Irish Thoracic Society

IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING BELFAST 2008
OUTLINE PROGRAMME

Thursday, 6th November 2008
14.00 - 17.00	Specialist Registrar Training
Friday, 7th November 2008
07.30 – 09.00	Registration / Tea & Coffee
08.00 – 09.00	Irish Association of Pulmonary Rehabilitation - Multi-disciplinary Meeting 'New Developments in Pulmonary Rehabilitation' Dr Terry O'Connor, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Mercy University Hospital Cork.
09.00 – 10.30	Plenary Session
10.30 – 11.00	Tea & Coffee / Exhibition Viewing
11.00 – 13.00	The Irish Thoracic Society Lung Cancer Symposium 11.00 - Lung Cancer and the National Cancer Control Programme Professor Tom Keane, Interim Director, National Cancer Control Programme 11.40 - New Bronchoscopic Developments in the Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer Dr Robert Rintoul, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Lead Clinician Thoracic Oncology, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge 12.20 - The Road to a New TNM-classification for Lung Cancer Professor Jan P. Van Meerbeeck, MD, PhD, Professor of Thoracic Oncology University of Ghent, Divisional Head, University Hospital Ghent, Belgium.
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
13.00 – 15.00	Poster Viewing
15.00 – 15.30	Tea & Coffee / Exhibition Viewing
15.30 – 16.30	Poster Discussion
16.30 – 17.30	Guest Lecture: Airway Remodeling in Asthma: should it concern us? Dr James Martin, Professor of Medicine, Meakins Christie Laboratories, McGill University
Business Meetings
09.00 – 10.30	Forum of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (CPRC)
09.00 – 10.30	Forum of the Respiratory Nurses Association of Ireland (ANAIL)
11.00 – 13.00	Forum of the Paediatric Sub-group of the Irish Thoracic Society Full Programme
17.30 – 19.00	Irish Thoracic Society AGM
19.30 – late	Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner
Saturday, 8th November 2008
9.00 – 10.00	Guest Lecture: What's new in PCD? Dr Jane Lucas, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in Child Health. Director of PCD Diagnostic Service, University of Southampton, UK .
10.00 – 11.00	Plenary Session
11.00 – 11.30	Tea & Coffee / Exhibition Viewing
11.30 – 13.00	Plenary Session
13.00 – 13.30	Prize Presentations and close
13.30 – 14.30	Lunch

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