TB Problems In Resource Poor Area - What Can We Teach The Developed World?
Varinder Singh (New Delhi, India)

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS' ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairmen:
Andrew Colin (Miami, USA)
Jean-Paul Praud (Sherbrooke, Canada)

F9/165 – Intestinal Current Measurement as ad Diagnostic Procedure in Cystic Fibrosis in Infants and Young Children.
Malena Cohen Cymberknoh (Jerusalem, Israel)

F14/134 - Cogarette smoke exposure reduces tight junctions expression on human airway epitehalial cell lines through mechanisms partially inhibited by cAMP Acrivation.
Loredana Petecchia (Genoa, Italy)

F16/309 - Effect of Maternal Betamethasone Administration on Pulmonary Proliferation Indices Induced by Ttracheal Occlusion in the Nitrofen Rat Model – a Placebo Controlled Study.
Steffi Mayer (Leuven, Belgium)

F17/176 – Influence of BMI-Percentile on Lung Function and Asthma Diagnosis in Children.
Jason Lang (Jacksonville, USA)

Control of Breathing and Airway Physiology.
Alejandro Teper (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Miles Weinberger (Iowa City, USA)

CC4/312 - Endobronchial Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor as a cause of Total Left Lung Atelectasis, in a 11 year old child.
F. Alcedo Hernandez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Repubic)

CC5/258 – Late-onset of congenital central hypoventilation with 20/24 mutation in the PHOX2B gene.
Raul Corrales (Santiago, Chile)

CC6/31 - Persistent Tachypnea of Infancy.
Theodor Zimmermann (Erlangen, Germany)

CC16/152 - Severe bronchospastic crisis in a 12 year old boy with cystic fibrosis
Silvija Jerkic (London, UK)

Chairmen
Urs Frey (Bern, Switzerland)
Paul Aurora (London, UK)

CC8/321 - Infantile Failure to Thrive Despite Appropriate Management: A Case of Pseudo-Bartters.
Snezana Zivanovic (Nis, Serbia)

CC14/166 - Surgical Intervention for Necrotizing Pneumonia Mimicking Diaphragmatic Hernia
Tariq Ali-Dinar (Miami, USA)

CC15/332 - Life-saving Paediatric Lung Transplantation in Bronchiolitis Obliterans: Case Report
Ariana Afonso (Porto, Portugal)

Professor Bruce Rubin, the CIPP VIII Past President, is an amateurmagician who uses magic to charm and entertain sick children in his care.

He has prepared a short course to teach you the basics of clinical magic.
Each registrant will receive a magic kit and training in its use and in presentation of tricks.
This interactive session will not teach you to do a magic show.
The emphasis is on age-appropriate and clinically relevant magic for an individual patient and their family.

There is a fee of 120 Euros and each session will be limited in size to the first 15 registrants.

All registrants must agree to follow the code of ethics of the International Brotherhood of Magicians found at http://www.magician.org/CodeOfEthics.htm

NB. Attendance limited to 15.

Andrew Bush (UK)
Andrew Colin (Miami, USA)
Michaël Fayon (France)
Eitan Kerem (Istrael)
Petr Pohunek (Czech Republic)
Giovanni Rossi (Genoa, Italy)

NB. Attendance limited to 30.

GUEST LECTURE

Complexity In Asthma, Fluctuations In Airway Function And Avalanches: Beyond Single Measurements of Lung Function.
Urs Frey (Bern, Switzerland)

F1/119 - Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) aActivity Mediates AlteredResponsiveness of Airway Smooth Muscle Heterologously Desensitized toBeta2-adrenergic Receptor (B2AR) Stimulation.
Gustavo Nino (Philadelphia, USA)

F2/171 – Human IL-17A Potentiation of In-vitro Opsonophagocytic Killing of Streptococcus Pneumoniae.
Jane Gross (Boston, USA)

F3/65 - Case-control Study of Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome in Obese and Non-obese Chinese Children.
Zhi Fei Xu (Beijing, China)

F4/151 – Innominate Artery Tracheal Compression: Different Clinical Presentations in Different Ages and Outcome Post Surgical.
Chiara Gardella (Genoa, Italy)

1. Strategies to Identify Genes Causing Asthma or Allergy.
   Isabelle Pin (Grenoble, France)
   
   
2. Pharmacogenetics Of Asthma.
   Peter Le Souef (Perth, Australia)
   
   
3. Gene Environmental Interactions.
   Adnan Custovic (London, UK)
   

Chairpersons:
Agnès Juchet (Toulouse)
Christophe Delacourt (Créteil)

1. Nouvelles thérapeutiques inhalées.
   Novel Inhaled Therapy.
   Jean-Christophe Dubus (Marseille)


2. Bronchiolite oblitérante et BOOP : importance en Pédiatrie.
   Bronchiolitis Obliterans & BOOP: What Relevance In Pediatrics.
   Philippe Reix (Lyon)

Chairmen:
Michael Fayon (Bordeaux, France)
Umberto Simeoni (Marseille, France

1. Long-term Effects of Preterm Birth and Early Nutrition on Predisposition to Later Lung Disease.
Richard Harding (Monash, Australia)

2. Host or Virus: Respective Roles in Acute and Chronic
Morbidity Associated with RSV Infection.
Mark Everard (Sheffield, UK)

3. New Insights into the RSV-asthma Connection, from Recent Clinical Trials.
Eric Simoes (Denver, USA)

WELCOMING ADDRESSES:
Andrew Bush, CIPP VIII President
Michael Fayon, Local Committee President

KEYNOTE LECTURE:
Asthma In Developing Countries - Managing An Increasing Burden.
Heather Zar (Cape Town, South Africa)

WELCOMING COCKTAIL:
Kindly Offered By The Lord-Mayor of The Town Of Nice.