China Day

ERS/CTS China Day

From 9:00 AM to 16:00 PM on Saturday 6 September, 2014

Room A2-2

Aims: This meeting is designed to update Chinese respiratory specialists on the latest developments in asthma and COPD. The talks will be given by the leadership of ERS and Chinese Thoracic Society and cover epidemiology, clinical management and future development of these common diseases, providing an opportunity to compare how they are managed and treated in China and Europe. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion.

Target audience: specialists in respiratory medicine from China. There will be simultaneous translation from English to Mandarin and slides will be shown with Chinese script.

Advances in asthma

Chairs: P.J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom), co-chair to be confirmed

09:00 Asthma epidemiology in China / speaker to be confirmed

09:30 Asthma phenotypes and endotypes / S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom)

10:00 Recent advances in mechanisms of asthma in China / H. Shen (Hangzhou, China)

10:30 Break

11:00 Upper and lower airway inflammation: interaction and intervention / N. Zhong (Guangzhou, China)

11:30 Severe asthma / E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

12:00 Lunch break

Advances in asthma and COPD

Chairs: F. Blasi (Milan, Italy), C. Bai (Shanghai, China)

13:00 Epidemiology and community intervention of COPD in China / P. Ran (Guangzhou, China)

13:30 New mechanisms and targets in COPD / P.J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)

14:00 Break

14:30 Management of COPD with e-Health / C. Bai (Shanghai, China)

15:00 GOLD recommendations for COPD management / J. Vestbo (Hellerup, Denmark)

15:30 Roundtable discussion