PG1 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: K. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway), P. Burgel (Sorbonne Paris Cité, France)
Aims: to discuss the problems associated with chronic obstructive lung diseases (COPDs) based on experience and the published literature.

Defining asthma and COPD: differential diagnosis A. Lindberg (Boden, Sweden)
Monitoring asthma - state-of-the-art physiological, imaging and biomarker assessments O. Usmani (London, United Kingdom)
Group assignment A. Lindberg (Boden, Sweden), O. Usmani (London, United Kingdom), R. Buhl (Mainz, Germany)
Asthma phenotypes and endotypes M. Peters (San Francisco, United States of America)
COPD phenotypes and endotypes A. Papi (Ferrara, Italy)
Group assignment A. Papi (Ferrara, Italy), M. Peters (San Francisco, United States of America)
Exacerbations of asthma and treatment R. Louis (Liège, Belgium)
Exacerbations of COPD and treatment N. Krug (Hannover, Germany)