Childhood interstitial lung disease survivors in adulthood: a European collaborative study

This Grand Round explores a European collaborative study around childhood interstitial lung disease survivors in adulthood.

Learning Objectives

1. Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) in adult vs children
2. International Managment platform for ILD in children child U classification

Professor Effrosyni D. Manali

Effrosyni D. Manali is Associate Professor in Athens Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She had completed her fellowship in Athens, Greece; Paris, France and in Cleveland, USA. She works at the 2nd Pulmonary Medicine Department of General University Hospital “Attikon”. She is the author of more than 130 peer-review articles, 19 chapter-books and participates yearly in Graduate and Postgraduate courses in Pulmonary Medicine and Internal Medicine for students and fellows. She has special interest in rare diseases of the lungs and in interstitial lung
diseases; more specifically in the study of Greek adult and pediatric patients with inheritable pulmonary fibrosis. For that purpose, she is collaborating with expert centers of excellence in Europe. She co-chaired the European Respiratory Society Task Force on transition of pediatric patients with interstitial lung disease to the adult care.