Lung Patient Forum – Numerous Questions Answered Live

The online Lung Patient Forum on April 8, 2025, was a great success: Over 330 people with lung diseases or their relatives took the opportunity to ask questions to highly respected lung specialists – many received live answers.

The online Lung Patient Forum was the central patient event of the 65th Congress of the German Respiratory Society (DGP), which took place from April 9 to 12, 2025, in Leipzig. The event was organized by the Lung Information Service of Helmholtz Munich, the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), the German Lung Day, and the DGP.

The two-hour Q&A session was moderated by Prof. Dirk Koschel, who is also the congress president of the 65th DGP Congress this year.

The questions were answered by:

• Prof. Bianca Schaub (DZL researcher at the CPC-M site) on allergies and asthma in children and adolescents,

• Prof. Marek Lommatzsch on asthma in adults,

• Prof. Klaus F. Rabe (Director of the DZL site ARCN) on COPD,

• Prof. Jessica Rademacher (DZL researcher at the BREATH site) on respiratory infections,

• Prof. Jürgen Behr (DZL researcher at the CPC-M site) on pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, and other interstitial lung diseases,

• Prof. H. Ardeschir Ghofrani (DZL researcher at the UGMLC site) on pulmonary hypertension, and

• Prof. W. Schütte on lung cancer.

The numerous submitted questions and the overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants show that the format “Patients ask – Experts answer” was very well received.

A summary of the answered questions can be found on the Lung Information Service website (in German language).

Source: https://www.lungeninformationsdienst.de/aktuelles/news/artikel/patientenforum-lunge-zahlreiche-fragen-live-beantwortet