Programme Respiratory medicine update 27 January 2015 Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE Programme organiser: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 09.15 Registration and coffee 09.55 Welcome and opening remarks Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians Session 1: Recent treatment advances in lung disease Chair: Dr Rachel Hoyles, Churchill Hospital, Oxford 10.00 Pulmonary hypertension - new therapies Dr Martin Johnson, Edinburgh 10.30 IPF - pirfenidone and beyond Dr Rachel Hoyles, Churchill Hospital, Oxford 11.00 Coffee Session 2: 21st Century respiratory medicine - new treatment approaches Chair: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 11.20 Pleural disease - ambulatory management Dr Nick Maskell 11.50 Asthma in 2015 - broadening horizons Liza Franchi, patient 12.20 Severe asthma - what to do now, what's coming up Professor Liam Heaney, Queen’s University Belfast 12.50 Lunch Session 3: Lung disease - some thorny issues Chair: Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE Tel: +44 (0)20 3075 2389, Fax: +44 (0)20 7487 4156 www.rcplondon.ac.uk Registered charity no. 210508 13.50 TB - the epidemic continues Dr Marc Lipman, Royal Free Hospital, London 14.20 Sleep apnoea - troubleshooting difficult cases Dr Sophie West, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle 14.50 Occupational outbreaks - novel approaches to old and new causes Dr Jo Szram, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 15.20 Tea Session 4: Chronic lung disease - optimising patient care Chair: Dr Charlotte Bolton, University of Nottingham 15.40 COPD care in the 21st Century Dr Charlotte Bolton, University of Nottingham 16.10 Bronchiectasis - who should be getting prophylactic antibiotics? Dr Simon Range, University Hospitals of Leciester 16.40 Closing remarks by the Chair 16.45 Close of conference