SW1 Inhaler techniques
Chair(s): Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium)
Skills workshop
China Session I
Chair(s): Guy F Joos (Ghent, Belgium), NanShan Zhong (Guangzhou, China)
Session
Primary Care Day: challenging times I
Chair(s): Esther Metting (Groningen, Netherlands), Andrew Whittamore (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Session
PG6 Lung fibrosis and sarcoidosis
Chair(s): Joachim Muller-Quernheim (Freiburg, Germany), Venerino Poletti (Forlì, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG3 Advanced respiratory and cardiovascular exercise testing
Chair(s): Susan Ward (Crickhowell, United Kingdom), Enrico Lombardi (Florence, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG5 How to reach peripheral solitary nodules
Chair(s): Christophe Dooms (Leuven, Belgium), Gilbert Massard (Strasbourg, France)
Postgraduate Course
PG9 Recurrent respiratory infections in both children and adults
Chair(s): Martin Witzenrath (Berlin, Germany), Mark Everard (Perth, Australia)
Postgraduate Course
PG10 Tuberculosis management: a personalised clinical approach
Chair(s): Marc Lipman (London, United Kingdom), Ali Zumla (London, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PD1 Spirometry: Train the trainer
Chair(s): Irene Steenbruggen (Zwolle, Netherlands), Brendan Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Professional development workshop
PG7 New guidelines for the classification and staging of lung cancer
Chair(s): Bogdan Dragos Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania), Françoise Galateau-Salle (Caen, France)
Postgraduate Course
PG8 Paediatric asthma
Chair(s): Alexander Möller (Zurich, Switzerland), Giorgio Piacentini (Verona, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG1 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chair(s): Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom), Gaetano Caramori (Ferrara, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG2 Advanced thoracic ultrasound
Chair(s): John Wrightson (Oxford, United Kingdom), Jouke T. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG4 How to improve the success of noninvasive ventilation
Chair(s): Antonio M. Esquinas (Murcia, Spain), Mark W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
SW2 Inhaler techniques
Chair(s): Sven Verschraegen (Merelbeke, Belgium)
Skills workshop
Primary Care Day: challenging times II
Chair(s): Jaime Correia de Sousa (Porto, Portugal), Jacqui Cooper (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Session
China Session II
Chair(s): Chen Wang (Beijing, China), Jørgen Vestbo (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Session
ERS/French Programme I
Chair(s): Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Philippe Delaval (Cesson-Sevigne, France)
Session
Russia Session
Chair(s): Alexander G. Chuchalin (Moscow, Russian Federation), Katerina Antoniou (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Session
Primary Care Day: challenging times III
Chair(s): Janwillem Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands), Karin Lisspers (Gagnef, Sweden)
Session
PG11 Assessing respiratory system resistance in children and adults
Chair(s): Ellie Oostveen (Edegem, Belgium), Jellien Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG20 Thymic tumours
Chair(s): Marco Lucchi (Pisa, Italy), Dragan R. Subotic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Postgraduate Course
PG16 Infection control in epidemics: strengthening the evidence base for healthcare workers and the public
Chair(s): Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Pasi Penttinen (Stockholm, Sweden)
Postgraduate Course
PG19 The lung in the septic critically-ill patient
Chair(s): Anastasia Kotanidou (Marousi, Greece), Antonio Artigas (Sabadell, Spain)
Postgraduate Course
PG12 Breathlessness over the life course
Chair(s): Bjorn Stallberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Deborah Jarvis (London, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PG18 Sleep apnoea and comorbidities
Chair(s): Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy), Sophia E. Schiza (Heraklion, Greece)
Postgraduate Course
PG14 Interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Michela Bezzi (Brescia, Italy), Pallav L. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PG17 Pulmonary haemodynamics during exercise
Chair(s): Marion Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), Irene Lang (Vienna, Austria)
Postgraduate Course
PG13 Inhaled antibiotics in respiratory infections
Chair(s): Aran Singanayagam (London, United Kingdom), Eva Polverino (Barcelona, Spain)
Postgraduate Course
PG15 Muscle weakness and wasting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Chair(s): Pierantonio Laveneziana (Paris, France), François Maltais (Quebec, Canada)
Postgraduate Course
SW3 Inhaler techniques
Chair(s): Eric Derom (Ghent, Belgium)
Skills workshop
Primary Care Day: challenging times IV
Session
ERS/French Programme II
Chair(s): François Chabot (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France), Guy F Joos (Ghent, Belgium)
Session
CC2 Children’s interstitial lung disease
Chair(s): Matthias Griese (Munich, Germany)
Challenging clinical cases
CC1 Breathless cases
Chair(s): Sean Gaine (Dublin, Ireland)
Challenging clinical cases
SW4 Difficult airway management in an intensive care unit
Chair(s): Mohamed El Tahan (Dammam, Saudi Arabia)
Skills workshop
SW5 Thoracic ultrasound
Chair(s): Nick Maskell (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
Best abstracts in pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic care
Chair(s): Ioannis Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece), Frits M.E. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Human responses to exposure, including physiological and biomarker outcomes
Chair(s): Rafael E. de la Hoz (New York, United States of America), Maniraj Neupane (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Poster Discussion
Advanced lung function testing in childhood respiratory and sleep disease
Chair(s): Claudia Calogero (Massarosa, Italy), Maria Pia Villa (Rome, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Infections, sepsis, and pulmonary embolism
Chair(s): Andrea Cortegiani (Palermo, Italy), Antoni Torres Marti (Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
Epidemiological aspects of obstructive sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Andrea Lanza (Saronno, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric asthma: lessons learned from studies with large sample sizes and multi-centre drug studies
Chair(s): Giorgio Piacentini (Verona, Italy), Özge Yilmaz (Manisa, Turkey)
Poster Discussion
Pharmacological management of COPD
Chair(s): Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), Mario Cazzola (Rome, Italy)
Poster Discussion
The best is yet to come in terms of lung function
Chair(s): Jellien Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands), Waldemar Tomalak (Rabka-Zdroj, Poland)
Oral Presentation
Clinical update on bronchiectasis
Chair(s): Charles Haworth (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Menno M. van der Eerden (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Respiratory nursing research: opening new perspectives on patient experiences
Chair(s): Carme Hernandez Carcereny (Barcelona, Spain), Anne-Marie Russell (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Clinic of pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): Harm Jan H.J. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Olivier Sitbon (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
Oral Presentation
Best abstracts in asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Mohankumar Thekkinkattil (Coimbatore, India), Asger Sverrild (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Oral Presentation
Origins of infant pulmonary disease: early pointers for identifying infants at risk and ways to improve their care
Chair(s): Charles Christoph Roehr (Oxford, United Kingdom), Suzanne Terheggen-Lagro (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Scientific Year in Review 2016
Chair(s): Christian M. Kähler (Wangen im Allgäu, Germany), Stefano Aliberti (Milan, Italy)
Year in review
ERS publications: a focus on recent guidelines and task forces
Chair(s): Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Sergio Alfonso Harari (Milan, Italy), Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan (Paris, France)
Session
Immunotherapy: the lethal weapon against thoracic malignancies?
Chair(s): Rainer G. Wiewrodt (Münster, Germany), Maha Zohra Ladjemi (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Nerves in airway disease: genotype, phenotype and endotype
Chair(s): Alyn Hugh Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom), Jeroen Vanoirbeek (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
ERS-ALAT-SBPT-SEPAR-SPP joint session: Spanish and Portuguese Session I
Chair(s): Renato Maciel (Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil), Inmaculada Alfageme Michavila (Seville, Spain)
Session
Lung involvement in systemic disorders
Chair(s): Vincent Cottin (Lyon, France), Maurizio Marvisi (Cremona, Italy)
Symposium
COPD case-finding: how can we find the missing millions?
Chair(s): Peymane Adab (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Barbara Yawn (Rochester, United States of America)
Symposium
PD2 EBUS train the trainer
Chair(s): Jouke T. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany), Paul Frost Clementsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Lars Konge (Virum, Denmark)
Professional development workshop
SW6 Difficult airway management in an intensive care unit
Chair(s): Cesare Gregoretti (Turin, Italy)
Skills workshop
SW7 Thoracic ultrasound
Chair(s): Nick Maskell (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
Community-acquired pneumonia: from prevention to treatment
Chair(s): Antonio R. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America), Yuichiro Shindo (Nagoya, Japan)
Poster Discussion
Special issues in thoracic surgery
Poster Discussion
Asthma: mechanisms and biomarkers that promote clinical understanding
Chair(s): Sven-Erik Dahlén (Stockholm, Sweden), Celeste M. Porsbjerg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
In-patient and out-patient COPD management
Chair(s): Janwillem Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands), Isa Cerveri (Pavia, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Effects of exercise training interventions in chronic respiratory disease
Chair(s): Heleen Demeyer (Barcelona, Spain), Rainer Gloeckl (Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Lung cancer and immune cells: friends or foes?
Chair(s): Torsten Gerriet Blum (Berlin, Germany), Ales Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia)
Poster Discussion
Repair pathways: from lung development to ageing of the lung
Chair(s): Yasuhiko Nishioka (Tokushima, Japan), Oliver Eickelberg (Munich, Germany)
Oral Presentation
IPF pathogenesis
Chair(s): Toby Maher (St. Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Bruno Crestani (Paris, France)
Oral Presentation
Inflammatory biomarkers in airway diseases
Chair(s): Stylianos Loukides (Voula, Athens, Greece), Peter J. Sterk (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Mesothelioma and pleural disease: from the bench to the bedside
Chair(s): Ioannis Psallidas (Oxford, United Kingdom), Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France)
Oral Presentation
Endoscopic lung volume reduction I
Chair(s): Dirk-Jan Slebos (Groningen, Netherlands), Arschang Valipour (Wien, Austria)
Oral Presentation
ERS-ALAT-SBPT-SEPAR-SPP joint session: Spanish and Portuguese Session II
Chair(s): Andrés Palomar Lever (Mexico, Mexico), Venceslau José Coelho Pinto Hespanhol (Porto, Portugal)
Session
New therapies and therapeutic targets
Chair(s): Tracy Hussell (Manchester, United Kingdom), Clifford Taggart (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
ERS and tuberculosis
Chair(s): Mario C. Raviglione (Geneva, Switzerland), Giovanni Battista Migliori (Varese, Italy)
Symposium
New statement on pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): Daniel Langer (Leuven, Belgium), Enrico Maria Clini (Pavullo, Italy)
Symposium
GR1 Paediatric Grand Round
Chair(s): Ernst Eber (Graz, Austria), Gunilla Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden)
Grand round
State-of-the-art research techniques in Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London I
Chair(s): Peter J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)
Session
Telemonitoring of ventilator-dependent patients
Chair(s): Michael Dreher (Aachen, Germany), Nicholas S. Hill (Providence, United States of America)
Symposium
New insights into the genetics of asthma
Chair(s): Angela Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria), Torben Sigsgaard (Århus, Denmark)
Symposium
Population-based insights into occupational and environmental lung disease
Chair(s): Paul Cullinan (London, United Kingdom), Paul Blanc (San Francisco, United States of America)
Oral Presentation
Non-inflammatory assessment of airway disorders
Chair(s): Silvano Dragonieri (Bari, Italy), Andrei Malinovschi (Uppsala, Sweden), Stephen James Fowler (Preston, United Kingdom), Régis Matran (Lille, France)
Thematic Poster
Airway biomarkers
Chair(s): Vibeke Backer (København NV, Denmark), Marieann Hogman (Uppsala, Sweden), Anna-Carin Olin (Gothenburg, Sweden), Nikoletta Rovina (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster
Laboratory tests and cell biology in allergy and immunology
Chair(s): Marek Lommatzsch (Rostock, Germany), Cecilia K Andersson (London, United Kingdom), Apostolos Bossios (Gothenburg, Sweden), Junpei Saito (Fukushima, Japan)
Thematic Poster
Pharmacological intervention in humans and murine models of asthma
Chair(s): Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Jonas Erjefalt (Lund, Sweden), Johannes Schmid (Risskov, Denmark), Bart Hilvering (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Comorbidities and exacerbations in COPD
Chair(s): Sundeep Santosh Salvi (Pune, India), Marjolein Brusse-Keizer (Enschede, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Asthma, COPD, and ACOS: physical activity, dietary aspects, and diseases burden
Chair(s): Hannu Kankaanranta (Seinäjoki, Finland), Bernd Lamprecht (Linz, Austria), Linda Ekerljung (Gothenburg, Sweden), Simone Accordini (Verona, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Occupational epidemiology
Chair(s): David Miedinger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Else Würtz (Tjele, Denmark), Andrew Curran (Buxton, United Kingdom), Paul Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Public health related concerns and epidemiology of smoking and smoking-related products
Chair(s): Sofia Ravara (Covilhã, Portugal), Constantine Vardavas (Heraklion, Greece), Filippos T Filippidis (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Asthma, bronchiectasis, and the risk factors for respiratory morbidity
Chair(s): Franca Rusconi (Florence, Italy), Stephen Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Myrofora Goutaki (Bern, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster
Drugs, bugs, BMI, and other problems in paediatric asthma
Chair(s): Christiane Lex (Goettingen, Germany), Ines De Mir Messa (Barcelona, Spain), Marc P. C. van der Schee (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Cystic fibrosis: various aspects
Chair(s): Iolo J.M. Doull (CARDIFF, United Kingdom), Łukasz Minarowski (Białystok, Poland), Claudia Kuehni (Bern, Switzerland), Tom Hilliard (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Paediatric respiratory infections
Chair(s): Kostas Priftis (Haidari, Athens, Greece), Jayesh M. Bhatt (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Raffaella Nenna (Rome, Italy), Vanessa Craven (Wetherby, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Neonatal and paediatric multiorgan manifestations of acute and chronic pulmonary disease and use of treatments
Chair(s): Hendrik Fischer (Berlin, Germany), Theodore Dassios (London, United Kingdom), Roland Neumann (Basel, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster
Quality and quantity in lung function
Chair(s): Julie Lloyd (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Emma Flood (Co Westmeath, Ireland), Aisling McGowan (Dublin, Ireland), Maureen P Swanney (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Thematic Poster
Postural balance, respiratory muscles, and comorbidities in chronic respiratory disease
Chair(s): Alda Sofia Pires de Dias Marques (Aveiro, Portugal), Carlos Augusto Camillo (LEUVEN, Belgium), Margareta Emtner (Uppsala, Sweden), Rafael Mesquita (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Physiotherapy management of the ill but spontaneously-breathing adult patient
Chair(s): Celso R. F. Carvalho (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Tania Janaudis Ferreira (Montreal, Canada), Wendy Darlene Reid (Vancouver, Canada), Samanta Harrison (Middlesborough, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
The wide spectrum of respiratory nursing research and practice: across all ages and diseases
Chair(s): Saskia W. M. Weldam (Utrecht, Netherlands), Wendy Preston (warwickshire, United Kingdom), Meritxell Peiro Fabregas (Vilafranca del Penedès, Spain)
Thematic Poster
Monitoring airway diseases with clinical tools
Chair(s): Mona Bafadhel (Oxford, United Kingdom), Andriana Papaioannou (Vrilissia, Athens, Greece), Caterina Bucca (Turin, Italy), Therese Lapperre (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Thematic Poster
What's new in paediatric respiratory physiology?
Chair(s): Shannon Simpson (Western Australia, Australia), Padmaja Subbarao (Toronto, Canada), Florian Singer (Zurich, Switzerland), Liam Welsh (Melbourne, Australia)
Thematic Poster
Systemic biomarkers
Chair(s): Konstantinos Kostikas (Basel, Switzerland), Anneke ten Brinke (Molenend, Netherlands), Alain Van Muylem (Brussels, Belgium), Evangelia Fouka (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Thematic Poster
IPF: from pathogenesis to treatment I
Chair(s): Demosthenes Bouros (Athens, Greece), Elisabeth Bendstrup (Vejle, Denmark), Martina Vašáková (Praha, Czech Republic), Claudia Ravaglia (Brisighella (RA), Italy)
Thematic Poster
Pharmacological treatment of COPD: focus on LABA/LAMA combinations
Chair(s): Reinoud Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands), András Bikov (Budapest, Hungary), Mario Cazzola (Rome, Italy), Pankaj Bhavsar (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Clinical characteristics of asthma
Chair(s): Chung-Wai Chow (Toronto, Canada), Michael Portelli (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Mohamed Al-Moamary (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Thematic Poster
Features and impact of comorbidities in COPD
Chair(s): Gema Tirado Conde (El Puerto de Santa María, Spain), Maud Koopman (Bilthoven, Netherlands), Nataliia Sanina (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), Nicoletta Morelli (The Hague, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
From pleura to bronchi: new insights
Chair(s): Nikolaos M. Siafakas (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Alberto Papi (Ferrarra, Italy), Sergey Lukyanov (Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russian Federation)
Thematic Poster
Latest insights into pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): Fabio Pitta (Londrina, Brazil), Klaus Kenn (Schoenau am Koenigssee, Germany), János Tamás Varga (Budapest, Hungary), Nick Hopkinson (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Latest insights into functional capacity and muscle weakness in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): J. Alberto Neder (Kingston, Canada), Zafeiris Louvaris (Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece), Roberto A. Rabinovich (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Esther Barreiro Portela (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster
Best abstracts in COPD management
Chair(s): Luis Puente Maestu (Madrid, Spain), Maurice Hayot (Montpellier Cédex 5, France), Ernesto Crisafulli (Pavullo, Italy), Matthew Maddocks (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Imaging of COPD and airways: structural and functional assessments
Chair(s): Aleksandar Grgic (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Heinrike Wilkens (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Eric Hoffman (Iowa City, United States of America), Wim Vos (Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium)
Thematic Poster
Bronchoscopy: from diagnostic to treating air leaks
Chair(s): Semra Bilaceroglu (Izmir, Turkey), Prashant Nemichand Chhajed (Mumbai, India), Antoni Rosell Gratacos (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster
Role of genetics and exposures in COPD and asthma
Chair(s): Judith M. Vonk (Groningen, Netherlands), Erik Melén (Stockholm, Sweden), Morten Dahl (Koege, Denmark), Florence Demenais (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster
Clinical aspects of ILD
Chair(s): Claudia Valenzuela (Alcobendas (Madrid), Spain), Wim Wuyts (Rotselaar, Belgium), Sara Tomassetti (Forli, Italy), Maria MOLINA MOLINA (Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain)
Thematic Poster
Sarcoidosis
Chair(s): Paola Rottoli (Siena, Italy), Dominique Valeyre (Paris, France), Paolo Spagnolo (Liestal, Switzerland), Eliza Tsitoura (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Thematic Poster
Asthma management in primary care
Chair(s): Jaime Correia de Sousa (Porto, Portugal), Dermot Ryan (Derby, United Kingdom), Mark L. Levy (London, United Kingdom), Aziz Sheikh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Managing multimorbidity and lifestyle change in primary care
Chair(s): Noel Baxter (London, United Kingdom), Arnulf Langhammer (Levanger, Norway), Thys Van Der Molen (Groningen, Netherlands), Alan Kaplan (Richmond Hill, Canada)
Thematic Poster
Molecular targets in pulmonary disease
Chair(s): arnaud Mailleux (Paris, France), Aurelie Fabre (Dublin, Ireland), Sukhwinder Singh Sohal (Launceston, Australia)
Thematic Poster
What's new in biomarker analysis?
Chair(s): Clifford Taggart (Belfast, United Kingdom), Sinead Weldon (Belfast, United Kingdom), Manosij Ghosh (Leuven, Belgium), Mazen Al-Alawi (Dublin, Ireland)
Thematic Poster
Translational studies in lung disease
Chair(s): Colin Bingle (Sheffield, United Kingdom), Kambez Hajipouran Benam (Cambridge, United States of America), Ann B. Millar (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Novel insights into alveolar and bronchial epithelial cell injury and repair
Chair(s): Masao Takata (London, United Kingdom), Emma Rawlins (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Irene Heijink (Groningen, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Pulmonary drug delivery
Chair(s): Omar Usmani (London, United Kingdom), Nicolas Roche (Paris, France), Paul Hagedoorn (Groningen, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
ME4 Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations
Meet the expert
ME3 Fiberoptic bronchoscopy in children
Meet the expert
ME1 Biomarkers for interstitial lung disease
Meet the expert
ME2 New treatment approaches for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Meet the expert
Vitamin D and asthma prevention, COPD screening, and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in emphysema
Chair(s): Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), George O'Connor (Boston, United States of America)
Lunchtime session
AJRCCM Blue Journal in 2016: a joint ERS lunchtime session
Chair(s): Meilan Han (Ann Arbor, United States of America), Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom), Peter M. A. Calverley (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Lunchtime session
Climate change and respiratory health
Chair(s): Stephen T. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom), Giovanni Viegi (Pisa, Italy)
Lunchtime session
SW8 Difficult airway management in an intensive care unit
Chair(s): Nandor Marczin (Harefield, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
SW9 Thoracic ultrasound
Chair(s): Najib M. Rahman (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
Advances in tuberculosis diagnosis and monitoring of treatment
Chair(s): Simon Tiberi (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Kaleidoscope of respiratory nursing
Chair(s): Sheree M.S. Smith (Sydney, Australia), Janelle Yorke (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric respiratory infection
Chair(s): Vanessa Craven (Wetherby, United Kingdom), Ahmad Kantar (Bergamo, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Unmasking the mechanisms of symptoms and exercise limitation in disease
Chair(s): Richard Casaburi (Rancho Palos Verdes, United States of America), Luis Puente Maestu (Madrid, Spain)
Poster Discussion
Best abstracts in exercise capacity and testing in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Pierantonio Laveneziana (Paris, France), Sally J. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Possible phenotypes of bronchiectasis and exacerbations
Chair(s): Francesco Blasi (Milano, Italy), Felix C. Ringshausen (Hannover, Germany)
Poster Discussion
How the increasing complexity of chronic care management challenges ethics and costs in our healthcare system
Chair(s): Christopher Michael Roberts (Leytonstone, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Late-breaking translational research in lung cancer
Chair(s): Joanna Domagała-Kulawik (Warsaw, Poland), Chi-Leung David Lam (Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong)
Oral Presentation
Best abstracts on the role of exercise and physical activity in chronic respiratory disease
Chair(s): Daniel Langer (Leuven, Belgium), Fabio Pitta (Londrina, Brazil)
Oral Presentation
Cystic fibrosis: monitoring and management
Chair(s): Ian Balfour-Lynn (London, United Kingdom), Jürg Barben (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Oral Presentation
Highlights in the management of COPD and beyond
Chair(s): David M. G. Halpin (Exeter Devon, United Kingdom), Laura Fregonese (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric bronchology I
Chair(s): Petr Pohunek (Praha 5, Czech Republic), Kostas Priftis (Haidari, Athens, Greece)
Oral Presentation
GR2 Radiology
Chair(s): Dominique Valeyre (Paris, France), Venerino Poletti (Forlì, Italy)
Grand round
Molecular pathways of smoking-induced diseases
Chair(s): Ian M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), Hiroo Wada (Tokyo, Japan)
Oral Presentation
Complications and comorbidities in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): Christian M. Kähler (Wangen im Allgäu, Germany), Athol Wells (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Implementation of collaborative lung function testing
Chair(s): Irene Steenbruggen (Zwolle, Netherlands), Karin Lisspers (Gagnef, Sweden)
Symposium
New tools for the early diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome
Chair(s): Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany), Theodoros Vassilakopoulos (Kantza, Greece)
Symposium
Childhood asthma causation
Chair(s): Stephen Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Franca Rusconi (Florence, Italy)
Symposium
Traffic air pollution in urban areas
Chair(s): Terry Tetley (London, United Kingdom), Agnes Boots (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Hot topics
Is sleep apnoea causing cancer?
Chair(s): Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy)
Hot topics
CC5 Non-resolving pneumonia
Chair(s): Ane Uranga (Bilbao, Spain)
Challenging clinical cases
CC4 Major challenges in thoracic surgical oncology
Chair(s): Gilbert Massard (Strasbourg, France)
Challenging clinical cases
CC3 Problematic application of mechanical ventilation
Chair(s): Brigitte Fauroux (Paris, France)
Challenging clinical cases
PD3 Preparing your content for teaching online
Chair(s): Georgia Narsavage (Morgantown, United States of America)
Professional development workshop
SW11 The new frontiers in exercise training in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: technical aspects
Chair(s): Sally J. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
SW10 Interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Skills workshop
Rifampicin resistance, MDRTB, and new drug treatments
Chair(s): Daniela Maria Cirillo (Milan, Italy), Marieke van der Werf (Stockholm, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
Measuring physical activity in chronic respiratory disease
Chair(s): Rafael Mesquita (Maastricht, Netherlands), Thierry Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Asthma: from basic mechanisms to novel therapeutic perspectives
Chair(s): Paul Kirkham (Wolverhampton, United Kingdom), Loes Kistemaker (Groningen, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary hypertension: the clinic I
Chair(s): Marius M. Hoeper (Hannover, Germany), John Wort (Hampton, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Endoscopic lung volume reduction II
Chair(s): Maren Schuhmann (Heidelberg, Germany), Peter I. Bonta (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Assessing lower airway inflammation with different tools
Chair(s): Petros Bakakos (Athens, Greece), Florence Schleich (Liège, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
New findings in mucosal immunology
Chair(s): Emer Reeves (Dublin, Ireland), Silke Meiners (Munich, Germany)
Poster Discussion
IPF treatment I
Chair(s): Venerino Poletti (Forlì, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Cardiovascular and metabolic pathophysiology and outcomes of obstructive sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Isaac Almendros (Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain), Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Lung cancer immunology: latest research
Chair(s): Thierry Berghmans (Brussels, Belgium), Annette Fisseler-Eckhoff (Wiesbaden, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Clinical and microbiological aspects of infections in COPD patients
Chair(s): Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany), Aran Singanayagam (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Yernault Lecture preceded by the symposium “Latest developments in noninvasive ventilation: improvements and gadgets”
Chair(s): Begüm Ergan (Izmir, Turkey), Wolfram Windisch (Köln, Germany)
Session
New genomic targets in pulmonary disease
Chair(s): Aurelie Fabre (Dublin, Ireland), Philippe Bonniaud (Dijon, France)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric Year in Review
Chair(s): Fabio Midulla (Rome, Italy), Monika Gappa (Wesel, Germany)
Year in review
Regeneratives approaches to COPD
Chair(s): Antonino Di Stefano (Veruno, Italy), Jonathan Grigg (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Diseases and defences of the respiratory mucosa
Chair(s): Stefano Aliberti (Milan, Italy), Hans Bisgaard (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Symposium
The history of respiratory public health in Britain
Chair(s): Anthony Seaton (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Paul Blanc (San Francisco, United States of America)
Symposium
Diagnosing primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) in a molecular age
Chair(s): Andrew Bush (London, United Kingdom), Angelo Barbato (Padova, Italy)
Symposium
New and old therapies for chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Philippe Camus (Dijon, France)
Oral Presentation
An update on pleural empyema diagnostics and treatment
Chair(s): Danail Petrov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Hans-Beat Ris (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Symposium
SW13 The new frontiers in exercise training in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: technical aspects
Chair(s): Rik Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium)
Skills workshop
SW12 Interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Pallav L. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
Current challenges in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): Laureano Molins Lopez-Rodo (Barcelona, Spain), Dragan R. Subotic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Oral Presentation
PD4 How to deal with difficult people
Chair(s): Nicolino Ambrosino (Volterra, Italy)
Professional development workshop
Active and latent tuberculosis: biomarkers
Chair(s): Morten Ruhwald (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
IPF: from pathogenesis to treatment II
Chair(s): Katerina Antoniou (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Francesco Bonella (Dusseldorf, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Best abstracts in physical activity and telemedicine
Chair(s): Henrik Watz (Grosshansdorf, Germany), William Man (Harefield, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Endosonography: EBUS/EUS (B)
Chair(s): Jouke T. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Christophe Dooms (Leuven, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Dyspnoea and respiratory muscle/mechanics anomalies in disease
Chair(s): Denis O'Donnell (Kingston, Canada), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France)
Oral Presentation
COPD and asthma COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS): novelties in terms of prevalence, risk factors, and prognosis in COPD
Chair(s): David Mannino (Lexington, United States of America), Anne Lindberg (Boden, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Management of asthma and COPD in primary care
Chair(s): Hilary Pinnock (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Ioanna Tsiligianni (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Effects of hypoxia and sleep apnoea on the lung, heart, and vessels
Chair(s): Malcolm Kohler (Zurich, Switzerland), Jean-Louis Pépin (Grenoble, France)
Poster Discussion
Clinical and molecular studies in asthma
Chair(s): Apostolos Bossios (Gothenburg, Sweden), Hans Jürgen Heinrich Hoffmann (Århus, Denmark)
Oral Presentation
Molecular footprints in lung cancer diagnosis and management
Chair(s): Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium), Tariq Sethi (Haddington, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Late-breaking topics in airways disease
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary arterial hypertension: future therapeutic approaches
Chair(s): Harm Jan H.J. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Jose Gomez-Arroyo (Cincinatti, United States of America)
Hot topics
Influenza and respiratory physicians
Chair(s): Gernot G.U. Rohde (Maastricht, Netherlands), Susanne Herold (Giessen, Germany)
Symposium
Electronic cigarettes
Chair(s): Christina-Georgia Gratziou (Athens, Greece), Philip Tønnesen (Glostrup, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
State-of-the-art research techniques in Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London II
Chair(s): Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom)
Session
ERS statements and technical standards
Chair(s): Marc Miravitlles (Barcelona, Spain), Marc Humbert (Paris, France)
Session
Working together to drive investment and innovation in asthma research
Chair(s): Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos (Athens, Greece), Samantha Walker (London, United Kingdom)
Session
Chronic graft-versus-host disease and chronic allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation: similarities and dissimilarities
Chair(s): Federica Meloni (Pavia, Italy), Geert Verleden (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
Tuberculosis: immune responses of CD8+ T cells, value of interferon-gamma and other cytokines, Th2 responses, BCG, and biomarkers
Chair(s): Morten Ruhwald (Copenhagen, Denmark), Massimo Amicosante (Rome, Italy), Delia Goletti (Rome, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Clinical and microbiological aspects of bronchiectasis and non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) infections
Chair(s): Aikaterini Dimakou (Agia Paraskeyi, Greece), Michael Loebinger (London, United Kingdom), Pieter Goeminne (Bornem, Belgium), Andres de Roux (Berlin, Germany)
Thematic Poster
Community-acquired pneumonia: risk classes and management issues
Chair(s): Rosario Menendez Villanueva (Valencia, Spain), Brandon Webb (Murray, United States of America), Ane Uranga (Bilbao, Spain), Charles Feldman (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Thematic Poster
Viral infections in different respiratory conditions: from the bedside to the lab
Chair(s): Pasi Penttinen (Stockholm, Sweden), Nikoletta Rovina (Athens, Greece), Carlos M. Luna (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Thematic Poster
Microbiological issues and translational research in respiratory infections
Chair(s): Stefan Krüger (Dusseldorf, Germany), Michael Tamm (Basel, Switzerland), Adamadia Liapikou (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster
Severe respiratory infections in the intensive care unit and pleural and fungal infections
Chair(s): Miquel Ferrer Monreal (Barcelona, Spain), Marcos I. Restrepo (San Antonio, United States of America), Antonio R. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America)
Thematic Poster
Tuberculosis: the elderly, the diabetic, the unusual, and the severe
Chair(s): Moerida Belton (London, United Kingdom), Erlina Burhan (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Thematic Poster
Update on drug-resistant tuberculosis
Chair(s): Elmira Ibraim (Bucuresti, Romania), Lucy V. Baker (London, United Kingdom), Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany)
Thematic Poster
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: HIV-TB co-infection and adenosine deaminase (ADA)
Chair(s): Claire Andrejak (Amiens, France), Frauke Rudolf (Valby, Denmark), Onn Min Kon (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Treatment management options and costs: vitamin D, Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), nutrition, and human genetics
Chair(s): Adrian R Martineau (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Epidemiological insights into tuberculosis pathogenesis
Chair(s): Dominik Zenner (London, United Kingdom), Jessica Potter (London, United Kingdom), Ivan Solovic (Vysne Hagy, Slovakia)
Thematic Poster
Microbiology: bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and PCR
Chair(s): Simon Tiberi (London, United Kingdom), Daniela Maria Cirillo (Milan, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Epidemiology and specific subgroups in lung cancer
Chair(s): Erik Jakobsen (Odense C, Denmark), Philippe Astoul (Marseille, France)
Thematic Poster
Basic science and case reports in lung cancer
Chair(s): Matthew Evison (Manchester, United Kingdom), Jana Skřičková (Brno, Czech Republic), Achim Rittmeyer (Immenhausen, Germany), Luciano Mutti (Borgosesia, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Prognostic variables in lung cancer I
Chair(s): Fernando Gamarra (Straubing, Germany), Ross Morgan (Dublin, Ireland), Georgia Hardavella (London, United Kingdom), Chi-Leung David Lam (Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong)
Thematic Poster
Prognostic variables in lung cancer II
Chair(s): Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France), Rudolf M. Huber (München, Germany), Tuncay Göksel (Izmir, Turkey)
Thematic Poster
Abstracts in medical education, the web and the internet
Chair(s): Erik Driessen (Maastricht, Netherlands), Frans H.C. de Jongh (Enschede, Netherlands), Lars Konge (Virum, Denmark)
Thematic Poster
Long-term outcomes of lung transplantation
Chair(s): Robin Vos (Leuven, Belgium), Federica Meloni (Pavia, Italy), Romain Kessler (Strasbourg, France)
Thematic Poster
Clinical aspects of lung cancer
Chair(s): David Baldwin (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Paul Martin Putora (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Inmaculada Alfageme Michavila (Seville, Spain), Dragos Bumbacea (Bucuresti, Romania)
Thematic Poster
Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary embolism: from the bench to the bedside
Chair(s): Laura Price (London, United Kingdom), Alice Huertas (Paris, France), David Jiménez Castro (Madrid, Spain), Andrew Peacock (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Open problems in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): Stefano Elia (Rome, Italy), Ioannis Psallidas (Oxford, United Kingdom), Cosimo Lequaglie (Rionero in Vulture, Italy), Paul E. Van Schil (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium)
Thematic Poster
Hypoxia, oxidative stress, and biomarkers in obstructive sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Jan A. Hedner (Gothenburg, Sweden), Renaud Tamisier (Grenoble, France), Walter McNicholas (Dublin, Ireland)
Thematic Poster
Surgical strategy for complex diseases
Chair(s): Marcello Migliore (Catania, Italy), Pier Luigi Filosso (Castellamonte, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Dealing with the complexity of critically-ill patients
Chair(s): Christian Bruells (Aachen, Germany), Stylianos Orfanos (Athens, Greece), Theodoros Vassilakopoulos (Kantza, Greece)
Thematic Poster
New horizons for noninvasive ventilation in acute and chronic settings
Chair(s): Begüm Ergan (Izmir, Turkey), Antonio M. Esquinas (Murcia, Spain), Jacek Nasiłowski (Warsaw, Poland), Annalisa Carlucci (San Donato Milanese, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Noninvasive ventilation and beyond: novelties and real-life applications
Chair(s): Antoine Cuvelier (Rouen, France), Aylin Özsancak Ugurlu (Istanbul, Turkey), Claudia Crimi (Catania, Italy), Saba Bokhari (Bolton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Multidimensional and multidisciplinary approaches to respiratory problems
Chair(s): Roberto A. Rabinovich (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Jason Weatherald (Calgary, Canada), Isaac Almendros (Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain), Emilia Świetlik (Warsaw, Poland)
Thematic Poster
Pathophysiological mechanisms at different levels: lung, airways, muscles and symptom perception
Chair(s): Matteo Bonini (Rome, Italy), Nickolas Koulouris (Athens, Greece), Bruno-Pierre Dube (Montreal, Canada)
Thematic Poster
Lung function and imaging: new findings and new approaches
Chair(s): Andre Albuquerque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Bruno Degano (Besançon, France), Fabiano Di Marco (Trezzano, Italy), Caterina Salito (Milan, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Respiratory muscles and airways function: from physiology to clinical implications
Chair(s): Maurice Hayot (Montpellier Cédex 5, France), Einar Thorsen (Bergen, Norway), Antonella LoMauro (Milan, Italy), Thomas Gille (Bobigny, France)
Thematic Poster
Clinical exercise physiology in health and disease
Chair(s): Christina M. Spengler (Zurich, Switzerland), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France), Paolo Onorati (Alghero, Italy), Dennis Jensen (Kingston, Canada)
Thematic Poster
Clinical presentation, daytime symptoms, and screening of obstructive sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Bernd M. Sanner (Wuppertal, Germany), Stefan A. Mihaicuta (Timisoara, Romania), Sophia E. Schiza (Heraklion, Greece), Thorarinn Gislason (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Thematic Poster
Comorbid sleep apnoea in specific clinical entities and differential diagnosis of sleep disorders
Chair(s): Konrad E. Bloch (Zürich, Switzerland), Milan Sova (Olomouc, Czech Republic), Andrew Morley (Glasgow, United Kingdom), Manuel Sanchez De La Torre (Lleida, Spain)
Thematic Poster
Effect of sleep apnoea on life-span and comorbidities
Chair(s): Richard Staats (Murches, Portugal), Radostina Cherneva (Sofia, Bulgaria), Peter J. Wijkstra (Groningen, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
Technical aspects, compliance, and adherence to positive airway pressure in sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Wolfgang Galetke (Dorsten, Germany), Michael Arzt (Regensburg, Germany), Wilfried De Backer (Edegem, Belgium), João Carlos Winck (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
Thematic Poster
Non-CPAP in obstructive and central sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Chair(s): Olivier M. Vanderveken (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), Karl A. Franklin (Umeå, Sweden), Jose Maria Montserrat Canal (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster
Pulmonary hypertension: the clinic II
Chair(s): Horst Olschewski (Graz, Austria), Frederic Perros (Le Plessis-Robinson, France), Robin Condliffe (Sheffield, United Kingdom), John Wort (Hampton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Pulmonary hypertension: exercise, haemodynamics, and physiology
Chair(s): Luke Howard (London, United Kingdom), Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Robert Naeije (Beersel, Belgium), Gabor Kovacs (Graz, Austria)
Thematic Poster
Pulmonary hypertension in lung disease
Chair(s): Paul A. Corris (Newcastle, United Kingdom), David Kiely (Sheffield, United Kingdom), H. Ardeschir Ghofrani (Giessen, Germany)
Thematic Poster
Acute pulmonary embolism
Chair(s): Marion Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), Irene Lang (Vienna, Austria), Harm Jan H.J. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
ME7 Surgery for lung cancer
Meet the expert
PD5 Establishing core facilities for measuring clinical trial outcomes
Chair(s): Jane C. Davies (London, United Kingdom)
Professional development workshop
ME8 Acute and chronic infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Meet the expert
ME6 Dealing with air leaks during noninvasive ventilation
Meet the expert
Interstitial lung disease registry
Chair(s): Luca Richeldi (Southampton, United Kingdom), Kevin Flaherty (Pinckney, United States of America)
Lunchtime session
ME5 Persisting symptoms after pulmonary embolism
Meet the expert
ME14 What is sleep apnoea anyway?
Meet the expert
ME13 Smoking cessation in difficult population groups
Meet the expert
When respiratory disease come to an end
Chair(s): Sylvia Hartl (Wien, Austria), Michele Vitacca (Gussago, Italy)
Lunchtime session
Lung cancer: latest developments in screening and patient management
Chair(s): Klaus Friedrich Rabe (Großhansdorf, Germany), Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Lunchtime session
SW15 The new frontiers in exercise training in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: technical aspects
Chair(s): Sally J. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
SW14 Interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Skills workshop
Phenotyping asthma
Chair(s): Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric bronchology II
Chair(s): Uros Krivec (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Predrag Minic (Beograd, Republic of Serbia)
Poster Discussion
Highlights in primary ciliary dyskinesia and asthma in childhood
Chair(s): Liesbeth Duijts (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Jane Lucas (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Prevalence, prognosis, and risk factors of COPD
Chair(s): Jennifer Quint (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
ILD pathogenesis
Chair(s): Argyris Tzouvelekis (New Haven, United States of America), Eliza Tsitoura (Heraklion, Crete, Greece)
Poster Discussion
Quality management and quality of life in lung cancer
Chair(s): Anna Rich (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Inmaculada Alfageme Michavila (Seville, Spain)
Poster Discussion
New insights into noninvasive ventilation: between the dream and reality
Chair(s): Marieke L. Duiverman (Groningen, Netherlands), Claudia Crimi (Catania, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Novel approaches for pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Carolyn Rochester (New Haven, United States of America), Frits M.E. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Latent tuberculosis infection
Chair(s): Delia Goletti (Rome, Italy), Jan Heyckendorf (Hamburg, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Updating on electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes
Chair(s): Francesco Blasi (Milano, Italy), Bo Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Symposium
Sepsis and ARDS: looking forward
Chair(s): Federico Longhini (Borgomanero, Italy), Cesare Gregoretti (Turin, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Advancements in bronchoscopy
Chair(s): Jouke T. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Pallav L. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary hypertension: novel insights
Chair(s): Christophe Guignabert (le Plessis-Robinson, France), Soni Savai Pullamsetti (Bad Nauheim, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Recent high impact findings regarding COPD comorbidities
Chair(s): Lowie Vanfleteren (Horn, Netherlands), Eric D. Bateman (Cape Town, South Africa)
Oral Presentation
Deep phenotyping to improve treatment outcomes in paediatric asthma
Chair(s): Stephen Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Susanne J. H. Vijverberg (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Symposium
New therapies for chronic respiratory infections
Chair(s): Montserrat Vendrell (Girona, Spain), Timothy Aksamit (Rochester, United States of America)
Symposium
Historical landmarks in respiratory medicine: contributions from the UK
Chair(s): Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin (Barcelona, Spain), Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Driving and sleepiness
Chair(s): Winfried J. Randerath (Solingen, Germany), Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy)
Symposium
GR3 Scientific Grand Round: precision medicine
Chair(s): Melanie Koenigshoff (Munich, Germany), Bruno Crestani (Paris, France)
Grand round
Air pollution and effects on lung health
Chair(s): Frank J. Kelly (London, United Kingdom), Hasan Bayram (Gaziantep, Turkey)
Hot topics
Industry Evening Mini Symposium at ERS 2016: “Challenges in the management of non-CF bronchiectasis”
Chair(s): Professor Robert Wilson (Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK)
Evening Mini Symposium
CC6 New treatment approaches in non-small cell lung cancer
Chair(s): Tudor Andrei Cernomaz (Iasi, Romania)
Challenging clinical cases
CC8 Complex management issues in ataxia telangiectasia
Chair(s): Monika Gappa (Wesel, Germany)
Challenging clinical cases
CC7 How to deal with large airways problems
Chair(s): Danail Petrov (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Challenging clinical cases
PD7 Designing and conducting research in malignant pleural effusion
Chair(s): Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France)
Professional development workshop
SW17 Polysomnography in adults and children
Chair(s): Refika Hamutcu Ersu (İstanbul, Turkey)
Skills workshop
SW16 Radiological-pathological correlations for clinicians
Chair(s): Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Skills workshop
Community-acquired pneumonia: update on prognostic factors and therapeutic strategies
Chair(s): Antoni Torres Marti (Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Exploring mechanisms in health and disease
Chair(s): Alyn Hugh Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom), Fabio L. M. Ricciardolo (Orbassano (Turin, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Treatment options for obstructive sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation
Chair(s): Richard Staats (Murches, Portugal), Renaud Tamisier (Grenoble, France)
Poster Discussion
How the understanding og molecular and genomic crosstalk is helping to diagnose lung disease
Chair(s): Kathy Gately (Dublin, Ireland), Sukhwinder Singh Sohal (Launceston, Australia)
Poster Discussion
Malignant pleural disease: diagnosis and management
Chair(s): Julius P. Janssen (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Nick Maskell (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Asthma points to ponder
Chair(s): Kristián Brat (Brno, Czech Republic), Andreina Bruno (Palermo, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric asthma: recurrent, persistent, or severe obstruction and lung function techniques
Chair(s): Marielle Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Florian Singer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Therapeutic trials in lung cancer
Chair(s): Jacques Cadranel (Paris, France), Achim Rittmeyer (Immenhausen, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Lung allograft dysfunction: insights into inflammatory/immune mechanisms
Chair(s): Bart Vanaudenaerde (Leuven, Belgium), Andrew Fisher (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Obesity and respiratory diseases
Chair(s): Emiel F. M. Wouters (Maastricht, Netherlands), Bartolome R. Celli (Boston, United States of America)
Hot topics
Predictors of asthma among children and adults
Chair(s): Deborah Jarvis (London, United Kingdom), Malcolm Sears (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
Oral Presentation
Novel insights into the treatment of COPD
Chair(s): Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom), Huib A.M. Kerstjens (Groningen, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Early determinants of childhood asthma and allergy
Chair(s): Bülent Taner Karadag (İstanbul, Turkey), Erika von Mutius (Munich, Germany)
Oral Presentation
What can respiratory medicine learn from cystic fibrosis research?
Chair(s): Christiane De Boeck (Leuven, Belgium), Siobhan Carr (London, United Kingdom)
Hot topics
Presentation and discussion of a draft Lancet Commission on Asthma
Chair(s): Sabine Kleinert (London, United Kingdom), Monica Kraft (Tucson, United States of America)
Session
Cell therapy for ARDS and sepsis
Chair(s): Paolo Pelosi (Milano, Italy), Antonio Artigas (Sabadell, Spain)
Symposium
Dysfunctional mitochondria in respiratory disease
Chair(s): Agnes Boots (Maastricht, Netherlands), Catherine Greene (Dublin, Ireland)
Symposium
Urban air pollution and human health
Chair(s): Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Stephen T. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Clinical year in review
Chair(s): Katerina Antoniou (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Celeste M. Porsbjerg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Year in review
The problem of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Chair(s): Graham H. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany)
Symposium
SW19 Polysomnography in adults and children
Chair(s): Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Skills workshop
SW18 Radiological-pathological correlations for clinicians
Chair(s): Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France)
Skills workshop
Immune responses in the lung
Chair(s): Zuzana Diamant (Lund, Sweden), Søren Helbo Skaarup (Hjortshøj, Denmark), Fusun Yildiz (Kocaeli, Turkey)
Poster Discussion
Man versus machine: waves, frequency, and more in lung function
Chair(s): Frans H.C. de Jongh (Enschede, Netherlands), Karl Sylvester (Streatley, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): Gérald Simonneau (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), Joanna Pepke-Zaba (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
New insights into pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Carolyn Rochester (New Haven, United States of America), François Maltais (Quebec, Canada)
Poster Discussion
Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in acute respiratory failure
Chair(s): Maria Paola Arellano-Maric (Cologne, Germany), Marcus Schultz (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Drug-resistant tuberculosis and experiences with delamanid and bedaquiline
Chair(s): Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Novel mechanisms and therapeutic targets in acute and chronic inflammatory disease
Chair(s): Reinoud Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands), Alexander Mathioudakis (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
How to choose the best strategy with noninvasive ventilation?
Chair(s): Lara Pisani (Bologna, Italy), João Carlos Winck (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
Oral Presentation
Non-inflammatory COPD monitoring
Chair(s): Jose Luis Lopez-Campos Bodineau (Seville, Spain), Antonio Spanevello (Milan, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Epidemiological and clinical data regarding the modern management of chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Dario Olivieri (Parma, Italy), Nikolaos Tzanakis (Heraklion, Greece)
Poster Discussion
From microimaging to functional evaluation of the lung
Chair(s): Johan Coolen (Leuven, Belgium), Aleksandar Grgic (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Oral Presentation
New approaches and finding in smoking cessation
Chair(s): Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece)
Oral Presentation
The future is now: the challenge of ageing in respiratory medicine
Chair(s): Melanie Koenigshoff (Munich, Germany), Leonardo Michele Fabbri (Modena, Italy)
Hot topics
Hypoxia, the carotid body, and the brain
Chair(s): Susan Ward (Crickhowell, United Kingdom), Graham Hall (West Perth, Australia)
Symposium
Microbiome in health and in disease
Chair(s): Ruby Pawankar (Tokyo, Japan), Oliver Eickelberg (Munich, Germany)
Symposium
Childhood wheeze: are we making any progress?
Chair(s): Gunilla Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), Sejal Saglani (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Endotyping: the means to personalised medicine in lung disease
Chair(s): Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom), Mina Gaga (Athens, Greece)
Symposium
Oligometastasis: postmodern multimodality concepts
Chair(s): Erik Jakobsen (Odense C, Denmark), Rafael Rosell (Barcelona, Spain)
Symposium
The management of acute exacerbations of COPD
Chair(s): Matthew Maddocks (London, United Kingdom), Linda Nici (Providence, United States of America)
Symposium
Pulmonary endoscopy 2016
Chair(s): Jouke T. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Pallav L. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
Year in review
PD8 Navigate your publishing process
Chair(s): Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Agnes Boots (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Professional development workshop
Asthma management
Chair(s): Fusun Yildiz (Kocaeli, Turkey), Bilun Gemicioglu (Istanbul, Turkey), Tania Maes (Ghent, Belgium), Mohamed Al-Moamary (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Thematic Poster
Functional assessment of the airways
Chair(s): Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano (Foggia, Italy), Akira Yamasaki (Yonago, Japan), Ayşe Arzu Yorgancıoğlu (İzmir, Turkey), Christian Clarenbach (Zurich, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster
Monitoring comorbidities
Chair(s): Jörg Leuppi (Liestal, Switzerland), Georgios Hillas (Ilioupoli, Greece), Jose Luis Lopez-Campos Bodineau (Seville, Spain), Jiang Tao Lin (Shanghai, China)
Thematic Poster
Phenotyping and monitoring airway diseases
Chair(s): Stylianos Loukides (Voula, Athens, Greece), Pieter-Paul W. Hekking (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Juan Luis García Rivero (Mogro (Cantabria), Spain), Florence Schleich (Liège, Belgium)
Thematic Poster
Occupational and environmental exposures and biomarkers: human studies, animal data, and in vitro methods
Chair(s): Anna-Carin Olin (Gothenburg, Sweden), Subhabrata Moitra (Kolkata, India), Elizabeth Fireman (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Denis Vinnikov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
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Clinical studies in asthma and immunology
Chair(s): Lena Uller (Lund, Sweden), Sergio Bonini (Rome, Italy), Trudeke G.M. Möller (Zeist, Netherlands), Hans Jürgen Heinrich Hoffmann (Århus, Denmark)
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Asthma: treatment, disease control, and quality of life
Chair(s): Stefania La Grutta (Palermo, PA, Italy), Linnea Hedman (Lulea, Sweden), Elaine Fuertes (Munich, Germany)
Thematic Poster
Prevalence of obstructive airway diseases, methods of diagnosis, and lung function testing
Chair(s): Martin Miller (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Joan B. Soriano (Madrid, Spain), Ane Johannessen (Bergem, Norway), Simone Accordini (Verona, Italy)
Thematic Poster
Epidemiological aspects of tuberculosis and other respiratory conditions: from lung cancer to late-onset Pompe's disease
Chair(s): Christer Janson (Uppsala, Sweden), Tomas Mikal Eagan (Bergen, Norway), Pia Hardelid (London, United Kingdom), Peymane Adab (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Techniques and tools in paediatric asthma
Chair(s): Alexander Möller (Zurich, Switzerland), Sejal Saglani (London, United Kingdom), Pinelopi Anagnostopoulou (Bern, Switzerland), Antonella Frassanito (Rome, Italy)
Thematic Poster
The indoor and ambient environments
Chair(s): Jolanta M. Walusiak-Skorupa (Łódź, Poland), Nicola Murgia (Perugia, Italy), Mona Lärstad (Gothenburg, Sweden), Joanna Szram (London, United Kingdom)
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Smoking cessation strategies
Chair(s): Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece), Bertrand Dautzenberg (Paris, France), Hiroo Wada (Tokyo, Japan)
Thematic Poster
Smoking-related diseases
Chair(s): Keir E Lewis (Dyfed, Wales, United Kingdom), Dimos Fotopoulos (Rethymnon, Greece), Elif Dagli (Istanbul, Turkey), Athanasia Pataka (Panorama Thessaloniki, Greece)
Thematic Poster
Latest advances in paediatric sleep medicine
Chair(s): Andrew Wilson (Perth, Australia), Maria Luz Alonso Alvarez (Burgos, Spain), Monique Slaats (Antwerp, Belgium), Łukasz Minarowski (Białystok, Poland)
Thematic Poster
Novel avenues in the treatment of COPD II
Chair(s): Loes Kistemaker (Groningen, Netherlands), Adam Barczyk (Katowice, Poland), Leif Bjermer (Lund, Sweden)
Thematic Poster
Living with asthma around the globe
Chair(s): Neeta S Kulkarni (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Abigail Whitehouse (Brockley, United Kingdom), Christian Bieli (Basel, Switzerland), Sanne F. Kloosterman (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster
The future of lung function is beginning now
Chair(s): Monika Franczuk (Warsaw, Poland), Felip Burgos (Barcelona, Spain), Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium), Matjaz Flezar (Golnik, Slovenia)
Thematic Poster
Physiotherapy interventions and assessment options in hospitalised patients
Chair(s): Elena Gimeno-Santos (Barcelona, Spain), Deniz Inal-Ince (Ankara, Turkey), Agnieszka Lewko (London, United Kingdom), Samanta Harrison (Middlesborough, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster
Treatment and assessment of functional outcomes in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy
Chair(s): Catherine Granger (Parkville, Australia), Andre Nyberg (Quebec, Canada), Jennifer Alison (Killara, Australia), Melda Saglam (Ankara, Turkey)
Thematic Poster
Preclinical pharmacology: drug targets and mechanisms of action
Chair(s): Chantal Donovan (Newcastle, NSW, Australia), Martina Schmidt (Groningen, Netherlands), Fu-Qiang Wen (Chengdu, Sichuan, China)
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