PRESIDENT’S REPORT The Six F’s for Our Most Important Resource: Faculty Volunteers

Face Time. Easy access to leadership and staff is important. We are implementing staff training that will better position all CHEST employees to more effectively facilitate and support the work we ask of our faculty. On another front, we are engaged in identifying new, user-friendly systems for session submission, conflict of interest disclosure, and review, as well as developing content.

Food. It is a simple but well-established fact that having a stocked lounge area for busy faculty on the run between teaching sessions enhances efficiency, communication, camaraderie, and overall morale.

Fun. The fun of discovering better ways to take care of our patients, be it from the teacher or learner perspective, in an engaging, effective learning environment is and always has been at the center of what we do.

CHEST’s volunteer leaders, in service to their peers, the field, and the organization, have risen to many challenges over and over again. We realize we need to do a better job of rewarding and recognizing their irreplaceable contributions. The above initiatives, and others, we hope, will help demonstrate to our most precious resource, our member-faculty, that we truly value and appreciate their invaluable contributions on behalf of CHEST. Stay tuned and stay with us.