The ERS International Congress 2015, Amsterdam

 

This annual event brings together the world's respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science.

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