ERS Satellites: preview with Co-Chair Prof. Nicolas Roche

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15 January, 2025

The award-winning online event ERS Satellites returns on 4 March for its eighth edition. This full-day conference will feature four sessions which provide the latest clinical updates and scientific findings within a selection of key areas of respiratory medicine: paediatric respiratory disease, asthma, COPD and interstitial lung diseases.

Each session will be led by experts in their field and will include presentations and updates from respiratory professionals from around the world. The ERS Satellites programme is designed to support audience participation and allows delegates to ask questions and discuss presentations with speakers and chairs.

Here, ERS Satellites 2025 Co-Chair and ERS Science Council Chair, Prof. Nicolas Roche, answers key questions about this year’s event.

What are you most looking forward to about ERS Satellites 2025 and its programme?

The 2025 iteration of ERS Satellites will address a very specific topic as part of its programme – paediatric respiratory disease. This session will go far beyond purely paediatric aspects too, since it will touch not only on lung diseases in children but also on early-life origins of lung diseases, including many that occur in adulthood. Many topics and issues which the programme will address are key for prevention and highly relevant these days, such as the consequences of vaping.

What do you feel people can gain from attending the next ERS Satellites? What makes this edition unique?

Besides the “paediatric and early life origins” session, a great diversity of original topics will be covered in the subsequent sessions on asthma, COPD and interstitial lung diseases.

These include, but are not restricted to:

  • How different types of allergies modulate asthma’s natural history, presentation and outcome;
  • How inflammation can vary between patients with COPD;
  • What characterises ILD in connective tissue disorders;
  • The ways in which patients can be supported to live with their condition is another topic of great importance that will be addressed.

What would you say makes ERS Satellites so popular?

The diversity of topics makes the programme highly engaging. The programme is clinically relevant for both field and expert practitioners and takes us on a journey from research to patients and clinical practice.

For you, what are the main benefits the ERS Satellites format (particularly with it being hosted online)?

ERS Satellites enables a worldwide audience to join the discussion, with the live event being accessible from everywhere and replays available afterwards. The event provides state-of-the art education on the most relevant and recent aspects of common respiratory diseases, from basic science to practical management implications.

Is there anything else you would like to mention?

Don’t forget that you can catch up on anything you miss in the live event through the ERS Satellites replays, which will be available on the ERS Respiratory Channel shortly after the event!

Learn more or register for ERS Satellites 2025.

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