V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 10.00 – 10.30

Iveria Ballroom, Radisson Blue Iveria Hotel

OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome Addresses

Revaz Sepiashvili

Congress President President, Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (GAACI) President, World Immunopathology Organization (WIPO)

Aaron Ciechanover Nobel Prize Winner, Haifa, Israel

Giorgi Kvesitadze President, Georgian National Academy of Sciences

Mario Sanchez-Borges

President, World Allergy Organization (WAO)

Antonella Muraro President, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

Grigorij Kogan Research Programme Officer, European Commission

Ronald Dahl Past-President, European Respiratory Society (ERS) Past-President, International Association of Asthma (INTERASMA)

Zurab Vadachkoria Rector, Tbilisi State Medical University

Amiran Gamkrelidze Director General, National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC)

Tinatin Chikovani Co-Chairman, Congress Program Committee

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 10.35 – 12.00

Iveria Ballroom, Radisson Blue Iveria Hotel

PLENARY SESSION

Chairmen: Walter Canonica Revaz Sepiashvili

Grigorij Kogan European Commission, DG Research & Innovation, E4 Non-Communicable Diseases and the Challenge of Healthy Ageing, Brussels, Belgium EU Support to research on airways diseases

Mario Sanchez-Borges WAO President, The Allergy and Immunology Department, Centro Médico-Docente La Trinidad and Clínica El Avila, Caracas, Venezuela The EAACI/GA2LEN/WAO Guidelines for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria: the 2016 revision and update

THE NOBEL LAUREATE KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chairmen: Giorgi Kvesitadze Revaz Sepiashvili Zurab Vadachkoria

Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel The revolution of personalized medicine: are we going to cure all diseases and at what price?

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

PLENARY SESSION

Joint Session of the World Allergy Organization (WAO)

and the Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (GAACI)

Chairmen: Mario Sanchez-Borges Ignacio Ansotegui Dana Wallace

Mario Sanchez-Borges WAO President, The Allergy and Immunology Department, Centro Médico-Docente La Trinidad and Clínica El Avila, Caracas, Venezuela Cofactors and comorbidities in patients with aspirin/NSAID hypersensitivity

Mario Sanchez-Borges WAO President, The Allergy and Immunology Department, Centro Médico-Docente La Trinidad and Clínica El Avila, Caracas, Venezuela The EAACI/GA2LEN/WAO Guidelines for the definition, classification, diagnosis, and management of urticaria: the 2016 revision and update

Dana Wallace WAO ESP/WATS Committee Chair, Florida Center for Allergy and Asthma Care, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Adverse reactions to vaccines: an update on diagnosis and management

Ignacio Ansotegui WAO President-Elect, Head of the Department of Allergy & Immunology, Hospital Quirón Bizkaia, Erandio, Spain Allergy epidemics. Where are we?

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

WORLD ALLERGY TRAINING SCHOOL (WATS) BY WORLD ALLERGY ORGANIZATION

Chairmen: Mario Sanchez-Borges Ignacio Ansotegui Dana Wallace

Dana Wallace WAO ESP/WATS Committee Chair, Florida Center for Allergy and Asthma Care, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Preparing your office and staff for medical emergencies

Ignacio Ansotegui WAO President-Elect, Head of the Department of Allergy & Immunology, Hospital Quirón Bizkaia, Erandio, Spain WAO vision on Immunotherapy

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

PLENARY SESSION

Joint Session of the European Academy of Allergy

and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and the Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (GAACI)

Chairmen: Ioane Agache Antonella Muraro Revaz Sepiashvili

Antonella Muraro EAACI Past President, Food Allergy Referral Centre Veneto Region, Department of Women and Child Health, Padua General University Hospital, Italy Precision medicine in food allergy and anaphylaxis

Ioane Agache EAACI President Asthma endotypes - a gate to precision medicine

Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier EAACI Vice-President TBA

Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier EAACI Vice-President TBA

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ASTHMA, ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY (ACAAI)

SPECIAL SESSION

Chairmen: Martin Bryan

Bryan Martin ACAAI Past-President ACOS and COPD in the Allergist's Office

Bryan Martin ACAAI Past-President Disparities in Asthma Care: Where you live matters

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

PLENARY LECTURES

Giovanni Passalacqua Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Specialty School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, Italy The rationale for Biologicals in asthma

Giovanni Passalacqua Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Specialty School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Genoa, Italy Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) in asthma

Stelios Loukides University of Athens Medical School, Attiko University Hospital 2nd Respiratory Dept, Athens, Greece Blood eosinophils in asthma and COPD: Does the size matter?

Stelios Loukides University of Athens Medical School, Attiko University Hospital 2nd Respiratory Dept, Athens, Greece Biomarkers in COPD: Clinical applications

NINEL BEREZHNAYA HONORARY LECTURE

Moderator:

Besarion Lasareishvili Тбилиси, Грузия

The phenomenon of Tachyphylaxis: myth or reality?

МЕDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA AND GAACI JOINT SYMPOSIUM

Chairmen: Revaz Sepiashvili Rudolf Valenta

Rudolf Valenta Department of Pathophysiology, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria From modern allergy diagnosis to prediction of allergy

Victoria Garib Department of Pathophysiology, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria Most important asthma- associated allergen molecules

Maia Gotua Center of Allergy and Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia Molecular allergology at the general algorithm of asthma diagnosis in Georgia

Felix Gastager Austria Most prominent methodology meeting clinicians needs for specific IgE measurement

Rudolf Valenta Department of Pathophysiology, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria Concluding remarks

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

GURAM GURGENIDZE MEMORIAL LECTURE

Moderator: Revaz Sepiashvili

Georgy Gurgenidze Institute of Biotechnology, Tbilisi, Georgia

Neural mechanisms in pathogenesis of bronchial asthma

VAKHTANG BOCHORISHILI MEMORIAL LECTURE

Moderator:

Ketevan Nemsadze

Medicine: Science or Art

YURI MALASHKHIA MEMORIAL LECTURE

Moderator:

Ari Waisman Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Innate and adaptive immune responses in the brain

NUGZAR TATISHVILI MEMORIAL LECTURE

Moderator:

Gaiane Simonia Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia Personalized cardiology – new paradigms

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

Highlights in Respiratory Medicine

Chairmen: Ivane Chkhaidze Tamaz Maglakelidze

Ivane Chkhaidze Tbilisi, Georgia Pediatric Origin of COPD

Vakhtang Katsarava Tbilisi,Georgia Surgery in patients with chronic and severe lung pathology

Tamaz Maglakelidze Tbilisi, Georgia COPD: perspectives and new realities

Kakha Vacharadze Tbilisi, Georgia Bronchoscopy in diagnostic and management of respiratory pathology

When Practical Help of Allergologist Is Needed?

Chairmen: Amiran Gamkrelidze Maia Gotua

Maia Gotua Center of Allergy and Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia Faced with possible anaphylaxis

Maia Rukhadze Center of Allergy and Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia Clinical management of rhinitis medicamentosa.

Nana Mgaloblishvili Center of Allergy and Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia Clinical application of biomarkers of asthma

Georgia Bidzina Kulumbegov Center of Allergy and Immunology, Tbilisi, Georgia Persistence of chronic urticaria and insufficient fourfold doses of antihistamines

SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE OF GEORGIAN ASSOCIATION OF DERMATO-VENEREOLOGISTS

Immunological Aspects of Pathogenesis and Treatment of Dermatosis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Chairmen: George Galdava Tina Kituashvili

George Galdava Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Medicine, R/S National Center of Dermatology and Venereology, Tbilisi, Georgia Immunological methods of the treatment of the chronic sexually transmitted infections – past and contemporary approaches

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

Sopiko Liluashvili, Tina Kituashvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Medicine, D. Tvildiani Medical University, R/S National Center of Dermatology and Venereology, Tbilisi, Georgia Immunopathological basics of the systemic treatment in psoriasis

Irma Buchukuri University “Geomedi”, R/S National Center of Dermatology and Venereology, Tbilisi, Georgia Differential diagnosis of autoimmune bullous diseases

Tamari Darjania, Tina Kituashvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia Risk factors for the development of autoimmune blistering diseases

Tamara Ebanoidze Caucasus International University, Tbilisi Humanitarian University, R/S National Center of Dermatology and Venereology, Tbilisi, Georgia Skin forms of the connective tissue diseases – differential diagnosis

Nino Lortkipanidze D. Tvildiani Medical University, R/S National Center of Dermatology and Venereology, Tbilisi, Georgia Relevance of trichoscopy in differential diagnosis of hair and scalp disorders

Discussion

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

SYMPOSIUM Infections and Immunogenetics

Chairman George Kamkamidze

Ketevan Gendzekhadze, George Kamkamidze City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA; Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia Influence of immunogenetic factors on the course of infectious diseases

Robert Bednarczyk, Louise-Anne McNutt, Maia Butsashvili State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA; Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Health Research Union and Clinic NeoLab, Tbilisi, Georgia HPV infection among women of reproductive age: knowledge, seroprevalence, genotypic distribution and immunogenetic factors of persistence

Iuri Migriauli, David Razmadze, George Kamkamidze AIETI Medical School; Georgian Technical University; Molecular Medicine Association, Tbilisi, Georgia Multiplex molecular diagnostic methods and bioinformatics tools for identification of the pathogenic agents causing diarrheal diseases

Koba Shanava, Gocha Shatirishvili, George Kamkamidze Aversi Clinic; Cord Blood Bank “GeoCord”, K. Mardaleishvili Medical Center; Molecular Medicine Association, Tbilisi, Georgia First cases of liver and stem cells transplantation for the treatment of HCV infection related liver cirrhosis

SYMPOSIUM Frontiers of Neuroimmunology

Chairmen: Zaal Kokaia Jonathan Kipnis

Ari Waisman Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Innate and adaptive immune responses in the brain

Jonathan Kipnis Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Meningeal immunity and lymphatics in healthy and diseased brain

Zaal Kokaia Stem Cell & Restorative Neurology, Lund Stem Cell Center, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden Immunology of stroke - role of monocytes in post-stroke recovery

Josef Anrather Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA The microbiome and brain: a preclinical perspective

V EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON ASTHMA & COPD Tbilisi, Georgia June 29 – July 1, 2017

SYMPOSIUM

Chairman: Tinatin Chikovani

Manana Kvezereli CellMax Life, Sunnyvale, California, USA Liquid biopsy for solid tumor monitoring and therapy selection

Eli Magen Barzilai University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of Negev, Ashkelon, Israel Possible autoimmune primary ovarian insufficiency in patients with selective IgA deficiency

Ketino Kobaidze Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA Anti-GAD antibody associated autoimmune encephalitis: a case presentation and literature review

Meri Rogava Experimental Dermatology Department, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany Novel approaches to tackle complex tumor biology questions

SYMPOSIUM Immunodiagnosis, Immunotherapy

and Perspectives of Tumor Treatment

Chairman: Nunu Mitskevich

Nunu Mitskevich Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Prostate cancer: Modulation of antitumor immune response

George Botchorishvili National Center of Urology, Health House, Tbilisi, Georgia Prostate cancer: Modern paradigms of diagnoses and treatment

Kakha Mchedlishvili, Nino Leladze, Tekle Kalichava Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Perspectives of using of the Magnetic NanoParticles in application prostate cancer treatment.

Tamar Tsertsvadze, Ani Bilanishvili Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Prognostic markers and stratification