The American Thoracic Society (ATS) is a medical society founded in 1905 that advances global respiratory health through multidisciplinary collaboration, education, research, patient care, and advocacy. Its members include physicians, researchers, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other health professionals focused on lung disease, critical care, sleep, and related public health issues.
Health care, biomedical research, respiratory disease prevention and treatment, public health, environmental and occupational health, tobacco control, Medicare and insurance coverage, NIH and federal research funding, and regulations affecting pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.
Primarily membership dues, philanthropic donations, corporate partnerships, journal and conference revenue, and related educational/programmatic support.
More than 22,000 members in 133 countries; chapters and specialty groups within ATS; four peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, and ATS Scholar.
non-profit medical society
