Less than 2 weeks to go to the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension. If you are attending come meet the Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension team at their booth!

The Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension will have six delegates attending the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension taking place in Barcelona 29.6-1.7 2024. Visit their booth and meet the team! Ioanna Alysandratou Ιωάννα Αλυσανδράτου President of the Hellenic Community for Pulmonary Hypertension Louise Bouman – van der Waal Chair of the Stichting Pulmonale Hypertensie / PH […]

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Only two weeks to go to the 7th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension, Barcelona, June 29-July 1st, 2024

Only 2 weeks to go to the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension – June 29 to July the 1st, 2024, Barcelona. The Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension will have six delegates attending. Visit our booth and meet the team! Ioanna Alysandratou Ιωάννα Αλυσανδράτου Chair of the Hellenic Community for Pulmonary Hypertension and President of the Alliance

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John Vane Memorial Symposium on Prostacyclin Science and Pulmonary Vascular Disease, London, March 15-16, 2024

The first John Vane Memorial Symposium on Prostacyclin Science and Pulmonary Vascular Disease was held in London, UK, 2006 to honour the memory of Sir John Vane, the founder of the William Harvey Research Institute and Nobel prize Laureate for his discovery of prostacyclin and its analogues (see also our article at this link). It

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Coming up soon, the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension 2024, the most important scientific event in the world this field!

The 7th edition of the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension is being held on June 29-30/July 1, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain. The WSPH is the most important scientific event in the field of pulmonary hypertension. It has been convened every five years since the Evian edition in 1998 (including Venice 2003, Dana Point 2008, Nice

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PHA Europe held its Annual Pulmonary Hypertension European Conference (APHEC) on November 8-12, 2023, featuring representatives of the scientific, patient, and health care communities

The European Association for Pulmonary Hypertension, PHA Europe, held its Annual European Pulmonary Hypertension Conference (APHEC) in Barcelona from 8-12 November 2023 in Castelledefels, Barcelona (Spain). The conference featured presentations by distinguished members of the scientific community (Prof. Adam Torbicki, Poland; Prof. Jean-Luc Vachiéry, Belgium; Prof Joanna Pepke-Zabka, UK; Prof. Jimmy Ford, USA; Prof. Dr.

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The Impact and Future of European Reference Networks (ERNs) discussed at a conference in Bilbao, Spain, on October 10-11, 2023

The European Reference Networks (ERNs) are virtual networks involving healthcare providers across Europe. They aim to facilitate discussion on complex or rare diseases and conditions that require highly specialised treatment, and concentrated knowledge and resources. The first ERNs were launched in 2017, involving more than 900 highly-specialised healthcare units from over 300 hospitals in 26 EU

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Scientific presentations, case studies and workshops at the German pulmonary hypertension association ph e.v.’s annual patient meeting, October 20-22, 2023

The German pulmonary hypertension association, ph e.v., held the 24th edition of its Annual Patient Meeting on October 20-22, 2023, at the Education Center of the Hessian State Sports Association in Frankfurt am Main. The ph e.v. annual meetings consistently draw a very large number of participants from all over the country. The program combines

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Insights from a panel discussion on aging with rare diseases, including pulmonary hypertension, at the World Orphan Drug Congress, Barcelona, November 2, 2023

The World Orphan Drug Congress is the largest and most established orphan drugs and rare diseases meeting of its kind across the globe. Its 14th annual edition took place in Barcelona, Spain, from October 30 to November 3, 2023. There were 1,500+attendees, 300 speakers and 80+exhibitors. On November 2 the President of AIPI Italian Pulmonary Hypertension

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Prof. Marc Humbert selects his highlights on the topic of pulmonary hypertension from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2023 Congress

European Respiratory Society (ERS) Past President Prof. Marc Humbert selects his highlights from the annual congress on the topic of pulmonary hypertension – noting the key messaging and findings from what was presented in this video featured on the ERS Respiratory Channel.

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Highlights from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2023 Congress on the topic of pulmonary hypertension by Prof. Marc Humbert, Director of the French National Pulmonary Hypertension Centre

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) has issued an eight-episode series offering summaries of disease specific content from its annual congress which took place in Milan, Italy, September 20-23, 2023 In one of the episodes, European Respiratory Society (ERS) Past President Prof. Marc Humbert, Director of the French National Pulmonary Hypertension Centre, selects his highlights from

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Patients take centre stage at the Annual Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplant in Athens, September 17-20, 2023

The annual congress of the ESOT – European Society for Organ Transplantation is the largest and most influential scientific event in the field of transplantation science in the world. This year, patients and their well-being took center stage, with many sessions dedicated to shared decision making, shared care, and patient-related issues. The congress was attended

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New European Lung Foundation (ELF) “Pulmonary Hypertension Patient Advisory Group”, PAG, set up!

The Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension has been a proud member of the European Lung Foundation (ELF) Patient Organisation Network since May 2023 (see our article at this link). More recently, the European Lung Foundation has set up a new Patient Advisory Group dedicated specifically to pulmonary hypertension. The ELF’s Patient Advisory Groups, also known as

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Pulmonary hypertension advocate Gergely Meszaros speaks at the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (ACNAP)’s annual conference in Edinburgh

Gergely Meszaros, a pulmonary hypertension advocate and Project Manager at the European Reference Network for Rare Lung Diseases, ERN-LUNG, was invited to speak at the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (ACNAP) of the European Society of Cardiology Annual Congress in Edinburgh, UK, on June 23-24, 2023. Gergely’s talk was about the 2022 joint European Society

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Hall Skaara, a pulmonary hypertension patient from Norway, represents the patient voice and PHA Europe at important Ferrer event

Hall Skaara, who is a pulmonary hypertension patient and has been a Project Manager for PHA Europe since 2017, was invited to represent the patient voice at Ferrer’s recent IMPACHT conference in Barcelona, Spain, together with Steve Jones from the European Pulmonary Fibrosis Federation (EU-PFF). “It was the fifth time Ferrer ran the conference and more than 150 pulmonologists

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The International Respiratory Coalition (IRC) launches it official Manifesto for Better Respiratory Health at its Summit on 26-27 June 2023

The International Respiratory Coalition (IRC) is a coalition of respiratory clinicians and professional societies, including the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and European Lung Foundation (ELF), patients and industry partners was launched in September 2021. The second IRC Summit took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 26–27 June 2023. The event was an important opportunity for representatives

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On May 12 Team PHenomenal Hope announced its inaugural symposium, PHenomenal Hope 2023: Knowledge, Research & Advocacy in Pulmonary Hypertension, due to take place in Boston on December 15, 2023

Team PHenomenal Hope, a US national nonprofit advocacy organization for pulmonary hyeprtrension, proudly unveiled its inaugural symposium, PHenomenal Hope 2023: Knowledge, Research & Advocacy in pulmonary hypertension on May 12, 2023. The symposium will be held on Friday, December 15, 2023, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA Experts in the field are invited to share original research by August

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The Pulmonary Hypertension Association South Africa (PHA SA) is partnering with the Jenna Lowe trust to host a Patient Symposium on May 13, 2023, in Cape Town – the very first of its kind, a historic date for the country and community

The Pulmonary Hypertension Association South Africa (PHA SA) is excited to partner with another organisation – the Jenna Lowe trust – to host a PH Patient Symposium in May for PH month in Cape Town – the very first of its kind so it is historic for the country and community. See below for the

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Report by Mélanie Gallant-Dewavrin on the French pulmonary hypertension association (HTaPFrance)’s 5th Patient Congress, March 14, 2023

HTaPFrance held its 5th Pulmonary Hypertension Patient Conference from March 10-12, 2023, in Valpré-Lyon. The Conference, which takes place every 3 years, was delayed because of the pandemic, and all the participants were therefore delighted to be able to come together again. The strikes in France made it a bit more complicated for some speakers

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