PG3 - Update on occupational and environmental lung disease, including "bring your own cases" for interactive discussion

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: D. Hendrick (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), P. S. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Aims: This course is designed to provide the audience with new information, summarize topics of current concern and encourage interactive debate in occupational and environmental lung disease. The main aims are:
• to provide an update on topics of current concern or uncertainty;
• to provide a forum for informal discussion of cases submitted by the participants. Target audience: Physicians and epidemiologists with a special interest in occupational and environmental causes of lung disease. The programme will also be of relevance to respiratory physicians and trainees in general.

Metals and interstitial lung disease W. Beckett (Rochester, United States of America)
Occupational asthma: perspective on diagnostic tests C. Mapp (Ferrara, Italy)
Fitness for flying and diving H. Matthys (Freiburg, Germany)
COPD: causal factors other than active smoking K. Toren (Goteborg, Sweden)
Lung cancer: causal factors other than active smoking J. Pairon (Creteil, France)
Asbestos-induced pleurisy and its possible sequelae P. De Vuyst (Brussels, Belgium)
Flocking, popcorn and an ingested Asian shrub (Sauropus androgynus) K. Kreiss (Morgantown, United States of America)
SARS and bird flu E. Ong (Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)