Welcome to IPCRG Athens 2024
On behalf of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) working with our Greek colleagues, we invite you to join with us at the 12th World Conference, taking place in Athens, Greece, from 9-11 May 2024.
The theme of the conference is Creating Change. Therefore, as well as a unique opportunity for researchers, the meeting has a strong educational focus, including valuable updates on key primary care issues, essential skills such as motivational communication and a new focus on leadership capacity building. The international Scientific Programme Committee chaired by Prof Ioanna Tsiligianni, University of Heraklion, has developed a varied programme enabling you to select from skills-based workshops, plenary sessions, oral abstract sessions and conversation cafés.
It is ten years since we have been in Athens, and a lot has happened since then! As well as our once every two year opportunity to meet with global primary care colleagues, this is also an opportunity to meet new colleagues from Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East.
Following the success of our post-pandemic meeting in Malaga in 2022, we are working with an experienced team of primary care clinicians to produce a programme that meets our peers’ learning needs and curiosity.
Our aim is to attract over 800 family and integrated care physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied healthcare professionals to Athens, providing plentiful opportunities for networking. Our speakers will address topics and issues relevant to countries of all income levels, including asthma, allergy, COPD, respiratory infections and symptoms such as breathlessness and cough in an exciting mix of plenaries, debates, interactive sessions, and workshops.
We received excellent feedback from the individuals and organisations that attended our recent World Conferences. In 2022 we attracted 750 delegates; in 2021 over 800 virtual participants and in 2018, over 1000 attended in-person, from over 30 countries worldwide. The 12th IPCRG World Conference is the ideal place for you to meet primary care role models, academics, teachers, and early adopters of innovation and to support the continued development of primary care to deliver good respiratory outcomes.
The Scientific Programme will build on successful features from 2022 such as sessions on greening respiratory care and building sustainable primary care practices given huge pressures on time at the moment. Every session will have a case study or “so what does this mean for me” discussion to consolidate learning and suggest ways to change practice.
In addition we will incorporate learning from our Munich Scientific Meeting which attracted nearly 60 good quality primary care respiratory abstracts, to ensure there is a strong academic programme.
We look forward to seeing you at the 12th IPCRG World Conference.
With my best wishes
Ee Ming Khoo, IPCRG President
Word Count & Format: There is a maximum of 300 words allowed for the body of the abstract.
Figures and tables: You may include one image or table to illustrate the work further. Please ensure that you have permission to use any images that you display in your abstract submission; otherwise, you may be liable for copyright infringement and associated charges.
Images can be in any format and up to 5 MB in size. Any patient-identifiable images must have the patient’s written permission for display.
Note on adding tables and images: Tables and Diagrams can be uploaded and added as supporting files and not to the abstract’s body text. Tables or Diagrams should be uploaded as jpg. or png. files and clearly labelled e.g. 1) Tables: Table 1 – Table title 2) Diagrams: Figure 1 - Figure Title.
Abstracts languages: The official language in which Abstracts must be written is English. We accept that you might wish to write your abstract in another language and then translate. Please note however that you will need to create your presentation/poster in English and be prepared to answer questions in English. You are welcome to ask for help to review and rehearse, and to identify someone to work with you, if your abstract is accepted.
As an international conference, the presenting language is English, which ensures that all conference delegates can learn about your work. However, we understand that it can be challenging for people who do not use English frequently in their daily lives to write and present in English. We are again pleased to offer support to make our conference as inclusive as possible. We can support you, for example, by:
- Connecting to peer support within your country/language
- Reviewing the readability and sense of the English
- Using our multidisciplinary network to connect you to a specialist mentor
- Practice runs of your presentation, at the conference venue or online
If you feel you could benefit from this offer, or if it would help you to present at our conference, please let us know. We want to enable you to share your work, which benefits our whole community.
Abstracts should be well written: A correct sentence structure and grammar must be used and please check your spelling. If this is your second language, please have your abstract proofread by an experienced writer.
Review Process and Outcome: All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and authors submitting by the main deadline of 8 January 2024 will be notified by 5 February 2024.
Late-breaking abstracts €50: For the first time, we are introducing late-breaking abstracts to allow those whose data is not available before the initial deadline to be able to submit an abstract for the World Conference. This deadline is 7 March 2024. There are only 10 slots available for late breakers so we strongly encourage you to submit your abstract by the first deadline 8 January. If you are unable to do this there is a late-breaking abstract option but we cannot guarantee there will be space in the programme. Please also note that the review of late breaking abstracts is not free, a €50 administrative fee applies for each Late-Breaking Abstract submission (non-refundable). .
All abstracts with author permission will also be added to IPCRG online resources .
