Congress Workshop: Respiratory Infections
Chairmen: Syazatul Syakirin Sirol Aflah / Muhammad Naimmuddin Abdul Azih

0830 - 0900

The microbiome and microbial communities in healthy and diseased lung

- Nadiyah Binti Abdullah @ Azahari (Malaysia)

 Zenith 1

Biomarkers in pneumonia

- Wan Fadzlina Wan Mohd Shukeri(Malaysia)

 Zenith 1

Pulmonary infection in immunocompromised host

- Tan Ban Hock (Singapore)

 Zenith 1

Tea-break

 Foyer

Diagnosis and management of fungal pneumonia

- Tan Ban Hock (Singapore)

 Zenith 1

Dealing with severe pneumonia - choosing the right bullet

- Suree Sompradeekul (Thailand)

 Zenith 1

Radioimaging in pneumonia

- Zuhanis Abdul Hamid (Malaysia)

 Zenith 1

Melioidosis

- Ploenchan Chetchotisakd (Thailand)

 Zenith 1

Lunch

 The Dinning Room, Lobby

Congress workshop - Interstitial Lung Disease
Chairmen: Megat Razeem Abdul Razak / Ummi Nadira Daut

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – Diagnosis approaches

- Silvia Puglisi (Italy)

 Zenith 1

NSIP: Diagnosis and Management

- Syazatul Syakirin Sirol Aflah (Malaysia)

 Zenith 1

Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

- Low Su Ying (Singapore)

 Zenith 1

Tea-break

 Foyer

Radiology corner: How to identify different HRCT patterns in ILD

- Ng Yuen Li (Singapore)

 Zenith 1

Multidisciplinary discussion (MDD) - 4 cases with the panel of speakers

- Syazatul Syakirin Sirol Aflah (Malaysia)

 Zenith 1

Congress workshop - The Difficult Paediatric Airway
Chairmen: Ahmad Fadzil Abdullah / Dayang Zuraini Sahadan

Small airway - big problem?

- N Fafwati Faridatul Akmar Mohammad (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Assessment and the Role of Flexible Bronchoscopy in the Difficult Airway

- Su Siew Choo (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Anaesthesia Consideration in Difficult Airway

- Hamidah Ismail (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Congenital Cardiac Anomalies Associated with Airway Disease. A Close Partnership

- Mohd Nizam Mat Bah (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Tea-break

 Foyer

Congress workshop - The Difficult Paediatric Airway
Chairmen: Surendran Thavagnanam / Mariana Daud

Ventilation Strategies in Children with Difficult Airway

- Tang Swee Fong (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Surgical Intervention for Congenital Upper Airway Anomalies

- Norzi Dato' Ghazali (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Surgical Intervention for Congenital Lower Airway Anomalies

- Zakaria Zahari (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Long Term Complications and Medical Management of Children with Congenital Airway Anomalies

- Asiah Kassim (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Endoscopic or Open surgery for Laryngotracheal Stenosis.

- Goh Bee See (Malaysia)

 Zenith 4 & 5

Lunch

 The Dinning Room, Lobby

Case discussions

Case 1 : University Malaya Medical Centre
Case 2 : Institute Paediatric, Hospital Kuala Lumpur

Moderator: Ahmad Fadzil Abdullah

 Zenith 4 & 5

Panel Discussion

Management of Patients with Difficult Airway Failing Extubation

Panelist:
Asiah Kassim
Tang Swee Fong
Goh Bee See
Zakaria Zahari

Moderator: Mariana Daud

 Zenith 4 & 5

Welcome Address

Plenary 1

What You Need To Know About Inhalers And How To Exploit The Best Of Them

Speaker: David Price (Singapore)

Chairperson: Aziah Ahmad Mahayiddin

 Silk

SYMPOSIUM 1 (S1)

S1A – ILD / Obstructive airway disease

Chairmen: Fauzi Mohd Anshar / Razul Md Nazri MD Kassim 

• Managing pulmonary manifestations of systemic sclerosis​
  – Low Su Ying (Singapore)
• Approach to occupational Asthma in Malaysia
  – Siti Sara Yaacob (Malaysia)
• Bronchiectasis in 2018: Emerging therapies and novel perspectives
  – Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall (Singapore)

 Silk

S1B – Pulmonary infections: Non TB

Chairmen: Hilmi Lockman / Lem Li Khen

• Community Acquired Pneumonia: What is new?
  – Suree Sompradeekul (Thailand)
• Viral pneumonia in adults - A neglected aetiology!
  – Jamal I-Ching Sam (Malaysia)
• Pulmonary infection in HIV patients
  – Ploenchan Chetchotisakd (Thailand)

 Organza

S1C – Sleep Disordered Breathing In Children

Chairmen: Rus Anida Awang / Alison Ting Yih Hua

• Technologies Used in the Diagnosis of Sleep-Disordered Breathing
  – Dayang Zuraini Sahadan (Malaysia)
• Management Of Complex Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
  – Arthur Teng (Australia)
• Sleep Dysfunction in Children with Neuromuscular Disease
  – Mariana Daud (Malaysia)
• Behavioural Sleep Problems In Adolescence
  – Arthur Teng (Australia)

 Zenith 6 & 7

Coffee Break

SYMPOSIUM 2 (S2)

S2A – Orphan lung disease

Chairmen: Abdul Razak Abdul Muttalif / Rosmadi Ismail

• Management of cystic fibrosis in Adults
  – Hilmi Lockman (Malaysia)
• Addressing psychosocial needs of patients with rare lung diseases
  – Hatijah Ayob (Malaysia)
• Approach to Cystic lung diseases
  – Silvia Puglisi (Italy)

 Silk

S2B – Radiology/pathology/molecular correlation with Lung Disease

Chairmen: Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail / Zainuddin Md Zin

• Is Aspergillus important in defining the Asian phenotypes of respiratory disease?
  – Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall (Singapore)
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
  – Tengku Saifudin Tengku Ismail (Malaysia)
• Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
  – Fauzi Mohd Anshar (Malaysia)

 Organza

S2C – CHILDHOOD INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES (chILD)

Chairmen: Anna Marie Nathan / Eg Kah Peng

• Has this child got childhood interstitial lung disease?
  – Adam Jaffe (Australia)
• chILD - What the Radiologist can Offered to Pulmonologist?
  – Faizah Mohd Zaki (Malaysia)
• Management of chILD – are there any recent advances?
  – Adam Jaffe (Australia)

 Zenith 6 & 7

Sponsored Symposium 2

Company: AstraZeneca

Topic: Mild Asthma Management and the Future Perspectives in Improving Asthma Control
Speaker: David Price (Singapore)
Chairperson: TBA

 Silk

Lunch

SYMPOSIUM 3 (S3)

S3A – Sleep-disordered breathing

Chairmen: Megat Razeem bin Abdul Razak / Lalitha Pereirasamy

• Current Evidence of OSA and Pregnancy
  – Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand)
• Sleep disordered breathing and heart failure
  – Azarisman Shah Mohd Shah (Malaysia)
• Preoperative evaluation and management in OSA
  – Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand)

  Silk

S3B – Rehabilitation and Chronic Care

Chairmen: Muhammad Naimmudin Abdul Azih / Azlina Samsudin

• Is community-based pulmonary rehabilitation feasible?
  – Saari Mohamad Yatim (Malaysia)
• Nutrition in chronic lung diseases
  – Poh Kai Ling (Malaysia)
• Communication in end-of-life care for patients with chronic lung diseases
  – Richard Lim Boon Leong (Malaysia)

  Zenith 6 & 7

S3C – Respiratory disease in Primary Care 1

Chairmen: Kuan Yeh Chunn / Ernest Poh Mau Ern

• Snoring Adults
  – Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail (Malaysia)
• Management of (Paediatric) Mild Asthma
  – Ahmad Fadzil Abdullah (Malaysia)
• TB or Not TB - Active or Not active
  – Aziah Ahmad Mahayiddin (Malaysia)

  Organza

Sponsored Symposium 3A

Company: MSD

• Raising the Bar in the Management of Advanced/ Metastatic NSCLC – Where are we heading?
  Speaker: Adnan Nagrial (Australia)
  Chairperson: Tho Lye Mun

 Organza

Sponsored Symposium 3B

Company: Mundipharma Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd

• Paradigm Shift in Assessing Asthma Outcomes: Evidence from RCTs to Real World
  Speaker: Pang Yong Kek (Malaysia)
  Chairperson: Wong Jyi Lin

 Silk

MTS Annual General Meeting & Coffee break

 Zenith 6 & 7

Sponsored Symposium 4A

Company: GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Sdn Bhd

• COPD Management: Which bronchodilator and inhaler device to choose?
  Speaker: Celeste Mae Lardizabal - Campomanes (Philippines)
  Chairperson: Ong Jeng Nee

 Silk

Sponsored Symposium 4B

Company: AstraZeneca

• Rapid Anti-inflammatory Therapy: A New Era in Paediatric Asthma Exacerbation
  Speaker: Kevin Robert Murphy (USA)
  Chairperson: Patrick Chan Wai Kiong

 Organza

Dinner

Sunrise Session

Acute exacerbation of IPF

Speaker: Silvia Puglisi (Italy)

Chairperson: Syazatul Syarikin Sirol Aflah

 Zenith 6 & 7

Plenary 2

Chronic Lung Disease: The Malaysian Journey from Infancy to Adulthood

Speaker: Norzila Mohamed Zainudin (Malaysia)

Chairperson: Azizi Hj. Omar

 Silk

SYMPOSIUM 4 (S4)

S4A – Non-invasive ventilation

Chairmen: Goon Ai Khiang / Rozanah Abd Rahman

• NIV in patients with neuromuscular disorders
  – Naricha Chirakalwasan (Thailand)
• NIV in acute respiratory failure - how to select the right candidate
  – Mohd Basri Mat Nor (Malaysia)
• Home NIV post-COPD Exacerbation
  – Norhaya Mohd Razali (Malaysia)

 Silk

S4B – Interventional Pulmonology

Chairmen: Wong Jyi Lin / Mohd Arif Mohd Zim

• Bronchial Thermoplasty
  – Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman (Malaysia)
• Endoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Procedures
  – Lee Pyng (Singapore)
• Novel Approach to Lung Nodule
  – Tie Siew Teck (Malaysia)

 Zenith 6 & 7

S4C – Recurrent Wheezing In Children

Chairmen: Hasniah Abdul Latif / Hafiza Zainuddin

• I Have a Child with Recurrent Wheeze - What shall I do?
  – Rus Anida Awang (Malaysia)
• Virus Infections and Recurrent Wheezing: Is There a Link?
  – Jessie Anne De Bruyne (Malaysia)
• Long-term Sequelae - Who are at Risk?
  – Alison Ting Yih Hua (Malaysia)
• The Dilemmas in the Treatment of Recurrent Wheezers
  – Adam Jaffe (Australia)

 Organza

Coffee Break

SYMPOSIUM 5 (S5)

S5A – Lung cancer

Chairmen: How Soon Hin / Mat Zuki Mat Jaeb

• SRS vs Conventional Radiotherapy in NSCLC
  – Tho Lye Mun (Malaysia)
• Transforming Advanced Lung Cancer Into a Chronic Disease
  – Adnan Nagrial (Australia)
• Biomarker and molecular profiling in NSCLC: a step toward personalized medicine
  – Pathmanathan Rajadurai (Malaysia)

 Organza

S5B – Pleural Diseases

Chairmen: Muhammad Redzwan S. Rashid Ali / Mohamed Faisal Abdul Hamid

• Approach to persistent air leak in pneumothorax
  – Lee Pyng (Singapore)
• Unexplained pleural effusion - diagnostic approach
  – Rosmadi Ismail (Malaysia)
• Ultrasound in pleural disease
  – Anushya Vijayananthan (Malaysia)

 Silk

S5C - Current Management Of Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease In Children

Chairmen: N Fafwati Faridatul Akmar / Su Siew Choo

• Cystic Fibrosis
  – Adam Jaffe (Australia)
• Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis
  – Anna Marie Nathan (Malaysia)
• Non-CF Bronchiectasis
  – Hasniah Abdul Latif (Malaysia)
• Optimising Pulmonary & Nutritional Rehabilitation
  – Surendran Thavagnanam (Malaysia)

 Zenith 6 & 7

Sponsored Symposium 5

Company: GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Sdn Bhd

• Asthma Management: Evolution of ICS/LABA in today's world
  Speakers: Celeste Mae Lardizabal - Compomanes (Philippine) & Ahmad Izuanuddin Ismail (Malaysia)
  Chairperson: Sharlini T Surendran

 Silk

Lunch

Oral Presentation

Chairperson: Roslina Abdul Manap

OR1 - Comparison of Two Respiratory Scores in Children with Acute Bronchiolitis

OR2 - Transbronchial Cryobiopsy of Adjacent and Eccentrically Orientated R-EBUS Lesion

OR3 - Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction Among Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients

OR4 - Pulse oximetry as an alternative tool for diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) in children.

OR5 - Elucidating the role of miRNAs expression as a post-transcriptional mechanism in the carcinogenesis of air pollution-related lung cancer

 Zenith 6 & 7

Poster Presentation

 Cashmere Ballroom

SYMPOSIUM 6 (S6)

S6 - Respiratory Diseases in Primary Care 2

Chairmen: Aishah Ibrahim / Norhaya Mohd Razali

• Approach to patients with chronic cough
  – Rozanah Abd Rahman (Malaysia)
• ABC in CXR interpretation
  – Radhiana Hassan (Malaysia)

 Silk

Sponsored Symposium 6

Company: Boehringer Ingelheim

• Exacerbations in context : Targeted Management to Maximize Outcomes
  Speaker: Prof. Antonio Anzueto (USA)
  Chairperson: Jamalul Azizi Abdul Rahaman

 Silk

Sponsored Symposium 7A

Company: Sanofi Pasteur c/o Sanofi-Aventis (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

• Quadrivalent Influenza vaccine: Broader Influenza protection in chronic respiratory patients
  Speaker: Lalitha Pereirasamy (Malaysia)
  Chairperson: Pang Yong Kek

 Silk

Sponsored Symposium 7B

Company: Pfizer Malaysia Sdn Bhd

• The role of ceftaroline in community acquired pneumonia
  Speaker: Asok Kurup (Singapore)
  Chariperson: Andrea Ban Yu-Lin

 Zenith 6 & 7

Coffee Break

Gala Dinner

Sunrise Session

Review on tuberculosis management in public and private healthcare facilities in Malaysia: the good and the gaps

Speaker: Nurhuda Ismail (Malaysia)

Chairperson: Liam Chong Kin

 Zenith 6 & 7

Plenary 3

2nd Malaysian Asthma CPG (New)

Speaker: Andrea Ban Yu-Lin (Malaysia)

Chairperson: Fauzi Abdul Rani

 Silk

SYMPOSIUM 7 (S7)

S7A – Tuberculosis

Chairmen: Nurhayati Mohd Marzuki / Irfhan Ali Bin Hyder Ali

• Latent TB in Malaysia - Opportunity & Dilemma
  – Pang Yong Kek (Malaysia)
• Difficult Tuberculosis - option of treatment
  – Abdul Razak Abdul Muttalif (Malaysia)
• Management of adverse effects caused by anti-TB
  – Zamzurina Abu Bakar (Malaysia)

 Silk

S7B - Palliative Care In Children With End-Stage Lung Diseases

Chairmen: Norzila Mohamed Zainudin / Jessie Anne De Bruyne

• Sleep Breathing and Lung Disease
  – Arthur Teng (Australia)
• The Malaysian Palliative Care Journey
  – Kuan Geok Lan (Malaysia)
• When Everything Fails in CLD Children: Anything else can be Offered
  – Chong Lee Ai (Malaysia)

 Zenith 6 & 7

Coffee Break

Adult  Multidisciplinary Case Discussions

Case 1
Presenter: Chai Chee Shee

Case 2
Presenter: Tan Han Loong

Case 3
Presenter: Sasi Kumar

Moderator: Pang Yong Kek / Hooi Lai Ngoh

 Silk

Paediatrics Multidisciplinary Case Discussions

Case 1: Kulim
Presenter: Senthil Kumarran Arumugam
Radiologist: Faizah Mohd Zaki

Case 2: Kuching
Presenter: Saw Kian Ruey
Radiologist: Faizah Mohd Zaki

Moderator: Dayang Zuraini Sahadan

 Zenith 6 & 7

Plenary 4

Smoking Cessation in Chronic Disease Patients: The good, the bad, the ugly

Speaker: Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin (Malaysia)
Chairperson: Norhaya Mohd Razali

 Silk

Closing Ceremony

 Silk

Lunch

 Silk