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

TIME OYA 2 HALL OYA 1 HALL EDDYAFA ROOM LEPTIS ROOM LIMES ROOM
09:00 – 09:55 North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum (in French Language)L’exposome respiratoireIsabella Annesi Maesano, France 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. Respiratory health and heat exposure Isabella Annesi Maesano, France

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

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

Oral Presentation Session 1 – COPD

Workshop 2: Cough assessment: a new Malaysian decision support tool.

Wen Ming Koh, Malaysia & Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan, Malaysia & Ee Ming Khoo, Malaysia

Workshop 3: Mentoring session for early career researchers

Thys van der Molen, The Netherlands

11:20 – 11:35 Exhibition Refreshments, Poster Viewing & Exhibition – Tai Chi taster exercises for COPD: Siân Willians, UK in Oya 1
11:40 – 12:55 Sponsored Symposium: Diagnosis of chronic cough workshop supported by GSK Oral Presentation Session 2 – Asthma Conversation café 1 – Vaccines Conversation café 2 – Allergy – OR Poster session North African Respiratory Interdisciplinary Forum
Présentations orales – Forum
13:00 – 13:55 Lunch 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 & Mona Osman, Lebanon

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: Elena Smets, ARTIQ project, The Netherlands

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, Amanda Barnard, Australia, Mounia Serraj, Morocco,  Manel Mallouli, Tunisia, Steve Holmes, UK, EE Ming Khoo, Malaysia, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Greece, Jaime Correia de Sousa, Portugal

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 – 16:55 Coffee 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 – Asthma Conversation 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
20:00 NETWORKING EVENT

Saturday, June 13th, 2026

TIME OYA 2 HALL OYA 1 HALL EDDYAFA ROOM LEPTIS ROOM LIMES ROOM
08:00 – 8:55 Forum/French language poster session Poster presentation session 2 Poster presentation session 3 Poster presentation session 4 IPCRG  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), Leila Smati (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 – 11:20 Oral Presentation Session 6 – Motivating better health Workshop 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 – 11.40 Coffee break | Exhibition
11:45 – 12:35 Sponsored Symposium: Ambitious Treatment Goals
12.40 – 13:40 Plenary 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

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

3. Occupational health screening, Pippa Powell, ELF

Oral Presentation Session 7 – Managing healthcare responses Workshop 10: Rhinitis Right Care Workshop

Workshop 11: Getting support for research ideas

Hanna Sandelosky, Janwillem Kocks, Siti Nurkamilla Ramdzan

13:45 – 14:35 Lunch Break | Exhibition | Poster Presentation Session 4 | Networking
14:40 – 15:55 Asthma Right Care symposium – Behaviour change workshop (supported by an AstraZeneca educational grant) 
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break | Exhibition
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 tools Oral Presentation Session 9 – COPD management

Workshop 12: Inhaler gameshow

Marina Garcia Pardo, Spain Miguel Roman Rodrigez, Spain

17:55 – 18:45 Closing 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
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