Program

Time	Topic	Speaker
08:00	Doors open for registration
09:15	Welcome
09:30	Oncology Subtopics: Oligometastatic NSCLC, Advanced NSCLC, Other Thoracic Tumors	Johan Vansteenkiste
10:15	Pneumonia Subtopics: PPIs and Pneumonia Risk, Diagnosis of Pneumonia, Empirical Antibiotic Therapy, Steroids in CAP, ECMO in CAP, HAP & VAP Guidelines	Mark Woodhead
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, OSA Co-Morbidities, CPAP Therapy, Non-CPAP Therapies, Obesity Hypoventilation, OSA-COPD Overlap	Walter McNicholas
15:30	Speaker's Corner – Break
16:00	Interstitial Lung Diseases	Luca Richeldi
16:45	Hot Topic: Pulmonary Imaging	Hans-Ulrich Kauczor
17:30	Speaker's Corner – Welcome Reception

Time	Topic	Speaker
08:15	Interactive Case Discussions
08:45	Short Break
09:00	Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Subtopics: Pulmonary embolism, Pulmonary hypertension	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 Non invasive Respiratory Support, QoL after Respiratory Intensive Care, New Definitions of Sepsis, ARDS a Preventable Disease?	Paolo Pelosi
11:45	Pleural Disease	Julius Janssen
12:30	Speaker's Corner – Lunch Break – ePoster Awards
13:15	Tuberculosis & Infection Subtopics: Epidemiology, Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment	Christoph Lange
14:00	Thoracic Surgery & Lung Transplantation	Gilbert Massard
14:45	Speaker's Corner – End of Congress