CHEST 2026: Inside Look is your guide to today’s can’t-miss sessions and events. Add these activities to your agenda, read the linked articles about sessions that your fellow attendees will be talking about, and discover even more recommendations in the CHEST Events mobile app and CHEST 2026 magazine.
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Visit Experience CHEST
Exhibit Hall, Lower Level
While you’re in the Exhibit Hall, be sure to drop by Experience CHEST to check out must-attend education sessions, information on useful clinical resources, and other opportunities and surprises. Also, don’t forget to claim your free CHEST 2026 souvenir T-shirt!
10:30 am – 2:45 pm
Attend learning theater presentations
Exhibit Hall, Lower Level
Hear clinical insights during concurrent industry presentations today from 10:30 am to 11:15 am, 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm, and 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm. Check out a schedule of featured industry events, including CME and non-CME symposia, in CHEST 2026: Inside Look.
6:00 pm – 7:15 pm
CHEST Challenge Championship
West Building, Ballroom 301BC
Don’t miss one of the most popular and exciting events at every annual meeting, the CHEST Challenge Championship. Cheer on fellows from Houston Methodist Hospital, Reading Hospital – Tower Health, and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, who will battle it out in a lively, Jeopardy!-style test of their clinical knowledge that rivals even board review examinations. A reception begins at 5 pm, followed by the Championship at 6 pm.
Bonus
Complete the escape room!
Exhibit Hall, Lower Level
Live escape rooms are continuing at CHEST! This year’s escape room, Solstice Awakening, will be open during Exhibit Hall hours at Experience CHEST (Booth 985). Sign up in advance for a time slot with friends and colleagues, or stop by when you have a break in your schedule and join a walk-in team.
Looking for more?
Get an Inside Look at today’s sessions
2:45 pm: Discussion to address ICU preparations for growing risk of climate-related mass casualty events
2:45 pm: Speakers to share updates in pleural ultrasonography innovations
2:45 pm: Panel to delve into matching patients with the best CSA device therapy
2:45 pm: Session to offer practical framework for ICU care in lung transplant
4 pm: Panelists to discuss building blocks of lung nodule programs
4 pm: Experts to tackle evolving therapeutic options for ILD
4 pm: Presenters to share guidance on suboptimal response to biologics in asthma
Call for Topics Is Open
Feeling inspired by all the great sessions you’ve attended? Help shape the curriculum for CHEST 2027, October 24 to 27 in Vancouver, by submitting topic ideas from areas you’re passionate about, topics affecting your practice, or new technologies you’d like to learn more about. The submission deadline is Tuesday, December 1, at 2 pm CT.
