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WEILL CORNELL SEMINAR in

SALZBURG

in collaboration with

Medical University Vienna

"Pulmonology"

February 18 – February 24, 2018

Table of Contents

1. Faculty & Group Photo

2. Schedule

3. Faculty Biographies

4. Fellows Contact Information

5. Diaries

a Program of the

2018 Salzburg Weill Cornell Pulmonology Seminar Sunday 18 February – Saturday 24 February 2018

Sunday

February 18 Monday

February 19 Tuesday February 20

Wednesday February 21

Thursday February 22

Friday February 23

Saturday February 24

07:00 – 08:00 BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST DEPARTURES

08:00 – 09:00 Introductions

Pre-Seminar Test

Evaluation of Lung Nodules & Masses

Arschang Valipour, MD

Pulmonary Emboli Meinhard Kneussl, MD

COPD: Disease Pathogenesis &

Management to Stable Patient

Fernando Martinez, MD

New Therapies for ILD

Robert Kaner, MD

09:00 – 10:00

Asthma: Disease Pathogenesis & Management

Daniel Doberer, MD

Sleep Disorders Arschang Valipour, MD

CAP Michael Niederman, MD

ILD: Approach to Management

Robert Kaner, MD

Atypical Mycobacterial Lung

Infection Michael Niederman, MD

10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK

10:30 – 11:30

Acute Lung Injury/ ARDS

Augustine Choi, MD

Lung Imaging: HRCT Basics (Systematic Approach & Pattern

Recognition) II Helmut Prosch, MD

Evaluation of Common Pulmonary Symptoms Fernando Martinez, MD

Infection in COPD Michael Niederman, MD

Sarcoidosis Robert Kaner, MD

11:30 – 12:30

Lung Imaging: HRCT Basics (Systematic Approach & Pattern Recognition) I

Helmut Prosch, MD

Sepsis Augustine Choi, MD

Diagnostic Methods in ILD

Robert Kaner, MD

Management of Exacerbations of

COPD/ New Therapies Fernando Martinez, MD

Post-Seminar Test Evaluation & Discussion

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH

14:00 – 15:00 Overview of Respiratory

Failure Arschang Valipour, MD

Workshop: ILD Robert Kaner, MD

Workshop: COPD Fernando Martinez, MD Michael Niederman, MD

15:00 – 16:00 Workshop:

How to Present a Case

Fellows’ Case Presentations

Free Afternoon


16:00 – 17:00

Workshop: Lung Infections & TB Michael Niederman, MD Meinhard Kneussl, MD


17:00 – 18:00 17:00 – 17:15

OMI/AAF PRESENTATION

18:30 – 19:00 Faculty Only Meeting to

Review the Week Farewell RECEPTION

19:00 – 20:00

19:00 – 19:30 Welcome

RECEPTION

19:30 – 20:30 Welcome DINNER

DINNER DINNER

Faculty Dinner in Private Home

DINNER DINNER Graduation DINNER Certificates Awarded

20:00 – 21:00 20:30 – 21:30

Chamber Music CONCERT


SALZBURG

“PULMONOLOGY”


FACULTY

Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD is the Medical Director of the American Austrian Foundation. He is Associate Dean for International Medicine and Distance Learning, Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Urology and Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In 2016, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also Associate Prof. of Urology at the Medical University of Innsbruck and Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Amongst others he is a member of the American, German and Austrian Societies of Urology and was awarded the Zuckerkandlpreis of the Austrian Society of Urology in 1989. In 1995 he received the Silver Medal, in 2007 the Golden Medal for Merits to the Republic of Austria and in 2014 the cross of honor of the Land Salzburg. As Director of the Medical Program of the American Austrian Foundation he has initiated the Open Medical Institute, a scientific and educational collaboration of Weill Cornell and the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, the Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Duke University, Columbia University, the Cleveland Clinic and leading hospitals in Austria. Dr. Aulitzky earned his medical degree at the University of Innsbruck in 1977, was a research associate at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and the Rockefeller University, New York. He received his training as an urologist at the University of Innsbruck and the General Hospital of Salzburg. He is the author of more than 140 publications on Urology, Andrology and Health Care issues and is co-author of books on basic and clinical urology/andrology. Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD Director, Open Medical Institute American Austrian Foundation Gerhard Andlinger Professor and Associate Dean for International Medicine & Distance Learning Adjunct Professor of Clinical Urology Adjunct Professor of Clinical Reproductive Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University Associate Professor of Urology Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria Visiting Professor Medical University of Vienna Mailing address: Kärntner Straße 51/II/Top 4 1010 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-533 8658 Fax: +43-1-533 8658-10 Email: [email protected]

Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS (Course Director) is Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Prior to this appointment, he was professor of internal medicine and associate chief for clinical research in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as medical director of its Pulmonary Diagnostic Services and co-medical director of the Lung Transplantation Program. After graduating from the University of Florida School of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, he completed a residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the Boston University Pulmonary Center. He received a Masters in Biostatistics and Clinical Study Design from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Professor Martinez’s main research interests include the biological underpinnings and therapeutic approaches to interstitial lung diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). He is a member of numerous societies, including the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, and the American College of Chest Physicians. Previously, he was a member of the American Thoracic Society Committees which generated guidelines for the management of COPD, respiratory infections, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. He is the former chair of the Clinical Problems Assembly of the American Thoracic Society. Professor Martinez is a member of the GOLD Science Committee and sits on a number of editorial boards, including for Journal of COPD and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He serves as a deputy editor for the latter. Fernando J. Martinez, MD, MS Chief Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Bruce Webster Professor of Medicine Joan and Sandford I. Weill Department of Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York- Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, NY 10065 USA Phone: +1-646-962-2738 Fax: +1-646-962-0286 Email: [email protected]

Meinhard Kneussl, MD (Co-Course Director) is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Chairman emeritus of the Second Department of Medicine and Pneumonology at the Wilhelminenspital Vienna, Medical University of Vienna. He obtained his M.D. at the Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck in 1976. He trained at the Second Department of Medicine and Pneumonology at the Wilhelminenspital Vienna, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Mt. Sinai Hospital, City University of New York and at the Meakins Christie Laboratories, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada as Visiting Lecturer. After completing his clinical training in Vienna he was a research fellow at the Pulmonary Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA and returned to Vienna to the Department of Cardiology, University of Vienna with the special focus for the interaction of heart and lung disease and completed a fellowship in cardiology. He, then, was appointed as Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Vienna in 1990 and attending physician at the Department of Medicine and Pulmonary Disease at the Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, 1991. In 2004 he was appointed as Chairman of the Second Department of Medicine and Pneumonology of the Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, a teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna. He received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Max-Kade Fellowship, an Award of the American Physiological Society: Perkins Memorial Fellowship and is a laureate of several research awards. In 2017 he received the highest award of the Department of Education, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria presented by the Federal President of the Republic and the Secretary of Education Sciences and Research. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Chest Physicians and Surgeons and of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and a corresponding member of the American Physiological Society (APS). He is a member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and was in the Executive Committee 2004 – 2007, a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and of several other national and international scientific societies. Since 2017 he is a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. (London). He is a member of the ethical commission of the Medical University of Vienna since 1994. He was in the editorial board of CHEST (1993 – 1998) and is at present in the editorial board of the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, RESPIRATION and Respiratory Medicine.

He has published over 180 scientific papers and was principal investigator of several ongoing clinical studies. Meinhard Kneussl, MD Professor of Respiratory Medicine Chairman emeritus Second Department of Medicine and Pneumonology Wilhelminenspital Medical University of Vienna Austria Private Practice: Gloriettegasse 15 1130 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-8773183 Fax: +43-1-87731833 Email: [email protected]

Michael S. Niederman, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM, FERS (Co-Course Director) is the Clinical Director and Associate Chief, in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Prior to this, he was Professor in the Department of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York for 16 years. He obtained his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, and then completed his training in internal medicine at Northwestern University School of Medicine, before undertaking a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine. His interests lie in respiratory tract infections, and include mechanisms of airway colonization, the management of community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia, the role of guidelines for pneumonia, and the impact of antibiotic resistance on the management and outcomes of respiratory tract infections. He has published over 400 peer reviewed or review articles, and has lectured widely, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Niederman served as co-chairman of the committees that created the American Thoracic Society 1993 and 2001 guidelines for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and the 1996 and 2005 committees that wrote guidelines for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia. He was a member of the ATS/IDSA committee that published guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia in 2007. He was co-lead author on the 2017 ERS/ESICM guidelines for Nosocomial Pneumonia. He served for 6 years as a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians and in 2013 was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, and serves on the editorial boards of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care and Chest. He has previously served on the editorial board of The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Michael S. Niederman, MD, MACP, FCCP, FCCM, FERS Associate Division Chief Clinical Director Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Weil Cornell Medical College Professor of Clinical Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College 425 E. 61st St, 4th Floor New York, NY 10065 USA 1305 York Avenue 10th floor New York, NY 10065 USA Phone: +1‐646‐962-2333 (office) +1-646-962-9453/ +1-646-962-2731 (voice mail) Fax: +1-646-962-0330/ +1-646-962-0286 (fax) Email: [email protected]

Augustine M. K. Choi, MD is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. Prior to his appointment as dean, he served as the Sanford I. Weill Chairman and Professor of Medicine in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and as physician-in-chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He previously served as Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (2007-2013) and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (2000-2007). Dr. Choi served as the Program Director of T32 training programs focused in lung research training at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and University of Pittsburgh, successfully renewing their T32 training grants in 2001 and 2006 (at University of Pittsburgh) and in 2010 (at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School). The Program Director has a longstanding commitment to the training of predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees in lung diseases. The Program Director has been active nationally past 2 decades serving on task forces for the NIH and ATS, focusing on how to best train our fellows to enable them to pursue research focused careers and to become future leaders of academic pulmonary medicine. Dr. Choi also has helped to direct the T32 Directors annual meetings at the annual ATS conference serving as Director or Co-Director of the T32 Training Grant Directors annual meeting 2006-2011. During this meeting, directors of all the T32 and T35 training grants convened to discuss the critical issues related to the recruitment of the best trainees, training infrastructure, and the retention of these trainees in academic pulmonary medicine and biomedical research. The Lung Division of the NHLBI appointed Dr. Choi to direct a special NIH Task Force, with the charge of a comprehensive review of our training infrastructures, both Adult and Pediatrics, nationally among the T32 training grants. The major objective of the Task Force was to assess the best ways to attract and properly train fellows to pursue research careers in adult and pediatric lung disease. Dr. Choi led this Task Force and after working closely with senior leadership not only from the Lung Division/NHLBI/NIH but also working with leaders from ALA, AHA, PBF, AAAAI, AAM, CHEST Foundation, and ACP, published a manuscript with the leaders of Lung Division at NHLBI/NIH outlining the specific recommendations of how to best train our fellows to pursue research careers in lung disease (Choi AMK, et al. NHLBI Workshop: Respiratory Medicine-related research training for adult and pediatrics fellows. Lung 2009 Nov-Dec;187(6):347-66).

Dr. Choi has mentored 50 trainees (MD-PhD, MD, PhD), and served as mentor/co-mentor for 20 K awardees for physician scientists. All of his trainees are in academic medicine except for one trainee in the pharmaceutical industry and one trainee in private practice during his tenure as mentor from 1995-present. Augustine M. K. Choi, MD Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean, Weill Cornell Medicine Provost for Medical Affairs, Cornell University Weill Cornell Medicine 1300 York Avenue, Suite F-113 Box 83 New York, NY 10065 USA Phone: +1-212-746-8424 Email: [email protected]

Daniel Doberer, MD, MSc, MMn is a respiratory medicine specialist at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. After obtaining his MSc in Chemistry from the Technical University of Vienna and his MD from the Medical University of Vienna, he started his professional career as a physician and scientist at the General Hospital and Medical University of Vienna, and then joined the Department of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna. In addition, he spent some years as a Research Fellow at the Transplant Institute at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and at the Asthma Institute of the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and obtained a Masters´ Degree in Management (IMHL) from the McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Doberer’s research interests include acid-base physiology, pulmonary hypertension, oxidative stress (heme oxygenase-1) and asthma. He is peer reviewer for several international journals and is member of the European Respiratory Society, American Thoracic Society and Austrian Society of Pneumology, where he serves as secretary and coordinator of the Austrian Severe Asthma Network. Dr. Doberer lives in Vienna with his wife Edith and children Philipp and Hanna. Daniel Doberer, MD, MSc, MMn Medical University of Vienna Division of Pulmonology Waehringer Guertel 18-20 1090 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-40400-47760 Fax: +43-1-40400-47840 Email: [email protected]

Robert Kaner, MD is a pulmonary physician who specializes in interstitial lung disease. Dr. Kaner grew up in the midwestern United States in the state of Wisconsin and completed his undergraduate studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Dr. Kaner’s research interests include cell and molecular biology of COPD/emphysema in HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals and interstitial lung diseases. He participates in observational and interventional trials in COPD, emphysema and interstitial lung disease, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He currently leads the bronchoscopy substudy of the National Institutes of Health SPIROMICS network for COPD. He is a peer reviewer for several major respiratory journals. Dr. Kaner's research efforts have earned him grants from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH. Dr. Kaner is currently on the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Genetic Medicine. He lives in New York City with his wife Ellen and has 2 children, David and Fara. Robert Kaner, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Genetic Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College New York-Presbyterian Hospital 425 E. 61st St., 4th floor New York, NY 10065 USA Phone: +1-646-962-2333 Fax: +1-646-962-0330 Email: [email protected]

Helmut Prosch, MD works for the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Helmut Prosch is an Associate Professor of Radiology and section chief of thoracic imaging at the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna. He obtained his medical degree in 2000 from the University of Vienna. Helmut Prosch trained in Radiology at the Otto Wagner Hospital in Vienna, Austria. Before, he worked as research fellow at the Children’s Cancer research institute in Vienna. His research focuses on diagnosis and staging of lung cancer and deep learning for the diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. Helmut Prosch has published more than 100 articles, reviews or book chapters. Helmut Prosch, MD Assoc. Prof. of Radiology Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy Medical University of Vienna Waehringer Guertel 18-22 1090 Wien Austria Phone: +43-1-40400-48180 Email: [email protected]

Arschang Valipour, MD, Assoc. Professor, FCCP is a Consultant Physician and Intensive Care Specialist at the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the Otto-Wagner-Spital, Vienna, Austria. His career started at the Medical University in Vienna in 1990. In 1999 he was appointed a research fellowship at the Department of Thoracic Medicine at the University College London Hospitals with Prof. Steven Spiro. He became a specialist in General Medicine (2001), Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine (2006/2017), and in Intensive Care Medicine (2009). Dr. Valipour was further appointed Associate Professor in Pulmonology. He recently received his university degree as Health Care Manager and completes a MBA in Health Care Management. Dr. Valipour is a member of the European Respiratory Society College of Experts and has served as a Secretary to the Sleep and Breathing working group of the ERS. He has been the Head of the CME program of the Austrian Society of Pneumology for several years, and was a member of the Executive and Congress Committee of the national society. He is conducting clinical research as a Group Leader at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for COPD Research and Respiratory Epidemiology since 2003. His main research interests include clinical aspects of COPD diagnosis and treatment, interventional COPD treatment, cardiopulmonary interaction and physiology, and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Valipour is the Principal Investigator of a number of previous and ongoing clinical trials in the field of COPD, interventional bronchoscopy, and emphysema therapy. He has published several articles related to COPD, Bronchoscopy, and Sleep Medicine in high-ranked journals such as Lancet Respir Med, the Am J Respir Crit Care Med, Thorax, Eur Respir J, Chest, Respir Med, Respiration, and Int J COPD. Dr. Valipour is further associate editor of the “Int J of COPD”, “Respiration”, and “Pneumologie”, the scientific journal of the German Society of Pneumology. Arschang Valipour, MD, Assoc. Professor, FCCP Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology Otto-Wagner-Spital, Sanatoriumstrasse 2 1140 Vienna Austria Email: [email protected]


SALZBURG

“PULMONOLOGY”


FELLOWS

a Program of the

Octavio Aburto, MD

Mexican Institute Of Social SecurityAvenida Bosques De Los Olivos No. 10161303 Charo, Mexico

E-Mail:[email protected]:0044-3-3109950

Enkelejda Afiani, MD

American HospitalLaprake1026 Tirana, Albania


Antonina V. Antonenko, MD

Bogomolets National Medical UniversityT. Shevchenko blvd., 1301601 Kiev, Ukraine


Ryszhan Bakirova, DSc

Karaganda State Medical University40 Gogol Street100008 Karaganda, Kazakhstan


Kseniia Bielosludtseva, MD, PhD

Dnipropetrovsk Medical AcademyVernadskogo str. 949000 Dnipro, Ukraine


a Program of the

Romans Bocins, MD

RAKUSHipokrata 2LV-1038 Riga, Latvia


Dmytro Butov, MD, DSc

Kharkiv National Medical University4 Nauky Avenue61022 Kharkiv, Ukraine


Tetiana Butova, MD

V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University4 Svobody Sq.61022 Kharkiv, Ukraine


Deniz Dogan Mulazimoglu, MD

Ankara University Faculty of MedicineMamak St.06100 Ankara, Turkey


Juarda Gjonbrataj, MD

Salus HospitalRr. Vidhegjati, Tirane 1000Tirana, Albania


a Program of the

Anisa Gradascevic, MD, MSc

Medical SchoolAlbert-Schweitzer Strasse 10-2064711 Erbach, Germany


Svitlana Guk, MD

Kiev Municipal Hospital 17Laboratorniy Prov 2001133 Kiev, Ukraine


Katre Jurgenson, MD

Tartu University HospitalPuusepa 1a50406 Tartu, Estonia


Irina Khachatryan, MD

Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi2 Koryun str.0025 Yerevan, Armenia


Vladyslava Kmyta, MD, PhD

Sumy State UniversityTroitskaya str. 4840022 Sumy, Ukraine


a Program of the

Natalya Latypova, MD, PhD

Medical University AstanaBeibitshilik 49a010000 Astana, Kazakhstan

E-Mail:[email protected]:0077-019337324

Ekaterina Malaeva, MD, PhD

Gomel State Medical UniversityLange 5246050 Gomel, Belarus


Alina Malic, MD

State University of Medicine and Pharmacy Nicole TestemitanuBd Stefan cel Mare si Sfant 165MD-2004 Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of


Ivana Maloca Vuljanko, PhD

Children‘s Hospital SrebrnjakSrebrnjak 10010000 Zagreb, Croatia


Veronika Matuskova, MD

University Hospital in Ostrava17. Listopadu708 52 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic


a Program of the

Nare Nare Mesropyan, MD

Astghik Medical CenterDaniel Varuzhan 28/10037 Yerevan, Armenia


Giorgi Mgvdeladze, MD

N1 Primary Health Care Center, KutaisiN 23 T. Tabidze Street4600 Kutaisi, Georgia


Andra Peksa, MD

Riga East University HospitalHipokrata 2LV1038 Riga, Latvia

E-Mail:[email protected]:n/a

Battulga Sharav, MD, MSc

Ministry of Health of MongoliaOlymp street 214210 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

E-Mail:[email protected]:004368184084698

Rustem I. Shaymuratov, MD

Kazan State Medical UniversityButlerova 49420012 Kazan, Russian Federation


a Program of the

Kaija Tammekivi, MD

Tartu University HospitalRiia 16751014 Tartu, Estonia


Hamid Tapdigov, MD

Central Hospital of OilwormersBakucityAZ3600 Gabala, Azerbaijan


Eritjan Tashi, MD

University hospital Shefqet NdroqiRruga Shefqet Ndroqi1000 Tirana, Albania


Ivana Trochanova, MD

Childrens University HospitalLimbova 183340 Bratislava, Slovakia


Anda Viksna, MD

Riga East University HospitalUpeslejasLV2118 Upeslejas, Latvia


SEMINAR DIARY FROM FELLOW

Diary of Andra Pekša, MD Riga East University Hospital, Riga, Latvia


18 February, Sunday evening. After spending almost the whole day traveling to Salzburg, the city

welcomed us with a slight winter cold, but warm Schloss Arenberg rooms. During the reception dinner,

it was possible to meet the colleagues with whom we would spend the next week learning side by side.

As great as the dinner was, the thought of finally getting some decent night sleep and rest before the

long week ahead of us was on everybody’s mind.

19 February, Monday. The pre-seminar test was a great indication of all the topics we would get to

cover and discuss during this seminar and even thought answers to some of them were not so clear, it

would be great to find the correct answers by the end of this week. Lectures on ALI/ARDS and

respiratory failure covered by Augustine Choi and Arschang Valipour were a great overview of topical

issues, especially for those who are involved in acute/intensive care. It was also the first day of the

fellows’ clinical case presentations. For those attending the OMI seminar for the first time ever, it was

unknown what to expect and little nervousness could be felt (applies also to me), but after having done

it, you could probably sleep better for the rest of the week, not worrying about it anymore and not

trying to change something about your presentation. 😊

20 February, Tuesday. Dr. Valipour continued to give excellent lectures, this time about sleep

disordered breathing and CPAP therapy, as well as bronchoscopy and its role and possibilities in

evaluating lung nodules and masses. The main conclusion: we have a lot of room to grow to reach the

level they have in Vienna! With Dr. Prosch we continued discussing and evaluating many different CT

scans. There is no doubt that every pulmonologist and physician should be able to understand the

basics of radiological imaging. And, after Dr. Choi’s lecture about novelties in sepsis, we continued with

clinical cases and this evening was devoted to mostly interstitial lung diseases.

21 February, Wednesday. I really enjoyed Dr. Niederman’s lecture about community acquired

pneumonia and Dr. Martinez talking about dyspnea and cough evaluation and discussing some

educational cases. I think everybody can take home how to better and more efficiently evaluate

patients with chronic cough. And, after the introduction to diagnostic methods in ILD, we had a free

afternoon. Time to hit the streets and do some tourist stuff in Salzburg, as well as try to find some

presents to bring back home from Austria.

22 February, Thursday. Almost the whole day was dedicated to COPD, starting from pathogenesis and

ending with new therapeutic possibilities. We even got a glimpse how the GOLD guidelines develop

😊. Still a lot of unknown about the disease and many more studies to come, that in the future will

probably change how we approach patients with this pathology. After lunch we continued our last

afternoon of clinical cases, which of course was once again dedicated to obstructive lung diseases. The

day ended with an excellent chamber music concert!

Tomorrow is the last day of the seminar, few lectures, post-seminar test and time to say goodbye to

the faculty, colleagues and Salzburg. Thanks for an amazing week and hope to see you all in the future,

either at another course or somewhere in the hallways of a hospital! Hoping for future collaborations!

Andra Pekša, MD (Latvia)

SEMINAR DIARY FROM FELLOW

Diary of Veronika Matušková, MD University Hospital of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic


18 February, Sunday evening. I came to Salzburg just in time to unpack my belongings and prepare

myself for the welcome reception. Tired after 620km behind steering wheel, but happy to be here

again - I attended already the Pediatric Pulmonology seminar in November 2016. I love the atmosphere

of staying in the chateau, it reminds me of the times I worked as a guide at a chateau in Czech Republic,

even opening the old-fashioned windows brings some kind of magic. Even before the welcome

reception started, I met another two pediatricians from Slovakia and Croatia and also one amazing girl

originally from Bosnia but now living in Germany. The welcoming speech of the director, Mr. Aulitzky,

and the faculty members was again very friendly and motivating. After dinner, I talked some time with

my new friends and then the tiredness forced us to go to bed.

19 February, Monday. The day passed really fast... The pre-test was quite hard, than we got a lot of

new information during the lectures - Asthma, ARDS, respiratory failure and also the first part of the

fellows presented their case reports... Luckily, I will present tomorrow. Unfortunately, I did not have

enough time to prepare my presentation at home. I decided to choose this patient just a few days ago

with the hope that I will find here some possibilities what more to do for her... So, tonight´s program

is given...work hard. But before that I managed at least a short walk to Arenberg chateau´s

neighborhood...

20 February, Tuesday. Time is running... I liked very much the lecture about sleep disorders and lung

imaging. I hope I will be able to use this newly gained information in my daily practices... And last but

not least I survived my presentation :-) I hope it was interesting for the others although it was a

pediatric case... I finished it 10 minutes before my speech - luckily, I got photos and a video from my

colleagues just in time... The prognosis is quite severe, so I appreciate every chance to get some advices

for her next treatment. An international meeting like this one is a great opportunity to ask about ideas

and experiences of other fellows and faculty members. We are here doctors from 20 different

countries!

21 February, Wednesday. I like the lectures, they covered very interesting themes and especially Dr.

Martinez is able to keep you in touch with his presentation... But after two long days it started to be

hard to keep our concentration focused, and I also needed some movement and fresh air... Luckily, we

had a free afternoon today... I had walked through Salzburg last time I was here, so me and three other

girls decided to go for a trip somewhere further... I took my car and we visited Königssee, which is

actually in Germany, but less than half an hour of driving...The weather was not good, so we walked a

bit through the village and then did a boat trip - it was perfect :-) On the way back we managed also to

visit the Shopping Arena and to buy some presents. .And finally after the dinner we went with other

girls to the Augustinerbräu for a good local beer. I can strongly recommend this place, it has a unique

atmosphere, history and you can meet a lot of locals not just tourists there...both kinds of beer and

pretzels are worth to be tried ;-) Afterwards we meet some other fellows in the lobby, so international

interactions successfully continued...

22 February, Thursday. This morning we had lectures on COPD and ILD... Although it is not really my

daily practice it was interesting for me, and I am more and more curious how my primarily premature

patients will develop in next 30-40 years, because they are in higher risk of COPD development. After

that, there were the last four fellows’ presentations. It is always interesting to see how doctors in

different countries cope with the same diagnoses; also the discussions were sometimes really good.

We finished today´s program a bit earlier, so we managed to walk up the hill to Kapuzinerberg in order

to see Salzburg´s panorama, than we bought few more things and prepared ourselves for the chamber

music concert, which was again breathtaking. There are many amazing musicians in Salzburg.

Afterwards we had some wine and talked about differences between our countries. Tomorrow we will

have the last lectures, the final test and the farewell reception, and then we will go back to our

everyday reality, but with lot of new information, unforgettable memories, great friends and contacts

all over the world...

I am glad that I had the possibility to be here for the second time. Staying here brought me again a lot.

This experience is hard to depict - words are not enough... So my suggestion, do not hesitate and apply

for these seminars. It is an outstanding project and it is worth to be a part of it!! Thank you guys, the

whole AAF team and the faculty members and also our national Nadace Olgy Havlové for this amazing

time in Salzburg...

Veronika Matušková, MD (Czech Republic)

weill cornell seminar in salzburg · fellows’ case presentations free ... weill medical college...

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