CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
DETAILED PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 06 SEPTEMBER, 2016
Track(s) : Infection
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Immunologist, Microbiologist, Patient, Public health official, Pulmonologist,
Researcher, Resident, Student, TB specialist, Trainee
Chairs : Graham H. Bothamley (London, United Kingdom), Christoph Lange (Borstel, Germany)
08:30
09:00
09:30
Impact of next generation sequencing on rapid drug resistance testing in MDR-TB
Stefan Niemann (Borstel, Germany)
Novel drug regimens against MDR-TB
Andreas Henri Diacon (Tygerberg, South Africa)
Host directed therapies against MDR-TB
Markus Maeurer (Stockholm, Sweden)
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10:00
MDR-TB in Eastern Europe: new public health interventions
Dennis Falzon (Genève, Switzerland)
Prince Regent Room Session 520 08:30 - 10:30
Hot topics: Obesity and respiratory diseases
Aims : Obesity is a disorder that is characterised by low-grade chronic systemic inflammation. It associates with respiratory comorbidities
and is a rapidly evolving field. Recent new insights into pathophysiology and treatments are improving our approach in this area. The
recent increase in obesity prevalence, especially in developed countries, is considered to be a pandemic: the WHO estimates that over one
billion people worldwide are overweight and, of those, around 300 million are obese. This is double the prevalence that was recorded 20
years ago. Obesity is thus an emerging critical health problem. Awareness of this problem should be increased, and prevention and
management should be improved. This session highlights important current controversies in obesity and respiratory comorbidities and
their management and treatment.
Track(s) : Physiology Sleep
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Allied health professional, Anaesthesiologist, Cardiologist, Clinician, Educationalist, Fellow, General practitioner,
Intensivist/critical care physician, Junior member, Lung function technician, Nurse, Physiologist, Physiotherapist, Pulmonologist,
Resident, Respiratory physician, Respiratory therapist, Scientist, Sleep specialist/technologist, Student
Chairs : Emiel F. M. Wouters (MAASTRICHT, Netherlands), Bartolome R. Celli (Boston, United States of America)
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08:30
09:00
09:30
Asthma and obesity
Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Obesity: a comorbidome of COPD
Miguel Divo (Boston, United States of America)
Cardiovascular risk and sleep disordered breathing: what’s up?
Fernando Eduardo Barbe Illa (Lleida, Spain)
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3275
10:00
Effects of bariatric surger: oxygen- and postural-induced pulmonary changes:
Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin (BARCELONA, Spain)
Room L Session 521 08:30 - 10:30
Symposium: Urban air pollution and human health
Aims : The aim of this session is to summarise the latest knowledge on how climate changes affect the air composition and hence directly
influence lung function, lung physiology, and lung pathophysiology. The audience will become aware of the impact the worsening course
of global warming will have on human respiratory health. Physicians dedicated to protecting human life from the greatest threat to health
and survival will describe the health impacts of continued fossil fuel use and pollution, and how to guarantee a livable world for future
generations.
Track(s) : Epidemiology / Environment
Tag(s) : Translational, Healthy Lungs for Life (HLfL)
Target audience : Allergologist, Clinician, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Immunologist, Junior member, Lung function
technician, Nurse, Occupational therapist, Oncologist, Patient, Physiotherapist, Public health official, Pulmonologist, Researcher,
Resident, Social worker, Student, Trainee
Chairs : Christian Taube (Leiden, Netherlands), Stephen T. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)
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08:30
Effects of inhalants altered by climate change: the role of controlled human exposure studies
Chris Carlsten (Vancouver, Canada)
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