CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
Room E Session 140 10:45 - 12:45
Symposium: ERS and tuberculosis
2016 highlights (followed by WHO/ERS Document ceremony)
Aims : This symposium will highlight some of the core achievement in Tuberculosis prevention and control. The focus will be on
tuberculosis projects which involved ERS.
Specific objectives are to inform the audience about the new ATS guidelines (which had been developed in collaboration with ERS) and
the requisite that new treatment regimens for TB need to have (Target Product Profiles-TPPs- as developed by WHO). During the session
the new WHO document on new anti-TB regimens TPPs will be officially launched. Furthermore, the results of the WHO LTBI
implementation plan and of the WHO/ERS digital health projects will be presented.
Track(s) : Infection
Target audience : Allied health professional, Clinician, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Fellow, Junior member, Microbiologist,
Nurse, Paediatrician, Patient, Public health official, Pulmonologist, Trainee, TB specialist, Scientist, Respiratory physician, Researcher
Chairs : Giovanni Battista Migliori (Varese, Italy), Mario C. Raviglione (Geneva, Switzerland)
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER, 2016
10:45
11:10
11:35
12:00
12:25
The new ATS and ERS TB treatment guidelines
Payam Nahid (San Francisco, United States of America)
The new WHO TPPs (Target Product Profiles) for new TB treatment regimens
Christian Lienhardt (Marseille, France)
Scaling-up global implementation of LTBI management: a paradigm shift needed
Haileyesus Getahun (Genève, Switzerland)
Motivating TB patients via mobiles: today's evidence and tomorrow's
Dennis Falzon (Genève, Switzerland)
ERS Tuberculosis working group
Ivan Solovic (Vysne Hagy, Slovakia)
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426
427
428
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12:45 Ceremony for ERS/WHO Document 430
Prince Regent Room Session 141 10:45 - 12:45
Symposium: New statement on pulmonary rehabilitation
Aims : The main aim of this session is to describe the key developments in pulmonary rehabilitation since the 2013 ATS/ERS statement
on pulmonary rehabilitation.
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Allied health professional, Cardiologist, Clinician, Fellow, General practitioner, Nurse, Occupational therapist,
Physiologist, Physiotherapist, Psychologist, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Respiratory physician, Scientist, Social worker
Chairs : Daniel Langer (Leuven, Belgium), Enrico Maria Clini (Pavullo, Italy)
10:45
11:15
11:45
Pulmonary rehabilitation: a summary of the 2016 ATS/ERS policy statement
Carolyn Rochester (New Haven, United States of America)
How to assess the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation?
Martijn A. Spruit (Horn, Netherlands)
Pulmonary rehabilitation in non-COPD: it is time to start referring!
Chris Burtin (Diepenbeek, Belgium)
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432
433
12:15
Pulmonary rehabilitation: home alone?
Takanobu Shioya (Akita, Japan)
Room L Session 142 10:45 - 12:45
Session: ERS-ALAT-SBPT-SEPAR-SPP joint session: Spanish and Portuguese Session II
Aims : The aims of this session are to discuss key issues in respiratory medicine, providing the opportunity to hear about the latest
scientific developments. Note that the presentations will be conducted in Spanish, Portuguese or English with dual projection of slides in
Spanish/Portuguese and English.
Chairs : Andrés Palomar Lever (Mexico, Mexico), Venceslau José Coelho Pinto Hespanhol
(Porto, Portugal)
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10:45
Introduction by the Presidents
Andrés Palomar Lever (Mexico, Mexico), Venceslau José Coelho Pinto Hespanhol
(Porto, Portugal)
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