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5 May 2010

Course 1: Joint course with ERS “How to write an article”

Chairs: Jorrit Gerritsen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS;  Feyza Erkan
Assembly: Clinical Problems

09:00 – 09:10                     Introduction to the course                    Jorrit Gerritsen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS
09:10 – 10:00                     Methods and materials                                        Vito Brusasco, Genova, ITALY
10:00 – 10:30                     References                                               Nikolaos Siafakas, Heraklion, GREECE
10:30 – 11:00                    
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45                     Results                                               Jorrit Gerritsen,
Groningen, NETHERLANDS
11:45 – 12:30                     Introduction                                                   Klaus Rabe, Leiden, NETHERLANDS
12:30 – 13:15                    
Lunch
13:15 – 14:15                     Discussion                                                     Klaus Rabe, Leiden, NETHERLANDS
14:15 – 14:45                     Figures & Tables                                 Jorrit Gerritsen,
Groningen, NETHERLANDS
14:45 – 15:15                    
Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:45                     Abstract &Title                                           Nikolaos Siafakas, Heraklion, GREECE
15:45 – 16:15                     Summing up                                       Jorrit Gerritsen,
Groningen, NETHERLANDS

Course 2: Chemotherapy applications and daily practice

Chairs: Metin Görgüner, Tuncay Göksel
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies

Course 3: Role of CT and HRCT in thoracic radiology and thoracic anatomy

Chairs: Macit Arıyürek, Mevhibe Alver
Assembly: Diagnostic Techniques

COURSE 4: Clinical and practical intepretation of pulmonary function tests

Chairs: Sevgi Saryal, Ertürk Erdinç
Assemblies: Diagnostic techniques, COPD, Environmental Pulmonary Diseases

COURSE 5: Diagnosis in sleep related pulmonary disorders

Chairs: Turan Acıcan, Oya İtil
Assembly: Sleep Disorders

COURSE 6: Rational antibiotic use in respiratory tract infections

Chairs: Abdullah Sayıner, Dilek Arman
Assembly: Respiratory Tract Infections

COURSE 7: Internal Medicine Consultations for Pulmonary Specialists

Chairs: Emine Koçyiğit, Muammer Demir                     
Assembly: Clinical Problems

COURSE 8: Concept of Tobacco Control and Smoking cessation therapies

Chairs: Zeynep Aytemur, Şule Akçay
Assembly: Tobacco Control

COURSE 9: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Chairs: Müzeyyen Erk, Pınar Ergün
Assembly: Pulmonary Rehabilitation and chronic care

COURSE 10: Experimental animal models in pulmonary diseases

Chairs: Hasan Bayram, Mehmet Kaya
Assemblies:  Experimental studies, Pulmonary cellular biology and genetics

09:00 – 09:30    Planning a study, writing a project and finding resource                                   Hasan Bayram
09:30 – 10:00    Ethics in animal studies, legal obligations regarding
                        laboratory standardization and animal care                                                     Müjdat Balkan
                           
10:00 – 10:30    Role of the veterinary in an animal laboratory                                                      Tayfun İde
10:30 – 11:00    Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30    Handling Techniques for Laboratory Animals                                                     Serhan Tanju
                         (surgery, injection, taking blood sample etc.)      
11:30 – 12:00    Methods of anesthesia, analgesia and euthanasia for laboratory animals          Zeynep Pekcan
12:00 – 12:30    How to plan animal studies and how to choose a suitable model and subject?      Mehmet Kaya
12:30 – 13:15    Lunch
13:15 – 13:45    COPD and asthma models                                                                               Figen Deveci
13:45 – 14:15    Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and adult respiratory distress syndrome model            Sibel Atış
14:15 – 14:45    Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:15    Thoracic surgery models                                                                               H.Volkan Kara
15:15 – 15:45    Pleural animal models                                                                                  Öner Dikensoy

COURSE 11: Chronic lung diseases from child to adulthood
                  (Asthma, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, COPD)

Chairs: Bülent Karadağ, İpek Türktaş
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases

09:00 – 09:30        Kongenital lung anomalies                                                                          Ayşe Aslan
09:30 – 10:00        Chronic lung diseases of the newborn (BPD)                            
                 Hasan Yüksel
10:00 – 10:30        Tuberculosis                                                                                           
Fuat Gürkan
10:30 – 11:00        
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30        Asthma                                                                    
                             İpek Türktaş
11:30 – 12:00        Primary Ciliary dyskinesia                                                                          
Ebru Yalçın
12:00 – 12:30        Bronchiectasis                                                                          
 Ayten Uyan Pamukçu
12:30 – 13:15        
Lunch
13:15 – 13:45        Sequelas of infections                                                                     
Deniz Doğru Ersöz
13:45 – 14:15        Cystic Fibrosis                                             
                 Eitan Kerem,Jerusalem, ISRAEL
14:15 – 14:45        
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:15        Outcome of pulmonary diseases experienced in childhood during adulthood   
Esen Kıyan
15:15 – 15:45        Lung transplantation                                                                                 
Figen Gülen

 

COURSE 12: Internal Medicine problems in the intensive care unit

Chairs: Sait Karakurt, Turgay Çelikel
Assembly: Respiratory failure and intensive care

09:00 – 09:30            Arrhytmias, clinical approach and treatment                                            Ali Serdar Fak
09:30 – 10:00            Approach and treatment for hypertensive attack and hypertensive                                 emergencies;                                                                                       Hakan Tezcan
10:00 – 10:30            Approach and treatment for heart failure                                                Ali Serdar Fak
10:30 – 11:00            Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30            Approach and treatment for ischemic cardiac diseases                             Ali Serdar Fak
11:30 – 12:00            Cardiopulmonary resuscitation                                                               Hakan Tezcan
12:00 – 12:30            Acid base balance electrolyte imbalance                                                     Reha Erkoç
12:30 – 13:15            Lunch
13:15 – 13:45            Renal failure and renal replacement therapy                                         Serhan Tuğlular
13:45 – 14:15            GIS bleeding                                                                                        Neşe İmeryüz
14:15 – 14:45            Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:15            Liver failure                                                                                      Osman Özdoğan
15:15 – 15:45            Approach and treatment for stroke patients                                               Nazire Afşar
15:45 – 16:15            Status epilepticus and delirium                                                                 Nazire Afşar

COURSE 13: Practical techniques and challenges in thoracic surgery

Chairs:Nurettin Karaoğlanoğlu, Salih Topçu
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery

09:00 – 09:30            TOS ( Torosik Outlet Syndrome )                                          Ayten Kayı Cangır
09:30 – 10:00            Hyperhydrosis                                                                               Onur Genç
10:00 – 10:30            Massive haemoptysis                                                                  Alpay Sarper
10:30 – 11:00            Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30            Bronchial closure techniques                                                        Tamer Okay
11:30 – 12:00            Esophagus perforations                                                                Atilla Eroğlu
12:00 – 12:30            Intraoperative bleeding                                                      Celalettin Kocatürk
12:30 – 13:15            Lunch
13:15 – 13:45            Plunging goiter                                                                          Ş. Tuba Liman
13:45 – 14:15            Eventration of the Diaphragm                                               Akın Eraslan Balcı
14:15 – 14:45            Coffee Break

COURSE 14: Big picture in health policies

Chairs: Zeki Kılıçaslan, Eyüp Sabri Uçan
Assembly: Health policies

09:00 – 09:30      Setting objectives and introduction to aims and overview of the course    Zeki Kılıçaslan
09:30 – 10:00      Problems experienced in evidence-based medicine                                     Ali Kocabaş
10:00 – 10:30      Health sociology                                                                                      İzzet Duyar
10:30 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30      Medicine and philosophy                                                                         Cemal Güzel
11:30 – 12:00      Ivan Illich from the eye of a physician                                                    Osman Elbek
12:00 – 12:30      Foucault from the eye of a physician                                          Haluk Celalettin Çalışır
12:30 – 13:15      Lunch
13:15 – 13:45      Cost phenomenon in health                                                                       Sedat Altın
13:45 – 14:15      Socioeconomic discrepancies and health                                            Onur Hamzaoğlu
14:15 – 14:45      Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:15      Discussion and evaluation of the course

COURSE 15: Tubeculosis for family physicians and pulmonary basics certificate program

2 day course (The course will be be performed twice during the congress)

Chairs: Savaş Kartal, Serir Özkan

09:00 – 09:30       Status of tuberculosis in the world and in Turkey                                        Onur Fevzi Erer
09:30 – 10:00       Basic principles for diagnosis of tuberculosis                                              Selahattin Öztaş
10:00 – 10:30       Basic principles for treatment of tuberculosis                                                   Tülin Sevim
10:30 – 11:00       Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30       Treatment of tuberculosis in case of side effects and special incidents   Mihriban Öğretensoy
11:30 – 12:00       Prevention of tuberculosis                                                                              Tülay Törün
12:00 – 12:30       Registration and notification                                                                           Süha Özkan
12:30 – 13:00       Directly observed treatments                                                                           Dilek Polat
13:00 – 14:30       Lunch
14:30 – 15:00       Expectations from the family physician in control of tuberculosis                         Mert Aydın
15:00 – 15:30       Case presentation and practice                                            Serir Özkan – Onur Fevzi Erer

 

OPENING PROGRAM

18:00 – 19:30                     Opening Ceremony
19:30 – 21:30                     Cocktail

6 May 2010

08:30 – 09:30

Oral Presentation and mini-symposium sessions         

09:30 – 11:00

SESSION 7: EBUS vs mediastinoscopy in the evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes?

Session: Pro-Con
Session chairs: Reha Baran, Cengiz Gebitekin
Assembly: Diagnostic Techniques
EBUS
Speaker: Felix Herth, Heidelberg, GERMANY
Mediastinoscopyi
Speaker: Akif Turna

SESSION 8: Contemporary developments in childhood bronchiectasis

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs:Rıfat Özacar, Nermin Güler
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases

Epidemiology
Speaker:
Bülent Karadağ
What’s new in pathogenesis
Speaker:
Nural Kiper
Etiology
Speaker:
Esen Demir
Novel options in Treatment
Speaker:
Uğur Özçelik

SESSION 9: XDR tuberculosis (Session in honour of Dr. Crofton)

Session: Panel
Session chairs: Tülay Törün, Tuğrul Şipit
Assembly: Tuberculosis

Drug resistance and evolution, mechanisms of XDR Tuberculosis
Speaker: Kemal Tahaoğlu
Current situation in the world
Speaker: Dermot Maher, Entebbe, UGANDA
Current situation in Turkey: Implications of control
Speaker: Serir Özkan
Treatment management and prevention
Speaker: Dermot Maher, Entebbe, UGANDA

SESSION 10: Obesity and asthma

Session: Hot Topic
Session chairs: Yavuz Selim Demirel, Dane Ediger 
Assembly: Asthma-Allergy

Speaker: Berna Dursun

SESSION 11: Drug Allergies

Session:  Meet the Expert
Session Chairs:: Gül Karakaya, Ferhan Özşeker  
Assembly: Asthma-Allergy

Speaker: Gülfem Çelik

SESSION 12: Legal responsibilities of physicians, malpractice insurance systems and physician                      rights in the context on new legislations in Turkey

Session: Hot Topic
Session chairs: Yücel Kırlangıç, Ziynet Özçelik 
Assembly: Health policies

Speaker: Haluk Özsarı

SESSION 13: Tasks for pulmonary specialists to prevent chronic pulmonary diseases

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Arzu Yorgancıoğlu, Atilla Uysal  
Assembly: Health policies                                         

Speaker: Osman Elbek

SESSION 14: MicroRNA in pathogenesis and treatment of lung diseases

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Mustafa Özesmi, Ayşegül Zamani   
Assembly: Experimental studies, pulmonary cell biology and genetics                            

Speaker: Ian Adcock, London, UK

SESSION 15: Gene polymorphism studies; why and how?

Session: Conference
Session Chairs:Betül Ayşe Sin, Fuat Gürkan
Assembly: Experimental studies, pulmonary cell biology and genetics                                  

Speaker: Ayşegül Zamani

Coffee Break                                        11:00-11:30

11:30 – 13:00

SESSION 16: Thoracic oncology multidiscilinary rounds

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs: Tuncay Göksel, Nezih Özdemir
Members: Tuncay Göksel, Nezih Özdemir,  Fulden Yumuk, Fazilet Dinçbaş, Recep Savaş, Dilek Yılmazbayhan,  Kerim Sönmezoğlu
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies                                                           

Speakers: Pınar Yıldız, Ahmet Erbaycu, Uğur Gönlügür, Ahmet Selim Yurdakul

SESSION 17:  Diagnostic approaches in Pulmonary Hypertension

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Gülseren Karabıyıkoğlu, Mehmet Hamdi Muz
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques
Cardiac Imaging  and Cardiac PET
Speaker: Serdar Küçükoğlu
Invasive hemodynamic assessment
Speaker: Tamer Sayın
Functional evaluation
Speaker: Laurent Nicod, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Role of biomarkers
Speaker: Zeynep Pınar Önen

SESSION 18: Can we change the natural course of asthma?

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Jorrit Gerritsen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS; Ayfer Tuncer
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases
Natural course of asthma
Speaker: Jorrit Gerritsen, Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Role of genetics
Speaker: Ömer Kalaycı
Environmental interactions
Speaker: Remziye Tanaç
The effect of different treatment strategies
Speaker: Elif Dağlı

SESSION 19: Infection control in intensive care

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Levent Kart, Oktay Gözü   
Assembly: Intensive Care                                                                                                

Speaker: Turan Aslan

SESSION 20: “Weaning” in mechanical ventilation

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Akın Kaya, Zafer Kartaloğlu
Assembly: Intensive Care                                                                                                

Speaker: Turgay Çelikel

SESSION 21: Education of residents

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Hayati Bilgiç, Yasemin Saygıdeğer
Assembly: Administrative Council
Problems of residents
Speaker: Yasemin Saygıdeğer (Resident delegate)
Problems of trainers
Speaker: Canan Hasanoğlu
What’s new in pulmonary medicine curriculum
Speaker: Hayati Bilgiç (Board Vice Chair)
By-laws of pulmonary medicine residency education
Speaker: Engin Uçar (Health Education Department Deputy Manager)

SESSION 22: Global Warming: Air pollution and Human Health (ATS-TTS Joint Session)

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Hasan Bayram, Dean Schraufnagel, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Assembly: Experimental studies, pulmonary cell biology and genetics
The effects of global warming on pulmonary health
Speaker: Jonathan Ayres, Birmingham, UK
The effect of air pollution on pediatric pulmonary health             
Speaker: Kent Pinkerton, Davis, California, USA
Air pollution arising from traffic and its effects
Speaker: Peri Arbak
Problem of air pollution in Turkey: Current situation and preventive measures 
Speaker: Hakan Tecer

Lunch and Satellite Symposium                       13:00 – 14:30

14:30 – 16:00

Poster Sessions (23-32)

SESSION 33: Interstition lung disease case presentations

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs: Pınar Arıkan Fırat, Güngör Çamsarı
Assembly: Clinical Problems                                                                                            

Speakers: Fatmanur Karaköse, Ebru Ünsal, Gülcihan Özkan, Ebru Sulu

SESSION 34: Minimally Invasive Surgery in chest wall deformities

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Mustafa Yüksel, Mehmet Bilgin    
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery                                                                

Speaker: Hans Pilegaard, Aarhus, DENMARK

SESSION 35: Tracheal stents

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Şevket Kavukçu, Muzaffer Metin  
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery

Speaker: Altan Kır

SESSION 36: Phenotypes of Asthma

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Zeynep Mısırlıgil, Füsun Yıldız
Assembly: Asthma-Allergy
Clinical Course Phenotypes: Early/Late onset asthma, frequent attacks and brittle asthma
Speaker: Leonardo Fabbri, Modena, ITALY
Phenotypes According to Functional Properties: Severe Asthma, Fixed airway obstruction, Treatment resistant asthma
Speaker: Sevim Bavbek
Phenotypes According to Various Stimulants: Analgesics, Exercise and PMA
Speaker: Vito Brusasco, Genova, ITALY
Phenotypes According to Inflammation Types: Eosinophilic, non-eosinophilic/neutrophilic
Speaker: Kıvılcım Oğuzülgen

SESSION 37: What has changed in adult pneumonia treatment guidelines?

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Oktay İmecik, Orhan Çildağ   
Assembly: Respiratory tract infections                                                                  

Speaker: Tevfik Özlü

SESSION 38: New antimicrobial agents

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Faruk Özer, Ercüment Ege, Lütfiye Mülazımoğlu
Assembly: Respiratory tract infections                                                                               

Speaker: Sercan Ulusoy

SESSION 39: Mutation targeted treatment options and limitations arising from genetic                      heterogeneity in Turkey in Cystic fibrosis patients

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Bülent Karadağ, Berrin Ceyhan   
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases
Mutations in Turkey
Speaker: Deniz Doğru Ersöz
Mutation targeted treatment options
Speaker: Eitan Kerem, Jerusalem, ISRAEL

SESSION 40: Primary ciliary dyskinesia

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Uğur Özçelik, Ülker Öneş  
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases  

 Speaker: Bülent Karadağ

SESSION 41: Thoracic ultrasonography in pulmonary diseases

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Mustafa Erel, Ahmet Ilgazlı                                                                                        

 Speaker: Adem Kırış

SESSION 42: Approach to solitary pulmonary nodules

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: İbrahim Dinçer, Kerim Sönmezoğlu   
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies                        

Speaker: Adnan Yılmaz

Coffee Break                    16:00 – 16:30

                                         16:30 – 18:00

 

SESSION 43: Community Acquired Pulmonary Infections: Questions and Answers

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Ayten Filiz, Muzaffer Fincancı
Assembly: Pulmonary infections
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in COPD and bronchiectasis
Speaker: Abdullah Sayıner
Mycoplasma and Chlamydia: Role in COPD and Asthma
Speaker: Mark Woodhead, Manchester, UK
CAP: Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Speaker: Aykut Çilli
Aspergillus in non-immunocomprimised patients
Speaker: Gökhan Aygün

SESSION 44: Is endobronchial treatment adequate in endonbronchial typical carcinoid?

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Ilgaz Doğusoy, Meltem Tor
Assembly:Thoracic Surgery
Yes
Speaker: Jean Michel Vergnon, Saint-etienne, FRANCE
No, surgical resection is necessary.                              
Speaker: Hakan Kutlay

SESSION 45: Inflammatory parameters are useful in the course of asthma treatment

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Metin Keren, Yıldız Camcıoğlu
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases
YES                           
Speaker: Arzu Bakırtaş
NO
Speaker: Refika Ersu

SESSION 46: Treatment and follow-up in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Ahmet Akkaya, Oğuz Köktürk
Assembly: Sleep Disorders
Medical treatment including PAP
Speaker: Arschang Valipour, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Surgical Treatment
Speaker: Yusuf Kemaloğlu
Intra-oral device applications
Speaker: Filiz Keyf
Follow-up
Speaker: Bülent Çiftçi

SESSION 47: Diagnostic approach for dyspnea in emergency ward

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Necla Songül, Veysel Yılmaz   
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques  
Speaker: Gökhan Kırbaş

SESSION 48: How should we manage complications encountered during bronchoscopy?

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Ömer Özbudak, Benan Çağlayan    
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques                                                                                         
Speaker: Erdoğan Çetinkaya

SESSION 49: Human made fibers and health consequences

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Fatma Evyapan, Abdurrahman Şenyiğit 
Assembly: Environmental and occupational lung diseases                   

Speaker: Benoit Nemery, Leuven, BELGIUM

SESSION 50: The extent of environmental asbestos exposure in Turkey? How big is the problem?

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Tuğrul Çavdar, Fatma Evyapan   
Assembly: Environmental and occupational lung diseases                                                       
Speaker: İzzettin Barış

18:00 – 19:00

Thematic poster, Poster Discussion, E-poster Sessions

COURSE 16: Basic pulmonary medicine for family physicians

Chairs: Numan Ekim, Halil Ekinci

7 May 2010

Oral Presentation and mini-symposium sessions (58 – 63)          08:30 – 09:30

09:30 – 11:00

SESSION 64: Radiology Case Presentations

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs: Çetin Atasoy, Canan Akman
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques                                                                                        
Speakers: Canan Akman, Macit Arıyürek, Hüdaver Alper

SESSION 65: Restaging following neoadjuvant treatment; Which method?

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Murat Kıyık, İrfan Yalçınkaya
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery and pulmonary pathologies
Neoadjuvant treatment
Speaker: Rudolph Huber, Munich, GERMANY
Bronchoscopic evaluation after neoadjuvant treatment
Speaker: Felix Herth
Re-mediastinoscopy
Speaker: Semih Halezaroğlu

SESSION 66: Hospital acquired pneumonia: Diagnosis and treatment

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Numan Numanoğlu, Gökhan Aygün  
Assembly: Respiratory tract infections                                                    

Speaker: Oğuz Kılınç

SESSION 67:  Pandemic of H1N1: What did we learn, implications on future?

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Esin Tuncay, Ziya Gülbaran   
Assembly: Respiratory tract infections                                                                    

Speaker: Önder Ergönül

SESSION 68: Diseases of small airways of lung, from the view of radiologist and clinician.

Session : Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Göksel Kıter, Füsun Kalpaklıoğlu   
Assembly : Diagnostic techniques
Diseases of small airways of lung, from the view of radiologist
Speaker: Ragıp Özkan
Diseases of small airways of lung , from the view of clinician
Speaker: Tülay Özdemir

SESSION 69: Oxygen treatment indications and toxicity

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Atilla Saygı, Günay Tosun
Assembly: Experimental studies, pulmonary cell biology and genetics
Technical aspects of oxygen treatment
Speaker: Levent Kart
Oxygen transport from alveoli to mitochondria
Speaker: Paulo Palange, Rome, ITALY
Clinical outcome of oxygen treatment
Speaker: Sibel Atış
Limitations of oxygen treatment
Speaker: Ahmet Uğur Demir

SESSION 70: BAL and flowcytometry

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Demet Karnak, A. Füsun Öner Eyüboğlu   
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques                    

 Speaker: A.Füsun Öner Eyüboğlu

SESSION 71: Approach to eosinophilic lung diseases

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Dean Schraufnagel, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Öznur Abadoğlu  
Assembly: Clinical Problems                                                                                                

Speaker: Çiğdem Biber

Coffee Break                                             11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 13:00

SESSION 72:  Coal mine pneumoconiosis to sandblasting jeans: Changing work environment
                      and novel exposures

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Benoit Nemery, Leuven, BELGIUM; Arif Çımrın
Assembly: Environmental and occupational lung diseases
Contemporary etiologies in diffuse lung diseases
Speaker: Benoit Nemery, Leuven, BELGIUM
Silika
Silica exposure maruziyeti
Speaker: Nurhan Köksal
Food processsing
Speaker: Fatma Evyapan
Housekeeping
Speaker: Metin Görgüner

SESSION 73:  Home care programs; palliation and planning end stage of life
                     (in Honour of Müzeyyen Erk)

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Muzaffer Metintaş, Ülkü Bayındır
Assembly: Pulmoner rehabilitasyon ve kronik bakım
Home care, definition, reasons of application, models in chronic pulmonary diseases
Speaker: Pınar Ergün
Palliation and planning end stage of life in serious COPD
Speaker: Alev Gürgün
Mechanical ventilation in neuromusculary patients at home; hospital to home
Speaker: Anita Simonds, London, UK
Lung malignities; Palliative care in home and planning end stage of life
Speaker: Meltem Uyar

SESSION 74:  Thrombolytics should be applied in submassive pulmonary emboli

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Canan Hasanoğlu, Gülfer Okumuş
Assembly: Clinical Problems
NO                                   
Speaker: Gül Öngen
YES
Speaker: Numan Ekim

SESSION 75: New developments in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Göksel Kıter, Erkan Ceylan
Assembly: Clinical Problems
Saroidosis in Turkey
Speaker: Göksel Kıter
New apporaches in sarcoidosis treatment
Speaker: Zeki Yıldırım

SESSION 76:  New discussions and medications in treatment of IPF

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Oya Kayacan, Dean Schraufnagel, Chicago, Illinois, USA  
Assembly: Clinical Problems                                                                                        

Speaker: Nesrin Moğulkoç

SESSION 77: New staging system in lung cancer

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Kürşat Özvaran, Ayten Kayı Cangır
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies                                                                 

Speaker: Peter Goldstraw, London, UK  

SESSION 78: Symptomatic approach to terminal lung cancer patient

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: A. Kadri Çırak, Meral Gülhan   
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies                                                                

Speaker: Ülkü Yılmaz Turay

SESSION 79: Bronchiectasis: Problems and solutions

Session : Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Armağan Hazar, Şükran Atikcan  
Assembly: Clinical Problems                                                                                       

Speaker: Dean Schraufnagel, Chicago, Illinois, USA

SESSION 66:  Surgery in chronic pulmonary thromboembolism

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Rıza Doğan, Güven Çetin   
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery                                                                                      

Speaker: Bedrettin Yıldızeli, Selim İsbir

 

Lunch and satellite symposium              13:00 – 14:30

Thematic poster, Poster Discussion, E-poster Sessions (81 – 90)

14:30 – 16:00

SESSION 91: Second phase of 19 July 2009 legislation and solutions to problems

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Melahat Kurutepe, Toker Ergüder
Assembly: Tobacco Control
National strategy and policies in tobacco control
Speaker: Nazmi Bilir
The role of civil organizations after 19 July legislation
Speaker: Elif Dağlı
Tobacco control committees: Problems and Activities
Speaker: Oğuz Kılınç
European experience in tobacco products
Speaker: Luke Clancy, Dublin, IRELAND

SESSION 92:  Parapneumonic effusion: Improvements in diagnosis and treatment

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Ramazan Demir, Atilla Gürses
Assembly: Solunum sistemi infeksiyonları
Is laboratory evaluation sufficient for diagnosis?
Speaker: Öner Dikensoy
Changes in medical treatment
Speaker: Hüseyin Yıldırım
When and which surgical treatment?  
Speaker: Yener Yörük

SESSION 93:  Efficacy of treatment options in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Recep Işık, Hasan Batırel
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies
Role of surgical technique on palliation and survival in early stage MPM
Speaker: David J. Sugarbaker, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Survival after multimodality treatment and recurrence
Speaker: Muzaffer Metintaş
Intraoperative Heated chemotherapy in MPM: A new strategy
Speaker: David J Sugarbaker, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Prognostic value of biologic markers
Speaker: Abdurahman Şenyiğit

SESSION 94: What are the new changes in the updated diagnostic and treatment guidelines
                     for asthma?

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Ülkü Bayındır, Sema Canbakan  
Assembly: Astım-Allerji                                                                                      

Speaker: Bilun Gemicioğlu

SESSION 95: Updated guidelines of diagnosis and treatment for COPD

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Hakan Günen, Haşim Boyacı   
Assembly: COPD                                                                                                   

Speaker: Mehmet Polatlı, Ertürk Erdinç

SESSION 96: Nutritional support in COPD

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Müzeyyen Erk, Sema Umut
Assembly: COPD                                                                                                       

Speaker: Sinan Erginel

SESSION 97:  Phenotypes of COPD

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Sevda Özdoğan, İlknur Başyiğit  
Assembly: COPD                                                                                                               

Speaker: Nikolaos Siafakas, Heraklion, GREECE

SESSION 98: Complex sleep apnea syndrome

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Mehmet Karadağ, Ali Nihat Annakkaya  
Assembly: Sleep Disorders                                                                                  

Speaker: Oğuz Köktürk

SESSION 99: Cardiac risks for patients with sleep apnea syndrome

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Tülin Kuyucu, Erhan Ekinci   
Assembly: Sleep Disorders                                                                                    

Speaker: Yüksel Peker, Skövde, SWEDEN

Coffee Break             16:00 – 16:30

16:30 – 18:00

 

SESSION 100: Clinical Problems case presentations

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs ve uzman tartışmacılar: Levent Tabak, Gülfer Okumuş
Assembly: Clinical Problems
Hypersensitivity pneumonia
Speaker: Ahmet Bircan
Vasculitis
Speaker: Füsun Topçu
Sarcoidosis
Speaker: Gülfer Okumuş
Pulmonary emboli
Speaker: Oğuz Uzun

SESSION 101: Is there a role for chemotherapy in elderly patients?

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Atila Akkoçlu, Salih Güçlü
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies
YES                             
Speaker: Rudolph Huber, Munich, GERMANY
NO
Speaker: Tuncay Göksel

SESSION 102: Treatment options in recurrent moderate to severe asthma

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Fuat Kalyoncu, Haluk Türktaş
Assembly: Astım-Allerji
Yüksek
High dose inhaled corticosteroid combinations doz inhale kortikosteroidli kombinasyon
Speaker: Arzu Yorgancıoğlu
İdame
Salvage and maintainance combinations ve kurtarıcı olarak kombine kullanım
Speaker: Dilşad Mungan

SESSION 103:  Patient ventilator interaction

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Stefano Nava, Pavia, ITALY;  Filiz Koşar
Assembly: Intensive Care
Patient ventilator problems: diagnosis and role of sedation
Speaker: Tekin Yıldız
Problems of triggering and airflow
Speaker: Sait Karakurt
End of inspiration and problems with expiration
Speaker: Can Sevinç
Patient ventilator interaction in NIMV and solutions
Speaker: Kürşat Uzun

SESSION 104:  Full time work legislation for physicians: Problems and expectations

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Muzaffer Metintaş, Zehra Seyfikli
Assembly: Health policies
Why full time legislation?   
Speaker: Nihat Tosun (Undersecretary, Health Ministry)
Why Turkish Physicians Association opposes the current form of Full-time legislation?
Speaker: Özdemir Aktan (İstanbul Physicians Association, President)
Medical education and full time work
Speaker: Şükrü Hatun
Full time and Turkish Thoracic Society
Speaker: Feyza Erkan

SESSION 105: Interpretation of drug sensitivity test results in tuberculosis:
                      Evaluations from microbiologists and clinicians?

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: İpek Coşkunol, Eyüp Sabri Uçan
Assembly: Tuberculosis
Errors in laboratory and interpretation of drug sentivity tests
Speaker: Kaya Köksalan
Management strategy should be changed according to drug sentivity tests
Speaker: Şeref Özkara
Management strategy should not be changed according to drug sentivity tests
Speaker: Haluk Celalettin Çalışır

Thematic poster, Poster discussion, E-poster Sessions (106-112)  18:00 – 19:00

COURSE 15 (recurrent session): Tuberculosis for family physicians

Chairs: Savaş Kartal, Serir Özkan

09:00 – 09:30       Status of tuberculosis in the world and in Turkey                                        Onur Fevzi Erer
09:30 – 10:00       Basic principles for diagnosis of tuberculosis                                              Selahattin Öztaş
10:00 – 10:30       Basic principles for treatment of tuberculosis                                                   Tülin Sevim
10:30 – 11:00       Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30       Treatment of tuberculosis in case of side effects and special incidents   Mihriban Öğretensoy
11:30 – 12:00       Prevention of tuberculosis                                                                              Tülay Törün
12:00 – 12:30       Registration and notification                                                                           Süha Özkan
12:30 – 13:00       Directly observed treatments                                                                           Dilek Polat
13:00 – 14:30       Lunch
14:30 – 15:00       Expectations from the family physician in control of tuberculosis                         Mert Aydın
15:00 – 15:30       Case presentation and practice                                            Serir Özkan – Onur Fevzi Erer

8 May 2010

Oral Presentation and mini-symposium sessions          08:30 – 09:30

09:00 – 16:45

COURSE 16 (recurrent): Basic Pulmonary Medicine for family physicians

Chairs: Numan Numanoğlu, Demet Özkul

09:00 – 11:00

SESSION 119: Emphysema and role of surgery in COPD

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Walter Weder, Zurich, SWITZERLAND;  Sema Umut
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery
Pathophysiology of emphysema
Speaker: Sema Umut
Thoracoscopic LVRS
Speaker: Walter Weder, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Bronchoscopic LVRS
Speaker: Turhan Ece
Biologic and Physiologic Effects of Interventional Methods
Speaker: Sebgi Saryal

 

SESSION 120: Early stage lung cancer: Diagnostic and treatment options

Session: Panel
SessionChairs: İsmail Savaş, Toros Selçuk
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies, Pulmonary pathology
New bronchoscopic methods
Speaker: Jean Michel Vergnon, Saint-etienne, FRANCE
Progress in genetic, pathologic and molecular methods
Speaker: Serpil Dizbay Sak
Surgery in Stage I lung cancer: Importance of age and lesser anatomic resections
Speaker: Kamil Kaynak
Is there a role for chemotherapy or radiotherapy
Speaker: Johan Vansteenkiste, Leuven, BELGIUM

SESSION 121:
Assessment of airway inflammation: To whom and how?

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Nikolaos Siafakas, Heraklion, GREECE; Füsun Yıldız
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques
Airway inflamation in different situations (COPD, asthma, diffuse paranchimal lung diseases)
Speaker: Vito Brusasco, Genova, ITALY
Exhaled nitric oxide
Speaker: Metin Özkan
Induced sputum
Speaker: Füsun Yıldız
Invasive methods (bronchoscopy, serum)
Speaker: Murat Sezer

SESSION 122: Other Organ Damages in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Arschang Valipour, Vienna, AUSTRIA; Sadık Ardıç
Assembly: Uykuda bozuklukları
CNS and ophthalmic effects
Speaker: Sadık Ardıç
Endocrine effects
Speaker: Arschang Valipour, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Renal and urogenital effects
Speaker: Hikmet Fırat
Gastrointestinal effects
Speaker: Oya İtil

SESSION 123:  Use of laboratory test in showing the hereditary and obtained risk factors of venous thromboembolism . Which test to choose and should be applied to whom and when?

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Nermin Çapan, Altay Şahin   
Assembly: Clinical Problems                                                                                         

Speaker: Reyhan Diz Küçükkaya

SESSION 124: Diagnosis and treatment difficulties of pulmonary thromboembolism in pregnancy

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Bülent Özbay, Esen Akkaya  
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques                                                                                      

Speaker: Orhan Arseven

 

SESSION 125: Priorities in tuberculosis research

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Kaya Köksalan, Erkan Bozkanat
Assembly: Tuberculosis                                                                                              

Speaker: Dermot Maher, Entebbe, UGANDA

SESSION 126: Clinical approach in Non- tuberculosis mycobacterial infections

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Kudret Ekiz, Celal Karlıkaya  
Assembly: Tuberculosis                                                                                             

Speaker: Zeki Kılıçaslan

 

Coffee Break                        11:00 – 11:30

11:30 – 13:00

SESSION 127: Diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary pathologies in immunosuppressed patients

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Sema Oymak, Özlem Özdemir Kumbasar
Assembly:Clinical Problems
Clinical and radiologic evaluation (Algorithms)
Speaker: Özlem Özdemir Kumbasar
Tests for identification of etiologies
Speaker: Özay Akan
Treatment of infections and follow-up
Speaker: Volkan Korten
Approach to non-infectious pathologies
Speaker: Oğuz Uzun

SESSION 128:  Mechanics of respiration: Basic science and clinical role

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Sait Karakurt, Gül Gürsel
Assembly: Intensive Care
Clinical importance of respiratory mechanics
Speaker: Stefano Nava, Pavia, ITALY
Technical evaluation of respiratory mechanics measurements
Speaker: Zuhal Karakurt
Changes in respiratory mechanics in various diseases
Speaker: Gül Gürsel
Active and passive respiratory mechanics
Speaker: Nalan Adıgüzel

SESSION 129:  COPD and comorbidities; Shall we change our treatment approach? 
                        (In honour of Türkan Tatlıcıoğlu)

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Leonardo Fabbri, Modena, ITALY; Mehmet Gencer
Assembly: COPD
COPD and chronic comorbidities
Speaker: Elif Şen
Efficiency of COPD treatment on comorbidities
Speaker: Nurhayat Yıldırım
Effects of comorbidity treatments on COPD course
Speaker: Esen Kıyan
Is there a potential for systemic inflammation to be the new target for treatment strategies?
Speaker: Leonardo Fabbri, Modena, ITALY

SESSION 130: Impact of politics on our profession

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Hamza Bozkurt, Süha Özkan
Assembly: Health policies
Being a physician in Tuberculosis policlinics
Speaker: Remzi Karşı
Reimbursements by Social Security Agency
Speaker: Tevfik Özlü
Health and market economy
Speaker: Sedat Altın
Physician as a human being in health services
Speaker: Celal Karlıkaya

SESSION 131: Treatment of pneumothorax and pleurodesis

Session: Conference
Session Chairs:Fahri Oğuzkaya, Turgut Işıtmangil   
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery                                                                                       

Speaker: Ufuk Çağırıcı

SESSION 132: Role and timing of VATS in pleural effusions

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Ahmet Başoğlu, Erkmen Gülhan  
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery                                                                                             

Speaker: Erdal Okur

SESSION 133: Lung cancer and EGFR

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Büge Öz, Nur Ürer
Assembly: Pulmonary Pathology                                                                                              

Speaker: Gülay Özbilim

SESSION 134: Patient centered treatment approach in lung cancer

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Serap Hastürk, Pınar Çelik
Assembly: Lung and Pleural Malignancies                                                                 

Speaker: Johan Vansteenkiste, Leuven, BELGIUM

13:00 – 14:30

Thematic poster, Poster Discussion, E-poster Sessions (135-142)

Lunch and satellite symposium

14:30 – 16:00

 

SESSION 143: Is medical treatment necessary in mild-moderate COPD?

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Ertürk Erdinç, Sabahat Akoğlu
Assembly: COPD
YES
Speaker: Nurdan Köktürk
NO
Speaker: Ali Kocabaş

SESSION 144: Infection Case Presentations

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs: Abdullah Sayıner, Ali Mert
Assembly: Respiratory tract infections                                                            

Speakers: İsmail Hanta, Erhan Tabakoğlu, Füsun Alataş, Fahrettin Talay

SESSION 145: Preoperative evaluation

Session: Round Table Discussion
Session Chairs: Saadettin Çıkrıkçıoğlu, Hüseyin Öz
Assembly: Clinical Problems
Preoperative evaluation algorithms for pulmonary medicine specialists
Speaker: Birsen Mutlu
Situations for advanced cardiac evaluation
Speaker: Haşim Mutlu
Exercise tests when and to whom?
Speaker: Gündeniz Altıay

SESSION 146: Can harm reduction be a method for quitting smoking?

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Zeynep Ayfer Aytemur, Leyla Sağlam   
Assembly: Tobacco control                                                                                        

Speaker: Funda Öztuna

SESSION 147: The effects of smokeless tobacco products on health

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Tuncay Çağlar, Hasan Kaynar   
Assembly: Tütün ve kontrolü                                                                                       

Speaker: Nazmi Bilir

SESSION 148: Lung Tranplantation, Questions and Answers

Session: Panel
Konsey üyeleri: Alper Toker, Sina Ercan
Assembly: Lung transplantation
Transplantation to whom and when?
Speaker: Geert Verleden, Leuven, BELGIUM
Lung transplantation surgery and problems
Speaker: Walter Weder, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Postoperative complications
Speaker: Azizollah Abbasi Dezfouli, Teheran, IRAN
Lung transplantation: Turkish experience
Speaker: Asım Kutlu

SESSION 149: Factors affecting success of NIMV

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Nicholas Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Emel Eryüksel 
Assembly: Intensive Care                                                                                          

Speaker: Stefano Nava, Pavia, ITALY

SESSION 150: Use of NIMV in children

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Esen Kıyan, Refika Ersu
Assembly: Pediatric pulmonary diseases                                                                                                  

Speaker: Fazilet Karakoç

 

Coffee Break          16:00 – 16:30

16:30 – 18:00

SESSION 151: Pulmonary rehabilitation; Questions and answers

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Sema Savcı, Tülin Çağatay   
Assembly: Pulmoner rehabilitasyon and chronic care                                                  

Speaker: Sally Singh, Leicester, UK

SESSION 152: COPD and mortality: Causes and risk factors

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Ahmet İlvan, Yılmaz Bülbül
Assembly:  COPD                                                                                                  

Speaker: Lütfi Çöplü

SESSION 153: Attending physician’s Case Presentations

Session: Case Presentations
Session Chairs: Dursun Tatar, Gülgün Çetintaş
Attending clinician: Orhan Arseven
Attending radiologist: Canan Akman
Attending Surgeon: Zeki Günlüoğlu
Attending pathologist: Dilek Yılmazbayhan
Assembly: Diagnostic techniques                                                                                   

Speakers: Muhammet Akkoyunlu, Yavuz Havlucu, Gökhan Perinçek, Ayşem Aşkım Öztin Güven

SESSION 154: Shall we treat mild obstructive sleep apnea syndrome?

Session: Pro-Con
Session Chairs: Ünal Şahin, Remzi Altın
Assembly: Sleep Disorders
YES
Speaker: Çağlar Çuhadaroğlu
NO
Speaker: Arschang Valipour, Vienna, AUSTRIA

SESSION 155: Techniques from experts (How to do it)

Session: Panel
Session Chairs: Adem Güngör, Ali Özdülger
Assembly: Thoracic Surgery
Diaphragm and pericardial reconstruction in extrapleural pneumonectomy
Speaker: David J. Sugarbaker, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Thoracoscopic techniques in giant bullae or diffuse heterogeneous emphysema
Speaker: Walter Weder, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Different options in thoracoscopic sympathectomy
Speaker: Hans Pilegaard, Aarhus, DENMARK

SESSION 156: Follow up after transplantation, case presentations

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Adnan Sayar, Gül Dabak 
Assembly: Lung transplantation                                                                                          

Speaker: Azizollah Abbasi Dezfouli, Teheran, IRAN

SESSION 157: Ventilator dependent patient: Pulmonary rehabilitation at home

Session: Hot Topic
Session Chairs: Tülay Yarkın, Figen Deveci
Assembly: Pulmoner rehabilitasyon and chronic care                                                         

Speaker: Nicholas Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

SESSION 158: Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) testing and tuberculin skin test

Session: Meet the Expert
Session Chairs: Gönenç Ortaköylü, Ergun Tozkoparan  
Assembly: Tuberculosis                                                                                                    

Speaker: Tülin Sevim

SESSION 159: Management of adverse effects of medical treatment in tuberculosis

Session: Conference
Session Chairs: Emel Çağlar, Ayşe Özsöz
Assembly: Tuberculosis                                                                                              

Speaker: Özlen Tümer

18:00 – 19:00

SESSION 160: CLOSING CEREMONY

19:30 – 23:00

GALA DINNER