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Workshop Programme

DateWorkshop
08.02.2025
(9.00am-3.00pm)		Non-invasive ventilation in neuromuscular disease
Prof Anita Simonds (UK)
(Co-ordinator – Dr Dilesha Wadasinghe)
Rodney Street, PGIM
Date Workshop
10.02.2024
(4.15pm-6.15pm)		 Allergy testing
Prof Pudupakkam Vedanthan (USA)
Cinnamon Grand Colombo
(Co-ordinator – Dr Hasitha Gajaweera)
11.02.2024
2.00 pm onwards		 Sleep Disorders in Children
(Round table discussion)
Prof Mahesh Babu Ramamurthy
Date Workshop
12.02.2024
(8.30am-12.30pm)		 Advanced thoracic ultrasound and pleural procedures
Dr Rakesh Panchal
(Co-ordinator – Dr Bodhika Samarasekara)
NHRD, Welisara

Main Congress Programme

Time

Day 01 (10.02.2025)

7.00 am – 8.00 am 

Stakeholder insights: Bridging clinical practice  

Home NIV 

(Prof Anita Simonds, 

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital,

Professor of Respiratory and Sleep medicine, Imperial College London-UK

Past President of the ERS)

8.15 am – 8.45 am

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture – 

Advanced management strategies in COPD 

(Dr Jaymin Morjaria, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trust-UK)

8.50 am – 10.10 am 

23 min each

10 min

Symposium 01 – Allergy and Asthma


  • Basics of allergy and clinical approach to an allergic patient- (Prof Pudupakkam Vedanthan, Clinical professor of Medicine, University of Colorado,Denver, Colorado, USA)
  • Severe asthma with fungal sensitization (Prof David Denning, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Manchester – UK

Founding President, Chief Executive of Global Action For Fungal Infections (GAFFI) in Geneva)

  1. Precision medicine in severe asthma, matching endotypes with biologics (Dr Hitasha Rupani, Consultant Respiratory Physician,

Clinical Lead, Southampton Severe Asthma Centre, 

Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK)

10.15am – 10.45am

Tea Break

10.45am-11.15am

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture

Evaluation and Management of Chronic cough


Dr Lalitha Pereirasamy

Consultant Pulmonologist, Penang General Hospital, Malaysia

11.20 am – 12.20pm

15 min each

15 min

Symposium 02 – Bronchiectasis

 

  • Non-tuberculous mycobacteria 

Prof. S.K. Luhadia, Professor Emeritus, Dept.of Respiratory Medicine, Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

  • Non CF Bronchiectasis – what’s new (Dr Keith Hatthotuwa,

Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine,

Senior Lecturer in respiratory Medicine

Broomfield Hospital,

Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust

Essex, UK)

  • Prevention of next exacerbation of bronchiectasis – antibiotic strategies (Prof S. K. Luhadia)

12.25 am – 1.15 pm

Lunch Break

1.20 pm – 1.50 pm

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture

Evaluation and management of pulmonary hypertension in chronic lung diseases 

(Dr Laura Price, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Pulmonary Hypertension Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital

Honorary Senior lecturer, Imperial College

Associate Editor – European Respiratory Journal)

1.55 pm – 2.55 pm

15 min each

15 min

Symposium 03 – Tuberculosis 

  • Novel diagnostics in tuberculosis (Prof Sanjeev Nair, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Government Medical College, Thissur, President of APCCM- India) 
  • Inborn errors of Immunity and Tuberculosis Disease in Adults (Dr Sangeetha Siniah, Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist and Immunologist, Tunku Azizah Women and Childrens’ Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 
  • Therapeutic advances in tuberculosis (Prof Sanjeev Nair- India) 

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

ResFire

Challenging infections 

Moderator (Dr M Athavan, Consultant Respiratory Physician, TH Jaffna)

Pulmonologists (TBC)

Prof David Denning (UK)

Microbiologist (Dr Mahen Kotalawala,Consultant Microbiologist, NHSL)

Thoracic Surgeon (Dr Sumana Handagala, NHRD, Welisara)

 

 

Tea Break

 

Time

Day 02 (11.02.2025)

7.00 am – 8.00 am 

Stakeholder insights: Bridging clinical practice  

Commencing Biologics for Asthma in Sri Lanka 

(Dr Hitasha Rupani, Consultant Respiratory Physician,

Clinical Lead, Southampton Severe Asthma Centre, 

Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK)

8.15 am – 8.45 am

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture

Pulmonary mycosis 

(Prof David Denning, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of Manchester – UK

Founding President, Chief Executive of Global Action For Fungal Infections (GAFFI) in Geneva)

8.50 am – 10.10 am 

23 min each

10 min

Symposium 04 – NIV and Sleep

  • Mastering Home ventilation in neuromuscular failure (Prof Anita Simonds, 

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital,

Professor of Respiratory and Sleep medicine, Imperial College London-UK

Past President of the ERS)


  • Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (Dr Shirmila Withana, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, UK) 

  • Sleep disordered breathing in children (Prof Mahesh Babu Ramamurthy, Head & Senior Consultant Division of Paediatric Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat- National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore)


10.15am – 10.45am

Tea Break

10.45am-11.15am

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture

Challenging Cases in Interventional Paediatric Bronchoscopy 

Dr Sarabon Tahura,

Paediatric Intervenonal Pulmonologist,

Associate Professor,

Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine,

Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Instute,

Dhaka

Bangladesh

Dr Sarabon Tahura, Paediatric Interventional Pulmonologist, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bangladesh Shishu Hospital and Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh

11.20 am – 12.20pm

15 min each

15 min

Symposium 05 – Critical Care

  • Oxygen and ventilatory support in acute respiratory failure (Dr Sin-Man Lam, Specialist in Critical Care medicine, Consultant, Department of Intensive  Care, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital,  Hong Kong)
  • Practical weaning strategies (Prof Vasanti Pinto, Professor of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, SL) 
  • Prevention of respiratory infections in critically ill patients (Dr Sin-Man Lam, Specialist in Critical Care medicine, Consultant, Department of Intensive  Care, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital,  Hong Kong)

12.25 am – 1.15 pm

Lunch Break

1.20 pm – 1.50 pm

25 min

5 min

Guest Lecture

Advances in pneumothorax management 

(Dr Rakesh Panchal, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester

Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester-UK) 

1.55 pm – 2.55 pm

15 min each

15 min

Symposium 06 – Oncology(20 min each)

  • Lung cancer screening (Dr Jaymin Morjaria, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS trust-UK)
  • Minimally invasive thoracic surgery (Dr Dhammike Rasnayake, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, National Hospital for Respiratory Diseases, Welisara-SL) 
  1. Panel meeting with cancer control unit, college of oncologists

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm

ResFire

Interstitial lung diseases 


Moderator (Dr Amila Rathnapala SL)

Pulmonologist (Dr Wijitha Senaratne)

Pulmonologist and Pulmonary hypertension specialist (Dr Laura Price)

Rheumatologist (Dr Chathurika Dandeniya SL)

Radiologist (Dr Sumudu Palihawadena NHRD SL)

 

Tea Break

 

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