What's on

9:00am - Integrating epidemiologic, genomic, and experimental data to outline a unifying framework for lung adenocarcinoma in never smokers
Dr Maria Theresa Landi (USA)

9:30am - Understanding and integrating environmental and inherited risk
Dr Frank McCaughan (Cambridge)

10:00am - How do we identify high risk people? Biomarkers, risk profiling and screening
Dr Hillary Robbins (Lyon)

9:00AM - 10:30AM

Evolving practice in the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation: where next?

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Dr Samantha Kon (London) and Dr Enya Daynes (Leicester)

9:00am - Delivering effective PR with minimal equipment
Dr Claire Nolan (London)

9:30am - Adapting exercise prescription for clinically relevant co-morbidities
Professor Frits Franssen (Netherlands)

10:00am - New horizons in exercise training in patients with severe dyspnoea
Professor Ioannis Vogiatzis (Northumbria)

9:00AM - 10:30AM

Joint BTS/BALR Symposium: Respiratory Research (Part 2)

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

Pioneering new frontiers in respiratory research: the big data revolution

DAY 2

Chaired by: Dr Jonathan Baker (London) and Dr Bettina Schock (Belfast)

9:00am - Multi-omics and data integration in translational respiratory research
Dr Iain Stewart (London)

9:30am - Integrative -omic analyses to delineate fibrogenesis
Dr Janine Gote-Schniering (Switzerland)

10:00am - Multi-layer netowrk analysis for COPD stratification
Professor Rosa Faner (Spain)

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Mona Bafadhel (London) and Professor Nick Maskell (Bristol)

10:45am - How to SELF-BREATHE
Dr Charles Reilly (London)

11:10am - Adaptability of the Neutrophil
Dr Emily Watts (Edinburgh)

11:35pm - Repairing the lung
Professor Chris Lucas (Edinburgh)

12:00 pm - Improving cancer outcomes through early diagnosis
Dr Anna Bibby (Bristol)

Early Afternoon Sessions

1:00PM - 1:45PM

BTS Clinical Lecture

45 MINUTE SESSION

Lecture

INFORMATION

Timing is everything: what HIV has taught us about when to treat

DAY 2

Professor Marc Lipman (London)
Introduced by Professor Adam Hill (Edinburgh)

2:15PM - 3:45PM

Breathing danger: COPD beyond tobacco

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Sarah Walmsley (Edinburgh) and Dr Marie Fisk (Cambridge)

2:15pm - Mechanistic insights into vaping and e-cigarette exposure in COPD
Professor Aaron Scott (Birmingham)

2:45pm - What are the multidimensional effects of cannabis smoking on the lung?
Professor Janice Leung (Canada)

3:15pm - What are the multidimensional effects of cannabis smoking on the lung?
Professor Janice Leung (Canada)

2:15PM - 3:45PM

Highlights from Thorax and Lancet Respiratory Medicine

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

This session will be jointly hosted by the editors of Thorax and Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Selected articles highlighting the diversity of excellent respiratory research published by the journals will be presented by their authors and followed by a discussion with the editors.

2:15PM - 3:45PM

Joint BTS/BALR/A+LUK Mid-Career Lectures

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Mona Bafadhel (London), Professor Philip Molyneaux (London) and Dr Amanda Tatler (Nottingham)

To be selected from submitted abstracts.

Late Afternoon Sessions

4:15PM - 5:45PM

Malignant pleural effusion - from biology to outcomes

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Kevin Blyth (Glasgow) and Dr Eleanor Mishra (Norfolk and Norwich)

4:15pm - The biological effects of pleural fluid on malignant progression - translational evidence on mechanism
Dr Dinesh Addala (Oxford)

4:45pm - Changing the paradigm for IPCs and Thoracoscopy - the AMPLE 3 RCT results
Professor Gary Lee (Australia)

5:15pm - Outcomes in randomised trials of malignant effusion - core outcomes and patient priorities
Dr Alexandra Dipper (Bristol)

4:15PM - 5:45PM

Joint BTS/BPRS Symposium: Digital health in paediatric respiratory disease

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium

Dr Don Urquhart

INFORMATION

Smart lungs, smart care: the present and future of digital health in paediatric respiratory disease

DAY 2

Chaired by: Dr Hazel Evans (Southampton) and Dr Don Urquhart (Edinburgh)

4:15pm - Digital monitoring in paediatric sleep and long-term ventilation: transforming assessment, adherence, and outcomes
Dr Hui Leng Tan (London)

4:45pm - Smart monitoring in childhood asthma and bronchiectasis: from early detection to personalised care
Dr Prasad Nagakumar (Birmingham)

5:15pm - From innovation to implementation: challenges in implementing digital respiratory technologies into routine paediatric practice
Professor Heather Elphick (Sheffield)

4:15PM - 5:45PM

The physiology of dyspnoea and why patients feel what they feel

90 MINUTE SESSION

Symposium