• Prof Brigid Hogan, Duke University, USA

• Dr Olivier Sitbon, Université Paris-Sud, France  

Abstracts

TSANZ will be accepting both oral and poster submissions.

The Society welcomes the submission of abstracts on any aspect of respiratory medicine, surgery, sleep disorders medicine and related clinical and basics ciences.
Abstracts which are being presented at international scientific meetings where abstracts are published may be submitted to this meeting.
Abstracts will not be accepted for presentation if they:

• contain data which have been previously been published in the context of commercial development.
• report research work which has been carried out with financial support from the Australian Tobacco Research Foundation
• contain data which have previously been published in a full paper prior to abstract submission
• do not contain data
• are not accompanied by a Declaration of Interest Form

Declaration of Interest
It is the policy of The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand that any real or perceived conflict of interest for a conference participant must be disclosed. For this purpose, a real or apparent conflict of interest is defined as having a significant financial interest in a product to be discussed directly or indirectly during the presentation, being or having been an employee of a company with such financial interest, and/or having had substantial research support provided by an industry to support the product to be discussed at the presentation.
Declarations of interest will be kept at the Secretariat at the Annual Scientific Meeting. Abstracts will not be considered for presentation unless accompanied by a declaration of interest. Any conflict of interest and all sources of funding should also be noted at the end of the abstract.

Need to answer on abstract submission form

I/We had a conflict of interest with respect to this paper.    Yes/No
I/We have the following real or perceived conflict of interest that relates to this presentation. (space for details).