Meetings Calendar
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Meeting submission formForthcoming ERS Events
February 2010
- February 18-20 - Sierre - Switzerland
Hundred Years of Thorascopy: Towards New Horizons
Organisers: Société Suisse de Pneumologie - February 25-27 - Rome - Italy
Clinical Exercise Testing
Organisers: P. Palange, S. Ward and L. Puente Maestu.
Aims: To provide a comprehensive understanding of the physiological basis of exercise testing.
Course goals: Recognise the indications and the protocols used in clinical setting (i.e. incremental, constant work-rate). Discuss the clinical applications of exercise testing in lung and heart diseases. Understand the utility of exercise testing in the prescription and evaluation of rehabilitation programmes. Recognise the emerging importance of exercise testing in the prognostic setting.
March 2010
- March 8–10 – Paris – France
Paediatric Bronchoscopy – This course is now fully booked
Organiser: J. de Blic.
Course goals: This course is aimed at pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who want to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology. As a rule, two-thirds of the course is devoted to “hands-on” workshops and one-third to the theoretical aspects of bronchoscopy. The participants will have the opportunity to practice live bronchoscopy (using pigs and sheep). - March 18-20 - Rotterdam - The Netherlands
Cystic fibrosis: basic
Organisers: S. Elborn, A. Lindblad, H. Tiddens and F. Ratjen.
Aims: To give healthcare workers, who are or will be be working in a CF team, a closer multi-disciplinary approach to CF care to transition from paediatric to adult care, to promote collaboration between CF care-givers throughout Europe, to increase the number of healthcare workers with adequate knowledge and interest in CF.
- March 23–26 – Marseille – France
Thoracoscopy and Pleural Techniques – This course is now fully booked
Organiser: P. Astoul.
Course goals: This course is aimed at pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who want to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology. As a rule, two-thirds of the courses are devoted to “hands-on” workshops and one-third to the theoretical aspects of bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy. The participants will have the opportunity to practice live bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy (using pigs and sheep). The operating rooms are equipped with full video equipment. Each course is tutored by 4-6 internationally recognised experts. - March 26–28 – Estoril – Portugal
Eighth ERS Lung Science Conference
Topics include: Environment and lung disease; Smoking-related lung disease; Lung injury; Allergic lung disease; Lung development and infection; Cystic fibrosis.
April 2010
- April 15–17 – Izmir – Turkey
Occupational Respiratory Disease for the Clinician
Organisers: A. Cimrin and B. Nemery.
Aims: To improve the recognition, diagnosis and management of occupational respiratory disease.
Course goals: This course will cover practical aspects of occupational respiratory disease with a focus on: Indications; Protocols; Measurements; Data interpretation; Impact on prognosis and treatment.
May 2010
- May 7 / 7 Maggio - Cremona - Italy
Thoracoscopy over a century later / La toracoscopia cent’anni dopo
Organisers: A.O. Spedali Civili di Brescia, A.O. Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona
- May 27–29 – Borstel – Germany
Tuberculosis at Times of Emerging Drug Resistance (TB PAN-NET)
Organisers: C. Lange and G.B. Migliori.
Aims: At the end of training, participants will be able to: Apply key epidemiological concepts to clinical practice; use new skills to treat latent TB-infected individuals and drug-susceptible TB cases; Draft a scientific article and look critically at published studies on TB; Build up networks of clinicians and scientists in TB care and research.
June 2010
- June 24–26 – Alexandroupolis – Greece
Medical Thoracoscopy
Organiser: M. Froudarakis.
Course goals: This course is aimed at pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who want to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology. As a rule, two-thirds of the course is devoted to “hands-on” workshops and one-third to the theoretical aspects of bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy. The participants will have the opportunity to practise live bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy (using pigs and sheep).
September 2010
- September 18-22 - Barcelona - Spain
ERS 20th Annual Congress
Congress Chair: J. Roca.
Congress Co-Chair: A. Agusti.
Scientific Committee Chair: L. Nicod.
October 2010
- October 7–9 – Hanover – Germany
Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation: consensus, controversies and new horizons
Organisers: B. Schönhofer, T. Welte, M. Elliott, A. Simonds and S. Nava.
Aims: The aims of this course are: to provide a comprehensive overview of the current stage of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in acute and chronic settings; to detail the evidence base for NIPPV in the ICU, respiratory intermediate care unit, respiratory ward and home care; to provide hands-on experience in setting up a variety of ventilators for acute and chronic use; to focus on, and improve, practical problem-solving skills; to provide an overview of all sleep-related breathing disorders.
Course goals: At the end of the course, participants will have a detailed knowledge of: Setting up an NIV programme; Choosing ventilators and interfaces; Selecting appropriate patients and initating NIV’ Weaning using NIV; NIV during endoscopic procedures; Home NIV in COPD; Current guidelines; Areas of controversy.
September 2011
- September 24–28 – Amsterdam – The Netherlands
ERS 21st Annual Congress
Congress Chair: E. Bel.
Congress Co-Chair: P. Sterk.
Scientific Committee Chair: L.P. Nicod
Non ERS Events
February 14, 2010
February 15, 2010
February 26, 2010
March 03, 2010
March 05, 2010
March 09, 2010
March 11, 2010
March 17, 2010
March 22, 2010
April 12, 2010
April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
April 22, 2010
April 24, 2010
April 26, 2010
April 28, 2010
April 28, 2010
April 29, 2010
April 29, 2010
May 05, 2010
May 05, 2010
May 14, 2010
May 22, 2010
May 26, 2010
May 26, 2010
May 28, 2010
May 30, 2010
June 02, 2010
June 03, 2010
June 05, 2010
June 09, 2010
June 09, 2010
June 10, 2010
June 10, 2010
June 17, 2010
June 19, 2010
June 24, 2010
September 06, 2010
September 27, 2010
September 29, 2010
October 15, 2010
October 20, 2010
October 30, 2010
November 03, 2010
November 11, 2010
November 17, 2010
November 22, 2010
December 03, 2010
May 13, 2011
June 15, 2011
June 25, 2011
October 22, 2011
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