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We are excited to host the Asthma Conference 2025! The Allergy Academy from King’s College London is collaborating with the paediatric and adult severe asthma centres to provide a panel of national and international experts to best inform practice. This multidisciplinary day will cover a wide range of topics to enable safe, state-of-the-art care in adults and children presenting with asthma across the UK. Our emphasis is on a holistic integrated pathway approach, from community to specialist difficult asthma care networks where required. Our speakers include expert opinion leaders, senior nursing staff, behavioural psychologist, pharmacists and clinicians with expertise in supporting best access for hard-to-reach communities.
Asthma remains a huge health burden for up to 15% of our society across the life-course, bringing regular unscheduled admissions, repeated reviews and sometimes life-threatening acute episodes. The day emphasises common themes between children / adult care, and deals with transition and inequity in care as a topic in particular. Best practice relies on accurate structured decision-making, working within multidisciplinary teams, and access to the latest treatments where conventional asthma therapy is not sufficient. Some of the most recent pharmacotherapy in this area is utterly transforming the boundaries of care, and includes recent developments in combined medicines, delivery devices, biologic and personalised medicines.
This network day will be an in person, face to face event at the Robens Suite of Guy’s Hospital, London, to maximise all networking and clinical discussion on the day. There will be no recording or hybrid option, because the emphasis is on meeting leaders in clinical, academic and multidisciplinary care models.
This day is suitable for all health care professionals working with patients who have asthma, emphasising equity of access, prompt and evidence-based treatment in accordance with GINA, BTS and NICE guidance.
Who should attend
This event is targeted towards a spectrum of healthcare professionals including:
Physicians and pulmonologists
Paediatricians
Trainees
Allergists
Nursing and respiratory medicine team members
General Practitioners and their team members
Allied Health Professionals working with children with asthma
Dr Thomas Marrs, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
09:10
New steps from the combined National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and British Thoracic Society (BTS) megaguide
Dr Ian Sinha, Paediatric Respiratory Consultant, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
09:40
Retrieval for asthma
Dr Jon Lillie, Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
10:10
Evidence for allergen immunotherapy protecting from viral exacerbations
Dr Christian Woehlk, Translational Research Scientist, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital
10:40
Question and answer session
10:55
Tea and coffee break
Stream 1: Adult
11:30
Eosinophils chronic obstructive pulmonary disease vs smoking asthma
Dr Richard Russell, Head of Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, King’s College London
12:00
Occupational asthma advances
Dr Jo Feary, Academic Consultant in Occupational Lung Disease, Royal Brompton Hospital
12:25
Starting an adult chest service
Dr Kay Roy, Respiratory Consultant, University College Hospital
12:50
Question and answer session
Stream 2: Paediatric
11:30
Treating viral wheeze differently to early asthma
Professor Sejal Saglani, Paediatric Respiratory Consultant, Royal Brompton Hospital
12:00
Distinguishing cough-variant and bacterial chest syndromes from asthma in childhood
Speaker to be confirmed
12:25
Asthma plus: Airway, anatomic, genetic
Dr Ranjan Suri, Paediatric Respiratory Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
12:50
Question and answer session
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Asthma plus: Nasal signs and syndromes
Speaker to be confirmed
14:20
Vaping, lung clearance and impact
Professor Jane Davies, Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Bromptom Hospital and Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
14:40
Maternity smoking cessation tips
Dr Louise Restrick, Respiratory Consultant, Whittington Hospital
15:00
Question and answer session
15:10
Tea and coffee break
15:30
Adherence in asthma
Professor John Weinman, Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicines, King’s College London
15:50
Patient perspective: Patient voice and impact of asthma attacks
Speaker to be confirmed
16:10
Integrating care or negotiating business plans
Professor Ingrid Woolfe, Consultant in Paediatric Population Health, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
