Catching Up With Our Past Presidents

 

Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to give us a look at what’s new.

Paul Stein, MD, FCCP

President 1992-1993

It is now 24 years since I was president of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). Dr. Al Soffer had just retired, and it was Al Lever’s first year. Dr. Roger Bone preceded me as President and Dr. Ron George followed me.

I have been at Michigan State University since 2011, in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. It has been great. I work out of my home office and drive to East Lansing, 87 miles from greater Detroit, only about once or twice a month. My research in the last 30 years has been primarily on pulmonary embolism, which is where I started when training with Dr. Lewis Dexter at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1964-1966. Most of the research is based on administrative data from large publicly available government databases, typically with about 2 million patients with pulmonary embolism. Also, we have a consortium of five or so regional EDs, which collaborates on obtaining cohort data. I stray occasionally from pulmonary embolism, however. For example, I wrote in the Journal of Anatomy, how the sinuses of Valsalva are shaped as converging nozzles, which would contribute to stabilization of flow in the proximal portion of the coronary arteries.

Getting back to pulmonary embolism, with distinguished collaborators throughout the United States, and some in Canada, we did the PIOPED II investigation of the accuracy of multidetector CT pulmonary angiography and PIOPED III, the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. I have written three editions of the book, “Pulmonary Embolism” (1998, 2007, 2016).

So that‘s how I spend most of my time, working and doing research, which I love. I feel blessed to be able to continue being productive at age 82. Janet and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We have three children and two grandchildren.

My main hobby is playing the clarinet. I particularly enjoy playing classical sonatas and meet monthly with a superb pianist who had been a professional organist. We are hoping to make a CD. In addition, I play in a “swing band” and a concert band that hopefully will go to a national contest.

Another hobby is collections, which include fossils, old books, rocks, masks, tribal art, and musical instruments, to name a few. It is a thrill to hold the fossil of an animal that lived 400 million years ago or an arrowhead made by someone 10,000 years ago.

 

Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to give us a look at what’s new.

Paul Stein, MD, FCCP

President 1992-1993

It is now 24 years since I was president of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). Dr. Al Soffer had just retired, and it was Al Lever’s first year. Dr. Roger Bone preceded me as President and Dr. Ron George followed me.

I have been at Michigan State University since 2011, in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. It has been great. I work out of my home office and drive to East Lansing, 87 miles from greater Detroit, only about once or twice a month. My research in the last 30 years has been primarily on pulmonary embolism, which is where I started when training with Dr. Lewis Dexter at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1964-1966. Most of the research is based on administrative data from large publicly available government databases, typically with about 2 million patients with pulmonary embolism. Also, we have a consortium of five or so regional EDs, which collaborates on obtaining cohort data. I stray occasionally from pulmonary embolism, however. For example, I wrote in the Journal of Anatomy, how the sinuses of Valsalva are shaped as converging nozzles, which would contribute to stabilization of flow in the proximal portion of the coronary arteries.

Getting back to pulmonary embolism, with distinguished collaborators throughout the United States, and some in Canada, we did the PIOPED II investigation of the accuracy of multidetector CT pulmonary angiography and PIOPED III, the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. I have written three editions of the book, “Pulmonary Embolism” (1998, 2007, 2016).

So that‘s how I spend most of my time, working and doing research, which I love. I feel blessed to be able to continue being productive at age 82. Janet and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We have three children and two grandchildren.

My main hobby is playing the clarinet. I particularly enjoy playing classical sonatas and meet monthly with a superb pianist who had been a professional organist. We are hoping to make a CD. In addition, I play in a “swing band” and a concert band that hopefully will go to a national contest.

Another hobby is collections, which include fossils, old books, rocks, masks, tribal art, and musical instruments, to name a few. It is a thrill to hold the fossil of an animal that lived 400 million years ago or an arrowhead made by someone 10,000 years ago.

 

Where are they now? What have they been up to? CHEST’s Past Presidents each forged the way for the many successes of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), leading to enhanced patient care around the globe. Their outstanding leadership and vision are evidenced today in many of CHEST’s current initiatives, and now it is time to check in with these past leaders to give us a look at what’s new.

Paul Stein, MD, FCCP

President 1992-1993

It is now 24 years since I was president of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). Dr. Al Soffer had just retired, and it was Al Lever’s first year. Dr. Roger Bone preceded me as President and Dr. Ron George followed me.

I have been at Michigan State University since 2011, in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. It has been great. I work out of my home office and drive to East Lansing, 87 miles from greater Detroit, only about once or twice a month. My research in the last 30 years has been primarily on pulmonary embolism, which is where I started when training with Dr. Lewis Dexter at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1964-1966. Most of the research is based on administrative data from large publicly available government databases, typically with about 2 million patients with pulmonary embolism. Also, we have a consortium of five or so regional EDs, which collaborates on obtaining cohort data. I stray occasionally from pulmonary embolism, however. For example, I wrote in the Journal of Anatomy, how the sinuses of Valsalva are shaped as converging nozzles, which would contribute to stabilization of flow in the proximal portion of the coronary arteries.

Getting back to pulmonary embolism, with distinguished collaborators throughout the United States, and some in Canada, we did the PIOPED II investigation of the accuracy of multidetector CT pulmonary angiography and PIOPED III, the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. I have written three editions of the book, “Pulmonary Embolism” (1998, 2007, 2016).

So that‘s how I spend most of my time, working and doing research, which I love. I feel blessed to be able to continue being productive at age 82. Janet and I just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We have three children and two grandchildren.

My main hobby is playing the clarinet. I particularly enjoy playing classical sonatas and meet monthly with a superb pianist who had been a professional organist. We are hoping to make a CD. In addition, I play in a “swing band” and a concert band that hopefully will go to a national contest.

Another hobby is collections, which include fossils, old books, rocks, masks, tribal art, and musical instruments, to name a few. It is a thrill to hold the fossil of an animal that lived 400 million years ago or an arrowhead made by someone 10,000 years ago.