Occupational respiratory disease for the clinician
Organising Committee
Arif Cimrin (Izmir, Turkey)
Ben Nemery (Leuven, Belgium)
Faculty
| Jacques Ameille | (Paris, France) |
| Paul Blanc | (San Francisco, USA) |
| P. Sherwood Burge | (Birmingham, UK) |
| Paul Cullinan | (London, UK) |
| Frédéric De Blay | (Strasbourg, France) |
| Dick Heederik | (Utrecht, The Netherlands) |
| John Parker | (Morganstown, USA) |
| Alastair Robertson | (Birmingham, UK) |
| Torben Sigsgaard | (Aarhus, Denmark) |
Educational Aims
- To improve the recognition, diagnosis and management of occupational respiratory disease
Target Audience
- Respiratory and occupational physicians
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
Case Presentations
You are strongly encouraged to submit cases for discussion during the case review period. For easy submission, please follow the steps below:
- Occupational respiratory disease should be the theme of the case study (delivery issues, target area issues, technical issues, etc.)
- Prepare your case study in a word document of <200 words
- Give a clear description of the patient including the clinical manifestations and any radiological pictures or pathological findings
- Include all images pertaining to the case study within the document
- State the questions which you would like to be discussed by the participants
- If your case study is selected, you will be requested to prepare a very short PowerPoint presentation. Therefore, please make sure your contact details are mentioned.
Cases should be submitted by 1 April 2010,