Meeting Report
21st Panhellenic Congress of Thoracic Disease 1-4 November 2012,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Paul Zarogoulidis1, Konstantinos Kosmatopoulos2, Alyn Morice3, Demosthenes Bouros4, Lutz Freitag5, Angelo G.
Casalini6, Marios Froudarakis4, Francisco Rodriguez Panadero7, Katerina Manika1, Nikolaos Galanis8, Sakkas Leonidas9,
Antonis Papagiannis10, Kosmas Tsakiridis10, Dionysios Spyratos1, Theodoros Kontakiotis1, Antonis Anoniadis11, Qiang Li12,
Konstantinos Zarogoulidis1
1University Pulmonary Department, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 2Chief
Scientific Officer of Vaxon Biotech; 3Respiratory Medicine Department, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Castle Hill Hospital,
Cottingham, UK; 4University Pulmonary Department, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace,
Alexandroupolis, Greece; 5University Pulmonary Department-Interventional Unit, “Ruhrlandklinik”, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen,
Germany; 6Director of the Pulmonology and Thoracic Endoscopy Division, University of Parma, Italy; 7Medical Surgical Unit of Respiratory
Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain; 81st Pulmonary Department, “G.
Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece; 9Pathology Department, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece;
10Saint Luke’s Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece; 11Pulmonary Deapartment, General Hospital of Serres, Greece; 12Respiratory diseases
department, Changhai hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Corresponding to:
Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, PhD. Pulmonary Department, “G.
Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,
Exohi 57010, Greece. Email: pzarog@hotmail.com.
Submitted Oct 23, 2012. Accepted for publication Nov 30, 2012.
J Thorac Dis 2012;4(S1):1-5. DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.s112
The annual Panhellenic Congress of Thoracic Disease has
been established as the biggest scientific event held in Greece
for pneumonologists, thoracic surgeons and paediatric
pneumonologists. Since its establishment in 1984, it has provided
a unique forum for presentation of scientific research, an
opportunity to review the latest knowledge on the whole spectrum
of lung diseases, and a venue for informal sharing of information
and research experience with Greek and foreign expert colleagues.
Cite this article as: Zarogoulidis P, Kosmatopoulos K, Morice A, Bouros
D, Freitag L, Casalini AG, Froudarakis M, Rodriguez-Panadero F, Manika K,
Galanis N, Leonidas S, Papagiannis A, Tsakiridis K, Spyratos D, Kontakiotis
T, Anoniadis A, Li Q, Zarogoulidis K. 21st Panhellenic Congress of
Thoracic Disease 1-4 November 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece. J Thorac Dis
2012;4(S1):1-5. DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.s112