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Q: As Head of Assembly 1, what are you most looking forward to about this year’s ERS Congress?
I am most looking forward to reconnecting with our members during the Assembly 1 members’ meeting that is scheduled to take place in Hall A3 between 17.15 and 18.45 on Tuesday the 10th of September. This meeting will provide the opportunity to identify training and development needs for education and skills courses and discuss with colleagues our plans for task forces and programme priorities for the ERS Congress in 2025.
Q: What in your opinion will be the hot topics for respiratory clinical care and physiology?
These will be emerging topics in digital health and AI solutions in respiratory medicine, diagnosis and management of breathlessness, novel models of rehabilitation and chronic care, and the physiology and biology of exercise limitation in chronic respiratory diseases.
Q: Tell us your top three picks from the Congress programme?
1. Guideline session – Symptom management for adults with serious respiratory illness
Sunday, 8 September, 13:45 – 14:30 CEST
This is an important session to gain recommendations for management of breathlessness, fatigue and cough and receive practical guidance on managing symptoms in adults with serious respiratory illness.
2. Symposium – Pulmonary rehabilitation: global adaptation and implementation
Tuesday, 10 September, 13:45–15:15 CEST
The symposium will provide global guidance for pulmonary rehabilitation and describe the challenges, evidence and potential solutions for pulmonary rehabilitation in low-to-middle-income countries.
3. Symposium – Functional imaging in respiratory diseases
Monday, 9 September, 13:45–15:15 CEST
An important session to appreciate how lung functional imaging provides unique insight into disease processes and allows early-phase disease detection and precise lung functional phenotyping.