Global Lungs Initiative

ERS Task Force (TF-2009-03) to establish improved Lung Function Reference Values
Chairs: J Stocks, X Baur, G Hall, B Culver
www.lungfunction.org

June 11th, 2010

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) has recently approved an application for Task Force Status (April 2010-March 2012) from the Global Lungs Initiative which aims to develop improved 'all-age' reference equations for spirometry.

This task force, which has also been endorsed by the APSR, ATS and ANZSRS, is chaired by Janet Stocks (ERS), Xaver Baur (ERS), Graham Hall (ANZSRS) and Bruce Culver (ATS) with a steering committee which includes a statistical analytical group (Philip Quanjer, Sanja Stanojevic & Tim Cole), together with Jinping Zheng (APSR), Mary Ip (APSR), Paul Enright (ATS) & John Hankinson (ATS).

A general open meeting for all interested parties, including manufacturers, is planned for the ERS meeting in Barcelona in September, when progress will be reported. This will take place on Monday 20th September 17:15-19:00 in Room 4.3 of the main conference centre.

To obtain further information and register with the Global Lungs Network for regular updates on please visit www.lungfunction.org