Preliminary Scientific Programme

Thursday, March 20th, 2025
13:00 – 19:00 REG Working Group Meetings
Friday , March 21st, 2025
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome
Joan Β. Soriano, REG President
09:00 – 10:00 Inhaler Session - Propellants, planet, and the patient - the real-life impact
Chair: Omar Usmani & Mark Levy

What does it mean to the Regulator?
Maureen Donahue Hardwick

What does it mean to the Industry?
John Bell

What does it mean to the Clinician?
Toby Capstick

Q & A
10:00 – 10:30 ILD/IPF Session
Chair: TBA  

Time taken from primary care referral to a specialist centre diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an opportunity to improve patient outcomes?
Mark Jones

Q & A
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30 Readers', authors', and editors' perspectives on observational research
Chair:  Nicolas Roche & Therese Lapperre

How to lie with statistics to a chest physician
Joan Β. Soriano

An Editor’s perspective on observational research
David Price

Q & A
11:30 – 12:30 Early career oral abstract presentations
Chair: Marc Miravitlles & Dermot Ryan
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break & Poster viewing
13:30 – 15:00 COPD Session
Chair: Bernardino Alcazar & Frits M.E. Franssen
 
Predicting the risk for first COPD Severe Exacerbation
Bernardino Alcazar

Triple therapy and very severe COPD: Rational for a REG study
Chin Kook Rhee

New Drugs in COPD: Will they make a real-life difference?
Mario Cazzolla

Q & A
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15 United Airways Disease Session
Chair: Piotr Kuna & Stefania Gallo

Rhinitis +/- asthma: different diseases?
Ralph Mosges

(R)evolution of care in CRSwNP
Peter Hellings

Q & A
16:15 – 17:00 AI/Digital in respiratory diseases Session
Chair: Prof. Job van Boven & Fulvio Braido

Can interactions with AIs provide patient support?
Alan Kaplan

Can digital adherence support prevent disease progression?

Amy Chan

Q & A
17:00 – 17:45 PRO/CON – Vaccines
Chair: Alberto Papi

Pneumococcal vaccine is the most important respiratory vaccine for our high-risk patients to receive
PRO: Filipe Froes

RSV is the most important respiratory vaccine for our high-risk patients to receive
CON: Antonio Anzueto

Vote & Summary Discussion
Alan Kaplan
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025
09:00 – 10:00 Expansion of biologic use in asthma: where to?
Chair: Nikos Papadopoulos & Jennifer Quint

Younger age
Adnan Custovic

Milder disease
Alberto Papi

Multimorbidities
Désirée Larenas-Linnemann

Q&A
10:00 – 10:45 Bronchiectasis Session
Chair: Antonio Anzueto

Current and future perspectives in the treatment of bronchiectasis

Eva Van Braeckel

Q&A
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Improving severe asthma care - ISAR’s research and quality improvement highlights

ISAR’s impact on practice change
TBA

ISAR quality improvement goal 2024-2025: Improvement of data quality
TBA

Impact of biologics on new onset of OCS-related outcomes in severe asthma (SOLAR II), and ISAR’s goal of eliminating long-term OCS use
TBA

Exploring definitions and predictors of severe asthma remission post-biologic (FULL BEAM II)
TBA

Latest ISAR research on remission in severe asthma (GLEAM and SPOTLIGHT)
TBA
12:15 – 13:30 Joint REG & EAACI Session - RWE and Guidelines  
Chair: Walter G. Canonica

The need for RWE to be included in guidelines
Stefano Del Giacco

The GRADE system to integrate RWE
Holger Schunemann

Real-Life experience of guideline creation
TBA

Discussion  
13:30 Meeting Close