CTS Scientific Program at CHEST

The CTS Scientific Program is an annual accredited CME event held in conjunction with the CHEST Annual Meeting. The program features lectures and debates delivered by leading Canadian experts in respiratory medicine and research as well as highlighting up and coming faculty.

The 2025 CTS Scientific Program will take place on Monday, October 20, 2025 from 8:00 am – 2:30 p.m. in Chicago, IL. as part of the CHEST 2025. The program details will be posted as they become available. We look forward to seeing you there!

CTS Honorary Lecture

The scientific program features the CTS Honorary Lecture. The CTS Honorary Lecture (formerly known as the Christie Memorial Lecture) is awarded to recognize exemplary leadership in respiratory research and education in Canada. The lecture is presented as part of the honorary lecture series of the CHEST Conference.

2024 Awardee

The CTS Executive is pleased to announce that Dr. Meyer Balter (University of Toronto) is the 2024 recipient of the CTS Honorary Lecture Award! Nominations for the award were vetted by the CTS Long-term Planning Committee. Dr. Balter’s lecture on “How One Becomes a Sarcoidologist: A Tale of Serendipity, Community, and Mentorship” will be delivered as part of the CTS Scientific Program at CHEST on Monday, October 7th at 09:15 – 10:15 am in Boston, MA. Congratulations to Dr. Balter on this special recognition of his significant contributions to advancing respiratory care through his clinical, research and teaching endeavors, along with his tremendous mentorship of clinical trainees and early career clinicians.

Dr. Meyer Balter obtained his Medical Degree from McGill University in 1981. After completing his Internal Medicine training at McGill he went on to complete a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1988. He then moved to University of Toronto where he is currently is a Professor of Medicine. He is the Director of the Asthma and COPD Education Clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. His clinical interests include asthma, COPD and sarcoidosis. He was previously on the CTS Guideline Committees for both asthma and COPD and currently is on the executive for the Americas Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous diseases (AASOG).

Background: The CTS Christie Memorial Lecture was created to honour the memory of one of the major leaders in respiratory research and education in Canada – Dr. Ronald Christie. Dr. Christie was an inspiration in the development of modern respiratory medicine in Canada and was renowned as dean and head of the Department of Medicine at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, as well as being a major supporter of the CTS.

The award was renamed to CTS Honorary Lecture in 2012 and allows attribution to other esteemed individuals whom CTS wishes to recognize in a named lecture.

Past Lecturers

2023 – Sherri Katz
2022 – Dina Brooks
2021 – James Martin
2020 – Roger Goldstein
2019 – Mark FitzGerald
2018 – Douglas Bradley
2017 – Don Sin
2016 – Darcy Marciniuk
2015 – Paul O’Byrne
2014 – Richard Long
2013 – Donald Cockcroft
2012 – Susan Tarlo
2011 – Malcolm Sears
2010 – Jerome Dempsey
2009 – Art Slutsky
2008 – John Remmers
2007 – Peter Warren
2006 – Peter Paré
2005 – David Cotton
2004 – Magdy Younes
2003 – Moira Chan Yeung
2002 – Eliot Phillipson
2001 – Frederick Hargreave
2000 – Clarence Guenter