Friday 15 June, 2018
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Doors open for registration | |
| 09:15 | Welcome | |
| 09:30 | Tuberculosis & Infection Subtopics: Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis, Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, Pulmonary Diseases, Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis | Christoph Lange |
| 10:15 | Oncology Subtopics: Evidence-based follow-up for lung cancer, Progress in unresectable stage III NSCLC, New generations of TKI for advanced NSCLC, Immunotherapy combinations for advanced NSCLC, Progress in SCLC | Johan Vansteenkiste |
| 11:00 | Speaker's Corner – Break | |
| 11:30 | Allergy | Stephen Durham |
| 12:15 | Asthma Subtopics: Guidelines, Severe Asthma, Biomarker and Biologics | Roland Buhl |
| 13:00 | Speaker's Corner – Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 | COPD Subtopics: GOLD 2017, Pharmacotherapy, Oxygen, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, Biomarkers, Co-morbidities, Palliative Care | David M.G. Halpin |
| 14:45 | Sleep Disordered Breathing Subtopics: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome, Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome, COPD-OSA Overlap Syndrome, Chronic respiratory failure | Walter McNicholas |
| 15:30 | Speaker's Corner – Break | |
| 16:00 | Interstitial Lung Diseases | Luca Richeldi |
| 16:45 | Hot Topic: Pulmonary Imaging Subtopics: Technical advances, Airway diseases: COPD & CF, Diffuse parenchymal lung disease, Pulmonary nodules/lung cancer | Hans-Ulrich Kauczor |
| 17:30 | Update on Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Industry-sponsored Symposium) | |
| 18:15 | Welcome Reception |
Saturday 16 June, 2018
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Subtopics: Acute pulmonary embolism update, Chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension update, Pulmonary arterial hypertension, Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease | Marc Humbert |
| 09:45 | Pulmonary Endoscopy Subtopics: Diagnostic, Cryo-Biopsy, Solitary Pulmonary Nodule, Endosonography, Interventions in Obstructive Lung Diseases | Felix Herth |
| 10:30 | Speaker's Corner – Break | |
| 11:00 | Acute Respiratory Failure & Critical Care Subtopics New tools in non- invasive respiratory support, Early recognition of sepsis acute patients, ECMO and ECCO2R, QoL after acute critical illness, Humanization of cure | Paolo Pelosi |
| 11:45 | Pleural Disease Subtopics Non-specific pleuritis, Unexpandable lung, Spontaneous pneumothorax, Malignant pleural effusion, Thoracoscopy | Julius Janssen |
| 12:30 | Speaker's Corner – Lunch Break – ePoster Awards | |
| 13:15 | Pneumonia | Mark Woodhead |
| 14:00 | Thoracic Surgery & Lung Transplantation | Gilbert Massard |
| 14:45 | Speaker's Corner – End of Congress |
