17th Cambridge Chest Meeting – programme
Wednesday, 2nd April 2025
09:00 Registration
12:30 Lunch
Session one: Interstitial Lung Diseases I (Chair: Professor David Baldwin)
1:30 Integrating CT Patterns and MDT Diagnosis – Professor Sujal Desai
2:00 Classification of ILD – down the microscope – Professor Andrew Nicholson
2:30 “All ILD is classifiable”: Discuss – Professor Athol Wells
Session two: Interstitial Lung Disease II (Chair: Professor Sujal Desai)
3:30 ILA or ILD – A clinician’s conundrum – Dr Peter George
4:00 Early treatment for ILD – hope or hype? – Professor Joanna Porter
4:30 Progressive pulmonary fibrosis – challenges for the radiologist – Professor Anand Devaraj
5:00 Keynote lecture: Lung Cancer – Early detection vs. late disease: future treatment paradigms – Professor Sam Janes
6:30 Exhibition from the King’s College Archives followed by Reception and Dinner
Thursday, 3rd April 2025
Session one: Mesothelioma (Chair: Professor Sujal Desai)
8:30 SACT for mesothelioma – peering into the distance – Professor Sanjay Popat
9:00 Trials of intervention in mesothelioma – Professor Nick Maskell
9:30 Surgery for mesothelioma: harmful or hopeful? – Professor Eric Lim
Session two: Screening for Lung Cancer (Chair: Professor Matthew Callister)
10:30 Revised BTS Nodule Guidelines – a sneak peak – Dr Neal Navani
11:00 Screening for lung cancer: an opportunity or a headache for radiologists? – Dr Anna Sharman
11:30 Missed cases and errors in screening – Dr Emily Bartlett
Lunch
1.00pm Debate: “This house proposes that lung biopsy by radiologists is past its sell-by date” – Professor Pallav Shah, Professor Simon Padley, Moderator: Dr Arjun Nair
Session three: Respiratory Physiology (Chair: Professor Sujal Desai)
2:30 Lung physiology for the uninitiated – Professor Mike Polkey
3:00 Exercise testing: preparing for surgery – Mr Alessandro Brunelli
3:30 Optimising acute non-invasive ventilation – Dr Michael Davies
Keynote lecture: Lessons from a Pandemic – Professor (Sir) Wei Shen Lim
7:00 Organ recital in King’s College Chapel followed by gala dinner
Friday, 4th April 2025
Session one: Airways Disease and Infection (Chair: Professor David Baldwin)
8:30 Bronchiectasis: an adopted orphan? – Professor Michael Loebinger
9:00 Primary ciliary dyskinesia – a revisit – Professor Claire Hogg
9:30 Long Covid – Professor Charlotte Bolton
Session two: Artificial Intelligence (Chair: Professor Sujal Desai)
10:30 AI-based image analysis in ILD: classification, quantification & implementation – Dr Simon Walsh
11:00 Impact of generative AI on management of lung disease – Dr Guang Yang
11:30 Robotics in thoracic surgery: A new dawn! – Mr Simon Jordan
Close of meeting