Living with COVID-19 – patient conference

Together with the DRAGON project, ELF held an online patient conference focused on COVID-19 on Saturday 26 November from 10:00-13:00 CET.

The conference was co-chaired by a healthcare professional and a person who has been affected by COVID-19 and long-COVID. It featured:

• expert presentations
• patient experiences, and
• the chance to ask questions to the experts.

Presentations included:

• COVID-19: where are we now?
• COVID-19 and people with lung conditions
• What is long-COVID? Research findings
• The latest treatment options for long-COVID
• The most up-to-date information on vaccination.

The event was in English with a live translation app available on the day.

Speakers included:

• Prof. Tobias Welte, Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Director of the Department of Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases at Hannover University School of Medicine, Germany
• Dr Georgia Hardavella, Consultant Respiratory Physician at Sotiria Athens Chest Diseases Hospital, Greece
• Dr. Joan Soriano, Associate Professor of Medicine at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Dr Tracy Vannorsdall, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
• Prof. Ioannis Vogiatzis, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences, Northumbria University, UK
• Prof. Anita Simonds, Professor Emeritus of Respiratory & Sleep Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
• Dr Apostolos Bossios, Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Consultant Physician, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Download the full programme with times in CET

Download the full programme with times in GMT

This project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101005122. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA. More information is available at: https://www.imi.europa.eu/.

Copyright – DRAGON -The communication reflects the author’s view and neither IMI nor the European Union, EFPIA, or any Associated Partners are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

ELF does not charge for its events. It wants to make sure they are available to anybody who wishes to join. To ensure we can keep doing this we ask that those who can afford to pay to consider making a donation. We are grateful to everyone who supports us in this way and helps lung health patients to have their voices heard.