PG13 Traditional and modern clinical approaches for diagnosis and management of occupational airways diseases

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: R. de la Hoz (New York, United States of America), D. Fishwick (Sheffield (South Yorkshire), United Kingdom)
Aims: to discuss recent advances related to occupational airways diseases; to provide an update on recent changes in potentially harmful exposures at work; to provide an update on modern aspects of occupational asthma, COPD and hypersensitivity pneumonitis and to provide clinical and scientific context to these issues using real-life cases.

Novel and classical inhaled materials implicated in the causation of occupational airways diseases B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium)
Occupational asthma: classical and novel causes and diagnostic approaches P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)
Occupational COPD : what is new and how do we identify and ultimately prevent this disease? P. Blanc (San Francisco, United States of America)
Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis: classical and novel causes and diagnostic approaches M. Cruz Carmona (Barcelona, Spain)
Group assignment B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium), P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom), P. Blanc (San Francisco, United States of America), M. Cruz Carmona (Barcelona, Spain)