Programme Respiratory medicine update 27 January 2015

Programme
Respiratory medicine update
27 January 2015
Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE
Programme organiser: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
09.15
Registration and coffee
09.55
Welcome and opening remarks
Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
Session 1: Recent treatment advances in lung disease
Chair: Dr Rachel Hoyles, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
10.00
Pulmonary hypertension - new therapies
Dr Martin Johnson, Edinburgh
10.30
IPF - pirfenidone and beyond
Dr Rachel Hoyles, Churchill Hospital, Oxford
11.00
Coffee
Session 2: 21st Century respiratory medicine - new treatment approaches
Chair: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
11.20
Pleural disease - ambulatory management
Dr Nick Maskell
11.50
Asthma in 2015 - broadening horizons
Liza Franchi, patient
12.20
Severe asthma - what to do now, what's coming up
Professor Liam Heaney, Queen’s University Belfast
12.50
Lunch
Session 3: Lung disease - some thorny issues
Chair: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
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13.50
TB - the epidemic continues
Dr Marc Lipman, Royal Free Hospital, London
14.20
Sleep apnoea - troubleshooting difficult cases
Dr Sophie West, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
14.50
Occupational outbreaks - novel approaches to old and new causes
Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
15.20
Tea
Session 4: Chronic lung disease - optimising patient care
Chair: Dr Charlotte Bolton, University of Nottingham
15.40
COPD care in the 21st Century
Dr Charlotte Bolton, University of Nottingham
16.10
Bronchiectasis - who should be getting prophylactic antibiotics?
Dr Simon Range, University Hospitals of Leciester
16.40
Closing remarks by the Chair
16.45
Close of conference