2 September 2018 (Sunday)

  PROGRAMME (SYMPOSIUM ON ASTHMA AND COPD - NOW AND FUTURE)
 08:00 - 08:30

 Registration (Foyer of Meeting Room S421)  

 MEETING ROOM S421
 08:30 - 10:00  Symposium 3: Managing severe asthma: what’s new?
 A practical approach to assessment and management of difficult-to-treat asthma
 Helen Reddel (Australia)
 Treating type 2- high asthma
 Ian Pavord (UK)
 Treating non-eosinophilic asthma
 Ratko Djukanovic (UK)
 Bronchial Thermoplasty
 Mario Castro (USA)
 10:00 - 10:30  Tea Break and Exhibition
 10:30 - 12:00  Symposium 4: New developments in COPD
 Measurement of bronchodilator responses in COPD: forced oscillation and imaging
 Gregory King (Australia)
 Personalised therapy of COPD: ready for prime time
 Fernando J Martinez (USA)
 Is mild COPD worth treating?
 Fanny Ko (Hong Kong)
 Mechanisms of COPD exacerbations and their implications for treatment
 Sebastian Johnston (UK)
 CHANCELLOR ROOM
 12:00 - 13:40  Lunch symposium (sponsored by Novartis)
 Anti-IgE therapy in asthma
 Ratko Djukanovic (UK)
 Rationale for dual bronchodilator therapy in COPD
 Wisia Wedzicha (UK)
 MEETING ROOM S421
 13:45 - 15:15  Symposium 5: Battle of the titans: where do we go from here?
 Inhaled steroid for COPD
 Pro: Neil Barnes (UK)
 Con: Peter Calverley (UK)
 Rebuttal
 Trait-directed treatment of airway disease
 Pro: Ian Pavord (UK)
 Con: Wisia Wedzicha (UK)
 Rebuttal
 Moving beyond disease labels in asthma & COPD - what are the research needs?
 Helen Reddel (Australia)
 15:15 - 15:45  Tea Break and Exhibition
 15:45 - 17:15  Symposium 6: Phenotype directed treatment of COPD
 Asthma-COPD overlap
 Jorgen Vestbo (UK)
 Eosinophilic COPD
 Ian Pavord (UK)
 Individualized care for our COPD patients
 Peter Calverley (UK)
 Endobronchial lung volume reduction for COPD
 Felix Herth (Germany)