Why Visit Madrid World Congress of Asthma?

The 2016 World Congress on Asthma in Madrid will review the key findings from recent research on both adult and pediatric Asthma. A significant part of the meeting will be devoted to practical workshops on asthma testing and treatment delivery, as we'll as the integration of practice tools into day-to-day care. Sessions will discuss how to optimize the multidisciplinary approach to asthma management. This congress is supported by the Spanish societies: SEPAR, SEAIC and AEP.

 

Congress of Asthma 2016 Topics:

Management of Asthma

• Emergency Approach to Asthma Attacks in adults & children
• Fixed airflow obstruction in Asthma: pathological basis and consequences for treatment
• The role of infection in Asthma exacerbations
• Occupational Asthma
• Asthma and obesity: what is the relationship?
• Management of asthma in pregnancy
• Airways Remodeling and Pulmonary Function Decline
• Modern Technologies to implement Asthma Management
• Different Treatment Strategies for Asthma Control
• Asthma: a disease of many phenotypes

Asthma & COPD

• New COPD Treatments
• Tobacco smoking & Asthma
• Adherence to Treatment in Allergy, Asthma & COPD: a neglected issue
• Smoking Cessation – Essential part of asthma treatment
• The Path to Personalized Medicine in Asthma

Environment & Asthma

• Climate Change & Allergic Asthma
• Biodiversity and allergic disease
• Probiotics and Asthma
• The changing microbiome and allergy
• OMICS: a step forward in understanding Asthma

New Treatments on Asthma

• AIT-Allergen ImmunoTherapy in Asthma: emerging evidences
• Monoclonal antibodies on Asthma Treatment
• Biomarkers of treatment responses
• Thermoplasty and Asthma Treatment: new evidences

Primary Health Care and Asthma

• Basic principles of guidelines implementation
• How to address care gaps in primary care
• COPD Treatments as future Asthma Treatment
• Inhaled corticosteroids: different mechanisms and efficacy in Asthma and COPD

Severe Asthma

• Genetic factors and epigenetics
• Pharmacogenetics in deciding treatment options
• Severe Asthma: a different phenotype or different phenotypes?
• New biologic agents for treating severe Asthma
• Clusters and biomarkers of severe asthma in adults
• LAMA in Asthma: only for patients with severe poorly reversible airflow obstruction?
• Severe Paediatric asthma

Upper airways and Asthma

• Breakdown in epithelial protection in Rhinosinusitis
• Links between asthma and rhinitis
• Upper airway influences on lower airways
• Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma in childhood
• Predictive risk of rhinitis for asthma in children

 

Guide to Sessions:

• Symposia
• Pro/Con Debates
• Courses
• Workshops
• Seminars
• Panel Discussions

The WCA 2016 Congress in Madrid will include an exhibition that will be open from 12-15 March.

The official language of the Congress is English.

Dates of Spain Asthma Conference:

• Abstract submission deadline: October 12, 2016

• Early Registration deadline: October 30, 2016

• Middle registration deadline: January 15, 2016

For further information, please visit the official website at www.wca-2016.com.

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