Congress Program - Plenary Sessions and Symposia

Sunday, May 1, 10.00 – 10.30

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre, LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Opening Ceremony

Revaz Sepiashvili

President, World Immunopathology Organization
Congress President, Program Committee Co-Chairman

Richard Lockey

President, World Allergy Organization (WAO)

Sami Bahna

Past-President, American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI)

Allen Kaplan

Program Committee Co-Chairman

Walter Canonica

Past-President, World Allergy Organization (WAO)
Program Committee Co-Chairman

Connie Katelaris

President, Asia Pacific Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI)

 

Sunday, May 1, 10.30 – 11.15

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Alain D’Weck Award Lecture

Chairmen:

Revaz Sepiashvili

Allen Kaplan   Charleston, USA

Drug allergy: New concepts regarding the interactions among drugs, T lymphocytes and antigen presenting cells

 

 

Sunday, May 1, 11.45 – 13.45

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Sami Bahna
Richard Lockey
Fridon Todua

Sami Bahna   Shreveport, USA 

Adverse drug reactions: What is allergy & what is not?

Adnan Custovic   Manchester, UK

Is asthma an allergic disease?

Richard Lockey   Tampa, USA

Asthma and unusual co-morbid conditions

Benjamin Volovitz   Petah Tiqva, Israel

The role of inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of acute asthma exacerbation in children

 

 

Sunday, May 1, 14.30 – 16.30

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Mario Cazzola
Adnan Custovic
Elias Toubi

Adnan Custovic   Manchester, UK

Gene-environment interactions in the development of asthma

Elias Toubi   Haifa, Israel

A role for B-regulatory cells in asthma

Richard Lockey   Tampa, USA

Asthma in the elderly

Mario Cazzola   Rome, Italy

Systemic effects of asthma and COPD

 

 

Sunday, May 1, 16.30 – 18.30

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Ignacio Ansotegui
Benjamin Volovitz

Sami Bahna   Shreveport, USA

Evaluation of uncontrolled childhood asthma

Benjamin Volovitz   Petah Tiqva, Israel

The role of viral infection in the induction of acute asthma exacerbations in children

Israel Amirav   Haifa, Israel  

Aerosol therapy for infants – challenges and solutions

Ignacio Ansotegui   Erlando, Spain

Cross reactive allergens and oral allergy syndrome

Mona Kidon   Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Fish and Shellfish allergy in children and timing of initial dietary exposures

 

 

Monday, May 2, 10.00 – 12.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Walter Canonica
Clive Page

Clive Page   London, UK

PDE inhibitors as novel treatment for airway diseases

Walter Canonica   Genoa, Italy

Asthma management 2011

Carlos Nunes    Portimao, Portugal

Pharmacotherapy versus immunotherapy on asthma

Ignacio Ansotegui   Erlando, Spain

Do we need asthma phenotypes?

Todor Popov   Sofia, Bulgaria

Differentiation of asthma phenotypes on the basis of different objective measurements

 

Monday, May 2, 12.30 – 13.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Keynote Lecture dedicated to 100 Years of Immunotherapy

Chairman:

Revaz Sepiashvili

Walter Canonica   Genoa, Italy

Immunotherapy of respiratory allergies


 

Monday, May 2, 13.00 – 14.30

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Symposium

Chairmen:

Manana Chikhladze
Mona Kidon
Bogdan Petrunov

Connie Katelaris   Campbelltown, Australia

Allergic and non-allergic eye diseases

Mona Kidon   Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Office based tools for assessment and follow-up of rhinitis in the community

Bogdan Petrunov   Sofia, Bulgaria

Comparison of different in vitro methods in diagnosis of respiratory allergy

Mohan B Singh, Ruby Tiwari, Prem L Bhalla   Melbourne, Australia

Structural and Immunological characterization of Arabidopsis EXPB1, a non-allergenic homologue of grass group 1 allergens

 

 

Monday, May 2, 15.00 – 17.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Sergio Bonini
Gennaro D’Amato
Harald Renz

Sergio Bonini   Rome, Italy

New tools in the diagnosis of allergic diseases

Gennaro D’Amato   Naples, Italy

Climate changes, air pollution and allergic respiratory diseases

Harald Renz   Marburg, Germany

The hygiene hypothesis in epigenetic regulation – new insights into the mechanism of allergy protection

Mary Cataletto   New York, USA

Certified asthma educator designation in the United States


 

Monday, May 2, 17.00 – 18.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Satellite Symposium

Sponsor:

Lallemand Pharma

Chairman:

Fulvio Braido

Guido Ferlazzo   Messina, Italy

Immune system cellular cross-talk in the presence of bacterial components

Fulvio Braido, E. Traggiai, G. Lanzilli, G. Bazurro, C. Folli, V. Garelli, C. Lagasio, A.M. Riccio, G.W. Canonica, G. Melioli   Genoa, Rome, Italy

Polyvalent mechanical bacterial lysate treatment in COPD: New immunological evidence

Discussion

 


 

Tuesday, May 3, 10.00 – 12.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Allen Kaplan
Connie Katelaris

Allen Kaplan   Charleston, USA

Targeted therapies involving the bradykinin forming cascade in angioedema caused by genetic mutations, drugs, and autoimmunity

Sergio Bonini   Rome, Italy

Critical evaluation of clinical trials in allergic diseases

Connie Katelaris   Campbelltown, Australia

Allergic diseases in athletes

Bogdan Petrunov   Sofia, Bulgaria

Specific immunotherapy of respiratory allergy with chemically modified allergens-allergoids

Antero Palma-Carlos   Lisbon, Portugal

Recent aspects of pollinosis


 

Tuesday, May 3, 12.30 – 14.15

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre, LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Carlos Nunes
Antero Palma-Carlos
Todor Popov

Kristof Nekam   Budapest, Hungary

Non-genetic risk factors of offsprings' allergy before and during pregnancy

Carlos Nunes    Portimao, Portugal

How to manage asthma in children

Adnan Bajraktarevic, Milan Miokovic, Semira Penava, Amra Junuzović Kaljić, Dragica Abduzaimovic , Begler Begović, Amina Selimović, Irma Dovadzija, Teodora Frankic, Dragana Boldic, Lutvo Sporisevic, Jasna Gutic , Aida Dju-lepa Djurdjevic   Sarajevo

Requirements for allergen-induced airway hyperreactivity in children

Todor Popov   Sofia, Bulgaria

Change of asthma indicators in a real life trial on transition of controlled and partly controlled patients to extra fine formulation of inhaled steroid and long-acting beta agonist

Antero Palma-Carlos   Lisbon, Portugal

Immunopathology of drug reactions

 

Monday, May 3, 15.00 – 17.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre, LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Plenary Session

Chairmen:

Kamal Maurice Hanna
Sylvia Hartl
Kristof Nekam

Sylvia Hartl   Vienna, Austria

Optimizing health care for COPD across Europe: the first European COPD Audit

Kamal Maurice Hanna   Cairo, Egypt

Nanotechnology in the management of asthma and COPD

Hiroshi Tanaka, Junya Kitada, Masaru Fujii, Hiroki Takahashi   Sapporo, Japan

Small airways assessment in elderly asthmatic patients using impulse oscillometry

Kristof Nekam   Budapest, Hungary

Psychological factors: fear, loneliness, depression in allergy

 

 

Tuesday, May 3, 17.00 – 17.30

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC Foyer

Closing Ceremony

Walter Canonica

Past-President, World Allergy Organization (WAO)
Program Committee Co-Chairman

Allen Kaplan

Program Committee Co-Chairman

Revaz Sepiashvili

President, World Immunopathology Organization
Congress President, Program Committee Co-Chairman

Handling of Awards to the Authors of best poster presentations


 

Tuesday, May 3, 17.30 – 20.00

Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Centre,
LA SEINE Meeting Room ABC

Satellite Symposium
XVI International Congress
on Rehabilitation in Medicine
and Immunorehabilitation
In Russian

Chairpersons:

Amaliya Eyubova
Vera Kazmirchuk
Maya Tsitsuashvili

M.D. Tsitsuashvili, S.I. Pavlova, D.Z. Albegova, I.G. Kozlov   Moscow, Russia

Kinetics of interaction of fluoroñhrom-labeled nanosomes with tumor cell line in vitro

K.G. Karagezyan, S.S. Ovakimyan, O.M. Amirkhanyan, V.Kh. Mamikonyan, Sur.S. Ovakimyan   Yerevan, Armenia

Normalizing effect of Ca2+-dsRNA on fatty-acid composition in guinea-pigs with tubercular pneumonia

V.E. Kazmirchuk, D.V. Maltsev   Kiev, Ukraine

Clinical classification of herpes viral neuroinfections

V.O. Pozharskaya, M.V. Koryakin, I.V. Klimanovich, A.I. Maslova   Stavropol, Moscow, Russia

Retrospective diagnostics of latent seronegative syphilis (in experiment)

E.A. Yakimenko, N.V. Bashmakova, O.Ya. Tjagaj    Odessa, Ukraine

Immunocorrection of metabolic syndrome by combined application of preformed physical factors, preparations of embryofetoplacent complex, aerobic exercises under the medical exercises program

A.N. Nechiporenko   Grodno, Belarus

Female rehabilitation after simultaneous surgical correction of the genital prolapse and stress incontinence

A.L. Maximov, G.A. Merkulova   Magadan, Russia

Use of computer dermography method for demonstrative medicine in prophylactic observation of medical workers

Y. Pashkov, E. Konyayeva, O. Bryekhov, M. Kalinin, A. Plotkin, O. Daniluk, O. Kovalenko, V. Volkov   Sevastopol, Ukraine

Antibiotic prophylaxis at implantation of massive structures in the orthopedics and traumatology

 

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