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Corporate Support Prospectus
"Our decade long involvement with NAMDRC has offered value on multiple levels. The opportunity for
senior management to interface with ‘thought-leaders’ within the respiratory clinical community is unique among
association experiences. Openly sharing perspectives and concerns on clinical, regulatory and reimbursement
issues has been very beneficial and in many ways a catalyst for positive change within the industry."
NAMDRC (formerly the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care) was founded as a
non-profit organization in the late 1970s by leaders from the American College of Chest Physicians, the American
Thoracic Society, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. At that time, the physician leaders of these
associations saw the need for a unified voice of the respiratory care community before regulatory agencies and
legislators in Washington, DC. In the past quarter century, NAMDRC has distinguished itself in
Washington, DC, as being at the helm of the legislative and regulatory arena, shaping and monitoring a myriad of
legislative and regulatory issues affecting the practice of respiratory care. It also interprets and advises on coding
issues and federal reimbursement policies, and provides extensive continuing education opportunities.
NAMDRC’s membership, consisting of 700 physicians serving in close to 2,000 hospitals throughout
the U.S., embodies the full range of pulmonary and related care services including: respiratory care,
pulmonary medicine, respiratory home health care and long term care services, critical care, sleep
disorders, pulmonary rehabilitation, pulmonary physiology diagnostics, ventilator management, and
hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Throughout its history, NAMDRC has maintained cooperative and mutually productive
relations with the respiratory care industry. Device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies have
provided generous grants (restricted and unrestricted) in support of educational seminars, publications, and
other activities that advance the knowledge and expertise of the respiratory care medical community.
NAMDRC’s sponsors enjoy the benefit of effective contact and productive dialogue with leading
physicians in the pulmonary medicine community. NAMDRC’s Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) has
proven especially helpful in advising NAMDRC leadership about industry trends and how they affect
patient care.
Companies currently serving on the IAC include Advanced Respiratory/Hill Rom, Apria Healthcare,
Astra Zeneca, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Inogen, Invacare, Lincare, Inc., Methapharm Inc.,
ResMed, Respironics, Salter Labs, Sepracor, SeQual Technologies, Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics, Sunrise Medical, TYCO – Puritan Bennett and VIASYS Health Care.
NAMDRC’s Annual Educational Conferences are unique to the medical community and to corporate
sponsors who attend. Meetings, averaging about 150 attendees, provide three half days of comprehensive
curriculum (all plenary sessions) for CME credit. The setting, without exhibits, promotes easy access to
physician attendees during sessions, breaks and social events. At the Patron and
Benefactor levels, special opportunities exist for more formal discussions and dialogue with
NAMDRC’s leadership.
Support for NAMDRC’s Annual Educational Conferences is in the form of Unrestricted Grants
and are provided in these categories: Friend, Supporter, Patron and Benefactor. The following gives specific
information regarding each category:
In conjunction with sponsorship of NAMDRC’s Annual Educational Conference, NAMDRC also offers opportunities for organizations to support "tangible" items, such as
Other Opportunities: Companies that maintain continuing support status with NAMDRC are
invited to participate in special events such as consensus conferences, or symposia that occur on an ad hoc
basis.
Click Here for the NAMDRC Corporate Sponsor
Application.
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