China Day "Advances in pulmonology" I

Session
Chairs: Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Chen Wang (Beijing, China)
Aims: Session organised in collaboration with the Chinese Thoracic Society. Leading specialists from China will share the stage with ERS leadership to discuss key issues in respiratory medicine, providing the opportunity to hear about the latest scientific developments in Chinese. This meeting is designed to update respiratory professionals on the latest developments in the respiratory field. Headsets and translated slides will be used to provide translations of the full session. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion after the presentations. There will be simultaneous translation from English to Mandarin and slides will be shown with Chinese script.
Target audience: The session is aimed at specialists in respiratory medicine from China.

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