Priority topics

Areas covered will include:

• Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in respiratory medicine
• CPET to uncover the causes of dyspnoea of unknown origin
• Pulmonary rehabilitation – a global perspective
• Telerehabilitation for patients with respiratory diseases
• Functional lung imaging

Areas covered will include:

• Bronchoscopy in the ICU “reloaded”
• ARDS and Imaging
• Steroids and beyond in severe CAP/ARDS
• When enough is enough: in ECMO, Weaning, LongTerm HMV
• Respiratory management of the Neuromuscularpatient of alle ages
• Nosocomial infections in the ICU from diagnosis to management

Areas covered will include:

• Cell-cell interactions in lung physiology and disease
• State of the art models to answer clinical questions
• Cellular plasticity in lung regeneration
• Biomarkers and molecular mechanisms of rare lung diseases
• (Immune) metabolic changes in lung disease

Areas covered will include:

• Personalized sleep medicine: evidence, guidelines and clinical practice
• New biometrics for OSA
• Big data, machine learning and AI in sleep-disordered breathing
• The influence of sex on sleep breathing disorders
• New techniques and future practise in the treatmentof central sleep apnoea

Areas covered will include:

• Biologics in COPD – recipe for failure?
• Biological theraphy in airway diseases
• Can we make sense of responders and non-responders in asthma?
• No cell is an island – clinical implications of immunological crosstalk in the lung
• Remission in asthma

Areas covered will include:

• Interventions in the face of occupational, environmental and lifestyle challenges
• Future city visions for better respiratory health
• Multimorbidity in those with lung diseases
• The One Health approach to improve respiratory health
• Smoking Cessation/Vaccinations
• Tobacco and its environmental impact

Areas covered will include:

• Advanced imaging in paediatric respiratory diseases
• Childhood interstitial lung diseases
• Congenital lung malformations
• Prematurity related lung diseases
• Combination therapy in children with asthma

Areas covered will include:

• Treatment strategies (incl. transplantation and for rare interstitial diseases)
• Induction therapy of lung cancer
• Immunoregulatory cell-based therapies, current application beyond chronic lung rejection
• Thymic tumours
• Rehabilitation programmes pre – and post lung transplantation
• Primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Areas covered will include:

• Self-management in lung disease
• Early (tele-)rehabilitation in AECOPD
• AI in respiratory physiological measurements
• Respiratory muscle testing and training in acute and chronic respiratory disease
• Remote physiological monitoring in lung disease

Areas covered will include:

• Short DS and DR TB treatments
• From colonization to Lung micro/micobiome
• Prevention/vaccination
• The new immunodepressed patients at risk of infection
• Inflammatory phenotypes of Bx

Areas covered will include:

• Radiological follow-up and prediction in the era of immunotherapy (challenges of chest CT and/or PET/CT interpretations, radiomics in predicting immunotherapy response)
• New treatment algorithms in early LC
• Multiple Pulmonary Nodules; the challenge of diagnosis and management
• Pulmonary Nodule management: the next epidemic
• Lung cancer screening; never smokers, occupational/environmental exposure

Areas covered will include:

• Early treatment in ILDs
• New diagnostic techniques for ILD
• Care for rare ILD in adults and children
• Immuno-based cell therapies in ILD
• Drug induced lung disease

Areas covered will include:

• Novel therapies – trials underway
• Novel therapies in PAH
• Between the heart and the lung: defining and understanding PAH related to comorbidities
• Treatment decisions in acute pulmonary embolism patients at high risk
• Novel developments in the radiology of pulmonary vascular diseases

Areas covered will include:

• Ultrasound guided procedures for pleural/interventional procedures, detection of complications
• Innovations in interventional pulmonology: pushing boundaries
• Live interventional pulmonology
• Interventional pulmonology: best approach to peripheral pulmonary nodule diagnostics from radiologist,”bronchologist” and surgeon perspective
• Advances in thoracic imaging: AI, lung MRI, chest CT