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PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2008
Room Prince Pierre
18.00-19.00	Congress opening
19.00-20.00	Welcome Cocktail

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2008

Session 1 Room Camille Blanc
08.30-10.00	BASIC MECHANISMS - Adult track Chairs: M.C. Mingari (Italy) - T. Fukuda (Japan) • Innate immunity - L. Moretta (Italy) • Neurogenic pathways - T. Casale (USA) • Th-17 cell interaction with tissue cells - C. Akdis (Greece) • IgE and inflammation: implications in asthma and rhinitis - L.Rosenwasser (USA)
Session 2 Room Auric
08.30-10.00	DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track Chairs: H. Badellino (Argentina) - B. Volovitz (Israel) • Allergic diagnosis in asthma - PRACTALL - A. Muraro (Italy) • Pulmonary lung function from infancy to adulthood - K.H.Carlsen (Norway) • Monitoring airway inflammation - T. Popov (Bulgaria) • Moulds and asthma - A. Fiocchi (Italy)
Session 3 Room Van Dongen
08.30-10.00	DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA Chairs: M. Kamal Hanna (Egypt) - F. Bonifazi (Italy) • In vitro allergy diagnosis - G. Melioli (Italy) • Inflammatory parameters in respiratory allergy - M. Triggiani (Italy) • Exhaled breath temperature measurement - L. DuBuske (USA) • Flow cytometry in airway inflammation - I. Ansotegui (Ireland)
10.00-10.15	Coffee break
Plenary session 1 Room Camille Blanc
10.15-11.45	FROM GENES TO THE ALLERGIC MARCH Chairs: S. Holgate (United Kingdom) - Y. El Gamal (Egypt) • What is new in genetic of Asthma and Allergy - S. Holgate (United Kingdom) • Environment-gene interaction in the airways - K.H. Carlsen (Norway) • The allergic march: is time to reappraise it? - A. Custovic (United Kingdom) • Does remodeling exist in children? - G.A. Rossi (Italy)
Plenary session 2 Room Camille Blanc
11.45-13.15	EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ASTHMA Chairs: G. Viegi (Italy) - E. Jares (Argentina) • Occupational aspects of respiratory diseases - L. Fabbri (Italy) • Update on epidemiology of asthma - E. Bateman (South Africa) • What have we learnt from ISAAC phase 3 - C. Naspitz (Brazil) • Epidemiology of other chronic respiratory diseases - G. Viegi (Italy)
13.15-14.30	Lunch
Room Van Dongen
14.00-14.30	LUNCHTIME LECTURE Chair: M. Polverino (Italy) Osteoporosis and bone fractures in the pneumological clinical practice: how to assess the risk and how to manage it? S. Gonnelli (Italy) Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of Procter & Gamble
Symposium 1 Room Prince Pierre
14.30-16.00	ASTHMA AND ALLERGY: Why are we still discussing them? Chairs: G.W. Canonica (Italy) - T. Popov (Bulgaria) • Progress in Assessment and Management of Allergic Diseases - F.E.R. Simons (Canada) • Published progress and harsh reality in today’s allergies: have they gone different ways? - R. Mösges (Germany) • Compliance to data or compliance to perceptions: what is best for our patients? - C.E. Baena-Cagnani (Argentina) • Seeing should be believing: making the right choices for our allergic patients - G.W. Canonica (Italy) Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of UCB
16.00-16.15	Tea break
Plenary session 3 Room Prince Pierre
16.15-17.45	EAACI SYMPOSIUM: Asthma exacerbations Chairs: R. Dahl (Denmark) - R. Gerth van Wijk (The Netherlands) • Exacerbation vs. loss of asthma control - C. Virchow (Germany) • New viruses as cause of exacerbation - N. Papadopulos (Greece) • Innate immunity in the pathogenesis of virus-induced asthma exacerbation - S.L. Johnston (United Kingdom) • Socio-Economic aspects of asthma exacerbations - R. Gerth van Wijk (The Netherlands)
Session 4 Room Camille Blanc
17.45-19.15	FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ASTHMA - Adult track Chairs: L. DuBuske (USA) - L. Fontana (Italy) • Smooth muscle, asthma and obesity - V. Brusasco (Italy) • Global warming and climatic changes and its impact on allergy and respiratory - G. D'Amato (Italy) • Role of tobacco smoking in chronic respiratory diseases - R. Dahl (Denmark) • Asthma in immigrants - G. Viegi (Italy)
Session 5 Room Auric
17.45-19.15	RISK FACTORS AND CO-MORBIDITIES - Pediatric track Chairs: P. Vichyanond (Thailand) - F.E.R. Simons (Canada) • Hygiene hypothesis and airway inflammation - I. Ansotegui (Ireland) • The role of indoor allergens - P. Vichyanond (Thailand) • Food allergy and asthma - A. Fiocchi (Italy) • Rhinosinusitis in children - M. Zernotti (Argentina)
Room Van Dongen
17.45-19.00	WEBINAR ON ASTHMA S. Mohapatra on line from Tampa (Florida) Chairs: R. Lockey (USA) - J.C. Ivancevich (Argentina) • RSV and Airway Inflammation: Implications for Asthma S. Mohapatra (USA)

FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2008

Session 6 Room Camille Blanc
08.15-09.45	IS IT ASTHMA OR COPD? - Adult track Chairs: C. Virchow (Germany) - M. Zitt (USA) • Controversies in the pathogenesis of COPD - V. Brusasco (Italy) • Immunology of asthma and COPD - P.J. Barnes (United Kingdom) • Asthma and COPD: similarities and differences - A.J. Frew (United Kingdom) • What is new in the treatment of COPD - K. Rabe (The Netherlands)
Session 7 Room Auric
08.15-09.45	PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track Chairs: B. Wah Lee (South Africa) - N. Rodriguez Perez (Mexico) • Recurrent cough and pertussis - O. Kalayci (Turkey) • Asthma severity and atopic eczema - C. Naspitz (Brazil) • Natural history of asthma from childhood to adulthood - A. Fiocchi (Italy) • Virus-induced asthma in children: what is new? - N. Papadopoulos (Greece)
Session 8 Room Van Dongen
08.15-09.45	SEVERE ASTHMA AND RISK FACTORS - Adult track Chairs: M. Sanchez Borges (Venezuela) - F. Braido (Italy) • Asthma heterogeneity: different phenotypes - C. Lombardi (Italy) • Sinusitis and asthma - G. Senna (Italy) • NSAID and asthma: beyond sinus and polyps - M. Kowalski (Poland) • Severe asthma: a different disease? - A. Rossi (Italy)
09.45-10.00	Coffee break
Plenary session 4 Room Prince Pierre
10.00-11.30	INTERASMA-WAO SYMPOSIUM: Allergy and Asthma Chairs: G.W. Canonica (Italy) - T. Popov (Bulgaria) • Epithelial disfunction - S. Holgate (United Kingdom) • Role of regulatory T cells in atopic and non atopic subjects - M. Akdis (Switzerland) • RSV and airway inflammation: implications for asthma - R.F. Lockey (USA) • Immunological aspects of airways remodeling and possible modulation - G.W. Canonica (Italy)
Plenary session 5 Room Camille Blanc
11.30-13.00	GARD: Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Diseases Chairs: J. Bousquet (France) - C.E. Baena-Cagnani (Argentina) • Global burden of chronic respiratory disease - J. Bousquet (France) • Asthma in children: from epidemiology to action plan - C.E. Baena-Cagnani (Argentina) • COPD: present and future in the world - R. Dahl (Denmark) • Public health interventions - E. Bateman (South Africa)
13.00-14.30	Lunch and Lunchtime lecture Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of Novartis
Symposium 2 Room Prince Pierre
14.30-16.00	NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ASTHMA MANAGEMENT: A chance beyond the central airways Chairman: P. Barnes (United Kingdom) • GINA 2006: A clearer guideline to asthma control - M. Gaga (Greece) • Therapeutic approaches to Asthma control: step up or Step down? - A. Yorgancioglu (Turkey) • Small Airways: The burning Point of inflammation in Asthma - R. Dahl (Denmark) • Cellular and molecular interactions between ICS and LABA - P. Barnes (United Kingdom) • The ultimate synergy in asthma control - L. Fabbri (Italy) Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of UCB
16.00-16.15	Tea break
Plenary session 6 Room Prince Pierre
16.15-17.45	RECOMMENDATION IN ASTHMA AND OTHER CRD 2008 Chairs: Sergio Bonini (Italy) - H.S. Park (South Korea) • ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on asthma). An EBM approach 2008 - R. Pawankar (Japan) • Biotech treatment: new perspective - P. Barnes (United Kingdom) • GINA update - P.L. Paggiaro (Italy) • Future treatments of asthma and COPD - N. Siafakas (Greece)
Session 9 Room Camille Blanc
17.45-19.15	INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS - Adult track Chairs: A. Corrado (Italy) - I. Glazer (Israel) • ICS in asthma and COPD: friends and foes - A. Rossi (Italy) • ICS as rescue medication in acute asthma - A. Yorgancioglu (Turkey) • ICS in asthma exacerbations - E. Bateman (South Africa) • Choosing the right inhaler for patients with asthma - M. Cazzola (Italy)
Session 10 Room Auric
17.45-19.15	TREATMENT OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track Chairs: C. Naspitz (Brazil) - G. Pauli (France) • Is anti-microbial therapy an option to treat asthma/allergy? - S. Johnston (United Kingdom) • Allergen avoidance: does it work in asthma? - A. Custovic (United Kingdom) • Immunotherapy in rhinitis and asthma - G. Passalacqua (Italy) • Management of rhinitis in children with asthma - G. Scadding (United Kingdom)
Session 11 Room Van Dongen
17.45-19.15	EAACI SESSION Chairs: G. Passalacqua (Italy) - C. Troise (Italy) • The pathogenesis of exercise-induced asthma in sport medicine - V. Brusasco (Italy) • Diagnosis of asthma in sport and exercise medicine: lessons from the Olimpic games - K.H. Carlsen (Norway) • The epidemiology and treatment of asthma in sport and exercise medicine - S. Bonini (Italy) • Rhinitis and asthma-like conditions in athletes - L. Delgado (Portugal)

SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2008

Session 12 Room Camille Blanc
08.30-10.30	TREATMENT OF ASTHMA 2 - Adult track Chairs: S. Centanni (Italy) - A. Scordamaglia (Italy) • The LABA controversy: revising the evidence - M. Cazzola (Italy) • New drugs for asthma treatment - G. Passalacqua (Italy) • Severe refractory asthma: what do we need? - K. Rabe (The Netherlands) • Ultra long-acting beta agonists - J. Lötvall (Sweden)
Session 13 Room Auric
08.30-10.30	PHARMOCOLOGIC AND NON PHARMACOLOGIC MANAGEMENT - Pediatric track Chairs: J.C. Ivancevich (Argentina) - P. Potter (South Africa) • Management of asthma exacerbation in young children - B. Volovitz (Israel) • Leucotrienes receptor antagonist: alone or add-on - H.S. Park (South Korea) • QoL in childhood asthma: is the same than asthma control? - F. Braido (Italy) • Barriers to adherence with pharmacotherapy - H. Neffen (Argentina)
Session 14 Room Van Dongen
08.30-10.30	MEDITERRANEAN THORACIC SOCIETY - INTERASMA SYMPOSIUM Chairs: T. Popov (Bulgaria) - G. Girbino (Italy) • Genetics in severe asthma - N. Siafakas (Greece) • Asthma and air pollution - F. Andò (Italy) • The role of infection in asthma - J. Dernic (Slovenia) • Advances in inhaled corticosteroids - G. Girbino (Italy)
10.30-10.45	Coffee break
Semi Plenary session 1 Room Camille Blanc
10.45-12.45	IMMUNOTHERAPY: present and future Chairs: G.W. Canonica (Italy) - J. Bousquet (France) • EBM and immunotherapy: from study design to meta-analysis - E. Compalati (Italy) • Lessons from big SLIT trials - S.R. Durham (United Kingdom) • Immunological mechanisms of specific immunotherapy - C. Akdis (Switzerland) • Specific immunotherapy in childhood - C.E. Baena-Cagnani (Argentina)
Semi Plenary session 2 Room Van Dongen
10.45-12.45	ASTHMA AROUND THE WORLD Chairs: R. Sepiashvilli (Russia) - G. Viegi (Italy) • Asthma in children in the Middle East - Y. El Gamal (Egypt) • Mites, parasites and asthma in Latin America - M. Sanchez Borges (Venezuela) • Asthma in the developing world of Eastern Europe - I. Agache (Romania) • Treating asthma in low-income groups in South Africa - P. Potter (South Africa) • Korea: Computer assisted easy asthma management - Y. Young Kim (South Korea)
12.45-13.00	CLOSING OF THE MEETING