Post-Graduate Courses

These post-graduate courses are designed to update and provide respiratory physicians with guidance on current topics in respiratory medicine. A series of four post-graduate courses will be held on Sunday 19^th November in Room B‑1. There is a registration fee of 2,000 yen, which covers all four courses and includes a lunchbox.

09:00‑10:20 PG-1 Non-invasive Ventilation
10:30‑11:50 PG-2 Chemotherapy
11:50‑13:00 Lunch
13:00‑14:20 PG-3 Pathogenesis of COPD
14:30‑15:50 PG-4 Pathogenesis of Bronchial Asthma

Each course will last 80 minutes including discussion time. There will be two sessions per course with a different speaker for each 40-minute session.

PG-1 Non-invasive Ventilation

This course will cover the current topics of respiratory care by focusing on non-invasive ventilation, induced hypothermia and drug delivery. Participants will be able to describe the recent developments in ventilatory management. In addition, they will explain the drug delivery during mechanical ventilation. There will be two sessions:

1. Non-invasive ventilation and induced hypothermia
   by Younsuck Koh, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Univ. of Ulsan College of Medicine
2. Tracheal gas insufflation and aerosol delivery during mechanical ventilation
   by Dean Hess, Respiratory Care Department Laboratory and the Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School

PG-2 Chemotherapy

This course will cover the recent advances in chemotherapy and molecular targeting therapy of lung cancer. Participants will be able to explain the chemotherapeutic agents and protocols. In addition, participants will be able to describe the molecular background of the efficacy of Genitinib and its adverse effect. There will be two sessions:

1. Chemotherapy
   by Wah-Kit Lam, Dept. of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital
2. Molecular targeting therapy
   by Kouichi Hagiwara, Center of Chest Disease, Saitama Medical School, Saitama, Japan

PG-3 Pathogenesis of COPD

This course will briefly review the GOLD guideline and provide pulmonary physicians with information regarding the mechanism in airflow limitation and dynamic hyperinflation, and update participants on current views of mechanisms in pathogenesis of COPD. Participants will be able to describe COPD and explain the pathogenesis and the current topics on the therapy of COPD. There will be two sessions:

1. Airflow limitation of COPD
   by Peter Calverly
2. Pathogenesis of COPD
   by William MacNee, President of ERS

(See also COPD Educational Event 2005)

PG-4 Pathogenesis of Bronchial Asthma

Firstly, this course will cover the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma by focusing on the hygiene hypothesis and innate immunity. Secondly, this course will briefly review the GINA guideline and provide participants with the current topics of asthma therapy. Participants will be able to describe the effect of early exposure of endotoxin on asthma pathogenesis. In addition, they will be able to describe the current topics of asthma therapy and explain the benefit of treatment with inhaled corticosteroids. There will be two sessions:

1. Pathogenesis of bronchial asthma; Hygiene theory
   by Monica Kraft, ATS, Duke University
2. Pathogenesis of bronchial asthma; Innate Immunity
   by Peter Gibson, Australia

(Note: These are not public sessions. Attendance is reserved for those who have registered for the APSR2006 Congress.)