Spanish/Portuguese Day: Exercise and other lifestyle behaviour for good lung health worldwide

Session
Chairs: Alejandro Casas Herrera (Bogota, Colombia), Joan B. Soriano (Madrid, Spain), Inmaculada Alfageme Michavila (Sevilla, Spain)
Aims: Session organised in collaboration with ERS/ALAT/SEPAR/SBPT/SPP. Leading specialists from each country will share the stage with the ERS leadership to discuss key issues in respiratory medicine, providing the opportunity to hear about the latest scientific developments in Spanish and Portuguese. This meeting is designed to update respiratory professionals on the latest developments in the respiratory field. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion after the presentations. Presentations given in Portuguese and Spanish will be translated to English.
Target audience: The session is aimed at specialists in respiratory medicine from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.

Exercise training in COPD (presentation in Spanish by ALAT representative) Martin Sivori (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Home-rehabilitation: is it effective? (presentation in Portuguese by SBPT representative) Jose Roberto De Brito Jardim (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Impact of COPD and its comorbidities on exercise capacity (presentation in Spanish by SEPAR representative) Joaquim Gea Guiral (Barcelona, Spain)
New models in home-respiratory care (presentation in Portuguese by SPP representative) João Carlos Winck (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome: more than just two diseases in the same patient (presentation in Spanish by SEPAR representative) Luis Pérez de Llano (Lugo, Spain)
Schistosomiasis as the main cause of pulmonary hypertension (presentation in Portuguese by SBPT representative) Rogério De Souza (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Why the ALAT COPD guidelines 2014 are different? (presentation in Spanish by ALAT representative) María Montes de Oca (Caracas, Venezuela)