16th Cambridge Chest Meeting – provisional programme
Wednesday, 6th April 2022
10:00 Registration
12:30 Lunch
Session one: ‘Orphan’ Lung Diseases – chair: Sujal Desai
1:30 Sarcoidosis: old disease, new thoughts
2:00 Familial interstitial lung disease
2:30 Bronchiectasis – continuing challenges
Session two: Viral Respiratory Infection – chair: David Baldwin
3:30 Modern diagnostics
4:00 Imaging of viral infections: COPD & beyond
4:30 Vaccines: The New Battleground
5:00 Keynote lecture: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
6:30 Tour – Cambridge Highlights followed by Reception and Dinner
Thursday, 7th April 2022
Session one: Interstitial Lung Disease – Chair: Sujal Desai
8:30 Progressive fibrotic ILD
9:00 Characterising and quantifying change
9:30 Unravelling the pathology
Session two: Lung Cancer – Chair: David Baldwin
10:30 Locally advanced cancer: imaging
11:00 Locally advanced cancer: optimal treatment
11:30 Locally advanced cancer: surgical issues
12:00 Clinical case(s) presentation
Lunch
Clinical Case Panel Discussion
Session three: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Chair: Sujal Desai
3:30 Physiology and evaluation for lung volume reduction
4:00 Imaging for lung volume reduction
4:30 Lung volume reduction and beyond for COPD
Keynote lecture: UK Lung Cancer Screening: Principles and Practice
7:00 Organ recital in King’s College Chapel (TBC) followed by gala dinner
Friday, 8th April 2022
Session one: Screening, nodules & guidelines – Chair: Sujal Desai
8:30 Imaging lung nodules: how good are we?
9:00 Lung cancer screening: guideline or protocol?
9:30 UK lung cancer screening: is there a plan?
Session two: Future Horizons – Chair: David Baldwin
10:30 Primary ciliary dyskinesia: what’s new?
11:00 MRI of the lungs: all change or no change?
11:30 Xenon MRI
12:00 Advances in curative radiotherapy
Close of meeting