical care colleagues from all over the world, and just seeing sort of what's new in our world of pulmonary medicine.

Ramakrishnan: Just catching up with everyone, colleagues around the world, learning what they're all up to, and even just catching up see how their family is going. [I've] worked with most of them, online and over correspondence; it's nice to see people in person.

Komori: I think it's just always really exciting to see all of the new science, both on the clinical front and also on the early preclinical data that's here from a lot of the people who are trying to develop medicines. And it's nice to see how people are engaging also with patients.