CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
DETAILED PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 06 SEPTEMBER, 2016
Track(s) : Epidemiology / Environment Paediatric
Tag(s) : Translational
Target audience : Allergologist, Clinician, Epidemiologist, Fellow, General practitioner, Immunologist, Junior member, Neonatologist,
Oncologist, Paediatrician, Pathologist, Patient, Physiologist, Researcher, Resident, Respiratory physician, Scientist, Student, Trainee
Chairs : Torben Sigsgaard (Århus, Denmark), Ian M. Adcock (London, United Kingdom)
14:45
15:15
15:45
Exposomics: introduction of the concept and the role of exposures from conception to adolescence and
later in adults
Michelle Plusquin (Hasselt, Belgium)
Implications of the exposome and its applicability in clinical and epidemiological studies
Stephen Rappaport (Berkeley, United States of America)
Altered DNA methylation levels in the context of exposures and respiratory disease
Erik Melén (Stockholm, Sweden)
4521
4522
4523
16:15
Intergrating genetic and epigenetic information in relation to COPD
H. Marike Boezen (Groningen, Netherlands)
Room B Session 645 14:45 - 16:45
Symposium: Transition to adult care: what we can learn from cystic fibrosis?
Aims : To highlight the important area of transition of adolescents/young persons with a chronic lung disorder from paediatric to adult
healthcare services. This age group is notoriously difficult to manage and cystic fibrosis healthcare professionals have a lot of experience
that can be applied to other chronic lung conditions. The symposium will discuss adolescent healthcare and what research has been done
and what still needs to be done to improve it. We will then concentrate on how to help the families - especially parents - to deal with th
e massive shift into adult care, focusing on psychological needs. We will then discuss rare conditions, and how best to deal with a situation
where often adult physicians have not seen cases before, or where the patient does not fit well into a specialist category. Finally we will
hear results from the joint ECFS/ERS taskforce on adult cystic fibrosis care in Europe.
Track(s) : Infection Paediatric
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Clinician, Fellow, General practitioner, Junior member, Paediatrician, Patient, Pharmaceutical industry representative,
Pulmonologist, Researcher, Resident, Respiratory physician, Scientist, Student, Trainee, Allied health professional, Nurse
Chairs : Ian Balfour-Lynn (London, United Kingdom), Susan Madge (London, United Kingdom)
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14:45
15:15
15:45
Problems of adolescent healthcare: can research help us?
Donald Payne (Nedlands, Australia)
Psychological preparation of the family
Lutz Goldbeck (Ulm, Germany)
Transition of rare pulmonary diseases
Colin Wallis (London, United Kingdom)
4525
4526
4527
16:15
Care of adults with cystic fibrosis
Francesco Blasi (Milano, MI, Italy)
Platinum Room 1+2 Session 646 14:45 - 16:45
Hot topics: Molecular phenotyping of severe asthma
the role of consortia in driving personalised medicine
Aims : To describe how severe asthma consortia have improved our knowledge of how molecular phenotypes may be linked to clinical
features; to define how severe asthma phenotypes vary across the globe; and to outline how integration of the data across consortia will
lead to better drugs for selected patients.
Tag(s) : Translational
Target audience : Allergologist, Clinician, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Immunologist, Junior member, Nurse, Paediatrician,
Pathologist, Patient, Pharmaceutical industry representative, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Resident, Respiratory physician, Scientist,
Student, Trainee
Chairs : Kian Fan Chung (London, United Kingdom), Mona Bafadhel (Oxford, United Kingdom), Salman Siddiqui (Leicester, United
Kingdom)
4528
14:45
SARP: redefining our knowledge of severe asthma
Sally Wenzel (Pittsburgh, United States of America)
4529
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