Programme ERS Presidential Summit 2015
16-17 June 2015, Brussels, Belgium
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PERSONALISING RESPIRATORY CARE IN EUROPE
Valid on 10 June 2015
The European Respiratory Society is hosting its 2015 Annual Presidential Summit in Brussels, Belgium,
on 16th and 17th June. Since 2010, this annual event aims to address pressing issues at the interface of
science and policy, featuring leading experts on areas of key relevance to respiratory science and health.
The objectives of the 2015 Summit are to:
 Provide a platform to demonstrate innovative new care solutions and the cutting edge science
behind them,
 Assess how to better promote the development of personalised respiratory care in Europe,
 Explore how to improve patient care through new technologies, personal empowerment and
collaboration with healthcare systems and professionals.
DAY 1 / Tuesday 16 June 2015
12:00-13:00
Registration and lunch
13:00-13:30
Opening of the 2015 Presidential Summit
Chair: Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
13:00 Welcome
Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
13:10 Opening address
Claudiu Ciprian Tanasescu (Brussels, Belgium)
13:20 EU health priorities and respiratory diseases
Michael Hübel (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
13:30-14:30
Session I: Creating the right environment for personalised care
Chair: Christina-Georgia Gratziou (Athens, Greece)
13:30 Is e-health the silver bullet?
Rachelle Kaye (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
13:45 e-health and health technology: European Commission perspective
Tapani Piha (Brussels, Belgium)
14:00 Connected health: the future for Europe?
Marc Lange (Brussels, Belgium)
14:15 Discussion
14:30-15:30
Session II: Personalised care in practice
Chair: Jørgen Vestbo (Manchester, United Kingdom)
14:30 Self-management for asthma patients in primary care
Jacob K Sont (Leiden, Netherlands)
14:45 From renewing health to United4Health: evidence and decision making when going
beyond pilots
Panagiotis C. Stafylas (Thessaloniki, Greece)
15:00 Health apps in practice: iCoach example
Michiel Janssen (Leuven, Belgium)
15:15 Discussion
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Session III: The promise of new technologies
Chair: Guy Brusselle (Ghent, Belgium)
16:00 The value proposition of medical technology: an industry perspective
Serge Bernasconi (Brussels, Belgium)
16:15 In vivo medical imaging technologies
Christopher E. Brightling (Leicester, United Kingdom)
16:30 What role can medical professionals play in the development and regulation of medical
technology?
Brendan Cooper (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
16:45 Discussion
17:00-18:15
Session IV: Personalised treatment
Chair: Jean-Paul Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
17:00 Personalised targeted medicine
Alvar Agusti Garcia-Navarro (Barcelona, Spain)
17:15 Solutions to rare diseases: example of transatlantic CF clinical trial networks
Thomas Ferkol (St-Louis, United States of America)
17:30 Bringing personalised respiratory treatment to clinical practice
David Leather (GSK, United Kingdom)
17:45 Discussion and Summit Day 1 closure
20:00-22:30
Dinner
DAY 2 / Wednesday 17 June 2015
09:00-09:45
Session V: Balancing the development of innovative medicine with the
protection of sensitive personal data
Chair: Peter J. Barnes (London, United Kingdom)
09:00 Data protection in the EU
Beth Thompson (London, United Kingdom)
09:10 Data protection: is it a patient priority?
Laurène Souchet (Brussels, Belgium)
09:20 Stuck in the drawer: of what use is patient data?
Ernst Hafen (Zurich, Switzerland)
09:30 Discussion
09:45-10:30
Session VI: Using e-health to empower patients
Chair: Dan Smyth (Dundalk, Ireland)
09:45 Willing participants: the acceptance of e-health solutions among patients with chronic
respiratory conditions
Mariusz Duplaga (Krakow, Poland)
09:55 Online education to empower patients: the European Patient Ambassador Programme programme and patient experience of m/eHealth Apps
Dominique Hamerlijnck (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
10:05 "What do patients want from Apps?": results of the Patient View Survey 2014
Dee O'Sullivan (Brussels, Belgium)
10:15 Discussion
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:00
Session VII: ERS actions on m-health and e-health
Chair: Giovanni Battista Migliori (Varese, Italy)
ERS/WHO tuberculosis collaborations in m-health and e-health
Denis Falzon (Geneva, Switzerland), WHO representative
Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain), ERS representative
12:00-12:30
Conclusion and wrap-up of the 2015 Summit
Chair: Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)