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Dear Partners and Friends,
It’s a great pleasure – as Chair of the 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference 2024 - to invite you to join and contribute to the World Bronchiectasis Community meeting planned in Dundee from 4 to 6 July 2024.
Chairman of the 7th WBC
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Meet our distinguished faculty, pioneers in bronchiectasis research. Their expertise is vital to the conference's discourse.
Infections
(including ABP, Pseudomonas, Hemophilus, etc.)
NTM
PCD – Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Precision medicine
Respiratory Physiotherapy & Airways Clearance
Treatments and New Drugs
(UK) Chairman
• Professor of Respiratory Research and Honorary Consultant Respiratory
• Physician at the University of Dundee/Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
• Chair of the European Bronchiectasis Network (EMBARC)
• Chair of the British Thoracic Society Science and Research Committee
• Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal
(Italy) Co-chair
(Italy) Co-chair
Francesco Blasi, MD, FERS is Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation at the University of Milan, Italy, as well as Head of Internal Medicine Department and Respiratory Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
He is also director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Lombardia Regional Referral CF Center and currently a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Milan.
From 2012–2013, he was president of European Respiratory Society (ERS) and from 2016–2017 president of the Italian Respiratory Society (SIP/IRS). From 2017–2018, he was president of the Italian Respiratory Society Research Center (SIP/IRS Centro Ricerche).
Professor Blasi has published more than 350 papers in international journals (WEB of Science (01.12.2018) h-index : 50 Citations: 8620; SCOPUS (01.12.2018) : h-index:53 Citations:10680 ; Google Scholar (1.4.2019): h-index: 70, Citations: 17,668).
His research interests include pneumonia, COPD, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis and NTM infections, cystic fibrosis and lung transplantation
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Dear Partners and Friends,
It’s a great pleasure – as Chair of the 7th World Bronchiectasis Conference 2024 - to invite you to join and contribute to the World Bronchiectasis Community meeting planned in Dundee from 4 to 6 July 2024.
The last years have been amazing for our international community.
Basic science helped to start understanding the physiopathology mechanisms behind the disease.
EMBARC and National Registries contributed to clarify epidemiology, providing us precious insights on the natural development of the diseases, on comorbidities, on the most common management approaches in the different countries and the priorities to be set in research to improve the quality of life of patients.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the past several years of scientific progress have clearly placed respiratory tract infections at the centre of public health, clinical practice and scientific debate, helping us to provide new instruments to prevent and treat exacerbations and comorbidities.
Multidisciplinary approach, physiotherapy, precious tools to improve the patient journey, are, in some countries, well established, while in others they still have a long way to go to succeed in being included in the healthcare standard for bronchiectasis patients.
Hope for new therapies is today concrete and not too far away.
Genetics and again basic science are now helping us in starting to understand the causes behind the symptoms, providing instruments for a better approach to management and treatment.
The last years have been exciting ones but the years to come will for sure bring further evolutions and possibly revolutions in the field.
Within this exciting context, I invite you to participate and contribute to the next World Bronchiectasis Conference so to discover together what the future has in store for all of us and our patients.
Yours Sincerely,
James D. Chalmers
Chairman of the 7th WBC
