Dear friends,This is an exciting week for the pulmonary hypertension community. Many of us, including the entire Pulmonary Hypertension Association team, are in Indianapolis for PHA 2024 International PH Conference and Scientific Sessions.We welcome those of you here in person and hope those of you who couldn’t attend will join us at a future PHA event. PHA conferences, workshops, fundraisers and the PHPN Symposium are all ways to meet people with shared experience, learn about recent advancements in PH, and continue to build this strong, proud and supportive community. As our the conference theme states, we are “Stronger Together.”Whether you’re with us in Indianapolis this weekend, or reading PHA News from your home, clinic or lab, we have much to celebrate. This is our 15th conference since 1994. Our first, in 1994 outside of Atlanta, conference attracted 68 people with PH and 32 health care professionals. Another 100 or so were family members, friends and caregivers. This year, we expect over 1,000 attendeesIn those early years, many people with PH were looking to meet others with their rare and then-unheard-of condition. Health care professionals wanted to share information and learn from their peers. Although many PHA 2024 attendees have attended previous PHA events, this conference will have newcomers meeting others with PH for the first time. Please welcome them, make them feel part of our community and offer them the same support and connections you found at your first PHA event.While we’re in Indianapolis, we’ll be launching two important resources: new brochures and a podcast.For the first time, we’ve published all 15 of PH& brochures in Spanish to help people with associated conditions learn the risks of PH. We’ve also updated the content and design of several English-language brochures. You can find these at the PHA Booth (No. 300) at PHA 2024 or order/download free copies from our website after the conference.Most excitingly, we have a new resource you can enjoy anywhere: PH Insights, our new podcast. The podcast aims to amplify the voices of the PH community through conversations with patients, health care professionals and others. We plan to release new episodes on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. You can subscribe through the platform of your choice.Wherever you are this week, join us for our August advocacy challenge. Please send a message to Congress in support of the Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform Act. Our goal is to send 800 messages by the end of this month. It takes just two minutes to fill out our message template and help us meet this goal.Over the next five days, we’ll be sharing news and photos from PHA 2024 on our social media channels. Please like and share our posts whether you’re with us in person or in spirit.As I always, I look forward to hearing from you.With gratitude and respect,

Matt J. Granato, LL.M., MBA (he/him)

President & CEO