David J. Birnkrant, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, was chosen to give an honorary lecture at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Boston. The Margaret Pfrommer Endowed Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical Ventilation honors “a clinician or ventilator-dependent professional, or advocate, who has advanced mechanical ventilation and fostered partnerships between physicians and patients.” It was established in 1999 by Eveline Faure and Allen I. Goldberg to honor their lifelong friend, Margaret Pfrommer, a polio survivor and patient advocate.
Birnkrant gave a lecture titled “Duchenne muscular dystrophy then and now: lessons from respiratory medicine.”