PCD Patient Conference 2024

The BEAT-PCD patient conference will take place online and is organised jointly by patients with PCD and their families, researchers and clinicians. We aim to provide up to date information on the basics of PCD, living with PCD, research updates, treatments for PCD as well as learning from others experiences of PCD. This conference provides an opportunity to meet other people with PCD and contact local patient organisations.

Replay of the presentations can be found on our dedicated Youtube playlist (click here).

The discussions and Q&A were not recorded. All presentations were in English, however, the slides are downloadable in mutiple translated languages:

 

PCD Patient Conference 2023

We aimed to provide up to date information on basics concepts about PCD, treatments and care in PCD as well as learning from others experiences of PCD.  This conference also provided an opportunity to be updated on ongoing research, meet other people with PCD and contact local patient organisations.

Replay of the presentations can be found on our dedicated Youtube playlist (click here).

All presentations were held in English. We thank again G. Restad for her presentation about living with PCD. For privacy, the video replay won’t be available.

 

PCD Patient Conference 2022

The BEAT-PCD patient conference took place online and was organised jointly by patients with PCD and their families, researchers and clinicians. We aimed to provide up to date information on diagnosis, treatments and care in PCD as well as learning from others experiences of PCD. This conference provided an opportunity to meet other people with PCD and contact local patient organisations.

The videos replay is available on the dedicated YouTube playlist (click here)

Presentation materials have been translated into German, French, Greek, Spanish, Turkish and Norwegian and can be download from the links below as PDFs. Depending on the availability of volunteers, not all presentations could be added for all languages, however we plan to complete all translations during or after the conference. If you would like to volunteer to translate them in other languages please contact us at BEATPCD@ersnet.org

Translated presentations : English: Day 1 Day 2 - German: Day 1 Day 2 - French: Day 1 Day 2 - Greek:  Day 1 Day 2 - Spanish: Day 1 Day 2 - Turkish: Day 1 Day 2 - Norwegian: Day 1 Day 2 - Italian: Day 1 Day 2

Finally, we are grateful to PCD Support UK for providing most of the PCD management videos.

 

PCD Patient Conference 2021

BEAT-PCD Patient Engagement: WP3 call with PCD support groups and ELF

On Friday 29/10/2021, the first online meeting of BEAT-PCD with the European Lung Foundation and representatives from PCD support groups from different countries, took place.

During the meeting, Dr Jobst Röhmel had the opportunity to present the aims and progress of the WP3 “Patient Engagement Activities” Work Package while other members of the ERS BEAT-PCD network presented several ongoing research activities involving patients across Europe. More specifically, Dr Laura Behan talked about the development of the PCD patient education survey, Dr Eva Pedersen presented an update on the COVID-PCD study while Dr Myrona Goutaki presented an ongoing study investigating priorities for PCD research from the experts and the patients’ perspective.