Workshops

Registration

Updates in Global Tobacco Control
– Hayden McRobbie (New Zealand)

Tobacco and the lungs
– Helmy Haja Mydin (Malaysia)

Smoking cessation therapies
– Nurhayati Mohd Marzuki (Malaysia)

Coffee break

The challenges of implementing a smoking cessation service
– Suthat Rungruanghiranya (Thailand)

Motivational Interviewing
– Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin

How to deal with the recalcitrant smoker
– Wee Lei Hum (Malaysia)

The role of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation
– Hayden McRobbie (New Zealand)

Approach to the patient with ILD
– John Simpson (UK)

Pulmonary function testing in ILD - diagnostic and prognostic indicators
– Takashi Ogura (Japan)

Interpreting CT scans in ILD
– Masashi Takahashi (Japan)

Histopathology of ILD
– Nor Salmah Bakar (Malaysia)

Coffee break

Pulmonary hypertension secondary to ILD
– Sundari Ampikaipakan (Malaysia)

Advances in the treatment of ILD
– Masahito Ebina (Japan)

Diagnostic pitfalls of sarcoidosis
– John Simpson (UK)

Course introduction
– Siew-Teck Tie (Malaysia)

Electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy and related techniques in the diagnosis of peripheral lung nodule 
– Chung Ming Chu (Hong Kong)

Conventional TBNA - Is there a role in the era of EBUS?
– Jamsak Tscheikuna (Thailand)

EBUS TBNA - Tips to improve the yield
– Takehiro Izumo (Japan)

Airway debulking - Which is the best option?
– Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman (Malaysia)

Role of navigational bronchoscopy in the surgical management of lung cancer
– Calvin Ng (Hong Kong)

Lunch 

Bronchial thermoplasty
– Gerald Cox (Canada)

Rigid Bronchoscopy and airway stenting
– Hideo Saka (Japan)

EBUS-TBNA - Tips to improve the diagnostic yield
– Takehiro Izumo (Japan)

Navigational Bronchoscopy
– Chung-Ming Chu (Hong Kong)

Endobronchial debulking
– Jamalul Azizi Rahaman (Malaysia)

Registration

Thoracic ultrasound imaging - Introduction and normal anatomy
– Anushya Vijayanathan (Malaysia)

Thoracic ultrasound imaging

• Effusion
• Infection
• Pleural thickening
• Lymph nodes
• Lung masses

– Anushya Vijayanathan (Malaysia)

Medical Pleuroscopy - Introduction
– Anantham Devanand (Singapore)

Coffee break

Flexible pleuroscopy - How I do it
– Pyng Lee (Singapore)

Rigid pleuroscopy - How I do it
– Anantham Devanand (Singapore)

Indwelling Pleural Catheter (IPC)
– Hilmi Lockman (Malaysia)

Q & A

Lunch

Practical Session

• 3 groups - Ultrasound/ IPC/ Thoracoscopy 

– Pyng Lee (Singapore)
– Anushya Vijayanathan (Malaysia)
– Anantham Devanand (Singapore)
– Hilmi Lockman (Malaysia)
– Mohd Arif Mohd Zim (Malaysia)
– Fauzi Md Anshar (Malaysia)
– Razul Md Nazri Md Kassim (Malaysia)

Registration

Welcome speech
– Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail (Malaysia)

Updates on Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in International Classification of Sleep disorders 3^rd Edition
– Kazuo Chin (Japan)

Polysomnographic assessment of SDB (OSA, CSA, Sleep-Related Hypoventilation in ICSD-3)
– Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand)

Sleep-Disordered Breathing in children and its effects
– David Gozal (USA)

Clinical & Practical Pearls (1)
Case discussion on Central Sleep Apnoea and therapy
– David Gozal (USA)

Lunch

Clinical & Practical Pearls (2)
Case discussion on Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
– Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand) 

Advances in management of Sleep Disordered Breathing
– Atul Malhotra (USA)

Clinical & Practical Pearls (3)
Case discussion on Parasomnia
– Syed Hassan Syed Ahmad Almashoor (Malaysia)

The basics of NIV
– Stefano Nava (Italy)

How to improve patient-ventilator synchrony
– Stefano Nava (Italy)

Q & A

Non-invasive ventilation in children - Evidence-based considerations
– David Gozal (USA)

How to set NIV in acute respiratory failure
– Stefano Nava (Italy)

Coffee break

Illustrative Case Discussions

• Mask selection and fitting, 
• Ventilator settings, 
• and troubleshooting

– Stefano Nava (Italy)
– David Gozal (USA)
– Asiah Kassim (Malaysia)