Refiloe Masekela, MD, PhD, a pediatric bronchial asthma specialist primarily based in Durban, South Africa, will obtain the ATS 2025 World Lung Well being Award, in accordance with an American Thoracic Sociey press launch.
Dr. Masekela shall be acknowledged for “her exemplary achievements in respiratory well being primarily based on her work as a Nationwide Institutes of Well being and Care Analysis World Well being Analysis Professor specializing in pediatric bronchial asthma scientific trials, and her creation of the African Continual Respiratory Illness Observatory CHEST AFRICA,” the ATS says. Dr. Masekela additionally serves as chair of the Pan African Thoracic Society and co-chair of the World Bronchial asthma Community.
Masekela and different award recipients shall be acknowledged for his or her contributions and achievements in pulmonary illness, crucial care, and sleep well being at the upcoming ATS 2025 Worldwide Convention to be held Might 16-21 in San Francisco. The awards symbolize excellent respiratory well being contributions by means of varied means, from analysis and analysis to training and advocacy.
“This yr’s ATS Respiratory Well being Awards recipients embody excellence in science and scientific care,” mentioned ATS President Irina Petrache, MT, ATSF. “We lengthen our warmest congratulations to those excellent people. Their work has made a significant distinction in advancing respiratory well being around the globe, and we’re deeply appreciative of their contributions.”
The World Lung Well being Award acknowledges and celebrates a person who has made substantial contributions in enhancing world lung well being within the space of translational or implementation analysis, supply of healthcare, persevering with training or care of sufferers with lung illness, or associated political advocacy with a particular emphasis on efforts which have the potential to remove gender, racial, ethnic, or financial well being disparities worldwide.
“I’m extremely honored and humbled to obtain this award. ATS-MECOR has performed such an enormous position in shaping the following era of lung well being researchers, and I’m proud to be certainly one of them. The best pleasure in my profession has been in paying it ahead by means of mentorship and coaching of others in Africa,” Dr. Masekela mentioned.
Extra data is on the market on the ATS 2025 convention web site.
ATS World Lung Well being Award
