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Scientific Programme

Preliminary Programme - subject to change, preliminary timings

To enable all colleagues to participate and engage fully in our conference in their preferred language, we will be offering translations of slides and materials and building in live translation and transcription tools on this page.

Thursday, June 11th, 2026

TIME OYA 2 HALL OYA 1 HALL EDDYAFA ROOM LEPTIS ROOM
12:30 – 13:00 Registration begins
13:00 – 17:15 Symposia rehearsals TBC Spirometry Simplified masterclass Chronic cough pathway workshop The roadmap to right care: Workshop on IPCRG country case studies
17:30 – 18:45 Plenary 1: Welcome Address – How we work here: North African panel discussion – Celebrating 25 years of IPCRG

Friday, June 12th, 2026

TIME OYA 2 HALL OYA 1 HALL EDDYAFA ROOM LEPTIS ROOM LIMES ROOM
09:00 – 09:50 North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
(in French Language)
L’exposome respiratoire Isabella Annesi Maesano, France
Sponsored Symposium 1      
10:00-11:30 North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
Les bonnes pratiques de l’assistance respiratoire
(in French Language)
Leila Douik El Gharbi, Tunisia

Session 1: Climate mitigation for respiratory health: what is known, what can we do?

1. Respiratory health and heat exposure
Isabella Annesi Maesano, France

2. Wildfires and respiratory health: how can we respond at individual, practice, and community level?
Mar Martinez Vazquez, Spain

3. Greening the respiratory pathway 
Darush Attar-Zadeh, UK

Oral Presentation Session 1 – COPD Workshop 1: Cough assessment Using and assessing diagnostic tools including a Malaysian decision support tool
Wen Ming Koh, Malaysia
&
Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan, Malaysia
&
Ee Ming Khoo, Malaysia
Workshop 2: Mentoring session for early career researchers
Thys van der Molen, The Netherlands
11:35 – 11:55 Refreshments | Poster Viewing | Exhibition
12:00 – 12:50 Sponsored Symposium 2        
12:55 – 13:45 Lunch Break | Exhibition | Poster Presentation Session 1
13:50 – 15:00 Keynote Session: Real life research – where are we now, how has it affected policy and practice, and where do we go from here?

Chair: Miguel Roman Rodriguez

David Price, Singapore &
Sarah Rylance, WHO, Switzerland
       
15:05 – 16:35

Session 2: Addressing the under and mis-diagnosis of respiratory disease in primary care

1. Getting the clinical history right: using the jigsaw puzzle approach

2. The role of pulse oximetry

3. Oscillometry or spirometry? The pros and cons Sundeep Salvi, India

4. AI and spirometry (ARTIQ project)

5. IPCRG statement on Primary care perspective on lung cancer screening

Oral Presentation Session 2 Conversation café 1 – Asthma Conversation café 2 – COPD North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum Apport de l’imagerie thoracique dans les broncho-pneumopathies chroniques : Signes et signification Clinique (Workshop) (in French Language)
Saoussen Hantous-Zannad, Tunisia
16:40 – 17:00 Coffee Break | Poster Viewing | Exhibition
17:05 – 18:20 North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
La toux chronique idiopathique led
Ines Zendah, Tunisia
Session 3: Introducing Rhinitis Right Care Oral Presentation Session 3 – Asthma Conversation café 3  – Upskilling in health delivery Workshop 3: Listening deeply: Practical approaches to enhance emotional intelligence
Ioanna Tsiligianni, Greece
18:25 – 19:10 Poster Presentation Session in French & Poster Presentation Sessions 2 & 3
20:00 NETWORKING EVENT

Saturday, June 13th, 2026

TIMEOYA 2 HALLOYA 1 HALLEDDYAFA ROOMLEPTIS ROOMLIMES ROOM
09:00 – 10:15North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
(in French Language)
La prise en charge actuelle de la tuberculose latente; Samya Taright, Algeria
Oral Presentation Session 4 – Digital Health tools and using AIConversation café 4 – Monitoring and toolsWorkshop 4: Using social media for advocacy
Luís Carvalho, Portugal
&
Hugo Rojas, Canada
Workshop 5: Improving diagnosis using objective testing: what to use & when
10:20 – 11:20Oral Presentation Session 5 – Motivating better healthWorkshop 6: Reviewing for peer-reviewed journals led by the Editor-in-Chief of IPCRG’s journal npjPCRM
Ioanna Tsiligianni, Greece
Conversation café 5 – Managing living with ill health and perspectives on inhaled medicines
11:25 – 11.40Coffee break | Exhibition
11:45 – 12:35Sponsored Symposium 3: COPD Right Care    
12:40 – 13:55Plenary 2: IPCRG interventions in research and education: how are we supporting primary care strengthening now and, in the future,Session 4: Diagnosis and management of children with chronic respiratory disease in primary care
Erol Gaillard, UK
Refiloe Masekela, South Africa
Oral Presentation Session 6 – Managing healthcare responsesWorkshop 7: Rhinitis Right Care WorkshopWorkshop 8: Teaching Family Medicine Residents to Manage CRDs: Experience share
Ghada Essam El-Din Amin, Egypt,
Syrine Bellakhal, Tunisia
14:00 – 15:00Lunch Break | Exhibition | Poster Presentation Session 4 | Networking
15:05 – 15:55Sponsored Symposium 4: Asthma Right Care: Achieving behaviour change through gamification    
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break | Exhibition
16:35 – 17:50Session 5: Primary care and prevention
1. Quit4TB: Kamran Siddiqi, UK

2. FRESHAIR4Life: working with schools on vaping and cigarette use TBA

3. Air pollution forecasting in Malaysia: Norita Hussein, Malaysia

4. Flu vaccination for people with CRD (including flu) TBA
Session 6: Right Care: learning from each other sthma Right Care Tunisia
Occupational health, European Lung Foundation
Oral Presentation Session 7 – Asthma control toolsOral Presentation Session 8 – COPD managementWorkshop 9: Inhaler gameshow
Marina Garcia Pardo, Spain
Miguel Roman Rodrigez, Spain
17:55 – 18:45Plenary 3:
Closing Remarks and Award Presentations
    

Sunday, June 14th, 2026

TIMEOYA 1 HALLVenue TBC
09:00 – 10:30North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum L’asthme de l’enfant
(in French Language)
Agnes Hamzaoui, Tunisia
FRESHAIR4Life Meeting
(Invitation only)
10:35-10:55Refreshments
11:00 – 12:15 North Africa and Middle East Regional launch of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security