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 (5.5 hours) FRESHAIR4LIfe / Implementation science workshop led by Rianne van der Kleij, Netherlands and PI for FRESHAIR4Life The roadmap to right care: Workshop on IPCRG country case studies
17:30 – 18:45

Friday, June 12th, 2026

TIMEOYA 2 HALLOYA 1 HALLEDDYAFA ROOMLEPTIS ROOMLIMES ROOM
09:00 – 09:55North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
(in French Language) 

1.L’exposome respiratoire
Isabella Annesi Maesano, France

2. Herbal Medicine and Respiratory Symptoms: Regional Experience and WHO Strategy
Fatma Sellami, Tunisia

3. TBC
Session 1: Making Sense of COPDan interactive session developed by the COPD Right Care team

Session 2: Asthma e-Escape room

Ana Margarida Cruz, Portugal & Catarina Novais, Portugal

Workshop1: Τai Chi Workshop for COPD

Siân Williams, UK & Abdelaziz Hamdene, Tunisia

 
10:00-11:15

North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum

Les bonnes pratiques de l’assistance respiratoire
(in French Language)

Coordinated by Leila Douik El Gharbi, Tunisia

1. Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Matthieu Bremond, France

2. Oxygénothérapie au domicile: sécurité & enjeux psychosociaux et organisationnels: Dr Fatoumata Dicko Traoré, Mali

3. Le suivi d’une assistance ventilatoire à domicile: Mounia Seraj, Morocco

4. Suivi d’un patient sous CPAP: Hana Mrassi, Tunisia

Session 3: Climate mitigation for respiratory health: what is known, what can we do?

1. Wildfires and respiratory health: how can we respond at individual, practice and community level? Anna Alari, Spain

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

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

Oral Presentation Session 1 – COPD

Workshop 2: Chronic cough assessment and diagnosis

Wen Ming Koh, Malaysia, Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan, Malaysia, Ee Ming Khoo, Malaysia & Ines Zendah, Tunisia

Workshop 3: Mentoring session for early career researchers

Thys van der Molen, The Netherlands

11:20 – 11:35Exhibition Refreshments, Poster Viewing & Exhibition – Tai Chi taster exercises for COPD: Siân Willians, UK in Oya 1
11:40 – 12:55Sponsored Symposium:Diagnostic pathway for chronic refractory cough, supported by GSKOral Presentation Session 2 – AsthmaConversation café 1 – VaccinesConversation café 2 – Allergy – OR Poster session

North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
Présentations orales – Forum

13:00 – 13:55Lunch Break | Exhibition | Poster Presentation Session 1 13.10-13.40
14:00 – 15:05

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, Spain & Bob Mash, South Africa

David Price, Singapore &
Sarah Rylance, UK

    
15:10 – 16:35

Session 4: Addressing the under and mis-diagnosis of respiratory disease in primary care

1. Getting the clinical history right: using the jigsaw puzzle approach: Katarina Stavrikj, North Macedonia

2. The role of pulse oximetry

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

4. AI and spirometry: Merthan Ozturk, ARTIQ project, Türkiye

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

Oral presentation Session 3 – Late breaking abstracts

Workshop 4: Teaching family medicine residents to manage CRDs: sharing experience

Ghada Essam El-Din Amin, Egypt, Syrine Bellakhal, Tunisia, Samya Taright, Algeria

Conversation café 3 – 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 – 16:55Coffee Break | Poster Viewing | Exhibition
17:00 – 18:15

Plenary 2: IPCRG interventions in research: Ηow are we supporting primary care strengthening now and, in the future?

Including updates on major research programmes and IPCRG support for research

Workshop 5: Listening deeply: practical approaches to enhance emotional intelligence

Ioanna Tsiligianni, Greece & Antonios Christodoulakis, Greece

Session 5: Introducing Rhinitis Right Care

1. What are the problems and trends

2. Diagnosing allergic and non-allergic rhinitis

3. Managing rhinitis in primary care

Oral Presentation Session 4 – AsthmaConversation café 4  – Upskilling in health delivery
18:20 – 19:20

Welcome Address and introduction to the conference
– How we work here: North African panel discussion

– Celebrating 25 years of IPCRG

20:00NETWORKING EVENT

Saturday, June 13th, 2026

TIMEOYA 2 HALLOYA 1 HALLEDDYAFA ROOMLEPTIS ROOMLIMES ROOM
08:00 – 8:55Forum/French language poster sessionPoster presentation session 2Poster presentation session 3Poster presentation session 4IPCRG  AGM
09:00 – 10:15

North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum (French)
La prise en charge actuelle de la tuberculose latente

Coordinator: Samya Taright (Algeria)

Speakers: Kamel Djenouhat (Algeria), Djam Yala (Algeria), Prof. Jamal  Bourkadi (Morocco)

Oral Presentation Session 5 – Digital Health tools and using AI

Workshop 6: Improving diagnosis using objective testing: what to use when

Miguel Roman Rodriguez, Spain & Anders Ostrem, Norway

Workshop 7: Using social media for advocacy

Luís Carvalho, Portugal & Hugo Rojas, Canada

Conversation café 5 – Monitoring and tools
10:20 – 11:20Oral Presentation Session 6 – Motivating better healthWorkshop 8: Reviewing for peer-reviewed journals led by the Editor-in-Chief of IPCRG’s journal npjPCRM,
Ioanna Tsiligianni, Greece
Conversation café 6 – Managing living with ill health and perspectives on inhaled medicines

Workshop 9: Tobacco cessation

Amanda Farley, UK & Faten Driss Ben Said, Tunisia & Darush Attar-Zedah UK

11:25 – 11.40Coffee break | Exhibition
11:45 – 12:35Sponsored Symposium: Ambitious Treatment Goals    
12.40 – 13:40Plenary 3: IPCRG interventions in education: how are we supporting primary care strengthening now and, in the future.
Including updates on new programmes: Breaths, Interstitial Lung Disease and Teach the Teacher for COPD

Session 6: Right Care: learning from each other

1. Asthma Right Care Tunisia, Sarah Ben Hamida, Tunisia

2. Implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs in primary care, Javiera Corbalán, Chile

3. Occupational health screening, Pippa Powell, UK, ELF

Workshop 10: Getting support for research ideas

Hanna Sandelosky, Sweden, Janwillem Kocks, the Netherlands, Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan, Malaysia, Habib Ghedira, Tunisia (for people involved in respiratory research)

Workshop 11: Rhinitis Right Care Workshop

Jaime Correia de Sousa, Portugal, Dermot Ryan, Ireland, Sarah Ben Hamida, Tunisia, Björn Stridh, Norway

Oral Presentation Session 7 – Managing healthcare responses OR Workshop on using AI in practice and understanding research using AI
13:45 – 14:35Lunch Break | Exhibition | Poster Presentation Session 4 | Networking
14:40 – 15:55Asthma Right Care symposium – Behaviour change workshop (supported by an AstraZeneca educational grant)     
16:00 – 16:30Refreshments & Exhibition:  Tai Chi workshop for breathlessness Oyo 2 Siân Williams, UK
16:35 – 17:50

Session 7: Primary care and prevention

1. Quit4TB: Kamran Siddiqi, UK

2. FRESHAIR4Life: working with schools on vaping and cigarette use: Cristina Isar, Romania

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

4. Infant RSV immunisation programme in Chile, Javiera Corbalán, Chile

Session 8: Diagnosis and management of children with chronic respiratory disease in primary care

Erol Gaillard, UK & Refiloe Masekela, South Africa

Oral Presentation Session 8 – Asthma control toolsOral Presentation Session 9 – COPD management

Workshop 12: Inhaler gameshow

Marina Garcia Pardo, Spain
Miguel Roman Rodrigez, Spain

17:55 – 18:45Closing Plenary 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

1. Quand penser à un asthme chez un enfant souffrant d’infections respiratoires répétées? Dr Leila Smati, Alger, Algérie
2. Sport et activité physique, indispensables au bien-être des enfants asthmatiques. Dr Bouchra Amara, Fez, Maroc
3. Comment adapter le traitement de fond, au-delà de l’escalade désescalade? Dr Salma Ben Ameur, Sfax, Tunisie
4. Quelles sont les actions importantes dans la prise en charge de l’asthme difficile? Dr Erol Gaillard, Leicester, Royaume Uni 
FRESHAIR4Life Meeting
(Invitation only)
10:35-10:55Refreshments
11:00 – 12:15 North Africa Regional launch of the Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen Security