KATRD International Conference 2026

October 28 (Wed)
Time/Room	CRYSTAL 1 (3F) Room 1	CRYSTAL 2 (3F) Room 2	CRYSTAL 3 (3F) Room 3	EMERALD (3F) Room 4	PEARL (3F) Room 5	RUBY+JADE (3F) Room 6	SAPPHIRE (B1) Room 7
08:00-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:30	Int'l Network Meeting 1 TB Tuberculosis in Vulnerable Population: What Do We Know and What Should We Do?	Core Training Session 1	Hands-on Bronchoscopy	Hands-on Mechanical Ventilation	09:00-10:00 Meet the Expert COPD Beyond the Lungs: Frail and sarcopenia in COPD	Poster Exhibition	09:00-10:00 Meet the Expert Lung Cancer Key Rare Mutations and Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer

					10:00-11:00 Meet the Expert Asthma Biologics in the Acute Setting: Can They Replace Corticosteroids in Severe Exacerbations?		10:00-11:00 Meet the Expert ILD Emerging Therapies in ILD: Latest Clinical Trial Results
10:30-12:00	Int'l Network Meeting 2 Environmental Lung Disease Emerging Environmental Exposures and Lung Disease: Engineered Stone induced Pneumoconiosis and COPD	Core Training Session 2
					11:00-12:00 Meet the Expert Sleep Rethinking OSA Severity

12:00-13:30	Break
13:30-15:00	Int'l Network Meeting 3 Critical Care Medicine The Long and Winding Road: from ARDSNet, to PETAL, beyond COVID-19, and the Next?	Educational Session 1	Int'l Network Meeting 4 Lung cancer The Critical Debates on First-Line Treatment Strategies in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	13:30-15:30 Healthcare Policy Priorities for Building a National COPD Care Continuum	Epigenetics Session Biological Sex and Aging in Human Disease: An Epigenetic Perspective
15:00-15:30	Break				Break
15:30-17:00	Int'l Network Meeting 5 Airway Bridging Asthma and COPD: A New Era of Unified Airway Management	Educational Session 2	PG Course ILD ILD Masterclass: Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Approach and Management
17:00-17:15	Break
17:15-18:15	Satellite Symposium 01 COPD		Satellite Symposium 02 ILD

October 29 (Thu)
Time/Room	CRYSTAL 1 (3F) Room 1	CRYSTAL 2 (3F) Room 2	CRYSTAL 3 (3F) Room 3	EMERALD (3F) Room 4	PEARL (3F) Room 5	RUBY+JADE (3F) Room 6	SAPPHIRE (B1) Room 7
Time/Room	[AI Translation]
07:30-08:30	Registration				07:30-08:30 Meet the Expert Thoracic Ultrasound & Pleural Intervention	Poster Exhibition
07:30-08:30	Registration
08:30-08:40	Opening Ceremony
08:40-10:10	Plenary Session 1
08:40-10:10	Plenary Session 1
10:10-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Symposium 01 Airway 1 (COPD) ATS-KATRD Joint Symposium Unraveling COPD Complexity: Biology, Trajectories, and Biologics	Symposium 02 ILD 1 Updated ILD Guideline Session: What's Changed in ILD Classification and Management	Symposium 03 Bronchoscopy Updates in Interventional Pulmonology	Oral Presentation 01 Lung Cancer 1	Oral Presentation 02 Infection & Bronchiectasis		Hands-on Thoracic Ultrasound KATRD TUS Training Course
10:30-12:00				Oral Presentation 01 Lung Cancer 1	Oral Presentation 02 Infection & Bronchiectasis		Hands-on Thoracic Ultrasound KATRD TUS Training Course
12:00-12:30	Luncheon Symposium 01 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 02 ILD	Luncheon Symposium 03 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 04 COPD
12:00-12:30	Luncheon Symposium 01 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 02 ILD	Luncheon Symposium 03 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 04 COPD
12:30-13:30	Break
13:30-15:00	Symposium 04 Airway 2 (Asthma) JRS-KATRD Joint Symposium Redefining Severe Asthma: Personalizing Therapy Beyond Standard Care	Symposium 05 Cough JRS-KATRD Joint Symposium Chronic Cough: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Management	Symposium 06 Environmental Lung Disease Novel Environmental Exposures and Emerging Approaches to Environmental Lung Diseases	Oral Presentation 03 TB/NTM 1	Oral Presentation 04 ILD		Symposium 07 Thoracic Ultrasound Building the Future of Thoracic Ultrasound: Screening, Education, and AI
13:30-15:00				Oral Presentation 03 TB/NTM 1	Oral Presentation 04 ILD
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-17:00	Symposium 08 Airway 3 (Bronchiectasis) Breaking the Vicious Vortex: From Guidelines to Pipeline	Symposium 09 Critical Care Medicine 1 Precision Medicine in ARDS	Symposium 10 Lung Cancer 1 Innovative Milestones and Techniques for Bench to Bedside Transition in Lung Cancer	Oral Presentation 05 TB/NTM 2	Oral Presentation 06 Airway 1
15:30-17:00				Oral Presentation 05 TB/NTM 2	Oral Presentation 06 Airway 1
17:00-17:15	Break
17:15-18:15	Satellite Symposium 03 COPD	Satellite Symposium 04 Infection	Satellite Symposium 05 Lung Cancer	Satellite Symposium 06 ILD

October 30 (Fri)
Time/Room	CRYSTAL 1 (3F) Room 1	CRYSTAL 2 (3F) Room 2	CRYSTAL 3 (3F) Room 3	EMERALD (3F) Room 4	PEARL (3F) Room 5	RUBY+JADE (3F) Room 6	SAPPHIRE (B1) Room 7
Time/Room	[AI Translation]
07:30-08:30	Registration					Poster Exhibition
08:30-10:00	Plenary Session 2
08:30-10:00	Plenary Session 2
10:00-10:20	Break
10:20-11:50	Symposium 11 NTM Managing NTM-PD: What Should We Focus on?	Symposium 12 Critical Care Medicine 2 Future Directions of Critical Care in Asia Pacific	Symposium 13 Lung Cancer 2 Recent Advances in Early Detection of Lung Cancer: Redefining Lung Cancer Screening	10:20-11:20 Report of KATRD Research Grant	Oral Presentation 07 Airway 2		Oral Presentation 08 Bronchoscopy, Diagnostic & Thoracic Ultrasound
10:20-11:50				10:20-11:20 Report of KATRD Research Grant	Oral Presentation 07 Airway 2
11:50-12:20	Luncheon Symposium 05 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 06 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 07 Lung Cancer	Luncheon Symposium 08 Cough
11:50-12:20	Luncheon Symposium 05 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 06 COPD	Luncheon Symposium 07 Lung Cancer	Luncheon Symposium 08 Cough
12:20-13:30	Break
13:30-14:30	KATRD General Assembly *Members Only
14:30-14:40	Break
14:40-16:10	Symposium 14 Airway 4 (COPD) APSR-KATRD Joint Symposium Beyond Pharmacologic Therapy in COPD: Multimodal Assessment and Digital Integration	Symposium 15 ILD 2 Beyond the Common: Rare Interstitial Lung Diseases	Symposium 16 Pulmonary Vascular Disease Navigating the Gray Areas in Pulmonary Vascular Disease	Symposium 17 Practical Tuberculosis Course for Primary Care Physicians 1	Oral Presentation 09 CCM & Sleep		Oral Presentation 10 Lung Cancer 2
14:40-16:10					Oral Presentation 09 CCM & Sleep		Oral Presentation 10 Lung Cancer 2
16:10-16:20	Break
16:20-17:50	Symposium 18 Sleep Moving Toward Precision Medicine in OSA	Symposium 19 Infection Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia 2026: Multicenter Real-World Evidence and Management Strategies for MDR-GNB	Symposium 20 MTS-KATRD Joint Symposium Tuberculosis in Malaysia and Korea: Current Burden, Treatment Challenges, and the Road to Elimination	Symposium 21 Practical Tuberculosis Course for Primary Care Physicians 2	Oral Presentation 11 Vascular & Miscellaneous		Oral Presentation 12 Smoking and Environmental Lung Disease
16:20-17:50					Oral Presentation 11 Vascular & Miscellaneous
18:00-18:30	Closing Ceremony

Program at a Glance