GREETING AND INVITATION

Dear Colleagues,

You are kindly invited to join us at this year's meeting – the 4th Slovenian Pneumology and Allergology Congress with international participation which will take place from 14th to 16th September 2008 at the LifeClass Hotels & Resorts, Portorož. The meeting is intended for pneumologists, residents in pneumology, allergology and internal medicine, GPs, nurses, clinical pharmacists. The official languages of the Congress are Slovenian and English. Slides will be presented in English. Main Topics of the Congress are obstructive lung diseases, tuberculosis, pulmonary hypertension, systemic effects of chronic diseases, immunotherapy, respiratory nursing, pneumology and allergology in primary practice.

Invited Speakers
Adnan Custovic. University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)
Asja Stipić-Marković, Depatmet of Clinical Immunology, Pulmology and Rheumatology, General Hospital "Sveti duh", Zagreb (Croatia)
Giovanni Battista Migliori. WHO, Tradate, Milan (Italy)
Sabine Rusch - Gerdes. WHO, Borstel (Germany)
Rudolf Valenta. Center of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Department of Pathophysiology, Vienna (Austria)
Peter Panzer. Charles University Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)
Mathias Rauchhaus. Department of Cardiology, Charité Medical School, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin (Germany)
Stephan von Haehling. Department of Cardiology, Charité Medical School, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin (Germany)

We look forward to seeing you in Portorož in September 2008.

Mitja Košnik