CHEST 2025 — Chicago, October 19–22, 2025
CHEST 2025 marked the 90th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians and was held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. CHEST described it as its largest annual meeting to date, with 10,238 total attendees, including 7,271 professional attendees, 6,100 paid registrants and 7,184 registered attendees. The meeting produced 4,180 accepted abstracts and case reports and generated 10.1 million social media impressions.
The exhibit hall spanned roughly 68,000 square feet and hosted 174 companies across 183 booths, with 32 Learning Theaters, 4 Rapid Fire Pods hosting 128 sessions, and 5 poster areas displaying nearly 3,000 posters. Interactive features included a pop-up pickleball court, two escape rooms, therapy puppies, trivia games and a member centre giving away custom T-shirts.
Programme highlights included 200 clinical sessions, 36 on-site simulation courses (five debuting at this edition), and new educational digital and live games. The Chicago-themed live escape room attracted 280 participants. The meeting featured 31 CHEST education curriculum categories and a dedicated 90th anniversary timeline display in the convention centre.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a Mayoral Proclamation declaring Sunday, October 19, 2025, as Love Your Lungs Day, coinciding with the first day of the meeting. CHEST also partnered with three local Chicago organisations through its Community Connections initiative, and an on-site volunteer event assembled care kits for Chicago residents with intellectual disabilities transitioning to independent housing.
CHEST 2025 drew attendees from across the globe, with a demographic mix of 43% physicians, 20% residents, and the remainder fellows, non-physician clinicians and industry representatives. Resident attendance has nearly tripled since 2019, from 557 to just under 1,500 in 2025.
