Wednesday, 21 March 2012
The discussion will run from 12:30 to 14:00 with a sandwich lunch served at 12:00
Hosted by Mrs Glenis Willmott MEP (S&D, UK)
European Parliament, Brussels, Room 3G2
The European COPD Coalition kindly invites you to a lunch event in order to:
- Raise awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its alarming impact on populations and health systems, with key data, prevalence figures and examples of good practice actions that could be undertaken to reverse the trend
- Debate the future action needed at EU level to reduce the burden of the disease
- Officially launch the European COPD Coalition (ECC)
- Launch the ECC Call to Action on COPD
– Registration
– Deadline: 14 March 2012
The event will bring together health professionals, patient groups, health promotion organisations, European and national public authorities dealing with health, as well as life science firms.
Agenda
- ‘COPD – Much more than a ‘smokers cough’, Welcome from MEP Glenis Willmott
- ‘COPD in Europe: Opportunities for a COPD coalition, by Prof. Dr. Marc Decramer, Professor of Medicine at the University of Leuven, Belgium and Chief of the Respiratory Division
- ‘Living with COPD – the patient perspective’, by Prof. Dr. Karl Ruppel
- ‘The COPD Audit: findings and conclusions on provision of hospital care for COPD patients’, by Dr. Sylvia Hartl, Medical Director, Respiratory Care Unit (RCU), Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Baumgartner Höhe Otto-Wagner-Spital und Pflegezentrum
- ‘The European COPD Coalition: together against COPD’, by Catherine Hartmann, Secretary General, European COPD Coalition
The European Commission will also bring its perspectives on the matter:
- ‘The work of DG SANCO on COPD and chronic diseases’, by Natasha Grenier, Policy Officer Health Determinants, DG SANCO, European Commission
- ‘DG research’s contribution to the fight against COPD’, by Dr. Grigorij Kogan, Research Programme Officer, Medical research, DG RTD, European Commission
Presentations will be followed by a questions and answers session with conclusions by MEP Glenis Willmott to close the debate.
Background
- Up to 10% of the European population suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Europe, most of them do not know they have it and an increasing number die from the disease – yet the condition is generally unknown.
- COPD is a major chronic, debilitating and costly respiratory disease that, if not addressed properly, will be the 3rd cause of death worldwide by 2030, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
- However, until now, COPD has not gained sufficient attention from European policy makers.
This event is hosted by Glenis Willmott MEP (S&D, UK) and organised by the European COPD Coalition (ECC) with the support of the European Public Health Alliance.