Day 2: November 14, 2023
Hosted by GOLD and Temple Lung Center

2023 GOLD International COPD Conference

Check-in, Breakfast, and Exhibit Hall
Breakfast Symposium
Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: Definition and Severity Classification of COPD Exacerbations: Time for a Change?
  • – Why a New Definition? Dyspnea as the Cardinal Symptom
  • – “Measure What is Measurable” – Galileo Galilei
  • – “Exacerbation or Not Exacerbation?” – That is the Question
  • – Panel Discussion
Morning Break and Exhibit Hall
Session 2: Role of Respiratory Infections in Patients With COPD
  • – Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Respiratory Infections in Patients with COPD
  • – New Methods to Detect Bacterial or Viral Infections in Patients with COPD
  • – Vaccinations to Prevent Infections in Patients with COPD
  • – Panel Discussion
Session 3: GOLD 2024 Update
  • – What’s New in GOLD 2024
  • – Questions and Answers
Lunch Break
  • – WHO/GARD: Improving Availability and Affordability of WHO Essential Inhaled Medicines in Low- and Middle-income Countries
  • – Lunch Symposium
Session 4: Reducing Mortality in COPD: Achieving the Holy Grail
  • – Mortality of Patients with COPD
  • – Pharmacological Interventions and Mortality
  • – Nonpharmacological Therapies and Mortality
  • – Panel Discussion
Session 5: Assistive Devices in Patients with COPD
  • – Advances in Oxygen Therapy – Benefits and Limitations
  • – Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation for Chronic Hypercapnic Patients
  • – Sleep Apnea: COPD and the Heart
  • – Panel Discussion
Exhibit Hall Break
Session 6: The Future of COPD
  • – Beyond Cigarettes, What Else to Watch for?
  • – Moving the Field Forward: Time for Action
  • – Panel Discussion
  • – Adjournment