GOLD Revision 2006

Programme topics:

• GOLD-1 Concepts and Mechanisms Used to Prepare the 2006 GOLD Report
  presented by Suzanne S. Hurd (Scientific Director, GOLD, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)
• GOLD-2 GOLD Revision 2006: Key Points
  presented by Klaus F. Rabe (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
• GOLD-3 Managing Stable and Exacerbating Disease
  presented by Peter Calverley (Division of Infection and Immunity Clinical Sciences Centre, University Hospital Aintree, UK)
• GOLD-4 Implementation and Education Aiming at Local Needs
  presented by Christine Jenkins (Airways Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Concord Hospital, Australia)
• GOLD-5 GOLD and COPD in Primary Care
  presented by Chris van Weel (Department of Family Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• GOLD-6 Global and Regional Burden of COPD
  presented by Yoshinosuke Fukuchi (Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan)
• Commentary
  by A. Sonia Buist (Oregon Health Science University Portland, Oregon, USA)

(Note: This is not a public session. Attendance is reserved for those who have registered for the APSR2006 Congress.)