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Morning Sessions

8:00AM - 9:00AM
Registration and refreshments
60 MINUTES SESSION

INFORMATION

DAY 2

 

8:30AM - 9:00AM
Journal Club: pulmonary embolism
30 MINUTES SESSION

Spoken Session

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Dr Elaine Soon (Cambridge)

9:00AM - 10:30AM
Lung cancer in never smokers: how can we identify those at highest risk?
90 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Professor Mat Callister

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Professor Mat Callister (Leeds) and Dr Tanya Patrick (London)

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 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Professor Ioannis Vogiatzis

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 MINUTES 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 network analysis for COPD stratification    
Professor Rosa Faner (Spain)
10:45AM - 12:30PM
Plenary Scientific
105 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Dr Emily Watts Dr Emily Watts

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 MINUTES 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 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Professor Janice Leung

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 Air pollution as a driver of COPD
Professor John Hurst (London)
2:15PM - 3:45PM
Highlights from Thorax and Lancet Respiratory Medicine
90 MINUTES 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 MINUTES 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 MINUTES 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 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Dr Don Urquhart 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 MINUTES SESSION

Symposium

Dr Helen Ward Dr Helen Ward

INFORMATION

DAY 2

Chaired by: Dr Karl Sylvester (Cambridge) and Dr Helen Ward (Wolverhampton)

4:15pm

How the brain constructs dyspnoea
Dr Kyle Pattinson (Oxford)
4:45pm

Insights from exercise and disease
Paul Burns (Glasgow)
5:15pm From sensation to intervention 
Dr Lucy Speakman (Oxford)
5:45PM - 7:00PM
The President's reception - all welcome!
75 MINUTES SESSION

Reception

INFORMATION

DAY 2

All attendees are warmly invited to attend this social occasion.