EW1 Inhaler techniques - train the trainer
Chair(s): Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium)
Educational skills workshop
EW2 Research bronchoscopies
Chair(s): Guy F Joos (Gent, Belgium)
Educational skills workshop
China Day "Advances in pulmonology" I
Chair(s): Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Chen Wang (Beijing, China)
Session
PG1 Spirometry – train the trainer
Chair(s): Irene Steenbruggen (Zwolle, Netherlands), Brendan Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PG5 Treatment of emphysema
Chair(s): Pallav L Shah (London, United Kingdom), Lowie Vanfleteren (Horn, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG11 Emerging infectious diseases and pandemic planning
Chair(s): Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Stefano Aliberti (Milan, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG6 Cell-matrix dynamics in lung injury and repair
Chair(s): Silke Meiners (Munich, Germany), Christian M. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria)
Postgraduate Course
PG8 Airway and lung fibrosis
Chair(s): Bruno Balbi (Veruno, Italy), Charles Pilette (Brussels, Belgium)
Postgraduate Course
PG10 Malignant pleural effusion management
Chair(s): Philippe Astoul (Marseille, France), Marcin Skrzypski (Sopot, Poland)
Postgraduate Course
PG9 Lower respiratory tract infection in children
Chair(s): Jonathan Grigg (London, United Kingdom), Ernst Eber (Graz, Austria)
Postgraduate Course
PG3 Cardiorespiratory monitoring in critically ill patients
Chair(s): Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain), David A. Kaufman (Charlottesville, United States of America)
Postgraduate Course
PG7 Basic respiratory mechanics
Chair(s): Michael Polkey (London, United Kingdom), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France)
Postgraduate Course
Primary Care Programme
Chair(s): Bjorn Stallberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Persijn Honkoop (Leiden, Netherlands), Hilary Pinnock (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Janwillem Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands)
Session
Russia Day: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults
Chair(s): Alexander Sinopalnikov (Moscow, Russian Federation), Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany)
Session
PG2 Asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom), Marielle Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG4 Multidisciplinary approach to noninvasive ventilation (NIV)
Chair(s): Paolo Navalesi (Vercelli, Italy), Cesare Gregoretti (Turin, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
EW3 Inhaler techniques - train the trainer
Chair(s): Marit Leine (Røyse, Norway)
Educational skills workshop
EW4 Research bronchoscopies
Chair(s): Guy F Joos (Gent, Belgium)
Educational skills workshop
Russia Day: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children
Chair(s): Elena Kondiurina (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), Eva Polverino (Barcelona, Spain)
Session
ERS Career Development Fellowships
Chair(s): Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom), Stephen T. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Session
Russia Day: COPD, asthma, and infection
Chair(s): Alexander G. Chuchalin (Moscow, Russian Federation), Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
Session
PG16 Sleep and disordered breathing
Chair(s): Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Wilfried De Backer (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium)
Postgraduate Course
PG12 Surgical treatment of emphysema
Chair(s): Gilbert Massard (Strasbourg, France), Federica Meloni (Pavia, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
PG15 Gene-environment interactions in lung disease
Chair(s): Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), H. Marike Boezen (Groningen, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG14 Antibiotic stewardship for respiratory infections
Chair(s): George Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece), Mark Andrew Woodhead (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PG18 Advanced respiratory and cardiovascular testing
Chair(s): Brigitte Fauroux (Paris, France), Susan Ward (Crickhowell, United Kingdom)
Postgraduate Course
PG19 Interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Stylianos Orfanos (Athens, Greece), Otto Chris Burghuber (Vienna, Austria)
Postgraduate Course
PG13 Monitoring physical activity
Chair(s): Fabio Pitta (Londrina, Brazil), Judith Garcia Aymerich (Barcelona, Spain)
Postgraduate Course
PG17 Lung fibrosis and sarcoidosis
Chair(s): Joachim Muller-Quernheim (Freiburg, Germany), Venerino Poletti (Forli, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
EW5 Inhaler techniques - train the trainer
Chair(s): Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium)
Educational skills workshop
EW6 Research bronchoscopies
Chair(s): Bruno Balbi (Veruno, Italy)
Educational skills workshop
CC1 Diagnosis and management of MDR-TB
Chair(s): Antonino Catanzaro (San Diego, United States of America)
Challenging clinical cases
Deliver bad news
Chair(s): Stefano Nava (Bologna, Italy)
How to
Reach targeted education outcomes
Chair(s): Frank W.J.M. Smeenk (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
How to
EW8 Radiological – pathological correlations for clinicians
Chair(s): Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Educational skills workshop
EW7 Cardiorespiratory monitoring in critically-ill patients
Chair(s): David A. Kaufman (Charlottesville, United States of America)
Educational skills workshop
A bout de souffle: hypoxia and sleep-disordered breathing
Chair(s): Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy), Chair to be confirmed
Oral Presentation
COPD: interesting notes
Chair(s): Otto Chris Burghuber (Vienna, Austria), Marieke L. Duiverman (Gasselte, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Mucosal immunology: what’s new in 2015
Chair(s): Mark Gjomarkaj (Palermo, Italy), Sukhwinder Singh Sohal (Launceston, Australia)
Poster Discussion
Bronchiectasis and NTM infections: clinical aspects and research outlook
Chair(s): Michael Loebinger (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Occupational factors in COPD and bronchitis
Chair(s): Carl Reynolds (Fareham, United Kingdom), Chair to be confirmed
Poster Discussion
Kaleidoscope of nursing research
Chair(s): Anne-Marie Russell (Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom), Birthe Dahl Hellquist (Risskov, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
Sedation and educational issues in bronchoscopy: basic bronchoscopic techniques
Chair(s): Lars Konge (Virum, Denmark), Prashant Nemichand Chhajed (Mumbai, India)
Poster Discussion
Lung function: effects on method, machine and disease on the measurement
Chair(s): Waldemar Tomalak (Rabka-Zdroj, Poland), Jellien Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Hot topics on airway diseases: new horizons in treatment
Chair(s): Gaetano Caramori (Ferrara, Italy), Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Emerging data on (e-)cigarettes and their health hazards
Chair(s): Philip Tønnesen (Glostrup, Denmark), Luke J. Clancy (Dublin, Ireland)
Oral Presentation
It is bleeding in the lung, but it is not a lung cancer - an interactive session
Chair(s): Jacques Cadranel (Paris, France), Venerino Poletti (Forli, Italy)
Grand round
Best abstracts in pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic care
Chair(s): Ioannis Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece), Frits M.E. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Advances in the therapy of lung cancer
Chair(s): Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium), Fernando Gamarra (Straubing, Germany)
Oral Presentation
My patient had major thoracic and abdominal surgery: what happens next?
Chair(s): Chris Burtin (Diepenbeek, Belgium), Annette Boehler (Zurich, Switzerland)
Symposium
Preschool wheeze: new insights
Chair(s): Özge Yilmaz (Manisa, Turkey), Angela Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria)
Symposium
Acute lung injury research: are we doing the right things?
Chair(s): Rory Morty (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Masao Takata (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Weaning from mechanical ventilation: new insights
Chair(s): Cesare Gregoretti (Turin, Italy), Leo M.A. Heunks (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Marc Moss (Denver, United States of America)
Symposium
The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: no cure possible?
Chair(s): Martin J. Boeree (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Masoud Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Symposium
Spanish/Portuguese Day: Exercise and other lifestyle behaviour for good lung health worldwide
Chair(s): Alejandro Casas Herrera (Bogota, Colombia), Joan B. Soriano (Madrid, Spain), Inmaculada Alfageme Michavila (Sevilla, Spain)
Session
EW10 Radiological – pathological correlations for clinicians
Chair(s): Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France)
Educational skills workshop
EW9 Cardiorespiratory monitoring in critically-ill patients
Chair(s): Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain)
Educational skills workshop
Chest ultrasonography: an imaging modality with hidden features
Chair(s): Cedric Van Holsbeke (Kontich, Belgium), Lavinia Davidescu (Oradea, Romania)
Oral Presentation
COPD and lung function: risk factors and outcomes
Chair(s): Judith Garcia Aymerich (Barcelona, Spain), Eva Ronmark (Lulea, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
Exploring mechanisms in obstructive airway diseases
Chair(s): Alyn Hugh Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom), Stylianos Loukides (Voula, Athens, Greece)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary hypertension: rare and hereditary causes of PAH
Chair(s): David Montani (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), Paul Corris (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
The relevance of diagnostic and monitoring tools in clinical practice
Chair(s): Daiana Stolz (Basel, Switzerland), Stefan Krueger (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Latest insights into pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): Sally J. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom), Richard Zuwallack (Hartford, United States of America)
Poster Discussion
Functional and imaging techniques for assessing lung, airway and respiratory muscles
Chair(s): Andrea Aliverti (Milan, Italy), Wilfried De Backer (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Noninvasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure: the recipe for success
Chair(s): Raffaele Scala (Arezzo, Italy), Michael Dreher (Aachen, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Biomarkers, immunology and molecular pathology of lung cancer
Chair(s): Lars Schmidt (Münster, Germany), Fernando Gamarra (Straubing, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Advances in the future treatment of COPD
Chair(s): Gaetano Caramori (Ferrara, Italy), Irene Heijink (Groningen, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Air pollution health effects: from epidemiology to controlled human exposure
Chair(s): Stephanie London (Research Triangle Park, United States of America), Valerie Siroux (La Tronche, France)
Symposium
Paediatrics - an interactive session
Chair(s): Ernst Eber (Graz, Austria), Paulo Marcio Condessa Pitrez (Porto Allegre, Brazil)
Grand round
Physical activity, exercise and rehabilitation in COPD and beyond
Chair(s): Fabio Pitta (Londrina, Brazil), Chris Burtin (Diepenbeek, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Practising personalised medicine: why, when, and how?
Chair(s): Catherine Greene (Dublin, Ireland), Claus Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany)
Symposium
Obstructive sleep apnoea in adults and children
Chair(s): Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy), Refika Hamutcu Ersu (Istanbul, Turkey)
Session
Robotics in pulmonology and thoracic surgery
Chair(s): Gilbert Massard (Strasbourg, France), Didier Lardinois (Basel, Switzerland)
Symposium
Comorbidities in COPD and other chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Leonardo Michele Fabbri (Modena, Italy), Bartolome R. Celli (Wellesley, United States of America)
Hot topics
IPF: an airway-derived disease?
Chair(s): Melanie Koenigshoff (Munich, Germany), Luca Richeldi (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Hot topics
Adult bronchiectasis: risk factors and future perspectives
Chair(s): Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany), Eva Polverino (Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Clinical assessment and monitoring of asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Stephen James Fowler (Preston, United Kingdom), Georgios Hillas (Ilioupoli, Greece), Nikoletta Rovina (Athens, Greece), Bart Hilvering (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Specific populations of smokers (women, adolescents and young adults)
Chair(s): Elif Dagli (Istanbul, Turkey), Filippos Filippidis (London, United Kingdom), Angela Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria), Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Clincal aspects of asthma: monitoring and mechanisms
Chair(s): Trudeke G.M. Möller (Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands), Marco Idzko (Freiburg, Germany), Renaud Louis (Liège, Belgium), Arnaud Bourdin (Montpellier, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma and lung immunology
Chair(s): René E. Jonkers (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Milena Sokolowska (Bethesda, United States of America), Ronald Dahl (Odense C, Denmark), Shahid Sheikh (Columbus, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Risk factors and co-morbidities in asthma and COPD
Chair(s): R. Graham Barr (New York, United States of America), Peymane Adab (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Vanessa Garcia Larsen (London, United Kingdom), Melanie Matheson (Parkville, Australia)
Thematic Poster Session
Prevalence of respiratory disease
Chair(s): Bo Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden), Alessandro Marcon (Verona, Italy), Valerie Siroux (La Tronche, France), Christina Tischer (Neuherberg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Occupational and environmental cohort investigations and population studies
Chair(s): Vusumuzi Nkosi (Pretoria, South Africa), Else Würtz (Tjele, Denmark), Joachim Muller-Quernheim (Freiburg, Germany), Walter Araùjo Zin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Thematic Poster Session
Cystic fibrosis: microbiology, immunology and assessment
Chair(s): Mark Rosenthal (London, United Kingdom), Rishi Pabary (London, United Kingdom), Dominik Hartl (Tübingen, Germany), Andrew Bush (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Smoking cessation
Chair(s): Sofia Belo Ravara (Lisbon, Portugal), Philip Tønnesen (Glostrup, Denmark), Michael Toumbis (Athens, Greece), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Genetics and environmental factors in phenotypes of asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Erik Melén (Stockholm, Sweden), Tiziana Patrizia Cremona (Bern, Switzerland), Daan Loth (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Management of asthma and other respiratory diseases in primary care
Chair(s): Anders Ostrem (Oslo, Norway), Ioanna Tsiligianni (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Tjard Schermer (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Rupert Jones (Milton Combe (DEVON), United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Paediatric respiratory physiology
Chair(s): Valentina Fainardi (Parma, Italy), Nicole Beydon (Paris, France), Shannon Simpson (Western Australia, Australia), Paul Robinson (Sydney, NSW, Australia), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Paediatric asthma and allergy: asthma management
Chair(s): Erol Gaillard (Leicester, United Kingdom), Özge Yilmaz (Manisa, Turkey), Giuseppe Gallo (Verona, Italy), Marc van der Schee (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory infections in children
Chair(s): Heather Elphick (Sheffield, United Kingdom), Jayesh M. Bhatt (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Ahmad Kantar (Bergamo, Italy), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Paediatric epidemiology: pulmonary complications, bronchiolitis and asthma
Chair(s): Daan Caudri (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Katy Pike (Hampshire, United Kingdom), Stefania La Grutta (Palermo, Italy), Bülent Taner Karadag (Istanbul, Turkey)
Thematic Poster Session
Paediatric bronchology
Chair(s): Kostas Priftis (Haidari, Athens, Greece), Deborah Snijders (Ponzano Veneto, Italy), Petr Pohunek (Prague, Czech Republic), Giulia Cangiano (Rome, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
New data on established treatments for asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Fabio L. M. Ricciardolo (Orbassano (Turin), Italy), Fusun Yildiz (Kocaeli, Turkey), Isabelle Vachier (Montpellier, France), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Monitoring airway diseases with lung function tests
Chair(s): Helgo Magnussen (Grosshansdorf, Germany), Andriana Papaioannou (Vrilissia, Athens, Greece), Ellen Tufvesson (Lund, Sweden), Alain Van Muylem (Brussels, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Occupational disease: clinical cases and series
Chair(s): Rafael E. de la Hoz (New York, United States of America), Anne Kristin Moller Fell (Skien, Norway), Carl Reynolds (Fareham, United Kingdom), Gennaro D'Amato (Napoli, NA, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Safety of and interactions between current treatments for asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Paola Rogliani (Rome, Italy), Fabrizio Luppi (Spilamberto, Italy), Dragos Bumbacea (Bucarest, Romania), Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Endoscopic ultrasound: an essential tool for interventional pulmonology
Chair(s): Gregoris Stratakos (Athens, Greece), Luis Miguel Seijo Maceiras (Madrid, Spain), Momen Wahidi (Durham, United States of America), Jean-Michel Vergnon (Saint-Etienne, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory physiotherapy assessment and techniques in COPD and asthma
Chair(s): Nidia Aparecida Hernandes (Londrina, Brazil), Heleen Demeyer (Halle, Belgium), Christian Osadnik (Melbourne, Australia), Jordi VILARO CASAMITJANA (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD: exacerbations, gas exchange and associated dysfunction
Chair(s): Marieke L. Duiverman (Gasselte, Netherlands), Job van Boven (Groningen, Netherlands), Claus Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany), Josef Bolitschek (Steyr, Austria)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD: chronic disease and comorbidities
Chair(s): András Bikov (Budapest, Hungary), Eric D. Bateman (Cape Town, South Africa), Wouter H. van Geffen (Groningen, Netherlands), Laura Fregonese (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Healthcare organisation and appropriateness in lung disorders
Chair(s): Alfredo Chetta (Parma, Italy), Carlos Silva Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal), Andreas Guenther (Giessen, Germany), Dario Olivieri (Parma, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Best abstracts in COPD management
Chair(s): Nick Hopkinson (London, United Kingdom), Milo Puhan (Zurich, Switzerland), Epaminondas Kosmas (Voula, Athens, Greece), Paolo Onorati (Alghero, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Latest insights in pulmonary rehabilitation and functional capacity
Chair(s): Zafeiris Louvaris (Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece), Rafael Mesquita (Maastricht, Netherlands), Frits M.E. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands), Eva Bernardi (Vazzola, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
A morphological view of chest pathology
Chair(s): Aleksandar Grgic (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Cedric Van Holsbeke (Kontich, Belgium), Reinhard Kubale (Pirmasens, Germany), Lavinia Davidescu (Oradea, Romania)
Thematic Poster Session
Chronic airway disorders: miscellaneous aspects
Chair(s): Camille Taillé (Paris, France), Elisabetta Pace (Palermo, Italy), Luis Miguel Vaz Rodrigues (Guarda, Portugal), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Bronchoscopic treatment of COPD and asthma: valves, coils, thermoplastics and something more
Chair(s): Daniela Gompelmann (Heidelberg, Germany), Karin Klooster (Groningen, Netherlands), Wolfgang Gesierich (Gauting, Germany), Lars Konge (Virum, Denmark)
Thematic Poster Session
Sarcoidosis: clinical
Chair(s): Demosthenes Bouros (Athens, Greece), Paolo Spagnolo (Liestal, Switzerland), Dominique Valeyre (Paris, France), Paola Rottoli (Siena, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Translational research in respiratory care: new findings
Chair(s): Aurelie Fabre (Dublin, Ireland), Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Helmut H. Popper (Graz, Austria), Nicolas Kahn (Heidelberg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
New insights into lung disease pathogenesis
Chair(s): Louise Donnelly (London, United Kingdom), Mazen Al-Alawi (Dublin, Ireland), Catherine Greene (Dublin, Ireland), Isis Enlil Fernandez (Munchen, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Airway remodelling: recent developments
Chair(s): Sukhwinder Singh Sohal (Launceston, Australia), Colin Bingle (Sheffield, United Kingdom), Alen Faiz (Groningen, Netherlands), Markus Henke (Marburg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Translational studies in airway cell biology
Chair(s): Bernd Schmeck (Marburg, Germany), Julie Laval (Tübingen, Germany), Ann B. Millar (BRISTOL, United Kingdom), Adam Barczyk (Katowice, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary fibrosis: mechanisms of disease
Chair(s): Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson (Lund, Sweden), Philippe Bonniaud (Dijon, France), Seamas Donnelly (Dublin, Ireland), Eric White (Ann Arbor, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Lung function: exploring the boundaries of the respiratory system
Chair(s): Liam Welsh (Melbourne, Australia), Karl Sylvester (Streatley, United Kingdom), Tiago Jacinto (Senhora da Hora, Portugal), Monika Franczuk (Warsaw, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Interstitial lung diseases I
Chair(s): Nikolaos Tzanakis (Heraklion, Greece), Sophia E. Schiza (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Zoe Daniil (Larisa, Greece), Elisabetta Renzoni (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
ME2 Malignant pleural effusions: from diagnosis to management
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
ME3 Mechanical ventilation: a friend and a foe
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
ME1 Diagnosing COPD
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS)
Chair(s): Jeffrey Drazen (Boston, United States of America), Erika von Mutius (Munich, Germany)
Lunchtime session
Treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): Henk C. Hoogsteden (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Fernando J. Martinez (Ann Arbor, United States of America)
Lunchtime session
The evolving marijuana epidemic
Chair(s): Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Stefan Andreas (Immenhausen, Germany)
Lunchtime session
EW12 Radiological – pathological correlations for clinicians
Chair(s): Bogdan Dragos Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania)
Educational skills workshop
EW11 Cardiorespiratory monitoring in critically-ill patients
Chair(s): David A. Kaufman (Charlottesville, United States of America)
Educational skills workshop
Understanding paediatric asthma and allergy: genetics and environment
Chair(s): Franca Rusconi (Florence, Italy), Bülent Taner Karadag (Istanbul, Turkey)
Oral Presentation
Patient health gains related to the economic effectiveness of disease management programmes
Chair(s): Otto Chris Burghuber (Vienna, Austria), Ivan Solovic (Vysne Hagy, Slovakia)
Poster Discussion
Lung function: waiting to exhale...
Chair(s): Felip Burgos (Barcelona, Spain), Waldemar Tomalak (Rabka-Zdroj, Poland)
Poster Discussion
Novelties in noninvasive ventilation
Chair(s): Ezgi Özyilmaz (Istanbul, Turkey), Lara Pisani (Bologna, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Unravelling the mechanisms of symptoms and exercise limitationas in disease
Chair(s): Luis Puente Maestu (Madrid, Spain), Dennis Jensen (Montreal, Canada)
Poster Discussion
WHO guidelines in TB and clinical practice
Chair(s): Keertan Dheda (Cape Town, South Africa), Masoud Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
Challenges in surgery for non-malignant disorders: pleural mediastinal and tracheal problems, congenital disorders
Chair(s): Marcello Migliore (Catania, Italy), Michel Gonzalez (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
New data on established treatments for COPD
Chair(s): Adam Barczyk (Katowice, Poland), Lena Uller (Lund, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
New findings in sleep-disordered breathing in children
Chair(s): Refika Hamutcu Ersu (Istanbul, Turkey), Maria Pia Villa (Rome, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Breathlessness during exercise: if not asthma, then what?
Chair(s): Bart Rottier (Groningen, Netherlands), Mike Thomas (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Phenotyping asthma with biomarkers
Chair(s): Stylianos Loukides (Voula, Athens, Greece), Ildikó Horváth (Budapest, Hungary)
Oral Presentation
Genetics, genomics and exposures in asthma and COPD
Chair(s): H. Marike Boezen (Groningen, Netherlands), Torben Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)
Oral Presentation
Latent TB infection and screening
Chair(s): Christian Wejse (Aarhus, Denmark), Delia Goletti (Rome, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Cystic fibrosis: assessment and treatment
Chair(s): Ian Balfour-Lynn (London, United Kingdom), Harry G.M. Heijerman (The Hague, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
How to approach and treat fungal and viral respiratory infections
Chair(s): Stijn Blot (Ghent, Belgium), Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany)
Hot topics
Thoracic oncology: from fusion genes to treatment
Chair(s): Jacques Cadranel (Paris, France), Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism and sleep apnoea
Chair(s): Enrico Maria Clini (Pavullo, Italy), Johan Verbraecken (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), Atul Malhotra (Calle Guaymas, United States of America)
Year in review
Dysfunctional protein quality control in paediatric and adult lung diseases
Chair(s): Catherine Greene (Dublin, Ireland), Andreas Guenther (Giessen, Germany)
Symposium
Lung transplantation in the year 2015: current indications and results
Chair(s): Andrew Fisher (Newcastle, United Kingdom), Claus Neurohr (Munich, Germany)
Symposium
Spanish/Portuguese Day: Tobacco control policies
Chair(s): Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), Daniel Buljubasich Sincovich (Rosario, Argentina)
Session
IgE-mediated asthma: New revelations and future insights
Chair(s): Ratko Djukanovic (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Evening Symposium
CC4 Diagnosis of cystic interstitial lung disease
Chair(s): Vincent Cottin (Lyon, France)
Challenging clinical cases
CC3 Complications of lung infections
Chair(s): Michael Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
Challenging clinical cases
Get the most out of literature searches
Chair(s): Milo Puhan (Zurich, Switzerland), Christopher Cates (London, United Kingdom)
How to
EW29 Chest tube and indwelling catheter placement and management
Chair(s): Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany), Alexander Chen (St Louis, United States of America)
Educational skills workshop
EW14 Endoscopic techniques for emphysema, asthma and lung cancer
Chair(s): Arschang Valipour (Vienna, Austria)
Educational skills workshop
Animal studies of asthma and other inflammatory conditions
Chair(s): Anders Linden (Stockholm, Sweden), Ruby Pawankar (Tokyo, Japan)
Poster Discussion
Molecular pathways of lung injury due to tobacco-related products
Chair(s): Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece), Hiroo Wada (Tokyo, Japan)
Poster Discussion
Neonatal and paediatric intensive care
Chair(s): Kajsa Bohlin (Stockholm, Sweden), Chair to be confirmed
Poster Discussion
Advances in the future treatment of severe asthma
Chair(s): Mario Cazzola (Rome, Italy), Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Pneumonia: determinants of clinical outcomes and potential strategies to improve its management
Chair(s): Eric Mortensen (Dallas, United States of America), Ignacio Martin-Loeches (Dublin, Ireland)
Poster Discussion
Invasive and surgical procedures: the clinical point of view
Chair(s): Stefano Gasparini (Ancona, Italy), Laureano Molins Lopez-Rodo (Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
Respiratory disease management in primary care
Chair(s): Janwillem Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands), Jaime Correia de Sousa (Porto, Portugal)
Poster Discussion
Pathogenic mechanisms of lung transplant complications: a focus on CLAD
Chair(s): Bart Vanaudenaerde (Leuven, Belgium), Claus Neurohr (Munich, Germany)
Poster Discussion
The multiple faces of host defense
Chair(s): Sinead Weldon (Belfast, United Kingdom), Mark Gjomarkaj (Palermo, Italy)
Oral Presentation
How to perform and interpret systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Chair(s): Virginie Westeel (Besançon, France), Thierry Berghmans (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema and asthma: what is new?
Chair(s): Charles-Hugo Marquette (Nice, France), Hervé Dutau (Marseille, France)
Oral Presentation
Ring of fire: inflammation and metabolism in sleep-disordered breathing
Chair(s): Silke Ryan (Dublin, Ireland), Jean-Louis Pepin (Grenoble, France)
Oral Presentation
Risk assessment and prevention of complications in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): Dragan R. Subotic (Beograd, Republic of Serbia), Stefano Elia (Naples, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Advancing therapies for cystic fibrosis
Chair(s): Margarida D. Amaral (Lisbon, Portugal), Bert Arets (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Hot topics
Respiratory research in the Netherlands
Chair(s): Pieter S. Hiemstra (Leiden, Netherlands), Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands)
Symposium
Mechanisms of virus-driven and host-defence immune responses in acute virus-induced asthma
Chair(s): Gunilla Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos (Athens, Greece)
Symposium
Emerging occupational and environmental lung hazards: from asthma to interstitial disease
Chair(s): Paul Blanc (San Francisco, United States of America), Paul Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Clinical relevance of exercise stress testing of the right ventricle pulmonary circulation unit
Chair(s): Pierantonio Laveneziana (Paris, France), Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Rogério De Souza (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Symposium
Tuberculosis: short-course chemotherapy
Chair(s): Jan-Willem Alfenaar (Groningen, Netherlands), Graham H. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom)
Year in review
Best abstracts on pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Richard Casaburi (Rancho Palos Verdes, United States of America), Martijn A. Spruit (Horn, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric pulmonary infections: mechanisms and treatment
Chair(s): Mark Everard (Perth, Australia), Ahmad Kantar (Bergamo, Italy)
Oral Presentation
New targets and modalities for the treatment of asthma and COPD
Chair(s): Gaetano Caramori (Ferrara, Italy), Loes Kistemaker (Groningen, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary hypertension: novel clinical insights
Chair(s): Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands), H. Ardeschir Ghofrani (Giessen, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Exhaled biomarkers in children and adults with airways disease
Chair(s): Konstantinos Kostikas (Karditsa, Greece), Antonio Spanevello (Tradate, Italy)
Poster Discussion
The challenge of choosing the best physical and functional assessment methods
Chair(s): Daniel Langer (Leuven, Belgium), Chair to be confirmed
Poster Discussion
Cystic fibrosis: physiology, biomarkers, microbiology and miscellaneous
Chair(s): Jürg Barben (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Jane C. Davies (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
IPF: clinical aspects
Chair(s): Venerino Poletti (Forli, Italy), Michael Kreuter (Heidelberg, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Work, environment and the epidemiology of asthma
Chair(s): Christel van Dijk (Utrecht, Netherlands), Nicole Le Moual (Villejuif, France)
Poster Discussion
Respiratory health across the life course
Chair(s): Cecilie Svanes (Bergen, Norway), Simone Accordini (Verona, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Advances in asthma and allergy in animal models
Chair(s): Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Apostolos Bossios (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Clinical physiology: mechanisms of symptoms and exercise limitations in health and disease
Chair(s): Pierantonio Laveneziana (Paris, France), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France)
Oral Presentation
Does sleep apnoea impact cognitive function?
Chair(s): Wilfried De Backer (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), Walter McNicholas (Dublin, Ireland)
Symposium
Paediatric asthma and allergy: epidemiology and risk factors
Chair(s): Liesbeth Duijts (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Stephen Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Lung cancer: the need for a multidisciplinary approach - an interactive session
Chair(s): Anne-Pascale Meert (Brussels, Belgium), Prasanta R. Mohapatra (Bhubaneswar, India)
Grand round
Nutrition in chronic respiratory disease
Chair(s): Frits M.E. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands), Sally J. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Individualised risk reduction strategies for patients with COPD
Chair(s): Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Symposium
When chronic inflammation drives fibrosis: a lesson from lung transplantation
Chair(s): Federica Meloni (Pavia, Italy), Bart Vanaudenaerde (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
Differentiating COPD exacerbations from pneumonia in COPD patients
Chair(s): Arturo Humberto Huerta Garcia (Barcelona, Spain), Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
E-cigarettes: a wolf in sheep's clothing or a sheep in wolf's clothing?
Chair(s): Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), Bo Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Hot topics
Notable abstracts in COPD: variety
Chair(s): Eric D. Bateman (Cape Town, South Africa), H. Marike Boezen (Groningen, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Bronchiectasis and NTM infections: clinical and functional characterisation
Chair(s): Felix C. Ringshausen (Hannover, Germany), Adam Hill (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Pieter Goeminne (Bornem, Belgium), Anthony De Soyza (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Surgery and lung cancer: results and complications
Chair(s): Stefano Elia (Naples, Italy), Marinus Paul (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Marcello Migliore (Catania, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Non-inflammatory monitoring of airway diseases
Chair(s): Silvano Dragonieri (Bari, Italy), Caterina Bucca (Turin, Italy), Eleftherios Zervas (Athens, Greece), Wendy van Beurden (Enschede, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
The immunology of allergic airway disease
Chair(s): Trudeke G.M. Möller (Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands), Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Anders Linden (Stockholm, Sweden), Gary P. Anderson (Parkville, Australia)
Thematic Poster Session
CAP: prognostic factors in frail patients
Chair(s): Wim G. Boersma (Alkmaar, Netherlands), Francisco Sanz Herrero (Quart de Poblet (Valencia), Spain), Michael Tamm (Basel, Switzerland), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Clinical issues in CAP: microbiological and radiological determinants
Chair(s): Andres de Roux (Berlin, Germany), Adamadia Liapikou (Athens, Greece), James D. Chalmers (Perth, United Kingdom), Claire Andrejak (Amiens, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Viral infections: basic research and clinical perspective
Chair(s): Sebastian L. Johnston (London, United Kingdom), Aran Singanayagam (London, United Kingdom), Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Management of TB: a patient focus
Chair(s): Marc Lipman (London, United Kingdom), Keertan Dheda (Cape Town, South Africa), Martina Sester (Homburg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Immunodepression and severe pneumonia
Chair(s): Carlos Agusti Garcia-Navarro (Barcelona, Spain), Ignacio Martin-Loeches (Dublin, Ireland), Miquel Ferrer Monreal (Barcelona, Spain), Carlos M. Luna (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory infections: from basic science to clinical issues
Chair(s): Antonio R. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America), Michael Loebinger (London, United Kingdom), Francesco Blasi (Milan, Italy), John R Hurst (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria and molecular microbiology
Chair(s): Dirk Wagner (Freiburg, Germany), Berit Lange (Freiburg, Germany), Christian Wejse (Aarhus, Denmark)
Thematic Poster Session
Treatment of TB (MDR-TB): co-morbidities, adverse effects and outcomes
Chair(s): Alena Skrahina (Minsk region, Belarus), Raquel Almeida Ferreira Duarte Bessa Melo (Porto, Portugal), Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Epidemiology of TB: deaths, co-morbidities, migration and children
Chair(s): Enrico Girardi (Rome, Italy), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Case series and clinical conundrums in TB
Chair(s): Heinke Kunst (London, United Kingdom), Simon Tiberi (London, United Kingdom), Elmira Ibraim (Bucarest, Romania), Lorenzo Guglielmetti (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster Session
New developments in medical education, web and internet
Chair(s): Tiago Manuel Pombo Alfaro (Coimbra, Portugal), Monica Fletcher (Warwick, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Physiotherapy assessment and techniques in pulmonary and non-pulmonary conditions
Chair(s): Margareta Emtner (Uppsala, Sweden), Linzy Houchen-Wolloff (Oakham, United Kingdom), Celso Carvalho (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Carlos Augusto Camillo (Leuven, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Interventional pulmonology for pleural diseases
Chair(s): Philippe Astoul (Marseille, France), Marios E. Froudarakis (Alexandroupolis, Greece), Lina Zuccatosta (Torrette, Ancona, Italy), Prashant Nemichand Chhajed (Mumbai, India)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary hypertension: the right ventricle and its load
Chair(s): Frances De Man (Amsterdam, Netherlands), François Potus (Quebec, Canada), Christophe Guignabert (le Plessis-Robinson, France), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: pulmonary embolism and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): Ralf Kaiser (Saarbrücken, Germany), Mark Toshner (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Horst Olschewski (Graz, Austria), John Wort (Hampton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory muscles and airways function: from physiology to clinical implications
Chair(s): Antonella Lo Mauro (Milan, Italy), Esther Barreiro Portela (Barcelona, Spain), Eric Derom (Gent, Belgium), Raffaele Dellaca (Milan, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary hypertension: novel insights into the biology of the disease
Chair(s): Soni Savai Pullamsetti (Bad Nauheim, Germany), Frederic Perros (le Plessis-Robinson, France), Harm Jan H.J. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Laurent Godinas (Yvoir, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Acute critical care: novelties in critical care
Chair(s): Federico Longhini (Borgomanero, Italy), Marcus Schultz (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Acute critical care: COPD, muscles and weaning
Chair(s): Leo M.A. Heunks (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Annalisa Carlucci (San Donato Milanese, Italy), Christian Bruells (Aachen, Germany), Maria Paola Arellano-Maric (La Paz, Bolivia)
Thematic Poster Session
Outcome of noninvasive ventilatory support in acute and chronic respiratory failure
Chair(s): Lara Pisani (Bologna, Italy), Claudia Crimi (Catania, Italy), Antoine Cuvelier (Rouen, France), Antonio M. Esquinas Rodriguez (Murcia, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Transbronchial and percutaneous approach to peripheral pulmonary lesions
Chair(s): Mohammed Munavvar (Preston, United Kingdom), Jean-Michel Vergnon (Saint-Etienne, France), Luis Miguel Seijo Maceiras (Madrid, Spain), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Functional capacity, exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Roberto Rabinovich (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Vasileios Andrianopoulos (Horn, Netherlands), Anja Frei (Zurich, Switzerland), Guido Vagheggini (Volterra, Pisa, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Clinical exercise physiology in health and disease
Chair(s): Jose Alberto Neder Serafini (Kingston, Canada), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France), Paolo Onorati (Alghero, Italy), Gilles Garcia (Le Kremlin Bicètre, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Lung function: new findings and approaches
Chair(s): Andre Albuquerque (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Bruno Degano (Besançon, France), Caterina Salito (Milan, Italy), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Pathophysiological mechanisms at different scales: lung, airways, muscles and symptom perception
Chair(s): Matteo Bonini (Roma, RM, Italy), Stefan Matecki (Montpellier, France), Nickolas Koulouris (Athens, Greece), Bruno-Pierre Dube (Montreal, Canada)
Thematic Poster Session
Multidimensional analysis of respiratory problems
Chair(s): Hanneke A.C. Van Helvoort (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Maurice Hayot (Montpellier, France), Capucine Morelot Panzini (Paris, France), Francesca Polverino (Brookline, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Inflammation, biomarkers and hypoxia in sleep disordered breathing
Chair(s): Johan Verbraecken (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), Malcolm Kohler (Zurich, Switzerland), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Measuring sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults I: questionnaires, epidemiology and sleep studies
Chair(s): Athanasios G Kaditis (Athens, Greece), Athanasia Pataka (Panorama Thessaloniki, Greece), Elizabeth Hill (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Measuring sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults II: questionnaires, epidemiology and sleep studies
Chair(s): Neil Skjodt (Lethbridge, Canada), Ruzena Tkacova (Kosice, Slovakia), Jan A. Hedner (Goteborg, Sweden), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Measuring sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults III: questionnaires, epidemiology and sleep studies
Chair(s): Winfried J. Randerath (Solingen, Germany), Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy), Paschalis Steiropoulos (Alexandroupolis, Greece), Jose Maria Montserrat Canal (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
To treat or not to treat, and how? Sleep-disordered breathing I
Chair(s): Wilfried De Backer (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), Dirk A.A. Pevernagie (Heeze, Netherlands), Viliam Donic (Košice, Slovakia), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
To treat or not to treat? Sleep-disordered breathing II
Chair(s): Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Refika Hamutcu Ersu (Istanbul, Turkey), Maria Pia Villa (Rome, Italy), Juan Fernando Masa Jiménez (Cáceres, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
ME5 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
ME7 Update on referral guidelines for lung transplantation: what has changed?
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
ME4 Asthma susceptibility
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
Asthma: emerging risk factors and current management of the patient
Chair(s): Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom), Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Lunchtime session
ME6 Understanding cough
Chair(s): –
Meet the expert
Structure-function relationships in the small airways
Chair(s): Dirkje S. Postma (Groningen, Netherlands), Scott. S Wagers (Maasmechelen, Belgium)
Lunchtime session
Development and application of new approaches for respiratory disease research
Chair(s): Philippe Bonniaud (Dijon, France), Anthony Holmes (St Neots, United Kingdom), Iain Kilty (Cambridge, United States of America)
Lunchtime session
EW31 Chest tube and indwelling catheter placement and management
Chair(s): Alain Tremblay (Calgary, Canada)
Educational skills workshop
EW18 Endoscopic techniques for emphysema, asthma and lung cancer
Chair(s): Daniela Gompelmann (Heidelberg, Germany)
Educational skills workshop
New observations in respiratory epidemiology
Chair(s): Giovanni Viegi (Pisa, Italy), Ane Johannessen (Bergen, Norway)
Oral Presentation
Best abstracts in chronic care
Chair(s): Michael Steiner (Leicester, United Kingdom), Roberto Rabinovich (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
IPF: from bench to bedside
Chair(s): Martina Vašáková (Prague, Czech Republic), Francesco Bonella (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Novel insights into the pathobiology of acute lung injury
Chair(s): Christian Martin (Aachen, Germany), Wolfgang M. Kuebler (Toronto, Canada)
Poster Discussion
Notable abstracts in exacerbations, mechanisms and biomarkers in COPD
Chair(s): Wouter H. van Geffen (Groningen, Netherlands), Maurizio Marvisi (Cremona, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Developments in lung cancer diagnosis
Chair(s): Sam Janes (London, United Kingdom), Ales Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia)
Poster Discussion
Screening strategies in TB
Chair(s): Delia Goletti (Rome, Italy), Graham H. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
New data on established treatments for asthma, COPD and bronchiectasis
Chair(s): Alexander Mathioudakis (Liverpool, United Kingdom), Ian M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Functional imaging approaches for evaluating alteration of lung, airways and respiratory muscles
Chair(s): Raffaele Dellaca (Milan, Italy), Bruno Degano (Besançon, France)
Oral Presentation
Update on respiratory sounds
Chair(s): Kostas Priftis (Haidari, Athens, Greece), Luis Garcia-Marcos Alvarez (El Palmar (Murcia), Spain)
Symposium
Latest news on miRNAs in pulmonary research
Chair(s): Marcin Skrzypski (Sopot, Poland), Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warsaw, Poland)
Oral Presentation
Monitoring and phenotyping COPD
Chair(s): Anneke ten Brinke (Molenend, Netherlands), Jose Luis Lopez-Campos Bodineau (Sevilla, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Novel occupational exposures and responses
Chair(s): David Miedinger (Lucerne, Switzerland), Nicola Murgia (Perugia, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Clinical problems in acute and chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Mohankumar Thekkinkattil (Coimbatore, India), Vincent Cottin (Lyon, France)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): Marc Humbert (Paris, France), Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Symposium
How to treat brain metastases
Chair(s): Jacques Cadranel (Paris, France), Paul Martin Putora (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Symposium
Asthma and smoking: dangerous liaisons - an interactive session
Chair(s): Irene Heijink (Groningen, Netherlands), Neil Thomson (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Grand round
Cough: a major problem in lung disease
Chair(s): Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom), András Bikov (Budapest, Hungary)
Symposium
Challenges in non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
Chair(s): Begüm Ergan (Izmir, Turkey), Raffaele Scala (Arezzo, Italy)
Symposium
Bronchiectasis in Europe: an update from the European Bronchiectasis Network (EMBARC)
Chair(s): Pieter Goeminne (Bornem, Belgium), Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany)
Symposium
The challenge of treating uncontrolled asthma on Step 3 and higher: Comparing options
Chair(s): Huib A.M. Kerstjens (Groningen, Netherlands), Eric D. Bateman (Cape Town, South Africa)
Evening Symposium
CC6 Multidisciplinary team discussion in thoracic oncology
Chair(s): Gilbert Massard (Strasbourg, France), Rainer G. Wiewrodt (Münster, Germany)
Challenging clinical cases
CC5 Interpretation of pulmonary function testing
Chair(s): Eric Derom (Gent, Belgium)
Challenging clinical cases
Multidisciplinary approaches in the personalized care of the ALK + NSCLC patient
Chair(s): Egbert E.F. Smit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Early Morning Symposium
Work with the EU funding system
Chair(s): Martina Sester (Homburg, Germany)
How to
Review articles and abstracts
Chair(s): Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
How to
EW19 Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation in COPD smokers
Chair(s): Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece)
Educational skills workshop
EW20 Respiratory sampling techniques
Chair(s): Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Educational skills workshop
Tele-rehabilitation in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Nicolino Ambrosino (Volterra, Italy), Thierry Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Indoor air and ambient pollution
Chair(s): Paul Peeters (Maastricht, Netherlands), Emel Kurt (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Poster Discussion
Epidemiological studies of asthma and allergy
Chair(s): Jon Genuneit (Ulm, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric and adult sleep-disordered breathing: from inflammation to treatment and telemedicine
Chair(s): Raphael Heinzer (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jose Maria Montserrat Canal (Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
Monitoring and phenotyping COPD
Chair(s): Petros Bakakos (Athens, Greece), Chair to be confirmed
Poster Discussion
TB treatment: new drugs and drug resistance
Chair(s): Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany), Raquel Almeida Ferreira Duarte Bessa Melo (Porto, Portugal)
Poster Discussion
Sarcoidosis: pathogenesis
Chair(s): Paola Rottoli (Siena, Italy), Michael Kreuter (Heidelberg, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Rehabilitation, exercise, hospitalisation and COPD
Chair(s): Christian Osadnik (Melbourne, Australia), Rachael A Evans (Leicestershire, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Diagnosing and management of COPD in primary care
Chair(s): Bjorn Stallberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Mike Thomas (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Basics in physiology
Chair(s): Robert Naeije (BRUSSELS, Belgium), Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Symposium
Predictors of lung transplant complications
Chair(s): Geert Verleden (Leuven, Belgium), Andrew Fisher (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Acute critical care: news from the ICU
Chair(s): Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain), Sabrine Hemmes (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Novel targets and strategies for the treatment of cough, asthma, rhinosinusitis and COPD
Chair(s): Paul Kirkham (Wolverhampton, United Kingdom), Reinoud Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Prognostic factors in pneumonia: from clinical observations to experimental models
Chair(s): Carlos M. Luna (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Eva Polverino (Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Microbial impacts at different human ages
Chair(s): Sejal Saglani (London, United Kingdom), Holger Garn (Marburg, Germany)
Symposium
ERS Task Forces and Guidelines: procedures, methodology and publication
Chair(s): Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan (Paris, France), Marc Humbert (Paris, France)
Symposium
Lung cancer screening: how to implement a comprehensive preventive approach
Chair(s): Mina Gaga (Athens, Greece), Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop (Amersfoort, Netherlands)
Symposium
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): sequence, timing, and modality of multi-line therapies
Chair(s): Nicolas Schönfeld (Berlin, Germany), Fernando Gamarra (Straubing, Germany)
Symposium
In paediatrics
Chair(s): Jonathan Grigg (London, United Kingdom), Fabio Midulla (Rome, Italy)
Year in review
Live pulmonary endoscopy: Lung Cancer
Chair(s): Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany), Christophe Dooms (Leuven, Belgium)
Session
EW21 Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation in COPD smokers
Chair(s): Sofia Belo Ravara (Lisbon, Portugal)
Educational skills workshop
EW22 Respiratory sampling techniques
Chair(s): Antonio Spanevello (Tradate, Italy)
Educational skills workshop
Paediatric asthma and allergy: lung function and biomarkers
Chair(s): Silvia Carraro (Padova, Italy), Florian Singer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric pulmonary infections
Chair(s): Jayesh M. Bhatt (Nottingham, United Kingdom), Kostas Priftis (Haidari, Athens, Greece)
Poster Discussion
Modulating the immune system in COPD and asthma
Chair(s): Gary P. Anderson (Parkville, Australia), Jonas Erjefalt (Lund, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
Co-existing diseases and asthma
Chair(s): Cesar Picado (Barcelona, Spain), Vibeke Backer (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
New models for treating airway diseases
Chair(s): Irfan Rahman (Rochester, United States of America), Irene Heijink (Groningen, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Best abstracts in physical activity in chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Henrik Watz (Grosshansdorf, Germany), Nicolino Ambrosino (Volterra, Italy)
Poster Discussion
IPF pathogenesis
Chair(s): Bruno Crestani (Paris, France), Katerina Antoniou (Heraklion, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary hypertension: new pathophysiological insights
Chair(s): Robert Naeije (BRUSSELS, Belgium), Harm Jan H.J. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
The multiple facets of stem and progenitor cells in lung health and disease
Chair(s): Eric White (Ann Arbor, United States of America), Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson (Lund, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Effects of rehabilitation, exercise, physical activity, hospitalisation and surgery on different conditions
Chair(s): Vanessa Suziane Probst (Londrina, Brazil), Jordi VILARO CASAMITJANA (Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
New findings in paediatric respiratory physiology
Chair(s): Enrico Lombardi (Florence, Italy), Graham Hall (West Perth, Australia)
Oral Presentation
Resistance to therapy in lung cancer
Chair(s): Fernando Gamarra (Straubing, Germany), Nicolas Reynoird (La Tronche, France)
Symposium
Respiratory translational research: novel mechanisms, diagnostic markers and Space Odyssey
Chair(s): Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Nicolas Kahn (Heidelberg, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Live pulmonary endoscopy: Interstitial and pleural diseases
Chair(s): Venerino Poletti (Forli, Italy), Najib M. Rahman (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Session
Fingerprinting severe asthma
Chair(s): Sally Wenzel (Pittsburgh, United States of America), Craig Wheelock (Stockholm, Sweden)
Symposium
Antibiotic resistance in respiratory infections
Chair(s): Francesco Blasi (Milan, Italy), Felix C. Ringshausen (Hannover, Germany)
Hot topics
Obstructive sleep apnoea, obesity, and weight loss
Chair(s): Walter McNicholas (Dublin, Ireland), Eva Lindberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Geraldo Lorenzi Filho (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Symposium
New insights in immunology and molecular pathways of tobacco smoke
Chair(s): Ian M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Latest developments in clinical studies in acute and chronic lung diseases
Chair(s): Jan C. Grutters (Nieuwegein, Netherlands), Chair to be confirmed
Oral Presentation
Science and biomarkers in TB
Chair(s): Simone A. Joosten (Leiden, Netherlands), Daniela Maria Cirillo (Milan, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Immune mechanisms in the human lung
Chair(s): Hans Jürgen Heinrich Hoffmann (Aarhus, Denmark), Thais Mauad (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Ronald Dahl (Odense C, Denmark), Ruby Pawankar (Tokyo, Japan)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma and COPD: overlap and exacerbations
Chair(s): Per Sigvald Bakke (Bergen, Norway), James Allinson (London, United Kingdom), Peter Lange (Hvidovre, Denmark), Simone Accordini (Verona, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Occupational and environmental exposure assessment and biomarkers
Chair(s): Kevin Lamote (Gent, Belgium), Elizabeth Fireman (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Subhabrata Moitra (Krishnagar, Nadia, India), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Occupational and environmental effects: in vitro and animal models
Chair(s): Loretta Mueller (Basel, Switzerland), Kristin Cummings (Morgantown, United States of America), Canan Demir (Izmir, Turkey), David Mannino (Lexington, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
E-cigarette, sisha and waterpipe
Chair(s): Constantine Vardavas (Heraklion, Greece), Bertrand Dautzenberg (Paris, France), Filippos Filippidis (London, United Kingdom), Constantinos Glynos (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory physiology in children: technical and clinical aspects
Chair(s): Paul Aurora (London, United Kingdom), Paul Seddon (West Sussex, United Kingdom), Claudia Calogero (Massarosa, Italy), Enrico Lombardi (Florence, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Monitoring sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults
Chair(s): Athanasios G Kaditis (Athens, Greece), Richard Staats (Murches, Portugal), Nicole Beydon (Paris, France), Valentina Fainardi (Parma, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
More paediatric asthma and allergy
Chair(s): Angela Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria), Marc van der Schee (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Sejal Saglani (London, United Kingdom), Erol Gaillard (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Diagnosis and therapy of lung cancer
Chair(s): Paul Martin Putora (St. Gallen, Switzerland), Konstantinos Zarogoulidis (Thessaloniki, Greece), Ales Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia), Nicolas Girard (Bron, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory physiotherapy: outcomes in disease and health
Chair(s): Deniz Inal Ince (Ankara, Turkey), Guilherme Augusto de Freitas Fregonezi (Barcelona, Spain), Rachael A Evans (Leicestershire, United Kingdom), Carlos Augusto Camillo (Leuven, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Quality management in lung cancer
Chair(s): Torsten Gerriet Blum (Berlin, Germany), Georgia Hardavella (Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Lung cancer: prognostic factors and features of oncogene-driven tumours
Chair(s): Nadja Triller (Ljutomer, Slovenia), Charlotte Leduc (Strasbourg, France), Etienne Giroux Leprieur (Paris, France), Ilona Rousalova (Prague, Czech Republic)
Thematic Poster Session
Cell biology of lung cancer and new biomarkers
Chair(s): Sebastian Ott (Bern, Switzerland), Iwona Osinska (Warsaw, Poland), Yury Ragulin (Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russian Federation)
Thematic Poster Session
Thoracic oncology around the world: rare cases and local features
Chair(s): Dragana M. Jovanovil (Beograd, Republic of Serbia), Mauro Zamboni (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Laura Succony (Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Florin Rusu-Cordunean (Iasi, Romania)
Thematic Poster Session
Mediastinal tumors, malignant pleural mesothelioma and other rare tumors
Chair(s): Sotirios Zarogiannis (Larisa, Greece), Bogdan Dragos Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania), Konstantinos Samitas (Athens, Greece), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Malignant pleural effusions and mesothelioma
Chair(s): Dragos Bumbacea (Bucarest, Romania), Nick Maskell (Bristol, United Kingdom), Marios E. Froudarakis (Alexandroupolis, Greece), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Emerging strategies for airway disease treatments
Chair(s): Xin Yao ( Nanjing, China), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Treatment and control of respiratory disease
Chair(s): Anne Lindberg (Boden, Sweden), Lucia Cazzoletti (Verona, Italy), Christer Janson (Uppsala, Sweden), Bo Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Thematic Poster Session
Interstitial lung diseases II
Chair(s): Martina Vašáková (Prague, Czech Republic), Claudia Ravaglia (Castelbolognese, Italy), Nikolaos M. Siafakas (Heraklion, Crete, Greece), Luca Richeldi (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Immune aspects of asthma and other airway diseases
Chair(s): Apostolos Bossios (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jonas Erjefalt (Lund, Sweden), Gennaro D'Amato (Napoli, NA, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Connective tissue disorders
Chair(s): Carlo Albera (Turin, Italy), Spyridon Papiris (Athens, Greece), Claudia Valenzuela (Alcobendas (Madrid), Spain), Athol Wells (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Exhaled biomarkers in monitoring airways disease
Chair(s): Paolo Montuschi (Rome, Italy), András Bikov (Budapest, Hungary), Marieann Hogman (Gavle, Sweden), Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano (Foggia, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Different data in COPD
Chair(s): Tiziana Patrizia Cremona (Bern, Switzerland), Claus Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany), Job van Boven (Groningen, Netherlands), Chair to be confirmed
Thematic Poster Session
Acute and chronic lung diseases: good clinical practice
Chair(s): Dario Olivieri (Parma, Italy), Maurizio Marvisi (Cremona, Italy), Philippe Camus (Dijon, France), Laureano Molins Lopez-Rodo (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Latest insights into chronic care
Chair(s): Claudio Ferdinando Donner (Borgomanero, Italy), Heleen Demeyer (Halle, Belgium), Chris Burtin (Diepenbeek, Belgium), William Man (Harefield, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Latest insights into the management of chronic respiratory diseases
Chair(s): Jean Bourbeau (Montreal, Canada), Carolyn Rochester (New Haven, United States of America), Eleni Kortianou (Athens, Alimos, Greece), Isabelle Vivodtzev (Echirolles, France)
Thematic Poster Session
A more functional view of chest pathology
Chair(s): Firdaus Mohamed Hoesein (Utrecht, Netherlands), Aleksandar Grgic (Homburg/Saar, Germany), Jan De Backer (Kontich, Belgium), Heinrike Wilkens (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary hypertension in lung disease
Chair(s): Luke Howard (London, United Kingdom), Shiro Mizuno (Ishikawa, Japan), Gabor Kovacs (Graz, Austria), Joan Albert Barbera (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary hypertension: management
Chair(s): Horst Olschewski (Graz, Austria), Robin Condliffe (Sheffield, United Kingdom), Paul Corris (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), Olivier Sitbon (Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France)
Thematic Poster Session
IIPs: orphan
Chair(s): George Margaritopoulos (Kavala, Greece), Aikaterini D. Samara (Athens, Greece), Carlo Vancheri (Catania, Italy), Wim Wuyts (Rotselaar, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Management of COPD and other respiratory diseases in primary care
Chair(s): Mark L. Levy (London, United Kingdom), Arnulf Langhammer (Levanger, Norway), Alan Kaplan (Richmond Hill, Canada), Rachel Jordan (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session