The Scientific Programme of the European Respiratory Society Congress 2011 Amsterdam

Dear Respiratory friends,

We wrote earlier about European Respiratory Society Congress 2011 which will take place at Amsterdam in September 2011.

Now we are very proud to present you the Scientific Programme created by ERS Scientific Committee, that covers novelties and most recent data presentations in Respiratory Medicine. The Advance Programme of the ERS Congress is available on:

SEE YOU IN AMSTERDAM!!!

First 6 months of Respiratory Decade

As a creator and promoter of Respiratory Decade idea and strategy, today I am proud to write several words about these first 6 months of our activity!

This blog was started on 17 December 2010 as a continuation of beautiful idea of European Respiratory Society - Year of the Lung by Professors Nikos Siafakas and Leonardo Fabbri. We tried to continue promotion of respiratory education and increasing of awareness to the lung diseases.

Alexandru CORLATEANU on ERS 2010 Congress at Barcelona

Now I want to write about our realizations:

• 36 blog posts,
• more than 11900 visualizations, 
• visitors from more than 111 countries,
• many partners and friends.

Daily we are contacted by many interested persons in our idea - Respiratory Decade, and i am sure that with your help we will realize more!

Thank you very much for appreciation and for everyday help!

In this great summer day we are proud to remind you our key principles! 

Please join us: we are open for any type of collaboration!

Thank you very much for being with us all this time!

We will keep up with our great Respiratory job!!

Malaysian Interventional Pulmonary Course: 5-7 October 2011

Dear friends, we are happy to invite you for Malaysian Interventional Pulmonary Course which will be at 5-7 October 2011!

The Department of Respiratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth   Hospital is hosting this course in collaboration with Arizona Pulmonary Specialist Group, USA. The goal of this course is to educate respiratory physicians and trainees on the principles and practice of interventional pulmonology. 

The course will focus on common pleural and tracheo-bronchial diseases.  

There will be 4 live video procedures on the second day.  

The third day will be devoted to workshop activities designed to provide participants in small groups with hands-on training. A local  faculty and an international faculty will combine their experience  and share their insight and skills with participants. 

Several manufacturers of pleuroscope, rigid bronchoscopes,  laser,  stents, EBUS and autofluorescence bronchoscope will be making their products available for evaluation and use during workshops. 

After completing this course, participants should have: 

• A working knowledge of fundamentals of interventional pulmonology, 

•  A basic understanding of indications and contraindications, 

•  Hands-on experience in rigid intubation, laser and stenting, 

•  A theoretical approach on the diagnostic techniques

Dr Richard Sue (USA) with Dr Jamalul Azizi (Malaysia)

For further details, contact: 
Dr Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman 
Head of Respiratory Department, 
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 
Malaysia. 
Tel: +6088-517420 
Email: jab.respiratori@sbh.moh.gov.my

7 Reasons to attend European Respiratory Society Congress, Amsterdam 2011

Dear friends,

as you may already know the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress will take place in Amsterdam, 24-28 September 2011. You have not decided yet whether you’ll be there or not?

So we have outlined 7 reasons why one would take part in the event this year.

1. Scientific and Educational Programmes

Tight schedule of programmes may attract your attention due to a high variety of postgraduate courses on different respiratory themes: Interventional Pulmonology, Update of phenotypes of asthma and COPD, ERS/ACCP jointly organised: evidence-based approach to advanced respiratory care, Treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea, etc. Informative lectures and interactive lectures may be very useful for your research, while participating in workshops would allow you to follow the discussion and share your opinion, which is not the least important argument. „Meet the Professor” seminars are elaborated for those interested in the exchange of ideas with leading experts in the respiratory field.

2. Personal Presentation

That would be too simple to attend the Congress and not to express yourself. That is why the next reason is sharing your work, be it a poster, or e-presentation. Probably not everyday we have an opportunity to show the results of our work and to get a feedback at the international conference of the same level.

3. Meet colleagues and friends

Being a part of community united for several days by a common aim – speak about respiratory diseases is also a great chance to meet colleagues and friends. Every year thousands of people attend the congress, and for sure one can get acquainted with interesting people or merely see old friends.

4. Press conferences

Press conferences is another point that may draw your attention if you are a mass media representative. Attending the conferences, gathering information, listening leaders of opinion in respiratory care and asking questions may be very useful for those who want to promote lung health worldwide.

 

5. HERMES examination

You can take HERMES examination in adult or paediatric respiratory medicine which was created for trainees and specialists interested in knowledge assessment according to European standards. Successful completion of the examination leads to European Diploma in Respiratory Medicine and permits be part of the HERMES Diplomates Club.

6. Exhibition

There is an activity one would like to accomplish between attending the courses and presenting the posters. Namely visiting the exhibition of world-known pharmaceutical and engineering companies, medical bookshops and technological corporations that generously offer information, materials, equipment and create a special atmosphere of international collaboration.

7. Amsterdam

And finally who would stay at ERS Congress round the clock? Certainly you would like to see the Amsterdam in all its’ autumn beauty. Therefore there would defenitely be time for city tours, excursions through historic centre with all its sights and relaxing while a canal cruise.

Pictures made by Liudmila Corlateanu.

Hopefully now you have made up your mind.

See you in Amsterdam! J

Liudmila CORLATEANU,

Press-representative for Eastern European Countries 

at ERS 2010 Barcelona

Forward to Smoke Free Society

Today is World No Tobacco Day 2011.

World Health Organization produced this video for World No Tobacco Day 2011, the theme of which is a public health treaty, the "WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control". The tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are users and ex‑users of tobacco and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the world's answer to the tobacco epidemic. Adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2003 and entered into force less than two years later, it now has more than 170 Parties, making it one of the most rapidly embraced treaties in the history of the United Nations. World No Tobacco Day 2011 highlights the critical importance of ensuring full implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

The      Framework      Convention       on        Tobacco           Control require signatories         to develop        and            disseminate       appropriate guidelines   and       take      measures          to promote tobacco cessation and            adequate          treatment          for        tobacco dependence. There      are       a number          of            different guidelines across          the world.        

Key      common           themes  in          the        guidelines          are: 

• Increased         availability         and       accessibility      of         services 
• Implementation of         comprehensive  smoking cessation programms,  combining pharmacological and non pharmacological            methods
• Delivery            of         smoking            cessation          interventions     through  healthcare services as a            cost-effective            way      to reduce mortality        and       ill-health
• Guidelines         can       help      in          clinical  practice            and treatment monitoring 
• Documentation and       monitoring        is          important.

Based on international experience, it is thought that the best results to reduce tobacco demand are obtained when various tobacco control measures are implemented TOGETHER. Therefore, the next step is to create an integrated approach. The aim of an integrated approach is to combine treatment with prevention and follow-up, to stop people starting to smoke, to encourage them to quit, maintain abstinence and to support quitters who relapse. As well as focusing on treatment, tobacco control should be combined with preventative measures and long-term follow-up.

Lets work together for Smoke Free Society!

SMOKE - The Convenient Truth [1st place Worlds Best Presentation Contest] - EP

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Unmet needs in COPD: COPD Guidelines 2011

Dear Respiratory friends,

Today I would to share with you my presentation “Unmet needs in COPD” dedicated to modern COPD guidelines. The presentation took place last week at the Congress of Internal Medicine in Chisinau, Moldova.

There can be figured 3 main parts:

•  COPD is a multifaceted disease
•  Multilateral evaluation COPD
•  Priorities in COPD management.

In my report I tried to analyse the new information extracted from different studies and highlight update from COPD guidelines. Also several slides were dedicated to the material referring to the hypothesis – potential link between BODE index classification and comorbidities in COPD patients. I will further develop and present this idea at the European Respiratory Society Congress at Amsterdam in September 2011.

Unmet needs in COPD: COPD Guidelines 2011

View more presentations from Alexandru Corlateanu.

Let me know if you are interested to get this presentation in power point format and simply email me: alexandru_corlateanu@yahoo.com.

I will be happy to get a feedback from you. Thanks!

X WORLD CONGRESS ON Sleep Apnea, Sleep respiratory disorders and snoring

May is a better sleep month! Respiratory Decade proud to invite you on X WORLD CONGRESS ON Sleep Apnea, Sleep respiratory disorders and snoring, which will take place at Rome, Italy August 27 - September 1, 2012. Read guest post by Professor of  Otolaryngology, Audiology and Phoniatrics at Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Mario FABIANI:

Dear Collegues and Friends,

I am honored to invite you to the next Congress on Sleep Apnea that the responsible Scientists in charge in the International Scientific Committee, advised by Christian Guilleminault, have decided to give us in Roma, Italy, on 2012. Developing studies about sleep apnea showed that this pathology is responsible for a wide range of serious clinical consequencies either in adults than in children, involving a large number of medical and surgical Specialties. The Congress on Sleep Apnea is the occasion every three years has the task to collect the most recent opinions and results on these various aspects. It is, therefore, our duty to call in the Congress the most prominent Scientists to offer their experience to the Participants.

Together with the efforts of maintaining a so high tradition we must warrant the high scientific quality together with the social opportunities offered by our country on natural, artistic and recreational fields.We will not miss the occasion of the forthcoming tenth World Congress to spread the knowledge of sleep apnea within those populations that are still underrepresented  among us and that instead, traditionally look to Italy and to the Mediterranean area with wide scientific interest like African and East Europeans. For doctors coming from these nations and other developing countries we will reserve particular lower conditions of subscription and prizes for original presentations.

Italy stands at the center of the western civilization area and we think that this tradition will bring a large audience of scientists from all over the world and particularly from Europe, North America and from the Latin American countries. Everybody knows that Italy is the garden of Europe with blue skies and sunny warm days, the highest mountains in Europe, erupting volcanoes, alpine lakes and beaches on 4 surrounding seas. I do not need to add much on natural beauties.

In every field we have famous protagonists. So we are proud to remember an important precursor in the field of Sleep Apnea studies, prof. Elio Lugaresi, who on 1968 published on an Italian Journal “The disorder of sleep and respiration in the Pickwick syndrome” and in 1980 the famous study on the population of the state of San Marino about “Some epidemiological data on snoring and cardio-circulatory disturbances”.

Roma will host the Tenth Congress organized by me and by prof. Oliviero Bruni under the auspices of the Italian Society of Sleep Medicine and many other scientific societies involved.  

Prof. Mario Fabiani speaks at Seoul Closing Ceremony to illustrate Roma candidacy for X WCSA

The end of August is a magical period for Roma, the streets are free from heavy car traffic as schools are closed, the time is warm but not hot, no rain, long days, people is coming back to work after the summer. In the hotels you will have all the comforts and the attentions at a price reduced at half the ordinary price as it is still considered a low season period. In the Congress facilities a full air conditioned environment is available.We are sure that the unique mix of classical antiquities, the modern stylish Italian way of life and the traditional hospitality and popular humor of Roman people would make your stay unforgettable.

Welcome to Roma in 2012 !!!!

Mario FABIANI

Professor of Otolaryngology, Audiology and Phoniatrics

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"