A History of the Irish Thoracic Society

The Irish Thoracic Society was formed in 1980 when its immediate predecessor organisation, the Irish Tuberculosis & Thoracic Society (ITTS), founded around 1960, decided on a new constitution and name change. The ITTS, in turn, had been directly preceded by the Irish Tuberculosis Society, set up in 1946, which similarly adopted a new constitution leading to a change of title. These successive title changes reflected the decline in the prevalence of TB following the introduction of effective chemotherapy, as well as rapidly expanding scientific understanding of the importance of asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disorders, lung cancer, non-tuberculous lung infections and environmental and occupational lung disease.

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