Epidemiology / Environment
Infection
Paediatric
PG1 Postgraduate Course
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - FULLY BOOKED
Clinical
Translational
An update in assessment and treatment
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €220 on site, €200 standard or €155 for early bird registration.
Aims : Access educational materials here
To discuss the burden of chronic obstructive lung diseases; to explain the approaches used to assess airways function in these diseases, to provide an update on the mechanisms and treatment of exacerbations, to describe how deeper phenotyping of asthma and COPD will lead to more effective treatment of these diseases.
Target audience :
Trainee, Student, Allergologist, Allied health professional, Clinician, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Immunologist, Paediatrician, Pulmonologist
Chairs
I. Pavord
Oxford (Oxfordshire)
(United Kingdom)
09:30
The burden of obstructive lung diseases
A. Lindberg(Boden, Sweden)
COI
1
39
10:00
Monitoring asthma: state-of-the-art physiological, imaging, and biomarker assessments
O. Usmani(London, United Kingdom)
COI
2
40
10:30
Group assignment
3
41
11:30
Asthma phenotypes
S. Wenzel(Pittsburgh, United States)
COI
5
43
12:00
COPD phenotypes
C. Brightling(Leicester (Leicestershire), United Kingdom)
COI
6
48
12:30
Group assignment
7
45
14:00
Monitoring COPD: state-of-the-art physiological, imaging, and biomarker assessments
R. Buhl(Mainz, Germany)
COI
9
47
14:30
The future: treating specific endotypes
P. Barnes(London, United Kingdom)
COI
10
52
15:00
Group assignment
11
49
16:00
Exacerbations of obstructive lung disease
N. Krug(Hannover, Germany)
COI
13
51
16:30
Asthma exacerbations in children: the paediatrician’s view
B. Rottier(Groningen, Netherlands)
COI
14
44
17:00
Group assignment
15
53
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