CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER, 2016
Room L Session 207 13:00 - 14:30
Lunchtime session: AJRCCM Blue Journal in 2016: a joint ERS lunchtime session
Aims : To provide deeper insights into medical publishing and to provide advice on the submission processes and how to get a paper
published.
Chairs : Meilan Han (Ann Arbor, United States of America), Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom), Peter M. A. Calverley
(Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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13:22
13:44
Highlights in critical care in AJRCCM
Laurent Brochard (Toronto, Canada)
Moving forward with asthma in AJRCCM
Fernando D. Martinez (Tucson, United States of America)
Advances in COPD and ILD AJRCCM
Meilan Han (Ann Arbor, United States of America)
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14:06
AJRCCM: towards our centenary
Wisia Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
Room A Session 208 13:00 - 14:30
Lunchtime session: Vitamin D and asthma prevention, COPD screening, and bronchoscopic lung
volume reduction in emphysema
A joint ERS-JAMA lunchtime session
Aims : The evidence that suggests high-dose prenatal vitamin D supplementation can prevent childhood asthma will be described.
Whether this evidence supports population screening or targeted case-finding to identify patients with unrecognised COPD will be
explored. The benefits and risks of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction interventions for patients with advanced emphysema will be
discussed.
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Clinician
Chairs : Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium), George O'Connor (Boston, United States of America)
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13:00
13:30
Can high-dose prenatal vitamin D supplementation prevent childhood asthma?
Hans Bisgaard (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Screening and case-finding to detect unrecognised COPD cases
Fernando J. Martinez (New York, United States of America)
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14:00
Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction interventions for severe emphysema
Frank Sciurba (Pittsburgh, United States of America)
Room B Session 209 13:00 - 14:30
Championship: 2016 Respiratory Championship
Become a champion in respiratory medicine
Aims : Watch the four teams compete in this state-of-the-art review of the major fields of respiratory medicine and give it a try yourself
by answering the questions with your mobile devices.
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Junior member, Pulmonologist, Trainee, Respiratory physician
Chairs : Konrad E. Bloch (Zürich, Switzerland), Thomas Brack (Glarus, Switzerland)
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Richard Lee (London, United Kingdom), Alexander Hicks (Romsey, United Kingdom), Laura-Jane Smith
(London, United Kingdom)
Breathcatchers
Zsófia Lázár (Budapest, Hungary), Zoltán Lohinai (Budapest, Hungary), Zsófia Laura Török (Pécs, Hungary)
Rising stars
Züleyha Kaya Bingöl (Istanbul, Turkey), Sermin Börekçi (Istanbul, Turkey), Sinem Iliaz (Istanbul, Turkey)
IT'S inspired
Robert Smyth (Dublin, Ireland), Breda Cushen (Dublin, Ireland), Mohammed Jamal Eldeen Salih Ahmed
(Galway, Ireland)
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