On 17th November 2017, Detection of Lung Cancer at Early Stage Summit and Special Training Course for Asia-Pacific Area, was held at Shanghai International Conference Center, Shanghai, China. A total of 12 speakers and more than 400 physicians and scientist participated in this training course.

The Summit and Course, which had been approved as an Educational Seminar of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (ESAP), contained tens of well-prepared talks. Speakers were all experts in the lung cancer area, including: Dr Chunxue Bai, Chairman of Shanghai Institution of Respiratory Diseases; Dr Kwun Fong, President of the APSR; Dr Fred R Hirsch, CEO of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC); Dr M Patricia Rivera, Chair of the ATS Thoracic Oncology Assembly; Dr Charles A Powell, Professor of Icahn School of Medicine; and Dr Rex Yung, Professor of Johns Hopkins University.

Dr Dawei Yang from Zhongshan Hospital also showed Advanced Technology of Shanghai Institution of Respiratory Diseases; AR + Demonstration: Automatic diagnostic imaging of pulmonary nodules and BaiDX 5A system.

Another important issue of the meeting is around 91 hospitals joined small nodule diagnosis and treatment program which was organized by China Alliance Against Lung Cancer, an organization focuses on “prevention, early diagnosis, comprehensive treatment and modern management of lung cancer”, and Prof Bai is the chairman of the organization.

The initial announcement of the ESAP follows:

A whole day training course will be held during the ISRD meeting on 17 November 2017 at the Shanghai International Conference Center
No. 2727 Binjiang Ave.
Pudong New District
Shanghai
China.

Organizers: Chinese Alliance Against Lung Cancer, Shanghai Respiratory Medicine Clinical Quality Control Center

Course leaders: Dr Hu Jie, and Dr Yang Dawei.

The purpose of this training course is to provide state-of-art technology of early lung cancer detection, including but not limited to

• advanced bronchoscopy biopsy,
• fluorescence bronchoscopy and narrowband bronchoscopy,
• bronchoscopy with electromagnetic navigation,
• integrated intelligent imaging
• and guideline for lung nodule follow up.

Experts in this area will include Prof Kwun Fong as the nominated APSR Executive Committee member, who will join this ESAP as an international faculty and speaker.

The normal registration fee is US$200, but a special half-price registration fee of US$100 for APSR members.

Programme

08:30	Opening and Introduction	Chunxue Bai
08:40	Speech from APSR President	Kwun Fong
08:50	Speech from IASLC CEO	Fred R Hirsch
09:00	Speech from Chinese Academician	Jie He
09:10	Lung Cancer in China	Jie He
09:45	PD-L1 IHC assay as a predictive biomarker for immunotherapy: The Blueprint Project	Fred R Hirsch
10:20	History and Progress of Lung cancer	Kwun Fong
10:55	Lung Cancer in women	M Patricia Rivera
11:30	Evaluation of pulmonary nodules: clinical practice consensus guidelines for Asia and Pacific countries and Regions	Chunxue Bai
12:05	Lunch
13:30	Lung cancer Biomarkers for early detection	Charles A Powell
14:05	Clinical application of auto fluorescence Bronchoscopy and narrowband Bronchoscopy	Jiayuan Sun
14:40	Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules with Electromagnetic navigation	Rex Yung
15:15	Guided bronchoscopy for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodule	Rex Yung
15:50	Dancing to Michael Jackson – How Alibaba might revolutionize Health Care	Christoph Thümmler
16:25	Close

Faculty

Contact

Shanghai Saigao exibition service Lt Co
199 Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai
Tel: 86-13472720506
Email: event@isrd.org; jingw@jymiot.com

Secretary
Tel: 86-13585868035
Email: liumiao.lijing@163.com CC: cxbai@icloud.com