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PG1 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: Ian Douglas Pavord (Oxford, United Kingdom), Gaetano Caramori (Ferrara, Italy)
Aims: To discuss the burden of chronic obstructive lung diseases; to explain the approaches used to assess airways function in these diseases, to provide an update on the mechanisms and treatment of exacerbations, to describe how deeper phenotyping of asthma and COPD will lead to more effective treatment of these diseases.
Target audience: Allergologist, Allied health professional, Clinician, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Immunologist, Paediatrician, Pulmonologist, Trainee, Student

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Programme PG1 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
The burden of obstructive lung diseases Anne Lindberg (Boden, Sweden)
Monitoring asthma: state-of-the-art physiological, imaging, and biomarker assessments Omar Usmani (London, United Kingdom)
Asthma phenotypes Sally Wenzel (Pittsburgh, United States of America)
Asthma exacerbations in children: the paediatrician’s view Bart Rottier (Groningen, Netherlands)
COPD phenotypes Christopher E. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Exacerbations of obstructive lung disease Norbert Krug (Hannover, Germany)
The future: treating specific endotypes Peter J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)