Thursday 14th November

13.00 – 17.00   Specialist Registrar (SpR) Training, Letterkenny General Hospital

19.00 – 20.30  ITS Case Study Forum and Dinner, City Hotel, Derry

Friday 15th November – Millennium Forum Derry

07.30 – 08.30  Registration, tea and coffee

08.30 – 09.45  Poster Review

09.45 – 11.00   Parallel Poster discussions

11.00 – 11.30  Tea and Coffee / Exhibition viewing

11.30 – 13.00 Oral Presentations

13.00 – 14.00  Lunch

14.00 – 16.00  Oral Presentations

16.00 – 16.30  Tea and Coffee / Exhibition viewing

16.30 – 17.30  Irish Thoracic Society Guest Lecture

Understanding IPF: Genetics and Genomic Approaches
Professor David Schwartz, University of Colorado

17.30 – 18.30  Irish Thoracic Society AGM

19.30 – late   Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner, City Hotel, Derry

Parallel Business Meetings/Forums

11.00  Forum of the Respiratory Nurses Association of Ireland (ANAIL)

09.30   Irish Thoracic Society Paediatric Forum Programme

11.00  Forum of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (CPRC)

14.30  COPD Outreach Forum

TBC  Respiratory Faculty of the IICMS

Saturday 16th November – Millennium Forum, Derry

07.30 – 08.30  Registration, tea and coffee

08.30 – 09.45  Poster Review

09.45 – 11.00   Parallel Poster discussions

11.00 – 11.30  Tea and Coffee / Exhibition viewing

11.30 – 13.00  Irish Thoracic Society Guest Lectures

11.30  – 12.15   Intensive Care and the Lung
Professor John Simpson, Newcastle University

12.15  – 13.00  Bronchiectasis: update and therapeutic options
Professor Stuart Elborn, Queens University Belfast

 

13.00 – 13.15   Prize giving and close