Scientific Program

The Scientific Program includes the latest developments in BAL, Sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases and provides up-to-date postgraduate education regarding diagnosis and treatment strategies.

 

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Wednesday June 15th 2011

09.30-17.00 Patient meeting - Coping with a chronic disease (more detailed program in Dutch)
(Location: Apple Park Hotel, Pierre de Coubertinweg 3, Maastricht)
            X                  Parallel session                   X
  09.00-10.00 Reception with coffee and tea and Registration NVALT meeting ‘Multidisciplinary management of chronic pulmonary diseases’ (Location: Derlon Theatre, Plein 1992, Maastricht)
10.00-12.45 Multidisciplinary management of chronic pulmonary diseases (NVALT meeting)
    Chairs: Dr. Herman-Jan Pennings (CV), Laurentius Hospital, Roermond, NL, Secretary NVALT,
Dr. Yvonne Heijdra (CV), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen NL, elected secretary NVALT
  10.00-10.30 Benefits of a multidisciplinary approach of sarcoidosis patients
Prof. dr. Marjolein Drent (CV), MUMC+, NL
  10.30-11.00 Management of IPF
Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany.
  11.30-12.00 Management of PHT in ild
Bob Baughman (CV), Professor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  12.00-12.30 Management of asthma and COPD, let’s roll!
Prof. dr. Geert Jan Wesseling (CV), MUMC+, NL
  12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
  13.30-16.00 NVALT program
 

Location:
The DerlonTheater
(previous ‘Bordenhal’).
For this occasion called:
‘LONG THEATER’
Plein 1992 nr 15
6221 JP Maastricht

 

  16.00-17.30 Registration for WASOGBAL 2011 attendees on site (IMPORTANT: Please ensure you have a printed copy of the confirmation of your registration and payment with you).
17.30-19.30 Opening ceremony City Hall Maastricht (Markt 78, Maastricht)
 
17.30-18.00 Reception
  18.15-18.15 Welcome
Prof. dr. Marjolein Drent (CV), MUMC, UM, Maastricht, NL, vice president WASOG
  18.15-18.20 Opening
Onno Hoes (CV), mayor of Maastricht
  18.20-18.30 Welcome on behalf of the Maastricht University, NL
Prof. dr. mr. Gerard P.M.F. Mols (CV), Rector magnificus, UM, Maastricht, NL
  18.30-18.40 Welcome by Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), president of WASOG
  18.40-18.45 ‘Living with pulmonary fibrosis’
Jenny Penders, one of the founders of the Dutch Pulmonary Fibrosis Society
  18.45-18.55 Welcome by André Rieu, ambassador ild care foundation
  18.55-19.00 Congress song ‘Inspiration’ by Brigitte Heitzer
  19.00-19.30 Reception

Please find directions and more detailed information on our social program here!

Thursday June 16th 2011

08.30-10.30 Mechanisms in sarcoidosis: an update
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Joachim Muller-Quernheim (CV), Freiburg, Germany and
Prof. dr. Roland .M. du Bois (CV), London, UK.
  08.30-09.00 Genetics in sarcoidosis: where do we stand?
Prof. dr. Joachim  Muller-Quernheim (CV), Freiburg, Germany
  09.00-09.30 Is sarcoidosis an occupational disease? Inorganic triggers involved in the pathogenesis of granuloma formation
Prof. dr. Lee S. Newman (CV), MD, MA, Denver Colorado, USA. 
  09.30-10.00 The role infectious agents in de development of sarcoidosis
Dr. Wonder Puryear Drake (CV), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
Nashville, Tennessee, USA 
  10.00-10.30 Development in sarcoidosis treatment: new therapeutic options
Bob Baughman (CV), Professor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
 

This session is supported by the NRS        

10.30-11.00 Coffee break and preview posters
11.00-12.30 Diagnostics in interstitial lung diseases: present and future
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Juan Mana (CV), Barcelona, Spain and Prof. dr. Jan C. Grutters (CV),
Dept. of Respiratory Medicine, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, UMC Utrecht, NL
  11.00-11.30 HRCT scanning in sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases
Prof. dr. Johny Verschakelen (CV), Dept. Radiology, University Hospital
Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
  11.30-12.00 Usefulness of PET/CT scan in sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases
Dr. Marinus J. van Kroonenburgh (CV), Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MUMC+,
Maastricht, NL
  12.00-12.30 Is there still a role for BAL in inflammatory lung diseases?
Dr. Kitty Linssen (CV), Dept. Medical Microbiology, MUMC, Maastricht, Netherlands
          X                  Parallel session                   X
11.00-12.30 Management and prevention in clinical practice: role for e-health?
    Chairs: Roger van Boxtel (CV), CEO Menzis, Netherlands, and Prof. dr. Lee S. Newman (CV), MD, MA, Denver Colorado, USA
  11.00-11.30 Powering healthcare innovation
Roger van Boxtel (CV), CEO Menzis
  11.30-12.00 Personalized prevention: philosophy or reality?
Dr. Roderik A. Kraaijenhagen (CV), cardiologist, Medical director, NDDO Institute for
Prevention and Early Diagnostics (NIPED)
  12.00-12.30 Interactive case presentation
Prof .dr. Lizy Fireman (CV), Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the Tel Aviv University, Israel
Introduction by Dr. Benoit Wesly (CV), honorary consul of the State of Israel
12.30-13.30 17th Executive Committee Meeting WASOG  
    Agenda

          X                  Parallel session                   X
12.30-13.30 Lunch break and preview posters
          X                  Parallel session                   X
12.30-13.00 Meet the professor - The clinical utility of BAL cellular analysis in ild: an international consensus statement - Prof. dr. Keith C. Meyer (CV), Wisconsin, USA
 

This session is supported by the NRS        

13.00-15.00 B cell depleting therapies, past, present and future concepts
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Bob Baughman (CV), MD, Cincinnati, USA and dr. Nadera J Sweiss (CV), Rheumatologist, Chicago, USA
  13.00-13.20 B cell biology in the integrated immune response
Prof. dr. Jan-Willem Cohen Tervaert (CV), Maastricht, NL
  13.20-13.40 Rituximab administration: the basics of delivery and monitoring, lessons
learned from oncology.
Dr. Elyse Lower (CV), Cincinnati, USA
  13.40-14.00 Rituximab for ANCA-associated Vasculitis
Prof. dr. Ulrich Specks (CV), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
  14.00-14.20 Rituximab in rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis and resistant cases with SLE.
Dr. Tim Jansen (CV), rheumatologist, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  14.20-14.40 Rationale for B cell depleting therapy in sarcoidosis, the impact of B cell
depleting therapy on humiral immunity and vaccine response.
Dr. Nadera J. Sweiss (CV), rheumatologist, Chicago, USA.
  14.40-15.00 Discussion
  Objectives: Review advances in molecular biology that enhance our understanding of B-cells in the integrated immune response; Summarize the past and current clinical data relating to the usage of B-cell-directed therapies for, Lymphoma, ANCA associated vasculitis, SLE and rheumatoid arthritis; Discuss the monitoring for B cell depleting therapies; Discuss the rationale for B cell depleting therapy in Sarcoidosis, the impact of B cell depleting therapy on humiral immunity and vaccine response.
          X                  Parallel session                   X
13.30-14.30 New insights in drug-induced lung diseases
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Olof Selroos (CV), Vejbystrand, Sweden and Prof. Dominique
Israël-Biet (CV), Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou. Paris, France
  13.30-14.00 Pharmacogenomics and drug-induced toxicity.
Prof. dr. Aalt Bast (CV), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UM,
Maastricht, NL.
  14.00-14.30 Drug-induced pulmonary toxicity. A still growing and underestimated clinical problem.
Prof. dr. Philippe Camus, Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital du Bocage and University de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
          X                  Parallel session                   X
14.30-15.30 Poster Discussion (sessions A, C, E, G)
    A - Case series and case reports
Chairs: Prof. dr. Venerino Poletti (CV), Forli, Italy and  Prof. dr. Marc Judson (CV),
NY, USA
    C - Diagnostic tools in sarcoidosis: What is new?
Chairs: Dr. Mariunus J. van Kroonenburgh (CV), Dept. of Nuclear Medicine,
MUMC+, Maastricht, NL and Prof. dr. Johny Verschakelen (CV), Dept. Radiology,
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
    E - Impact of Sarcoidosis in patients' lives
Chairs: Dr. Dan Culver (CV), Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and
Dr. Elske Hoitsma (CV), Dept of Neurology, Diaconessenhuis, Leiden, NL
    G - Inflammation: Serum, BAL, and induced sputum in sarcoidosis
Chairs: Dr. Kitty Linssen (CV), Department of Medical Microbiology, MUMC+,
Maastricht, NL and  Dr. Wonder Puryear Drake (CV), Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 
          X                  Parallel session                   X
15.00-16.30 Bone sarcoidosis and osteoporosis prevention in sarcoidosis
    Chairs: Dr. Tim L. Jansen (CV), Dept. of Rheumatology, UMCN St. Radboud, Nijmegen, NL  and Dr. Marinus J. van Kroonenburgh, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MUMC+, Maastricht, NL
  15.00-15.30 Bone sarcoidosis
Prof. dr. Piet Geusens, Rheumatologist, MUMC+, Maastricht, NL
  15.30-16.00 Fracture risk in sarcoidosis
Dr. Caroline. Heijckmann (CV),Bernoven Hospital, Veghel, NL
  16.00-16.30 Prevention of fractures and osteoporosis in sarcoidosis
Dr. Joop van den Bergh (CV), VieCuri Medical Centre Noord-Limburg & MUMC, NL
          X                  Parallel session                   X
15.00-16.30 Oral presentations (abstracts)
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Ron M. du Bois (CV), London UK and Dr. Wonder Puryear Drake (CV), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  15.00-15.10 O1 - GWAS in Japanese patients with sarcoidosis by the use of pooled samples
Dr. E. Yamaguchi (CV), Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Dept of Medicine, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Japan
  15.10-15.20 O2 - Two novel ways for distinguishing sarcoidosis from sputum negative tuberculosis
H.P. Li (CV), Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, China
  15.20-15.30 O3 - Reduced expression of PPARα in bronchoalveolar lavage CD4+ T cells of sarcoidosis patients
M. Abo Al Hayja (CV), Respiratory Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  15.30-15.40 O4 - Increased local and circulating T helper 17 cells in pulmonary sarcoidosis
B. ten Berge (CV), Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  15.40-15.50 O5 - Impaired gas exchange, exercise capacity, and muscle strength in sarcoidosis patients
R.G.J. Marcellis (CV), Dept of Physical Therapy, ild care team, Maastricht University Medical Centre, the Netherlands
  15.50-16.00 O6 - The clinical course of sarcoidosis: Description and treatment response in a large American cohort
M.A. Judson (CV), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
  16.00-16.10 O7 - Imbalance between circulating endothelial cells and endothelial progenitors in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Prof. Dominique Israël-Biet, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou. Paris, France
  16.10-16.20 O8 - Mutations in SFTPC, SFTPA2 and TERT explain 60% of Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis and correlate to specific disease phenotypes
C.H.M. van Moorsel (CV), Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, St Antonius Hospital, the Netherlands
  16.20-16.30 Discussion

The announcement of 4 Award Winners will take place during the congress
party Friday June the 17th around 21.30h.
          X                  Parallel session                   X
15.30-16.30 Poster Discussion (sessions B, D, F, H)
    B - Genetics and mechanisms in sarcoidosis
Chairs: Prof. dr. Jan C. Grutters (CV), Dept. of Respiratory Medicine, St. Antonius
Hospital, Nieuwegein, UMC Utrecht, NL and Prof. dr. Joachim Muller-Quernheim (CV),
Freiburg, Germany
    D - Treatment options in sarcoidosis
Chairs: Prof. dr. Bob Baughman (CV), MD, Cincinnati, USA and Prof. dr. Wim
Wuyts (CV), Dept. of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven,
Belgium
    F - Pulmonary fibrosis and other ild
Chairs: Prof. dr. M. Thomeer (CV), Hospitals Oost-Limburg, Genk/ University
Hospital Leuven, Belgium and Dr.Özlem Özdemir Kumbasar (CV), Ankara, Turkey
    H - Inflammation: Serum, BAL, and induced sputum in ild
Chairs: Dr. Karin Boomars, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, MUMC+, NL and
Dr. Francesco Bonella (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00-19.00 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: how should we treat it?
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Venerino Poletti (CV), Forli, Italy and Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
  17.00-17.20 Clinical trials in IPF: how to choose appropriate end-points?
Prof. dr. Ron M. du Bois (CV), London UK
  17.20-17.45 IPF: pathogenesis and mechanisms
Prof. dr. Jan C. Grutters (CV), Dept. of Respiratory Medicine, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, UMC Utrecht, NL.
  17.45-18.10 The evidence of pharmaceutical therapy in IPF
Dr. Paolo Spagnolo (CV), Paolo Spagnolo MD, PhD, lecturer in Respiratory
Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
 
  18.10-18.35 New approaches to IPF treatment
Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany.
  18.35-18.50 Non-medical treatment of IPF
Prof. dr. Jim Egan (CV), Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

Friday June 17th 2011

08.30-10.30 Impact of sarcoidosis on patients lives
    Chairs: Prof .dr. Tetsuo Yamaguchi (CV),Tokyo, Japan and Dr. Dan Culver (CV),
Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and Dr. Tony Cerami (CV)
  08.30-09.00 Quality of life in interstitial lung diseases: how should we deal with it?
Prof. dr. Jolanda De Vries (CV), Depts. of Medical Psychology, CoRPS,
Tilburg University, and St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, NL.
  09.00-09.30 Everyday cognitive failure in sarcoidosis
Dr. Rudolf Ponds (CV), Depts. of Psychiatry and Psychology, MUMC, Maastricht, NL.
  09.30-10.00 How should we deal with fatigue in sarcoidosis: diagnosis and treatment
Dr. Elyse Lower (CV), Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical
Center, Cincinnati, USA.
  10.00-10.30 Small fiber neuropathy and autonomic dysfunction: diagnosis and treatment
Dr. Elske Hoitsma (CV), Dept of Neurology, Diaconessenhuis, Leiden, NL.
          X                  Parallel session                   X
09.00-10.30 Cystic Fibrosis: an update
    Chairs: Dr. Han Hendriks (CV), Maastricht, NL and
Dr. Wonder Drake (CV), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
  09.00-09.30 Microbiology in Cystic Fibrosis: host pathogen interaction
Prof. Dr. Gerd Döring (CV), Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie
und Hygiene, Tübingen, Germany
  09.30-10.00 Treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections in Cystic Fibrosis
Dr. Harry Heijerman (CV), Den Haag, the Netherlands
  10.00-10.30 How to repair chloride transport in Cystic Fibrosis?
Prof. dr. Kors van der Ent (CV), Utrecht, the Netherlands
   sponsored by
          X                  Parallel session                   X
08.30-10.30 Granulomatous diseases in the eye: risk of intraocular damage and vision loss
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Martin van Hagen (CV), Dept. of Immunology, Eramus Medical Centre,
Rotterdam, NL and Dr. Roel Erckens (CV), Dept. Ophthalmonology, ild care team, MUMC, Maastricht, NL
  08.30-09.00 When sarcoidosis meets the eye
Dr. G.S. Baarsma (CV), the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, Rotterdam, NL
  09.00-09.30 Granulomatous uveitis: not always sarcoidosis.
Dr. J.G. Bollemeijer (CV), Dept. of Ophthalmonology, Leiden University
Medical Centre (LUMC), Leiden, NL.
  09.30-10.00 Biologicals in granulomatous diseases and uveitis.
Prof. dr. M. van Hagen (CV), Dept. of Immunology, Eramus Medical Centre,
Rotterdam, NL
  10.00-10.30 How to treat destructive granulomatous eye diseases?
Dr. R. Erckens (CV), Dept. Ophthalmonology, ild care team, MUMC, Maastricht, NL
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Everything you need to know about biologicals
    Chairs: Dr. Tim L. Jansen (CV), Dept. of Rheumatology, UMCN St. Radboud, Nijmegen, NL and Bob Baughman (CV), Professor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  11.00-11.30 Biologicals: What is new?
Prof. dr. Jan G.J. van de Winkel (CV), Dept. of Immunology, UMC Utrecht,
Netherlands
  11.30-12.00 The role of biologicals in emerging infections
Prof. dr. Roel Coutinho (CV), RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands
  12.00-12.30 Biologicals: how can we cover the costs?
Drs. Bart van der Lelie (CV), Reimbursement Expert, Netherlands.
12.30-13.30 Lunch break and poster viewing
          X                  Parallel session                   X
12.30-13.30 Meeting General Assembly WASOG  
    Agenda

Every member is invited to read the new by-laws in advance before the
presentation for approval in Maastricht.

13.30-15.00 Breathtaking exposures: Role of environmental and occupational exposures in ild
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Lee S. Newman (CV), Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health and School of Medicine University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA and Prof.dr. Onno van Schayck (CV), Maastricht, NL
  13.30-14.00 Particles and radicals
Prof. dr. Aalt Bast (CV), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UM,
Maastricht, NL.
  14.00-14.30 Old and novel industrial products as causes of interstitial lung diseases
Prof. dr. Benoit Nemery (CV), MD, PhD, Professor of Toxicology & Occupational
Medicine, KU Leuven
  14.30-15.00 From birds to fungi: extrinsic allergic alveolitis
Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
          X                  Parallel session                   X
13.30-15.00 Granulomatous infectious disorders
    Chairs: Dr. Kitty Linssen (CV), Department of Medical Microbiology, MUMC+, Maastricht, Netherlands and Prof. dr. Roel Coutinho (CV), RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
  13.30-14.00 Q fever: clinical implications
Dr. Chantal Bleeker-Rovers (CV), Department of Internal Medicine Radboud
University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Nijmegen (RUNMC), The Netherlands
  14.00-14.30 Lyme-borreliosis
Prof. dr. Bart-Jan Kullberg (CV), Chairman Nijmegen University Centre for
Infectious Diseases (NUCI), UMC Nijmegen, St. Radboud, NL
  14.30-15.00 Tuberculosis, new diagnostic challenges and opportunities.
Dr. Aik W. J. Bossink (CV), Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Diakonessenhuis,
Utrecht, NL
15.00-15.20 Coffee break
15.20-16.00 Honoured Gerry James Lecture: Is sarcoidosis ready for personalized medicine?
Chair: Prof. dr. Lee S. Newman (CV), MD, MA, Denver Colorado, USA
Speaker: Prof. dr. Roland M. du Bois (CV), London, UK.
16.15-17.15 Panel discussion with world experts: Health and environment
    Chair: Prof.dr. Onno van Schayck (CV), Maastricht, NL

Panel:
  • Prof. dr. Aalt Bast (CV), Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UM,
    Maastricht, NL.
  • Prof. dr. Benoit Nemery (CV), Professor of Toxicology & Occupational
    Medicine, KU Leuven
  • Prof. dr. Lee S. Newman (CV), Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health and School of Medicine University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
  • Dr. Jos Rooijackers (CV), NECORD, IRAS / Utrecht University and Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
19.00-23.30 Conference Party with Dinner Buffet
all first authors of the submitted abstracts are invited!
Announcement of the 4 Award Winners

Saturday June 18th 2011

08.30-10.35 Workshop of endpoints for studies in sarcoidosis
    Chairs: prof. dr. Bob Baughman (CV), Cincinnati, USA; Prof. dr. Marjolein
Drent (CV), MUMC, UM, Maastricht
  08.30-08.55 Pulmonary
Chair Prof. dr. Dominic Valeyre (CV), MD, France; Discussants Prof. dr. Marc Judson (CV),
NY, USA & Prof. dr. Athol Wells (CV), MD, United Kingdom
  08.55-09.20 Pulmonary hypertension
Chair Prof. dr. T. Handa (CV), MD, Japan; Discussants Dr. Roxanne Sulica, MD, USA &
Prof. dr. Marc Humbert (CV), MD, France
  09.20-09.45 Fatigue
Chair Dr. Violetta Vucinic (CV), MD, Serbia; Discussant Prof. dr. Marjolein Drent (CV), MD,  Netherlands & Dr. Elyse Lower, MD, USA
  09.45-10.10 Cutaneous
Chair Dr. Dan Culver (CV), MD, USA; Discussant Prof. dr. Robert Baughman (CV), MD, USA & Prof. dr. Juan Mana (CV), MD, Spain
  10.10-10.35 Phenotype/Genotype
Chair Dr. Carlos Pereira, MD, Brasil; Discussants Prof. dr. Jan C. Grutters (CV), MD, NL & Dr. Antje Prasse, MD, Germany
  Workshop format: For each session, there will be 10 minutes for each discussant and 5 minutes for general discussion. One Discussant will present a review of trials in the area and what had been used as end points. The other Discussant will present what the two Discussants propose as endpoints for their organ. The Discussants and Chair will be responsible for a report summarizing their talks and the decision of the group. We propose to publish that report in the official journal of WASOG: Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases.
          X                  Parallel session                   X
09.00-10.30 Lung transplantation: where are we now, where are we going to?
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Keith Meyer (CV), Dept. of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, USA;
Dr. B. van den Blink (CV), Dept. of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus UMC Rotterdam, NL
  09.00-09.30 How to overcome donor shortage? Are DCD donors the real solution?
Dr. Michiel Erasmus (CV), Groningen, NL
  09.30-10.00 Transplantation anno 2011: Indications, results and expectations
Dr. Andrew Fisher (CV), Newcastle, UK
  10.00-10.30 Infectious and rejection problems after lung transplantation: can we treat them?
Prof. dr. Geert Verleden (CV), Gashuisberg, University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Vasculitis and pulmonary hypertension in ild
    Chairs: prof. dr. Jan-Willem Cohen Tervaert (CV), Maastricht, NL and
prof. dr. Bob Baughman (CV), Cincinnati, USA
  11.00-11.30 Vasculitis and Wegener’s disease related ild
Prof. dr. Ulrich Specks (CV), Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, USA
  11.30-12.00 Pulmonary hypertension in ild: increased mortality risk
Prof. dr. Marc Humbert (CV), Paris, France
  12.00-12.30 Treatment options of PHT in ild
Prof. dr. Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (CV), Amsterdam, NL
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
  12.30-13.15 Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis Journal Editorial Board meeting
13.30-15.00 Closure session
    Chairs: Prof. dr. Ulrich Costabel (CV), Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany.
Prof. dr. Marjolein Drent (CV), MUMC+, NL
  13.30-14.00 BAL: perspective from the 12th BAL conference and the 2nd joint
WASOGBAL meeting. Prof. dr. Herbert Reynolds (CV), USA
  14.00-14.30 Sarcoidosis: perspective from the 10th WASOG meeting and future plans
Prof. dr. Marc Judson (CV), NY, USA
  14.30-15.00 Final closure & announcement next conference in 2014 Turkey



Language

The official language of the Congress will be English.

Accreditation

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