Venue
Lecture Room 7

Workshop facilitator
Professor Mike Levin

Registration fee
R 350

Who should attend?

Morning session: Healthcare professionals only – including dermatologists, general practitioners, pediatricians, nurses, pharmacists, and trainees
Afternoon session: Open to both HCPs and patients/caregivers living with or impacted by atopic eczema. Patient advocates, students, allied health workers, and interested healthcare stakeholders are welcome in the afternoon.

What will delegates gain by attending?

HCPs: Receive CPD-accredited training in managing atopic eczema, including topical therapy, systemic options, and steroid stewardship.

Patients & caregivers: Gain expert guidance and emotional support, and participate in advocacy discussions.

All attendees: Explore barriers to eczema care, learn strategies for collaborative care planning, and connect across patient-doctor lines
Deepen understanding of the patient journey and how healthcare professionals can better support access, treatment, and quality of life

Take-home message:

Clinical care and patient advocacy go hand in hand. By bringing together doctors and patients, we aim to strengthen communication, build empathy, and work toward better outcomes for all living with atopic eczema.

HCPs are strongly encouraged to stay for the full day and attend the afternoon session to engage in meaningful dialogue with patients and help co-create future solutions.

1. Ultrasound lung- - practical training in diagnosis of pleural and lung disease.
2. Right heart echo: diagnosing pulmonary hypertension Tricuspid valve assessment and Right ventricle parameters.

Venue
Kgotla 2

Workshop facilitator
Dr Anita Graham

Registration fee
R 1600

Step into the next era of interventional pulmonology with our exclusive Workshop at SATS 2025. Specifically crafted for pulmonologists, fellows, and clinicians with a passion for interventional pulmonology.

Featuring international and local experts, the programme includes:

• Airway ultrasound in the ICU
• Interventional radiology tips and tools – get more from your percutaneous biopsies and FNAs
• Diaphragm ultrasound assessment
• Right heart assessment– a dedicated session by a cardiologist, tailored specifically for pulmonology and critical care
  and more...

This is more than just a workshop—it's a knowledge exchange at the cutting-edge of respiratory care.

Don’t just follow advances in interventional pulmonology—lead them!

Venue
Lecture Room 8

Workshop facilitator
Professor Jonny Peter

Registration fee
R 1350

Who should attend?

Healthcare workers interested in pollen and fungal sensitisation patterns and levels across South Africa

• Air quality specialists
• Aerobiologists

What will delegates gain by attending?

Any colleagues interested in learning about pollen and fungal sensitisation patterns, aerobiological measurements across major urban centres in SA. Those interested in considering the best respiratory metrics that we need to collect and monitor to understand the effects of short term climate events.

Take-home message:

Clinical care and patient advocacy go hand in hand. By bringing together doctors and patients, we aim to strengthen communication, build empathy, and work toward better outcomes for all living with atopic eczema.

HCPs are strongly encouraged to stay for the full day and attend the afternoon session to engage in meaningful dialogue with patients and help co-create future solutions.

Venue
Kgotla 2

Workshop facilitator
Dr Erica Shaddock

Registration fee
R 1100

"Would you like to improve your confidence reviewing HRCT chest scans?

Learn how to review Lung CT scans in a structured fashion from the basics to complex disease processes.
Join a team of pulmonologists and radiologists as we journey from the secondary pulmonary lobule to NSIP.
Course aimed at physicians, pulmonologists and radiologists.

Venue
Lethabo

Workshop facilitators
Prof André van Niekerk
Dr Charl Verwey

Registration fee
R 1350

An approach to chronic mucosal airway infections, recurrent pneumonia and  thymic insufficiency.  

Who should attend?

This workshop is intended for any clinician who manages patients with airway or lung disease, as well as pathologists with an interest in immunopathology and immune-mediated respiratory conditions.

What delegates will benefit by attending?

The airways and lungs are critical immune organs.
This case-based workshop will explore the immunology of the respiratory tract through clinical cases involving patients with chronic, recurrent, persistent, or unusual respiratory infections. Each case will serve to illustrate key immunological principles, appropriate laboratory investigations, and evidence-based management strategies. The workshop aims to highlight the importance of improved immunological diagnostics and tailored management approaches in respiratory medicine.

Take home message:

Medicine has entered an era where diagnosis is increasingly guided by immune-based insights and treatment is shaped by immunologically targeted therapies. Delegates will leave this workshop with a renewed perspective on respiratory disease—one that integrates immunological mechanisms into everyday clinical thinking.

Venue
Lecture Room 10

Workshop facilitator
Professor Susan Hanekom

Description
A multidisciplinary approach to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Registration fee
R 1350

A multidisciplinary approach to Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Venue
WITS Animal Laboratory. Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Workshop facilitator
Dr Ivan Schewitz
Dr Itumeleng Taunyane

Description
VATS animal workshop to be arranged to upscale the skills of the local staff. Cryoanalgesia will be part of the course

Registration fee
R 5000

Who should attend?

Surgeons aiming to be a Thorascopic surgeon.

What delegates will benefit by attending?

Learning new techniques from an international faculty.

Take home message:

The modern Thoracic Surgeon is a Video assisted Surgeon.