Amsterdam 2015 ERS International Congress Programme

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by  Olivia Menegale

Amsterdam 2015
ERS International Congress Programme
Education and Scientific sessions organised by ERS
Valid as per 11 June 2015 (note that all faculty are not confirmed yet)

Saturday 26 September 2015

Educational skills workshop: EW1 Inhaler techniques - train the trainer
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room L001 (Amtrium) Session 08:00-10:20
Aims: To provide participants with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to demonstrate the use of inhalation devices and to coach and teach
patients effectively. <br>Workstation 1: Overview of different types of models and how they function.</br> <br>Workstation 2: This
workstation will provide the participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to guide and train a patient to successfully use an
inhaler.</br> <br>Workstation 3: An overview will be given of how inhalers perform in real life scenarios. Patient's preferences and views on
which inhalers are most practical to use will be discussed.</br> <br>Workstation 4: This workstation will teach participants how to
successfully administer medication and how to avoid commons mistakes.</br>
Tracks: Physiology
Target audience: Nurses, technologists, clinicians, fellows, physiologists and pharmacists.
Registration for this workshop is additional to the congress registration fee and is €85 or €65 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium)
Introduction
Workstation 1: Inhalation devices
Eric Derom (Gent, Belgium)
Workstation 2: How to train a patient
Job van der Palen (Enschede, Netherlands)
Workstation 3: Inhaler techniques
Marit Leine (Røyse, Norway)
Workstation 4: Medication
Frans H.C. de Jongh (Enschede, Netherlands)

Educational skills workshop: EW2 Research bronchoscopies
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room L002 (Amtrium) Session 08:00-10:20
Aims: Bronchoscopy is widely used for sampling biological material used for research tools. This workshop will provide practical skills for
clinical and research purposes. Previous experience in this field is not required to attend. <br>Workstation 1: The indications and procedures
useful to start up a protocol involving research bronchoscopies will be identified. Selection of individuals (patients and control subjects)
informed consent, safety procedures, technical issue in obtaining bronchoscopic samples such as bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and bronchial
biopsies will be illustrated.</br> <br>Workstation 2: The steps of the BAL processing will be discussed, from the collection to the preparation
of cytological smears, and to the preparation of further analysis of cells and solutes contained in BAL.</br> <br>Workstation 3: The steps of
bronchial tissue collection and preparation, the processing procedures for tissue fixation, tissue embedding, tissue blocks inclusion, cutting and
staining will be demonstrated. Immunohistochemical applications and evaluation of tissue immunostaining will be presented and discussed.
</br> <br>Workstation 4: Participants will be briefed on the different cytological and histological patterns obtained from bronchoscopic
samples. A practical approach on how to categorise samples, to quantify inflammatory cells and biomarkers and how to use the results for
clinical and research purposes will be illustrated.</br>
Target audience: Allergologists, allied health professionals, clinicians, fellows, immunologists, junior members, nurses, paediatricians,
pathologists, patients, pharmaceutical industry representatives, pulmonologists, researchers, residents, respiratory physicians, scientists,
students and thoracic endoscopists.
Registration for this workshop is additional to the congress registration fee and is €85 or €65 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Guy F Joos (Gent, Belgium)
Introduction
Workstation 1: How to perform research bronchoscopy
Fabio L. M. Ricciardolo (Orbassano (Turin), Italy)
Workstation 2: How to process bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
Pascal Chanez (Marseille, France)
Workstation 3: Preparation and processing of bronchial biopsies
Antonino Di Stefano (Veruno, Italy)
Workstation 4: Microscopical examination of BAL and bronchial biopsies
Thais Mauad (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Postgraduate course: PG1 Spirometry – train the trainer
HERMES Spirometry training programme
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room G104-105 (Europe Foyer) Session 09:00-17:15
Aims: To provide participants with the knowledge and tools to teach high quality spirometry and to provide the necessary training for those
who would like to train and certify participants for the European Spirometry Driving Licence Part 1 and Part 2 within Europe.
Tracks: Physiology
Target audience: All those interested in learning how to train others in spirometry, including pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, respiratory
physicians, general practitioners, nurses, and lung function technologists/scientists. The ERS Spirometry train-the-trainer programme is also
aimed at those who would like to become directors or instructors of the European Spirometry Driving License training.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €180 or €150 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Irene Steenbruggen (Zwolle, Netherlands), Brendan Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
09:00 Welcome and introduction to the course
Odile Van Eck (Waalre, Netherlands)
09:40 Overview of the European Spirometry Driving License training programmes
Brendan Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Irene Steenbruggen (Zwolle, Netherlands)
10:10 Principles of teaching and learning
Walther N. K. A. van Mook (Maastricht, Netherlands)
10:50 Break
11:10 European Spirometry Driving Licence specific teaching and training
Julie Lloyd (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
11:40 Practical session on presentation and facilitation skills
Vera Habes (Ultrecht, Netherlands), Odile Van Eck (Waalre, Netherlands)
12:10 Presentation from participants
12:50 Lunch
13:50 Providing effective feedback
Walther N. K. A. van Mook (Maastricht, Netherlands)
14:30 Discussion and feedback practical session
Vera Habes (Ultrecht, Netherlands), Odile Van Eck (Waalre, Netherlands)
15:10 Break
15:40 Principles of assessment
Walther N. K. A. van Mook (Maastricht, Netherlands)
16:10 Assessment of the European Spirometry Driving Licence programme
Julie Lloyd (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
16:50 Organising a European spirometry training programme
Felip Burgos Rincon (Barcelona, Spain)
17:05 Evaluation

Session: China Day "Advances in pulmonology" I
Advances in airway disease diagnosis and management
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room Forum (Forum) Session 09:00-13:00
Aims: Session organised in collaboration with the Chinese Thoracic Society. Leading specialists from China will share the stage with ERS
leadership to discuss key issues in respiratory medicine, providing the opportunity to hear about the latest scientific developments in Chinese.
This meeting is designed to update respiratory professionals on the latest developments in the respiratory field. Headsets and translated slides
will be used to provide translations of the full session. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion after the presentations. There
will be simultaneous translation from English to Mandarin and slides will be shown with Chinese script.
Target audience: The session is aimed at specialists in respiratory medicine from China.
Chairs: Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Chen Wang (Beijing, China)
09:00 Tobacco control: the most feasible and challenging way for disease prevention in China
Chen Wang (Beijing, China)
09:30 Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome?
Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
10:00 Small airway disorders in COPD
Nanshan Zhong (Guangzhou, China)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 COPD and comorbidity: common pathways of accelerated ageing
Peter J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)
11:30 Asthma in China: current and future challenges
Huahao Shen (Shanghai, China)
12:00 Advances in COPD management
Jørgen Vestbo (Manchester, United Kingdom)
12:30 COPD community-based prevention and management
Speaker to be confirmed
13:00 Lunch

Postgraduate course: PG4 Multidisciplinary approach to noninvasive ventilation (NIV)
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 5.2 (Hall 5) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To indicate the NIV treatment options in various clinical settings. These treatments will be discussed in the context of the perspectives of
the clinical subspecialists and nurses who are involved in treating patients with NIV.
Tracks: Intensive care Sleep Paediatric
Target audience: Adult and paediatric pulmonologists, somnologists, respiratory care specialists, adult and paediatric intensive care specialists,
nurses, respiratory therapists, fellows, and residents.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Paolo Navalesi (Vercelli, Italy), Cesare Gregoretti (Turin, Italy)
09:30 Sleep studies for assessing abnormal events during NIV
Jesus Gonzalez (Montlignon, France)
10:15 NIV in the ICU: when to start and when to end
Stefano Nava (Bologna, Italy)
11:00 Break
11:30 NIV in the paediatric patient with acute respiratory insufficiency
Paola Papoff (Rome, Italy)
12:15 The importance of staff training in NIV
Alanna Hare (London, United Kingdom)

Postgraduate course: PG5 Treatment of emphysema
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological options for hyperinflated lungs
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room D203-204 (Elicium) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: Hyperinflation and emphysema are COPD phenotypes that require special attention. The available treatment modalities will be presented
and the possible algorithms will be discussed.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, respiratory therapists, respiratory physicians, clinical researchers, radiologists, fellows, and
residents.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Pallav L Shah (London, United Kingdom), Lowie Vanfleteren (Horn, Netherlands)
09:30 The burden of emphysema
Klaus Friedrich Rabe (Grosshansdorf, Germany)
10:15 Hyperinflation and exercise – how to implement physical activity
Thierry Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
11:00 Break
11:30 Single, double, or triple inhalers: the value of the drugs
Peter M.A. Calverley (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
12:15 Toys or tools – the role of interventional procedures
Felix J.F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)

Postgraduate course: PG6 Cell-matrix dynamics in lung injury and repair
Focusing on epithelial cells, immune cells, and interstitial cells
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room G109 (Europe Foyer) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To review the cell-matrix interactions that occur in response to chronic injury and during repair and lung tissues remodelling, with a
specific focus on the interactions that involve epithelial, immune and interstitial cells. These interactions play crucial roles in the outcome of
different types of lung tissue injuries.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, respiratory physicians, respiratory therapists, clinical and basic researchers, thoracic surgeons, pulmonary
oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and trainees.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Silke Meiners (Munich, Germany), Christian M. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria)
09:30 Introduction
Silke Meiners (Munich, Germany), Christian M. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria)
09:35 Role of epithelial cells
Melanie Koenigshoff (Munich, Germany)
10:15 Role of immune cells
Joanna Domagala-Kulawik (Warsaw, Poland)
10:55 Break
11:30 Role of fibroblasts
Martin Kolb (Hamilton, Canada)
12:10 Role of the matrix
Eric White (Ann Arbor, United States of America)
12:50 A global viewpoint
Silke Meiners (Munich, Germany), Christian M. Kaehler (Innsbruck, Austria)

Postgraduate course: PG7 Basic respiratory mechanics
Models, measurements, and uses in clinical practice
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room E104-106 (E Area) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: The mechanics of breathing is best described in terms of airways resistance and lung compliance. However, these measurements are not
readily available in clinical practice and instead clinicians must focus on the indirect information available from spirometry. The great
advantage of spirometry is its known immediate reproducibility and limited between-test variation in both healthy and diseased settings. These
properties, coupled with its extensive use in clinical decision making, ensure that spirometry will be used to manage respiratory disease for the
foreseeable future. One particular advantage of spirometry is the availability of age- and height-related normal values against which any
recording can be judged. This PG course on basic respiratory mechanics will help clinicians to better understand and interpret lung function test
results.
Tracks: Physiology
Target audience: Pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, respiratory physicians, clinical researchers, general practitioners, research fellows,
nurses, and trainees.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Michael Polkey (London, United Kingdom), Samuel Verges (Grenoble, France)
09:30 Modelling respiratory mechanics: a multi-scale approach
Jason H.T. Bates (Burlington, United States of America)
10:15 Measuring respiratory mechanics: invasive and noninvasive systems
Andrea Aliverti (Milan, Italy)
11:00 Break
11:30 Using respiratory mechanics to explain and interpret spirometry
John Gibson (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
12:15 Using respiratory mechanics to study exercise limitation in disease
Lee Romer (Uxbridge, United Kingdom)

Postgraduate course: PG8 Airway and lung fibrosis
How epigenetic changes affect fibroblasts and novel therapeutic approaches
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room E103 (E Area) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To describe the key challenges and features of lung fibrosis; to discuss how epigenetic changes such as miRNAs can affect fibroblast
development and function; to compare the progress made in understanding lung fibrosis to the advances made in elucidating the role of fibrosis
in liver disease; and to demonstrate how these advances in science will lead to the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, emergency medicine doctors, respiratory physicians, clinical researchers, general practitioners, research
fellows, basic scientists, intensivists, nurses, pathologists, and trainees.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Bruno Balbi (Veruno, Italy), Charles Pilette (Brussels, Belgium)
09:30 Pulmonary fibrosis: key features and challenges
Elisabetta Renzoni (London, United Kingdom)
10:15 MicroRNAs in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis
Ivana V. Yang (Denver, United States of America)
11:00 Break
11:30 Resolution of liver fibrosis
John Iredale (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
12:15 Future clinical perspectives
Oliver Eickelberg (Munich, Germany)

Postgraduate course: PG9 Lower respiratory tract infection in children
Evaluation and management
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room E102 (E Area) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To show how to diagnose and manage common and uncommon lower respiratory tract infections in children.
Tracks: Paediatric Infection
Target audience: Pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, respiratory physicians, clinical researchers, research fellows, and intensivists.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Jonathan Grigg (London, United Kingdom), Ernst Eber (Graz, Austria)
09:30 Evaluation of the child with recurrent chest infections
Mark Everard (Perth, Australia)
10:15 Management and prevention of non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
Alexander Möller (Zurich, Switzerland)
11:00 Break
11:30 Acute bronchiolitis – prevention, diagnosis, and new approaches to management
Fabio Midulla (Rome, Italy)
12:15 Uncommon lower respiratory infections in childhood
Vas Novelli (London, United Kingdom)

Postgraduate course: PG10 Malignant pleural effusion management
From standard cytopathology to molecular biology
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 13.2 (Hall 13) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To understand the new roles that molecular biology and histo-/cytopathology play in the diagnosis and management (treatment and
prognosis) of malignant pleural effusions, and how to use these techniques (processing and data interpretation) in clinical practice.
Tracks: Oncology
Target audience: Trainees, pulmonary physicians, thoracic surgeons, pathologists, molecular biologists, and scientists.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Philippe Astoul (Marseille, France), Marcin Skrzypski (Sopot, Poland)
09:30 Which material in which disease?
Sebastian Fernandez Bussy (Santiago, Chile)
10:15 How to send your material to pathology
Philipp A. Schnabel (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
11:00 Break
11:30 Interpretation of the results in the clinic
Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France)
12:15 Atypical mesothelial hyperplasia and other pitfalls in MPE diagnosis
Françoise Galateau-Salle (Caen, France)

Postgraduate course: PG11 Emerging infectious diseases and pandemic planning
PREPARE FP7 EU-funded project
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room D201-202 (Elicium) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To provide participants with an essential up-to-the minute guide to handling emerging pandemic threats; to describe the key lessons that
should be learnt from the Ebola and influenza epidemics; to detail the role of antivirals; and to provide an update regarding current trials in
pandemic management.
Tracks: Infection
Target audience: Respiratory physicians, intensivists, microbiologists, allied health professionals, scientists, primary care and public health
teams, and PREPARE EU project team members.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €120 or €90 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Anita Simonds (London, United Kingdom), Stefano Aliberti (Milan, Italy)
09:30 Emerging pathogens: what's new, what's next?
speaker to be confirmed
10:15 Ebola: challenges for public health – what have we learnt?
Marion Koopmans (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
11:00 Break
11:30 Preventing the next influenza pandemic
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
12:15 Antiviral therapy – the evidence base and clinical trials
speaker to be confirmed

Postgraduate course: PG2 Asthma and COPD
Updates in assessment and treatment
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 5.1 (Hall 5) Session 09:30-17:30
Aims: To discuss the problems associated with obstructive lung diseases on the basis of experience and the published literature.
Target audience: Paediatric and adult pulmonologists, epidemiologists, health professionals, public health physicians, and scientists interested
in the aetiology and prevention of lung disease.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €180 or €150 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom), Marielle Pijnenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
09:30 The burden of obstructive lung diseases
Anne Lindberg (Boden, Sweden)
10:15 Monitoring asthma – state-of-the-art physiological, imaging, and biomarker assessments
Omar Usmani (London, United Kingdom)
11:00 Break
11:30 Monitoring COPD – state-of-the-art physiological, imaging, and biomarker assessments
Roland Buhl (Mainz, Germany)
12:15 Asthma exacerbations in children: the paediatrician’s view
Bart Rottier (Groningen, Netherlands)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Asthma phenotypes
Sally Wenzel (Pittsburgh, United States of America)
14:45 COPD phenotypes
Christopher E. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom)
15:30 Break
16:00 Exacerbations of obstructive lung disease
Norbert Krug (Hannover, Germany)
16:45 The future: treating specific endotypes
Peter J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)

Postgraduate course: PG3 Cardiorespiratory monitoring in critically ill patients
Physiological principles of monitoring. Linked to the educational skills workshops EW7, EW9
and EW11.
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room G106-107 (Europe Foyer) Session 09:30-17:30
Aims: To analyse the fundamental concepts of monitoring, such as accuracy, precision, signal-to-noise ratio, and possible sources of error; to
promote understanding of the underlying physiological principles of each monitoring system; and to apply these concepts to clinical situations
in simulated scenarios.
Tracks: Intensive care
Target audience: Consultant physicians in the pulmonary, critical care and anaesthesiology fields, residents in training, medical students,
nurses, and respiratory therapists.
Registration for this course is additional to the congress registration fee and is €180 or €150 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain), David A. Kaufman (Charlottesville, United States of
America)
09:30 Introduction to monitoring
Amal Jubran (Hines, United States of America)
10:05 Monitoring gas exchange
David A. Kaufman (Charlottesville, United States of America)
10:40 Respiratory mechanics 1: physiological bases of monitoring airway pressures during
mechanical ventilation
Laurent Brochard (Toronto, Canada)
11:15 Break
11:45 Respiratory mechanics 2: oesophageal manometry and interactions between the patient and the
ventilator
Paolo Pelosi (Milan, Italy)
12:20 Patient-ventilator asynchrony: diagnosis and treatment
Lluís Blanch (Sabadell, Spain)
12:55 Lunch
13:55 Monitoring during non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
Raffaele Scala (Arezzo, Italy)
14:30 Physiological basis of monitoring with central venous and pulmonary artery catheters and their
clinical use
Antonio Artigas (Sabadell (Barcelona), Spain)
15:05 Cardiopulmonary interactions: functional haemodynamic monitoring
Jean-Louis Teboul (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
15:40 Break
16:10 Cardiovascular monitoring during resuscitation: between physiology and pragmatism
Daniel De Backer (Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium)
16:45 How to use monitoring data to make wise clinical decisions
Martin J. Tobin (Hines, United States of America)

Session: Primary Care Programme
Management of COPD and other respiratory conditions in clinical practice
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 4.1 (Hall 4) Session 09:30-13:00
Aims: To provide the latest insights into and evidence for the diagnosis and management of respiratory symptoms and diseases in the primary
care setting.
Target audience: Clinicians, GPs, family physicians, pulmonary specialists, allied respiratory professionals, and respiratory patient
representatives.
Chairs: Bjorn Stallberg (Uppsala, Sweden), Persijn Honkoop (Leiden, Netherlands), Hilary Pinnock (Edinburgh,
United Kingdom), Janwillem Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands)
09:30 Breathlessness: the patient's experience
Dominique Hamerlijnck (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
09:45 Breathlessness: respiratory, cardiac, or something else?
Jaime Correia de Sousa (Porto, Portugal)
10:15 Breathlessness: a physiotherapist's approach to management
Margareta Emtner (Uppsala, Sweden)
10:45 Wheezing infants: a practical primary care approach?
Fernando D. Martinez (Tucson, United States of America)
11:15 Break
11:30 Coughing children: what is normal and when to worry
Iain Small (Peterhead, United Kingdom)
12:00 Chronic cough in adults: causes and management
Alyn Hugh Morice (Cottingham, United Kingdom)
12:30 Wheeze and obstructive symptoms in adults: asthma or COPD or asthma/COPD overlap
syndrome?
Niels Chavannes (Leiden, Netherlands)

Session: Russia Day: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 13.1 (Hall 13) Session 09:30-11:15
Aims: Session organised in collaboration with the Russian Respiratory Society. The aims of the sessions are to discuss the epidemiology,
diagnosis, and management of lung diseases in adults and children. This session will be translated into Russian.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, GPs, paediatricians, and laboratory diagnostics specialists.
Chairs: Alexander Sinopalnikov (Moscow, Russian Federation), Tobias Welte (Hannover, Germany)
09:30 Epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Antoni Torres Marti (Barcelona, Spain)
10:00 CAP management algorithm
Alexander G. Chuchalin (Moscow, Russian Federation)
10:30 Panel discussion
11:00 Coffee break

Educational skills workshop: EW3 Inhaler techniques - train the trainer
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room L001 (Amtrium) Session 10:40-13:00
Aims: To provide participants with the knowledge, skills and tools needed to demonstrate the use of inhalation devices and to coach and teach
patients effectively. <br>Workstation 1: Overview of different types of models and how they function.</br> <br>Workstation 2: This
workstation will provide the participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to guide and train a patient to successfully use an
inhaler.</br> <br>Workstation 3: An overview will be given of how inhalers perform in real life scenarios. Patient's preferences and views on
which inhalers are most practical to use will be discussed.</br> <br>Workstation 4: This workstation will teach participants how to
successfully administer medication and how to avoid commons mistakes.</br>
Tracks: Physiology
Target audience: Nurses, technologists, clinicians, fellows, physiologists and pharmacists.
Registration for this workshop is additional to the congress registration fee and is €85 or €65 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Marit Leine (Røyse, Norway)
Introduction

Workstation 1: Inhalation devices
Daniel Schuermans (Brussels, Belgium)
Workstation 2: How to train a patient
Georgia Narsavage (Morgantown, United States of America)
Workstation 3: Inhaler techniques
Titia Klemmeier-Boekhout (Bedum, Netherlands)
Workstation 4: Medication
Mike Thomas (Southampton, United Kingdom)

Educational skills workshop: EW4 Research bronchoscopies
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room L002 (Amtrium) Session 10:40-13:00
Aims: Bronchoscopy is widely used for sampling biological material used for research tools. This workshop will provide practical skills for
clinical and research purposes. Previous experience in this field is not required to attend. <br>Workstation 1: The indications and procedures
useful to start up a protocol involving research bronchoscopies will be identified. Selection of individuals (patients and control subjects)
informed consent, safety procedures, technical issue in obtaining bronchoscopic samples such as bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and bronchial
biopsies will be illustrated.</br> <br>Workstation 2: The steps of the BAL processing will be discussed, from the collection to the preparation
of cytological smears, and to the preparation of further analysis of cells and solutes contained in BAL.</br> <br>Workstation 3: The steps of
bronchial tissue collection and preparation, the processing procedures for tissue fixation, tissue embedding, tissue blocks inclusion, cutting and
staining will be demonstrated. Immunohistochemical applications and evaluation of tissue immunostaining will be presented and discussed.
</br> <br>Workstation 4: Participants will be briefed on the different cytological and histological patterns obtained from bronchoscopic
samples. A practical approach on how to categorise samples, to quantify inflammatory cells and biomarkers and how to use the results for
clinical and research purposes will be illustrated.</br>
Target audience: Allergologists, allied health professionals, clinicians, fellows, immunologists, junior members, nurses, paediatricians,
pathologists, patients, pharmaceutical industry representatives, pulmonologists, researchers, residents, respiratory physicians, scientists,
students and thoracic endoscopists.
Registration for this workshop is additional to the congress registration fee and is €85 or €65 for the early bird registration.
Chairs: Guy F Joos (Gent, Belgium)
Introduction

Workstation 1: How to perform research bronchoscopy
Adam Barczyk (Katowice, Poland)
Workstation 2: How to process bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)
Rene Lutter (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Workstation 3: Preparation and processing of bronchial biopsies
Susan Jane Wilson (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Workstation 4: Microscopical examination of BAL and bronchial biopsies
Jon Ward (Southampton, United Kingdom)

Session: Russia Day: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room 13.1 (Hall 13) Session 11:15-12:45
Aims: Session organised in collaboration with the Russian Respiratory Society. The aims of this session are to discuss the epidemiology,
diagnosis, and management of lung diseases in children. This session will be translated from English to Russian.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, GPs, paediatricians, and laboratory diagnostics specialists.
Chairs: Liudmila Kozlova (Smolensk, Russian Federation), Matti Korppi (Tampere, Finland)
11:15 Scientific and practical program “CAP in children” (clinical recommendations for Russia and
CIS countries)
Natalya Geppe (Moscow, Russian Federation)
11:45 Pneumonia and smoking in children (TITLE TO BE CONFIRMED)
Elif Dagli (Istanbul, Turkey)
12:15 Panel discussion
12:45 Lunch break

HERMES examination: Adult and Paediatric respiratory medicine examinations
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Session 12:00-17:30
Aims: The HERMES Examinations are in line with the ERS commitment to achieving the highest possible standards of practice in respiratory
medicine and harmonising training across Europe. This examination will be a knowledge-based examination with multiple choice questions
(MCQ) in English. A European Diploma in Adult or Paediatric Respiratory Medicine will be conferred from the ERS Educational Activities
Department upon successful completion of this examination in the Diploma Category. The examination can also be taken as a self-assessment
or in-training assessment. Register now via MyERS The blueprint for this examination will be based on the European syllabus. This
examination is held annually under the authority of the European Respiratory Society.
Chairs: Konrad E. Bloch (Zurich, Switzerland), Robert Dinwiddie (London, United Kingdom)

Session: Fellows' Get-Together
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015
Room G102-103 (Europe Foyer) Session 13:00-17:30
Aims: MISSING
Target audience: MISSING
Chairs: Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom), Stephen T. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)

Session: Russia Day: COPD, asthma, and infection
Date: Saturday, 26 September, 2015