PG20 European spirometry train-the-trainer programme
Chair(s): B.G. Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom), I. Steenbruggen (Zwolle, The Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG5 Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
Chair(s): S. Andreas (Immenhausen, Germany), W. De Backer (Antwerp, Belgium)
Postgraduate Course
PG8 State-of-the-art management of sarcoidosis
Chair(s): V. Poletti (Forli, Italy), C. Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal)
Postgraduate Course
PG10 An update on mesothelioma diagnostics and treatment
Chair(s): R.M. Huber (Munich, Germany), P. Van Schil (Antwerp, Belgium)
Postgraduate Course
PG3 Radiological-pathological correlation of tumoural and non-tumoural pathology: an interdisciplinary approach
Chair(s): T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland), W. De Wever (Leuven, Belgium)
Postgraduate Course
PG7 TB and MDR-/XDR-TB: what is new in diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (TB PAN-NET)
Chair(s): D. Cirillo (Milan, Italy), G. Rohde (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG4 Experimental models for respiratory medicine: strengths and limitations
Chair(s): K. Bracke (Laarne, Belgium), J.H.J. Vernooy (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG9 Progress on the treatment of COPD
Chair(s): I.M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), G. Caramori (Ferrara, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
Primary Care Programme
Chair(s): N. Chavannes (Leiden, Netherlands), G. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Symposium
PG1 Interventional pulmonology procedures: best practice
Chair(s): S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy), F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Postgraduate Course
PG6 Hot topics in paediatric allergy
Chair(s): K. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway), M. Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG2 How to make NIV successful
Chair(s): W. Windisch (Cologne, Germany), S. Nava (Bologna, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
Fellows' Get-Together
Chair(s): R. Bals (Homburg, Germany), O. Eickelberg (Munich, Germany), B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium), L. Nicod (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Symposium
PG18 Recent evolutions in screening and early diagnosis of lung cancer
Chair(s): K. Nackaerts (Leuven, Belgium), H. De Koning (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG13 AirPROM: patient-specific modelling and systems biology living labs workshop
Chair(s): C. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom), I. Horvath (Budapest, Hungary)
Postgraduate Course
PG19 Imaging in the intensive care unit
Chair(s): P. Navalesi (Vercelli, Italy), S. Orfanos (Haïdari (Athens), Greece)
Postgraduate Course
PG17 Clinical failure of treatment of respiratory infections
Chair(s): G. Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece), G. Rohde (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Postgraduate Course
PG11 Pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): K. Antoniou (Heraklion, Greece), B. Crestani (Paris, France)
Postgraduate Course
PG16 ERS/ACCP joint course on diagnostic and management strategies for pleural disorders
Chair(s): V. Cottin (Lyon, France), M. Baumann (Jackson, United States of America)
Postgraduate Course
PG14 From phenotypes to endotypes of asthma and COPD
Chair(s): G. Joos (Ghent, Belgium), B. Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Postgraduate Course
PG12 Cough: from basic mechanisms to clinical approaches
Chair(s): A. Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom), R. Sakalauskas (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Postgraduate Course
PG15 Common respiratory infections in childhood: current guidelines and controversies
Chair(s): E. Eber (Graz, Austria), F. De Benedictis (Ancona, Italy)
Postgraduate Course
Diagnostics in OSA: from polygraphy to genetics and cancer
Chair(s): R.L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), J. Montserrat (Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Ultrasound in pulmonary medicine: from inside and outside
Chair(s): C. Koegelenberg (Cape Town, South Africa), M. Wahidi (Durham, United States of America)
Poster Discussion
Functional imaging in pulmonary oncology and COPD. Radiation dose in chest CT: survey and real life
Chair(s): R. Kubale (Pirmasens, Germany), J. Coolen (Leuven, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Pathophysiological mechanisms in disease: new insights
Chair(s): P. Laveneziana (Paris, France), S. Bayat (Amiens, France)
Poster Discussion
Asthma: risk factors and effect of anti-IgE
Chair(s): A. Magnan (Nantes, France), L. Bjermer (Lund, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
COPD is not a pulmonary disease alone
Chair(s): O.C. Burghuber (Vienna, Austria), W. MacNee (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
MDR- and XDR-TB: epidemiological and public health overview
Chair(s): G. Sotgiu (Sassari, Italy), D. Falzon (Geneva, Switzerland)
Oral Presentation
Exacerbations of asthma and COPD: assessment, impact and novel treatments
Chair(s): J. Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom), G. Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Airway diseases: from invasive to noninvasive biomarkers
Chair(s): E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), P. Paggiaro (Pisa, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Chest wall, diaphragm and pleura
Chair(s): S. Elia (Rome, Italy), A. Olland (Strasbourg, France)
Oral Presentation
An Olympic challenge: winners and losers in exercise training
Chair(s): F. Maltais (Quebec, Canada), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
Sarcoidosis
Chair(s): M. Drent (Maastricht, The Netherlands), D. Valeyre (Paris, France)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary injury and repair from alveolus to vessel walls
Chair(s): V. Cottin (Lyon, France), M. Kolb (Hamilton, Canada)
Symposium
Pro-Con Debate "Severe community-acquired pneumonia: a lung disease?"
Chair(s): R. Cosentini (Milan, Italy), M. Ferrer (Barcelona, Spain)
Symposium
Award for Achievement in the field of NSCLC Ceremony (supported by AstraZeneca) followed by Grand Round "How to diagnose and manage NSCLC with the new drugs" - an interactive session
Chair(s): J. Cadranel (Paris, France), J-P. Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Grand round
Asthma from childhood to adulthood: what factors predict the outcome?
Chair(s): E. Eber (Graz, Austria), B. Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Symposium
Respiratory support in children and young adults with neuromuscular disease
Chair(s): A. Bush (London, United Kingdom), B. Fauroux (Paris, France)
Hot topics
New advances in ICU-acquired weakness
Chair(s): A. Artigas (Sabadell, Spain), P. Pelosi (Genoa, Italy)
Symposium
Different ways to phenotype asthma
Chair(s): A. Bourdin (Montpellier, France), M. Romagnoli (Forli, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Functional imaging of the lung parenchyma, tumours and circulation
Chair(s): S. Muro (Kyoto, Japan), W. De Wever (Leuven, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Physiotherapy and rehabilitative interventions applied to different populations with respiratory impairment
Chair(s): F. Pitta (Londrina, Brazil), M.A. Spruit (Horn, The Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Gene-environment treatment and asthma
Chair(s): F. Kauffmann (Villejuif, France), L. Smit (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Asthma and COPD: quality of life and comorbidities
Chair(s): J. Anto (Barcelona, Spain), L. Carrozzi (Pisa, Italy)
Poster Discussion
CPAP: beneficial effects on different aspects of health
Chair(s): J.L. Pepin (Grenoble, France), M. Arzt (Regensburg, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Clinical management of lung diseases: from bronchi to pleura
Chair(s): N. Siafakas (Heraklion, Greece), D. Olivieri (Parma, Italy)
Poster Discussion
How to use technology to provide better critical care
Chair(s): T. Vassilakopoulos (Athens, Greece), S. Zakynthinos (Athens, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Update on neutrophil and macrophage function in COPD
Chair(s): P. Hiemstra (Leiden, Netherlands), C. Taggart (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Tuberculosis and immunologic assays
Chair(s): M. Ruhwald (Copenhagen, Denmark), J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary circulation: clinical databases and registries
Chair(s): A. Peacock (Glasgow, United Kingdom), D. Montani (Kremlin Bicêtre, France)
Oral Presentation
Prevention and treatment of infective exacerbations of COPD
Chair(s): A. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America), M. Nishimura (Sapporo, Japan)
Symposium
Mechanisms of asthma
Chair(s): H.J. Hoffmann (Aarhus, Denmark), L. Heaney (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Current challenges in multimodality lung cancer treatment
Chair(s): R.M. Huber (Munich, Germany), D. Subotic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Symposium
Cochrane reviews in airway diseases
Chair(s): C. Cates (Watford, United Kingdom), J. White (York, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Cournand Lecture followed by Hot Topic "Early intervention in CF: why, when and how?"
Chair(s): A. Lindblad (Gothenburg, Sweden), S. Ranganathan (Parkville, Australia)
Cournand Lecture
Searching for the secrets of senescence in the lung
Chair(s): A. Agusti (Barcelona, Spain), W. MacNee (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Hot topics
Paediatric lung function today
Chair(s): S. Lone Latif (Amsterdam, Netherlands), J. Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands)
Symposium
Late breaking results: Asthma from phenotyping to emerging new treatments
Chair(s): I. Pavord (Leicester, United Kingdom), E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Asthma and COPD at work: what are the effects of exposure and risk factors?
Chair(s): B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium), D. Norback (Uppsala, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Cystic fibrosis (adults and children): risk factors and clinical problems
Chair(s): A. Lindblad (Gothenburg, Sweden), B. Assael (Verona, Italy), M. Solomon (Toronto, Canada), K. Green (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: clinical diagnosis, treatment, end-points and animal models
Chair(s): J. Vachiery (Brussels, Belgium), J. Pepke-Zaba (Cambridge, United Kingdom), A. Ghofrani (Giessen, Germany), I. Preston (Boston, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD epidemiology
Chair(s): C. Suppli Ulrik (Hvidovre, Denmark), D. Mannino (Lexington, United States of America), P. Burney (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Healthcare utilisation and treatment of asthma and COPD
Chair(s): S. A. Jansson (Lulea, Sweden), R. Nielsen (Bergen, Norway), I. Cerveri (Pavia, Italy), I. Pin (Grenoble, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Occupational asthma
Chair(s): S. Burge (Solihull, United Kingdom), L. Smit (Utrecht, Netherlands), O. Vandenplas (Yvoir, Belgium), V. Moore (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Indoor and outdoor air pollution
Chair(s): R. De La Hoz (New York, United States of America), I. Annesi-Maesano (Paris, France), B. Forsberg (Umea, Sweden), M. Aubier (Paris , France)
Thematic Poster Session
Tobacco dependence and respiratory disease
Chair(s): S. Ravara (Covilhã, Portugal), A. Trofor (Iasi, Romania), C. Vardavas (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Sleep monitoring, lung function and inflammation in childhood
Chair(s): E. Lombardi (Florence, Italy), U. Frey (Basel, Switzerland), I. Narang (Toronto, On, Canada), A. Kaditis (Piraeus, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Mechanisms and risk of childhood asthma and allergy
Chair(s): J. Gerritsen (Haren, Netherlands), A. Moreno (Sant Cugat Del Valles, Spain), I. Butiene (Klaipeda, Lithuania), G. Piacentini (Verona, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
New aspects of lung cancer biology
Chair(s): N. Peled (Ramat-Gan, Israel), L. Schmidt (Munster, Germany), N. Triller (Golnik, Slovenia), R. Mroz (Bialystok, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Going with the flow: assessment and evaluation of airway function and its role in patient management
Chair(s): K. Sylvester (Streatley, United Kingdom), W. Tomalak (Rabka, Poland), J. Kivastik (Tartu, Estonia), A. Kendrick (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Mechanics, muscles and movement: aspects of airway mechanics, repiratory muscle assessment and field exercise tests
Chair(s): J. Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands), F. Burgos (Barcelona, Spain), A. Lewko (London, United Kingdom), J. Lloyd (Stafford, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Physiotherapy and rehabilitation strategies in respiratory diseases and beyond
Chair(s): R. Garrod (London, United Kingdom), D. Langer (Leuven , Belgium), V. Probst (Londrina, Brazil), J. Alison (Sydney, Australia)
Thematic Poster Session
New insights in the physical assessment and therapy of respiratory patients
Chair(s): J. Vilaro (Barcelona, Spain), D. Inal Ince (Ankara, Turkey), B. Oberwaldner (Graz, Austria), K. Wagg (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Instructive clinical aspects of thoracic oncology
Chair(s): R. Milroy (Glasgow, United Kingdom), A. Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia), D. Misch (Berlin, Germany), A. Fisseler-Eckhoff (Wiesbaden, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Clinical issues in malignant pleural effusions
Chair(s): A. Scherpereel (Lille, France), T. Berghmans (Brussels, Belgium), I. Kalomenidis (Marousi, Greece), G. Hardavella (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Improving education for the healthcare team and patients
Chair(s): P. Palange (Rome, Italy), A. Papaioannou (Vrilissia Athens, Greece), A. Huertas (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Looking at the cost effectiveness of asthma and COPD treatment by novel drugs and improved management
Chair(s): J. Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warsaw, Poland), M. Roberts (London, United Kingdom), J. Lopez-Campos (Seville, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: clinical aspects of PAH and associated PH
Chair(s): L. Howard (London, United Kingdom), M. Johnson (Clydebank, United Kingdom), I. Lang (Vienna, Austria), D. Montani (Kremlin Bicêtre, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: clinical PAH, registries and treatments
Chair(s): O. Sitbon (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), C.D. Vizza (Rome, Italy), J. Lordan (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), R. Condliffe (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Nursing led education and follow-up strategies: impact on readmission, self care and patient experiences
Chair(s): D. Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium), B. Korn (Dublin, Ireland), G. L. Narsavage (Morgantown, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Technology, screening and questionnaires in OSA
Chair(s): R. Farré (Barcelona, Spain), D. Rodenstein (Brussels, Belgium), J.A. Hedner (Gothenburg, Sweden), S. Ryan (Dublin, Ireland)
Thematic Poster Session
From the laser through the stent to the valve: the broad spectrum of interventional pneumology
Chair(s): M. Schuhmann (Heidelberg, Germany), D. Sterman (Radnor, United States of America), C. Koegelenberg (Cape Town, South Africa), S. Fernandez-Bussy (Gainesville, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Physiology, heart failure and respiration in relation to OSA
Chair(s): R. Tamisier (Grenoble, France), B. Sanner (Wuppertal, Germany), F. Barbe Illa (Lleida, Spain), M. Kohler (Forch, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD comorbidities II
Chair(s): G. Funk (Vienna, Austria), N. Miculinic (Zagreb, Croatia), B. Lamprecht (Salzburg, Austria), J. Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory infections: a clinical point of view
Chair(s): D. Wagner (Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany), D. Olivieri (Parma, Italy), T. Bauer (Berlin, Germany), G. Rainer (Vienna, Austria)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory manifestations of systemic disease: a holistic approach
Chair(s): C. Tantucci (Brescia, Italy), M. Krowka (Rochester, United States of America), M. Marvisi (Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy), C. Valenzuela (Madrid, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
The latest insights in chronic care
Chair(s): T. Effing (Adelaide, Australia), P. Jones (London, United Kingdom), J. Van Der Palen (Enschede, Netherlands), D. Janssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma: assessment and treatment
Chair(s): W. Pohl (Vienna, Austria), F. Schleich (Liege, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
The latest insights in integrated care
Chair(s): E. Crisafulli (Pavullo, Italy), C. Pison (Grenoble, France), S. Skumlien (Kolbotn, Norway), J. Garcia Aymerich (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Standard of care, incidential findings, image acquisition
Chair(s): A. Grgic (Homburg, Germany), O. Lukina (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD comorbidities I
Chair(s): H. Magnussen (Grosshansdorf, Germany), R. Dahl (Aarhus, Denmark), G. Kovacs (Graz, Austria), M. Breyer (Vienna, Austria)
Thematic Poster Session
Cystic lung diseases: lung granulomatosis
Chair(s): J. Domagala-Kulawik (Warsaw, Poland), R. Lazor (Lausanne, Switzerland), F. Bonella (Essen, Germany), C. Ravaglia (Castelbolognese, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease: clinical profiles and collagen vascular disease
Chair(s): P. Camus (Dijon, France), A. Guenther (Giessen, Germany), R. Vassallo (Rochester, Mn, United States of America), G. Margaritopoulos (Kavala, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Diagnostic insights and decision making in primary care
Chair(s): H. Pinnock (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), A. Kruis (Leiden, Netherlands), T. Schermer (Nijmegen, Netherlands), J. Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Effectiveness of therapeutic interventions in primary care
Chair(s): D. Price (Cambridge, United Kingdom), R. Jones (Plymouth, United Kingdom), A. Ostrem (Oslo, Norway), D. Ryan (Loughborough, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
New results in molecular pathology and functional genomics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic lung disease
Chair(s): P. Schnabel (Heidelberg, Germany), M. Skrzypski (Sopot, Poland), H. Popper (Graz, Austria), P. Bonniaud (Dijon, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Inflammatory mechanisms in COPD
Chair(s): D. Bergin (Dublin, Ireland), C. Bingle (Sheffield, United Kingdom), G. John (Munich, Germany), T. P. Carroll (Dublin, Ireland)
Thematic Poster Session
Cell biology and inflammatory gene expression in chronic lung disease
Chair(s): D. Hartl (Tuebingen, Germany), C. Ward (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), M. Henke (Marburg, Germany), A. Montes-Worboys (Seville, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
The many roads to lung injury
Chair(s): S. Uhlig (Aachen, Germany), A. Yildirim (Neuherberg, Germany), M. Takata (London, United Kingdom), G. Matute-Bello (Seattle, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Exercise capacity: from elite athletes to severe impairment
Chair(s): L. Romer (Uxbridge, United Kingdom), J. Neder (Sao Paulo, Brazil), G. Garcia (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), L. Laviolette (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster Session
New issues in pulmonary function
Chair(s): R. Dellaca (Milan, Italy), N. Koulouris (Athens, Greece), R. Pellegrino (Cuneo, Italy), V. Brusasco (Genova, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
MP3 Long-term non-invasive respiratory support in infants and children
Meet the Professor
How to control the tobacco industry: how to get our children's lungs into our hearts
Chair(s): F. Horak Jr (Vienna, Austria), M. Neuberger (Vienna, Austria)
Symposium
Paracetamol and asthma: a causal link?
Chair(s): D. Jarvis (London, United Kingdom), S. Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Symposium
NIV - Meeting the Experts: From state-of-the-art to new technologies
Chair(s): H. Woehrle (Ulm, Germany), W. Windisch (Cologne, Germany)
Practical Workshop
Solitary pulmonary nodules in the age of lung cancer screening: up and coming endoscopic options
Chair(s): D. Sterman (Radnor, United States of America), S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary circulation: clinical aspects of PAH, PTE and CTEPH
Chair(s): P. Corris (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), M. Humbert (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
Poster Discussion
Lung transplantation: studies in candidates and recipients
Chair(s): M. Iversen (Copenhagen, Denmark), G. Meachery (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
The best posters on quality of life and coping styles in COPD
Chair(s): D. Janssen (Horn, Netherlands), A. Holland (Prahran, Australia)
Poster Discussion
Cystic fibrosis (adults and children): new basic and clinical physiology research
Chair(s): H. Tiddens (Rotterdam, Netherlands), P. Latzin (Bern, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Basic and translational studies in COPD
Chair(s): C. Greene (Dublin, Ireland), J.H.J. Vernooy (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Microbiological advances in the diagnosis of tuberculosis
Chair(s): D. Cirillo (Milan, Italy), J. Dominguez Benitez (Badalona Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
New mechanisms in non-neoplastic and neoplastic lung diseases
Chair(s): T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland), P. Schnabel (Heidelberg, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Physiological monitoring during sleep and in neuromuscular disease in children
Chair(s): E. Lombardi (Florence, Italy), R. Hamutcu Ersu (Istanbul, Turkey)
Oral Presentation
Unimodal treatment for nonsmall cell lung cancer: dawn of a renaissance?
Chair(s): S. Elia (Rome, Italy), F. Gamarra (Munich, Germany), H. Saka (Nagoya, Japan)
Symposium
Tobacco cessation and tobacco cessation services
Chair(s): F. Mihaltan (Bucharest, Romania), T. Hering (Berlin, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Prognosis and outcome of respiratory infections
Chair(s): M. Miravitlles (Barcelona, Spain), S. Sethi (Buffalo, United States of America)
Oral Presentation
Reclassification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
Chair(s): U. Costabel (Essen, Germany), J. Ryu (Rochester, United States of America)
Symposium
Autoimmunity in airways disease
Chair(s): G. Anderson (Parkville, Australia), M. Cosio (Padova, Italy)
Symposium
Viral respiratory disease in preschool children
Chair(s): M. Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands), F. De Baets (Ghent, Belgium)
Symposium
An ERS/ELF joint session "New tools to assess improvement in respiratory patients: capturing the patient's perspective"
Chair(s): N. Kline Leidy (Bethesda, United States of America), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
COPD and OSA: two prevalent diseases related to cardiovascular disease by common mechanism?
Chair(s): O.C. Burghuber (Vienna, Austria), P. Levy (Grenoble, France)
Symposium
Imaging Grand Round: an interactive session
Chair(s): J. Coolen (Leuven, Belgium), A. Grgic (Homburg, Germany), S. Muro (Kyoto, Japan)
Grand round
Asthma: from childhood environment to adult phenotypes
Chair(s): C. Janson (Uppsala, Sweden), D. Jarvis (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
MS3 Update in idiopatic pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): U. Costabel (Essen, Germany)
Morning Seminar
Trials in asthma: asthma exacerbations and severe asthma
Chair(s): E. D. Bateman (Cape Town, South Africa), K.F. Chung (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
The best abstracts in pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): M.A. Spruit (Horn, The Netherlands), I. Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease pathogenesis, biomarkers, therapy and new entities
Chair(s): A. Prasse (Freiburg, Germany), T. Maher (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Recent progress in mechanisms and diagnostics of COPD and asthma
Chair(s): J. Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warsaw, Poland), P. Hiemstra (Leiden, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Epidemiology: risk factors and prognosis in respiratory infections
Chair(s): K. Dimakou (Agia Paraskeyi, Greece), A. Sayiner (Izmir, Turkey)
Poster Discussion
Current trends in home mechanical ventilation
Chair(s): N. Hart (London, United Kingdom), P. Wijkstra (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary circulation and functional lung imaging
Chair(s): A. Grgic (Homburg, Germany), M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Novelties in clinical management of thoracic diseases: from diaphragm to pleura
Chair(s): P. Camus (Dijon, France), A. Chetta (Parma, Italy)
Oral Presentation
COPD: risk factors, biomarkers and diagnosis
Chair(s): J. Garcia Aymerich (Barcelona, Spain), P. Burney (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Treatment of tobacco dependence as a treatment of lung diseases
Chair(s): C. Gratziou (Athens, Greece), G. Viegi (Pisa, Italy)
Symposium
Snoring and scoring: subjective and objective measures of sleep-disordered breathing
Chair(s): J. Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands), W. De Backer (Antwerp, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Modern clinical physiology: imaging structure and evaluating function
Chair(s): A. Aliverti (Milan, Italy), S. Bayat (Amiens, France)
Oral Presentation
GOLD guidelines 2011: new assessment of COPD
Chair(s): W. MacNee (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), A. Agusti (Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Early detection of lung cancer
Chair(s): S. Spiro (Middlesex, United Kingdom), R.M. Huber (Munich, Germany)
Oral Presentation
The bacterial microbiota: implications for health and disease - joint session with the World Allergy Organisation
Chair(s): R. Pawankar (Tokyo, Japan), M. Decramer (Leuven, Belgium)
Hot topics
Contributing factors to pulmonary hypertension
Chair(s): R. Naeije (Brussels, Belgium), L. Nicod (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Symposium
Lung transplantation in 2012: where are we?
Chair(s): A. Boehler (Zurich, Switzerland), G. Verleden (Leuven, Belgium)
Symposium
Fighting MDR- and XDR-TB in Europe: from programme results to research implementation
Chair(s): G.B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Symposium
Paediatric Grand Round - an interactive session
Chair(s): K. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway), J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom)
Grand round
Tobacco use and cessation
Chair(s): P. Tonnesen (Gentofte, Denmark), C. Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain)
Poster Discussion
Phenotypes and mechanisms of treatment of asthma
Chair(s): C. Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), J. Erjefalt (Lund, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
Predicting and observing paediatric allergic disease
Chair(s): B. Rottier (Groningen, Netherlands), N. Kulkarni (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Fungal, viral and other infections
Chair(s): A. Liapikou (Athens, Greece), E. Polverino (Barcelona, Spain)
Poster Discussion
The best posters in pulmonary rehabilitation and chronic care
Chair(s): A. Holland (Prahran, Australia), F. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Novel approaches to lung transplantation
Chair(s): F. Meloni (Pavia, Italy), M. Iversen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Oral Presentation
New developments in the immunological diagnosis of tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection
Chair(s): D. Goletti (Rome, Italy), J. Dominguez Benitez (Badalona Barcelona, Spain)
Oral Presentation
Asthma and the genes: from GWAS to next generation transcriptome analyses
Chair(s): T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark), H. M. Boezen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Sleep disorders in internal medicine
Chair(s): J.A. Hedner (Gothenburg, Sweden), G. Mwenge (Brussels, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
Professional development and advanced practice roles in respiratory nursing
Chair(s): C. Lodewijckx (Leuven, Belgium), B. Korn (Dublin, Ireland)
Oral Presentation
Endo meets obstruction: the new endoscopic treatment options for obstructive lung diseases
Chair(s): S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy), C. Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany)
Symposium
Cystic fibrosis (adults and children): new therapies and detection of early lung disease
Chair(s): S. Stick (Perth, Australia), G. Davies (London, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Antenatal origins of chronic respiratory disease: putting the fetal origins hypothesis to the test
Chair(s): U. Frey (Basel, Switzerland), S. Shaheen (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Advances in chronic respiratory failure in COPD: now out of its infancy
Chair(s): M.A. Spruit (Horn, The Netherlands), S. Nava (Bologna, Italy), P.W. Finn (La Jolla, United States of America)
Symposium
The global burden of disease
Chair(s): C. Janson (Uppsala, Sweden), D. Jarvis (London, United Kingdom)
Hot topics
Supportive and palliative care in the management of the patient with a thoracic malignancy
Chair(s): B. Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania), A.P. Meert (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Functional pulmonary imaging for COPD phenotyping
Chair(s): A. Aliverti (Milan, Italy), P. Laveneziana (Paris, France)
Symposium
Acute lung injury: challenging old paradigms
Chair(s): J. Hamacher (Bern, Switzerland), T. Martin (Seattle, United States of America)
Symposium
Monitoring of airway diseases: far from the airways
Chair(s): A. Spanevello (Tradate, Italy), R. Louis (Liege, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Management of pneumonia due to hospital pathogens
Chair(s): T. Welte (Hanover, Germany), K. Dimakou (Agia Paraskeyi, Greece), O. Rajas Naranjo (Madrid, Spain), S. Sethi (Buffalo, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Chest wall, thoracic trauma and complications in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): K. Athanassiadi (Athens, Greece), A. End (Vienna, Austria), A. Olland (Strasbourg, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Aspects of clinical asthma
Chair(s): G. J. Braunstahl (Rotterdam, Netherlands), R. Dahl (Aarhus, Denmark), D. Gibeon (London, United Kingdom), M. Sanak (Cracow, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Management of severe respiratory infections
Chair(s): A. Liapikou (Athens, Greece), S. De Boer (Auckland, New Zealand), R. Wilson (London, United Kingdom), M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster Session
Respiratory infections: prognosis and outcome
Chair(s): W. Lim (Nottingham, United Kingdom), A. Armaganidis (Xaidari, Greece), R. Cosentini (Milan, Italy), R. Menendez Villanueva (Valencia, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Scores, biomarkers and risk factors in respiratory infections
Chair(s): C. Luna (Buenos Aires, Argentina), M. Sucena (Leca Da Palmeira, Portugal), S. Krueger (Aachen, Germany), A. Hill (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Prognostic indices in respiratory infections
Chair(s): W. Boersma (Alkmaar, The Netherlands), M. Lerikou (Athens, Greece), M. Vendrell Relat (Girona, Spain), E. Monso (Sabadell, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Viral infections and rare respiratory infections
Chair(s): S. Nesterovich (Tomsk, Russian Federation), A. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America), G. Rohde (Maastricht, The Netherlands), T. Wilkinson (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections: epidemiology I
Chair(s): R. Duarte (Porto, Portugal), G. Ferrara (Solna, Sweden), E. Ibraim (Bucuresti, Romania)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculosis: clinical findings I
Chair(s): F. Marchesani (Pavia, Italy), A. Dudnyk (Vinnitsa, Ukraine), T. Aksamit (Rochester, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculosis: clinical findings II
Chair(s): G. Guenther (Borstel, Germany), D. Cirillo (Milan, Italy), G. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), S. Apetrei (Bucharest, Romania)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculosis: clinical findings III
Chair(s): D. Pesut (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia), R. Markova (Sofia, Bulgaria), M. Lipman (London, United Kingdom), K. Shean (Cape Town, South Africa)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections: diagnostic tools
Chair(s): P. Ravn (Hvidovre, Denmark), D. Tofolean (Constanta, Romania), A. Altraja (Tartu, Estonia)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections: epidemiology II
Chair(s): J. Garcia-Garcia (Aviles, Spain), V. Melchionda (London, United Kingdom), A. Skrahina (Minsk Region, Belarus), I. Solovic (Vysne Hagy, Slovakia)
Thematic Poster Session
Tuberculosis: invasive diagnostic and therapeutic interventions
Chair(s): L. Anderson (London, United Kingdom), A. Sorete Arbore (Iasi, Romania), I. Muylle (Anderlecht, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Non-tuberculous and tuberculous mycobacterial infections: from epidemiology to clinical findings
Chair(s): D. Wagner (Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany), E. Huitric (Stockholm, Sweden), C. Jafari (Hamburg, Germany), S. Simons (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
New insights in pneumology - ERS inter-Assemblies late-breaking abstracts
Chair(s): I. Horvath (Budapest, Hungary), P.M.A. Calverley (Liverpool, United Kingdom), S. Aliberti (Milano, Italy), L. Nicod (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Thematic Poster Session
Surgery for infections and congenital diseases
Chair(s): D. Petrov (Sofia, Bulgaria), M. Chabowski (Wroclaw, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Optimising outcomes after lung transplantation
Chair(s): G. Meachery (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), P. Jaksch (Vienna, Austria), A. Boehler (Zurich, Switzerland), A. Reed (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma: mechanisms of airway inflammation
Chair(s): A. Van Oosterhout (Groningen, Netherlands), H.J. Hoffmann (Aarhus, Denmark), S. Hashimoto (Amsterdam, Netherlands), M. Molimard (Bordeaux, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Animal models of asthma and COPD and late-breaking abstracts on RCT in asthma and COPD
Chair(s): G. Anderson (Parkville, Australia), P. Corris (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), T. Maes (Gent, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
Clinical aspects and treatment of asthma and allergic respiratory diseases
Chair(s): T. Moller (Leiden, Netherlands), R. Buhl (Mainz, Germany), C. Corrigan (London, United Kingdom), C. Gratziou (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Infections and sepsis in the ICU
Chair(s): N. Hill (Boston, United States of America), S. Orfanos (Haïdari (Athens), Greece), G. Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece), G. Hillas (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Multidisciplinary critical care
Chair(s): S. Zakynthinos (Athens, Greece), L. Heunks (Nijmegen, Netherlands), I. Sigala (Nea Smyrni, Greece), S. Skoczynski (Katowice, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Noninvasive ventilation for weaning and acute exacerbation management of airway obstruction
Chair(s): B. Schoenhofer (Hanover, Germany), B. Chakrabarti (Liverpool, United Kingdom), A. Bayarassou (Cologne, Germany), M. Dreher (Freiburg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Application of noninvasive ventilation in non-obstructive patients
Chair(s): D. Dellweg (Schmallenberg , Germany), J-F. Muir (Rouen, France), J. Escarrabill (Barcelona, Spain), M. Vukcevic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Thematic Poster Session
Advanced experience with long-term noninvasive ventilation and late-breaking abstracts
Chair(s): M. Chatwin (London, United Kingdom), J. Nasilowski (Warsaw, Poland), H. Prigent (Garches, France), B. Fauroux (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma treatment: efficacy and safety
Chair(s): N. Roche (Paris, France), D. Price (Cambridge, United Kingdom), F. Ducharme (Montreal, Canada), W. Anderson (Dundee, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD treatments: efficacy and safety
Chair(s): E. Derom (Gent, Belgium), G. Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), N. Barnes (London, United Kingdom), R. Singh (Hampstead, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
The best of pharmacology treatments of airway diseases: new devices and drugs
Chair(s): O. S. Usmani (London, United Kingdom), F. De Jongh (Enschede, Netherlands), T. Alnour (Khartoum North, Sudan)
Thematic Poster Session
Treatment of asthma, bronchiectasis and cough: inhaler use
Chair(s): C. Jenkins (Sydney, Australia), K. Verhamme (Rotterdam, Netherlands), R. Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands), R. Rodríguez-Roisin (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Translational respiratory medicine in asthma and COPD
Chair(s): G. D'Amato (Naples, Italy), J. Hurst (London, United Kingdom), K.F. Chung (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Exhaled biomarkers in airway diseases
Chair(s): S. Loukides (Athens, Greece), P. Montuschi (Rome, Italy), G. Carpagnano (Foggia, Italy), Z. Lazar (Budapest, Hungary)
Thematic Poster Session
Cell biology, blood and sputum biomarkers in airway diseases
Chair(s): A. Spanevello (Tradate, Italy), A. Ten Brinke (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), P. Pignatti (Pavia, Italy), P. Paggiaro (Pisa, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Lung function tests in monitoring airway diseases
Chair(s): A. Olin (Gothenburg, Sweden), T. Popov (Sofia, Bulgaria), S. Fowler (Preston, United Kingdom), M. Foschino Barbaro (Bari, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Inflammation in airway diseases: diagnosis and management
Chair(s): P. J. Sterk (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), V. Macbean (London, United Kingdom), B. Balbi (Veruno, Italy), C. Nwokoro (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Quality of life and clinical parametres in monitoring airway diseases
Chair(s): R. Louis (Liege, Belgium), T. Mueller (Freiburg, Germany), A. Zanini (Gavirate, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma and COPD: understanding through mechanisms
Chair(s): C. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom), M. Gaga (Athens, Greece), M. Lommatzsch (Rostock, Germany), K. Staples (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Mechanisms and modulation of allergic inflammation in the lung
Chair(s): B. Marsland (Lausanne, Switzerland), M. Cazzola (Rome, Italy), I.M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), M. Idzko (Freiburg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
MP9 Standards in pleural fluid analysis and thoracoscopy
Meet the Professor
ERS/NEJM Lunchtime session "Advances in asthma and COPD"
Chair(s): N. Siafakas (Heraklion, Greece), E. von Mutius (Munich, Germany)
Symposium
Joint session with WHO and ECDC "Towards elimination of tuberculosis"
Chair(s): C. Lange (Borstel, Germany), G.B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy)
Symposium
Managing the individual challenges of sleep-disordered breathing
Chair(s): P. Levy (Grenoble, France), H. Woehrle (Ulm, Germany)
Practical Workshop
Pulse wave analysis during sleep- a new diagnostic concept
Chair(s): J.A. Hedner (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Practical Workshop
Trials in COPD: novel treatments and insights
Chair(s): A. Bikov (Miskolc, Hungary), R. Gosens (Groningen, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Recent technical developments in long-term noninvasive ventilation
Chair(s): W. Windisch (Cologne, Germany), J-P. Janssens (Geneva, Switzerland)
Oral Presentation
Tuberculosis: epidemiological and public health features
Chair(s): S. Spiro (Middlesex, United Kingdom), M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
Exercise and physical activity: towards evidence-based benefits in different populations
Chair(s): R. Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium), S. Harrison (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of COPD
Chair(s): H. Worth (Furth, Germany), N. Miculinic (Zagreb, Croatia)
Poster Discussion
Treatment of lung cancer
Chair(s): I. Rousalova (Prague, Czech Republic), D. Baldwin (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Mediastinum and tracheobronchial tree
Chair(s): E. Canalis (Barcelona, Spain), P. Van Schil (Antwerp, Belgium)
Poster Discussion
New insights into respiratory infections in children
Chair(s): J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom), M. Korppi (Tampere, Finland)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric respiratory epidemiology: something for everyone!
Chair(s): S. Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), F. Rusconi (Florence, Italy)
Oral Presentation
Ethics Grand Round: an interactive session
Chair(s): S. Hartl (Vienna, Austria), M. Muers (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Grand round
Pulmonary circulation: end-points and biomarkers
Chair(s): J. Vachiery (Brussels, Belgium), A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Hot topics in respiratory infections
Chair(s): A. Anzueto (San Antonio, United States of America), G. Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece)
Oral Presentation
New drug targets and pre-clinical models for respiratory diseases
Chair(s): A. Van Oosterhout (Groningen, Netherlands), T. Maes (Gent, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
Are neutrophils a suitable target in severe asthma?
Chair(s): G. Anderson (Parkville, Australia), R. Louis (Liege, Belgium)
Symposium
Improving adherence to maintenance medication in asthma: new tools for the clinician
Chair(s): G. Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), M. Fletcher (Warwick, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Maurizio Vignola Award for Innovation in Pneumology Ceremony (supported by Chiesi Foundation) followed by Clinical Year in Review I
Chair(s): C. Lange (Borstel, Germany), A. Scherpereel (Lille, France)
Session
When the whole body is affected: comorbodity and COPD
Chair(s): N. Chavannes (Leiden, Netherlands), P. Lange (Hvidovre, Denmark)
Symposium
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): C. Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal), V. Poletti (Forli, Italy)
Oral Presentation
MS6 Severe asthma: diagnosis and treatment
Chair(s): K.F. Chung (London, United Kingdom)
Morning Seminar
MS4 Interpreting high-resolution computed tomography scans: top tips
Chair(s): C. Vancheri (Catania, Italy)
Morning Seminar
Act to change tobacco epidemics
Chair(s): G. Invernizzi (Prata Camportaccio, Italy), B. Dautzenberg (Paris, France)
Oral Presentation
COPD monitoring in stable disease and during exacerbation
Chair(s): H. Magnussen (Grosshansdorf, Germany), A. Ten Brinke (Leeuwarden, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Predicting the future: the impact of reference values on a range of respiratory paramaters
Chair(s): D. Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium), M. Swanney (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Poster Discussion
Physiology, obesity and the downstream effects of OSA
Chair(s): J.L. Pepin (Grenoble, France), R. Tamisier (Grenoble, France)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary circulation: basic mechanisms, animal models and cell biology
Chair(s): R. Schermuly (Giessen, Germany), N. Galie (Bologna, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Chair(s): B. Crestani (Paris, France), S. Tomassetti (Forli, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Epidemiology and care research of lung cancer
Chair(s): D. Baldwin (Nottingham, United Kingdom), T. Blum (Berlin, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Pulmonary manifestations of systemic diseases
Chair(s): M. Marvisi (Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy), N. Tzanakis (Heraklion, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Immunologic mechanisms in COPD and asthma
Chair(s): M. Idzko (Freiburg, Germany), C. Andersson (Lund, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric Year in Review
Chair(s): G. Hedlin (Stockholm, Sweden), F. Midulla (Rome, Italy)
Session
Stem cells and progenitors in injury and repair
Chair(s): D. Warburton (Los Angeles, United States of America), T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
Oral Presentation
ERS Award for Rare Pulmonary Disease Ceremony (supported by GlaxoSmithKline) followed by symposium "Update on orphan lung diseases"
Chair(s): V. Poletti (Forli, Italy), C. Robalo Cordeiro (Coimbra, Portugal)
Symposium
The best abstracts in chronic care
Chair(s): S. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom), K. Kenn (Schoenau Am Koenigssee, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Genetics and genomics in asthma and COPD: prediction and personalised medicine
Chair(s): H. M. Boezen (Groningen, The Netherlands), V. Schluenssen (Arhus, Denmark)
Symposium
Respiratory infectious diseases Grand Round: an interactive session
Chair(s): S. Ewig (Bochum, Germany), M. Woodhead (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Grand round
Non-antibiotic effects of macrolides in lung disease
Chair(s): I.M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), A. Fisher (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Sex-related differences in pulmonary disease
Chair(s): C. Greene (Dublin, Ireland), B. Melgert (Groningen, Netherlands)
Symposium
Biology and treatment of malignant pleural effusions
Chair(s): K. Nackaerts (Leuven, Belgium), R. G. Wiewrodt (Muenster, Germany)
Oral Presentation
New bronchodilators and other novel drugs for asthma and COPD
Chair(s): C. Page (London, United Kingdom), M. Cazzola (Rome, Italy)
Oral Presentation
New developments in paediatric respiratory physiology
Chair(s): J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom), G. Hall (Perth, Australia)
Oral Presentation
Cellular signalling mechanisms in the airways
Chair(s): C. Taggart (Belfast, United Kingdom), M. Gjomarkaj (Palermo, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Environmental exposure and other risk factors for airway diseases
Chair(s): C. Svanes (Bergen, Norway)
Poster Discussion
Cystic fibrosis (adults and children): new aspects of risk factors, treatments and diagnosis
Chair(s): N. Regamey (Bern, Switzerland), N. Simmonds (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Paediatric bronchology
Chair(s): D. Snijders (Villorba, Italy), A. Barbato (Padova, Italy)
Poster Discussion
MDR- and XDR-TB: clinical and public health experiences
Chair(s): M. Dara (Copenhagen, Denmark), E. Huitric (Stockholm, Sweden)
Poster Discussion
Lung, heart, muscles and brain: the pathway of oxygen during exercise in health and COPD
Chair(s): I. Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece), P. Laveneziana (Paris, France)
Oral Presentation
Pre-operative evaluation in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): P. De Leyn (Leuven, Belgium), C. Paleru (Bucharest, Romania)
Oral Presentation
Medical access to the pleura
Chair(s): P. Astoul (Marseille, France), S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
Poster Discussion
Cardiovascular disease and sleep-disordered breathing
Chair(s): K.E. Bloch (Zurich, Switzerland), S. Verhulst (Wilrijk, Belgium)
Oral Presentation
COPD in non-smokers: an important neglected disease
Chair(s): T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark), J. Soriano (Bunyola, Spain)
Symposium
Treating childhood asthma
Chair(s): A. Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria), A. Moreno (Sant Cugat Del Valles, Spain)
Oral Presentation
The promise of new drugs for treating asthma and COPD
Chair(s): G. Caramori (Ferrara, Italy), C. Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany)
Symposium
Modelling respiratory infections: is it the future or the present?
Chair(s): W. Boersma (Alkmaar, The Netherlands), S. Sethi (Buffalo, United States of America), M. Yamaya (Sendai, Japan)
Symposium
Research Award on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Ceremony (supported by InterMune) followed by Clinical Grand Round - an interactive session
Chair(s): V. Cottin (Lyon, France), V. Poletti (Forli, Italy)
Grand round
The updated ATS/ERS statement on pulmonary rehabilitation - update from the ATS/ERS Task Force
Chair(s): E. Clini (Modena, Italy), F. Pitta (Londrina, Brazil)
Hot topics
EBUS-TBNA: a never ending story
Chair(s): J. Annema (Amsterdam, Netherlands), L. Konge (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Oral Presentation
Treatment of lung cancer
Chair(s): A.P. Meert (Brussels, Belgium), F. Gamarra (Munich, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Pulmonary circulation: clinical treatment
Chair(s): N. Galie (Bologna, Italy), G. Simonneau (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
Oral Presentation
Tobacco cessation
Chair(s): A. Trofor (Iasi, Romania), T. Hering (Berlin, Germany), C. Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), P. Tonnesen (Gentofte, Denmark)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: acute and chronic pulmonary embolism
Chair(s): I. Lang (Vienna, Austria), J. Pepke-Zaba (Cambridge, United Kingdom), R. Condliffe (Sheffield, United Kingdom), J. Wort (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: basic mechanisms, animal models and experimental treatments
Chair(s): N. Weissmann (Giessen, Germany), A. Peacock (Glasgow, United Kingdom), D. Welsh (Glasgow, United Kingdom), I. Preston (Boston, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Pulmonary circulation: clinical end-points and clinical physiology
Chair(s): R. Naeije (Brussels, Belgium), M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), C.D. Vizza (Rome, Italy), A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Epidemiology of asthma
Chair(s): E. Ronmark (Lulea, Sweden), F. Kauffmann (Villejuif, France), P. Bakke (Bergen, Norway)
Thematic Poster Session
Methodology in epidemiologic research
Chair(s): A. Bjerg (Goteborg, Sweden), H. M. Boezen (Groningen, The Netherlands), S. Accordini (Verona, Italy), F. Pistelli (Pisa, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Epidemiology of various respiratory diseases
Chair(s): E. Lindberg (Uppsala, Sweden), G. Marks (Sydney, Australia), A. Kainu (Helsinki, Finland), R. Joegi (Tartu, Estonia)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD beyond tobacco
Chair(s): P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom), D. Nowak (Munich, Germany), H. Suojalehto (Helsinki, Finland), S. Burge (Solihull, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Abestosis, silicosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Chair(s): X. Baur (Hamburg, Germany), B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium), F. De Blay (Strasbourg, France), J. Hoyle (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Airway infections in children: from risk factors to treatment
Chair(s): M. Everard (Sheffield, United Kingdom), M. Mei-Zahav (Toronto, Canada), F. Versteegh (Waddinxveen, Netherlands), C. Nwokoro (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Tobacco and shisha exposure in children and adolescents
Chair(s): B. Dautzenberg (Paris, France), G. Invernizzi (Prata Camportaccio, Italy), E. Dagli (Istanbul, Turkey), L. Hedman (Lulea, Sweden)
Thematic Poster Session
Sleep apnoea: clinical topics
Chair(s): M. Kohler (Forch, Switzerland), J. Montserrat (Barcelona, Spain)
Thematic Poster Session
Tobacco comorbidity
Chair(s): G. Viegi (Pisa, Italy), S. Nardini (Vittorio Veneto, Italy), G. Peiffer (Metz, France), L. Carrozzi (Pisa, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Assessing and treating childhood asthma and allergy
Chair(s): C. Gabriele (Utrecht, Netherlands), A. Moeller (Zurich, Switzerland), G. Piacentini (Verona, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Issues in neonatal and paediatric intensive care
Chair(s): R. Ross-Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom), M. Robertson (Cambridge, United Kingdom), C. Roehr (Berlin, Germany), B. Yuksel (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Assessment of physical activity, exercise, muscle function and clinical characteristics as outcomes in physiotherapy and rehabilitation
Chair(s): R. Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium), A. Lewko (London, United Kingdom), J. Williams (Leicester, United Kingdom), C. Burtin (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Prognosis of lung cancer
Chair(s): G. Hardavella (Athens, Greece), I. Rousalova (Prague, Czech Republic), K. Skaug (Haugesund, Norway), R. Mroz (Bialystok, Poland)
Thematic Poster Session
Screening, diagnosis, staging and treatment strategies for lung cancer
Chair(s): P. Putora (St. Gallen, Switzerland), D. Misch (Berlin, Germany), K. Zarogoulidis (Thessaloniki, Greece), N. Triller (Golnik, Slovenia)
Thematic Poster Session
New biomarkers for lung cancer
Chair(s): N. Dickgreber (Sarstedt, Germany), R.M. Huber (Munich, Germany), D. Jovanovic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Thematic Poster Session
Metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of OSA II
Chair(s): B. Sanner (Wuppertal, Germany), P. Priou (Angers, France), F. Campos-Rodriguez (Sevilla, Spain), T. Bitter (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
The broad spectrum of diagnostic bronchoscopy
Chair(s): T. Scherer (Zurich, Switzerland), G. Wang (Beijing, China), M. Doris (Athens, Greece), A. Bugalho (Lisbon, Portugal)
Thematic Poster Session
Clinical predictors of OSA, adherence to CPAP and psychology
Chair(s): I. Smith (Cambridge, United Kingdom), S. Ryan (Dublin, Ireland), S. Andreas (Immenhausen, Germany), J. Verbraecken (Antwerp, Belgium)
Thematic Poster Session
CT findings: educational posters
Chair(s): R. Kubale (Pirmasens, Germany), O. Lukina (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Thematic Poster Session
Metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of OSA I
Chair(s): W. De Backer (Antwerp, Belgium), G. Mwenge (Brussels, Belgium), A. Valipour (Vienna, Austria), M. Alahmari (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Asthma management
Chair(s): G. Garcia (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), K. Kostikas (Karditsa, Greece), F. Kanniess (Reinfeld, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD: epidemiology and varia
Chair(s): F. Mihaltan (Bucharest, Romania), T. Hoshino (Kurume, Japan), R. Breyer-Kohansal (Vienna, Austria), A. Demir (Ankara, Turkey)
Thematic Poster Session
COPD treatment and varia
Chair(s): H. Koller (Vienna, Austria), M. Studnicka (Salzburg, Austria), R. Buhl (Mainz, Germany), H. Worth (Furth, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
New insights in the clinical management of lung diseases
Chair(s): I.M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom), C. Tantucci (Brescia, Italy), G. Rainer (Vienna, Austria)
Thematic Poster Session
The good clinical practice: useful case report
Chair(s): D. Bouros (Alexandroupolis, Greece), N. Tzanakis (Heraklion, Greece), A. Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom), N. Greening (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
New adjuncts and modalities in pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): R. Evans (Leicester, United Kingdom), L. Cornish (Surrey, United Kingdom), T. Shioya (Akita, Japan), K. Wagg (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
The latest insights in pulmonary rehabilitation
Chair(s): W. Man (Harefield, United Kingdom), M. Sillen (Horn, Netherlands), R. Glockl (Schoenau Am Koenigssee, Germany), V. Probst (Londrina, Brazil)
Thematic Poster Session
The different ways to establish a diagnosis: needle and forcep
Chair(s): S. Bilaceroglu (Izmir, Turkey), D. Gompelmann (Heidelberg, Germany), M. Wahidi (Durham, United States of America), G. Stratakos (Athens, Greece)
Thematic Poster Session
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease I
Chair(s): T. Peros Golubicic (Zagreb, Croatia), M. Confalonieri (Trieste, Italy), E. Renzoni (London, United Kingdom), H. Nunes (Bobigny, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease II
Chair(s): J. Grutters (Nieuwegein, The Netherlands), D. Israel-Biet (Paris, France), C. Albera (Turin, Italy), D. Valeyre (Paris, France)
Thematic Poster Session
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease III
Chair(s): R. Ziesche (Vienna, Austria), T. Alfaro (Coimbra, Portugal), A. Corlateanu (Chishinau, Republic of Moldova), V. Poletti (Forli, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
Diffuse parenchymal lung disease IV
Chair(s): A. Azuma (Tokyo, Japan), A. Tzouvelekis (Thrace, Greece), A. Prasse (Freiburg, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Distinguishing phenotypes and dealing with comorbidities in primary care
Chair(s): J. Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands), H. Pinnock (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), A. Kaplan (Richmond Hill, Canada), A. Kruis (Leiden, Netherlands)
Thematic Poster Session
Molecular biology of pro- and anti-inflammatory responses in the lung
Chair(s): T. Tetley (London, United Kingdom), D. Jungck (Bochum, Germany), S. Meiners (Munich, Germany), S. Weldon (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Cell culture and animal models of lung disease
Chair(s): L. Donnelly (London, United Kingdom), M. Al-Alawi (Dublin, Ireland), E. Van'T Wout (Leiden, Netherlands), C. Beisswenger (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
Thematic Poster Session
Fibrogenesis between epithelial injury and fibroblast proliferation
Chair(s): M. Kolb (Hamilton, Canada), P. Bonniaud (Dijon, France), S. Cerri (Modena, Italy), T. Maher (London, United Kingdom)
Thematic Poster Session
Lung injury and repair: reactive oxygen species and beyond
Chair(s): M. Witzenrath (Berlin, Germany), M. Koenigshoff (Munich, Germany), C. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria), S. Matalon (Birmingham, United States of America)
Thematic Poster Session
Various issues in clinical physiology
Chair(s): S. Verges (Echirolles, France), C. Spengler (Zurich, Switzerland), R. Farré (Barcelona, Spain), A. Aliverti (Milan, Italy)
Thematic Poster Session
ERS COPD exacerbation guidelines: methodologies and overview
Chair(s): A. Papi (Ferrara, Italy), J. Vestbo (Hvidovre, Denmark)
Symposium
Pro/Con Debate "Cost-effectiveness of maintenance chemotherapy for NSCLC"
Chair(s): T. Berghmans (Brussels, Belgium), L. Schmidt (Munster, Germany)
Symposium
Is it time to bring pre-school lung function testing to the clinic? Update from the ATS/ERS Task Force
Chair(s): F. De Jongh (Enschede, Netherlands), J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom)
Symposium
The European Respiratory Review: what's hot in pulmonary medicine
Chair(s): M. Humbert (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), V. Cottin (Lyon, France)
Symposium
Secretion Management in chronic respiratory insufficiency - state of the art and perspectives
Chair(s): S. Nava (Bologna, Italy)
Practical Workshop
Bronchial Thermoplasty: a life changing therapy for persistent asthma patients
Chair(s): F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Practical Workshop
Limiting factors in exercise
Chair(s): N. Hopkinson (London, United Kingdom), L. Romer (Uxbridge, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Special problems in thoracic surgery
Chair(s): C. Paleru (Bucharest, Romania), A. End (Vienna, Austria)
Poster Discussion
Progress in endoscopy for lung cancer
Chair(s): A. Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia), A. Kempa (Hemer, Germany)
Poster Discussion
Outcomes and assessment methods in physiotherapy and rehabilitation
Chair(s): M. Emtner (Uppsala, Sweden), R. Garrod (London, United Kingdom)
Poster Discussion
Anti-infective treatment and resistance in respiratory infections
Chair(s): S. Aliberti (Milano, Italy), M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Respiratory diseases at at work: epidemiology, inflammation and challenge studies
Chair(s): J. Zock (Barcelona, Spain), T. Sigsgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)
Poster Discussion
Effectiveness of respiratory disease management in primary care
Chair(s): N. Chavannes (Leiden, Netherlands), B. Stallberg (Uppsala, Sweden)
Oral Presentation
Life's a gas: aspects of respiratory gas exchange
Chair(s): A. Kendrick (Bristol, United Kingdom), L. Smith (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
Patient views on respiratory allergies: raise awareness, release the burden (organised jointly by ELF/EFA)
Chair(s): P.A. Wecksell (Stockholm, Sweden), M. Fletcher (Warwick, United Kingdom)
Symposium
Novel mechanisms of acute lung injury
Chair(s): H. Wirtz (Leipzig, Germany), J.H.J. Vernooy (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Oral Presentation
Impact of traffic-related pollution on children's lungs
Chair(s): K. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway), F. Midulla (Rome, Italy)
Symposium
Paediatrics and sleep apnoea/adults and upper airway stimulation
Chair(s): A. Valipour (Vienna, Austria), A. Kaditis (Piraeus, Greece)
Oral Presentation
Ceremony for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Award (supported by Actelion) followed by Clinical Year in Review II
Chair(s): M. Humbert (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), L. Richeldi (Modena, Italy), T. Hoshino (Kurume, Japan)
Session
Good quality clinical recommendations for thoracic malignancy management in Europe
Chair(s): N. Schoenfeld (Berlin, Germany), J-P. Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Symposium
Update on Tallinn summit: health inequalities in Europe
Chair(s): K.F. Rabe (Großhansdorf, Germany), M. Decramer (Leuven, Belgium), F. Blasi (Milan, Italy)
Symposium
ERS Romain Pauwels Research Award Ceremony (supported by GlaxoSmithKline) followed by the Hot Topic "The nerves are back!"
Chair(s): S. Bonini (Rome, Italy), M. Lommatzsch (Rostock, Germany)
Hot topics
Pros and cons of MDR- and XDR-TB treatment
Chair(s): G. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), K. Dheda (Cape Town, South Africa)
Oral Presentation
Acute exacerbation in COPD
Chair(s): C. Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany), O.C. Burghuber (Vienna, Austria)
Oral Presentation
Exhaled biomarkers to assess airway inflammation
Chair(s): S. Loukides (Athens, Greece), I. Pavord (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Oral Presentation
New insights in the pathology of lung cancer
Chair(s): A. Fisseler-Eckhoff (Wiesbaden, Germany), F. Gamarra (Munich, Germany)
Oral Presentation
Paediatric respiratory epidemiology. Wheeze: where, how and why?
Chair(s): B. Karadag (Umraniye Istanbul, Turkey), B. Spycher (Bern, Switzerland)
Poster Discussion
Lung injury, respiratory muscles and mechanical ventilation
Chair(s): S. Orfanos (Haïdari (Athens), Greece), L. Heunks (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Poster Discussion
Diagnosis and biology of malignant pleural effusions