Conferences
EOPH Conference 2026
Professor Joanna Szram will be doing a talk on occupational lung disease at the EOPH conference in 2026.
Read an article on a preview of the 2026 conference.
Click here to register (external link)OH Nursing Conference 2026
Professor Joanna Szram will be speaking at the annual OH Nursing Conference in Wales, on 30th April 2026.
More details coming soon.
For further information, please visit the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) websiteBTS Winter Meeting 2025
Wed, 26 Nov 2025
The Lungs at Work team attended, presented and chaired at the most recent British Thoracic Society (BTS) Winter Meeting between 26-28 November 2025 in Westminster, London.
Our team presented the following abstracts:
- S112 Description of 32 cases of artificial stone silicosis from a single UK centre (presented by Dr Jo Feary)
- S113 Silicosis prevalence and association with cumulative silica exposure among current and ex- underground small-scale miners in Northern Tanzania (presented by Dr Patrick Howlett)
- S114 Longitudinal change in respiratory function in firefighters; results from the Grenfell Firefighter Study (presented by BSc medical student)
- M37 The burden and determinants of tuberculosis among small-scale miners and community members in Northern Tanzania (presented by Dr Patrick Howlett)
- P73 Changing trends in occupational asthma cases identified at a single specialist centre over 30 years (presented by nurse Tamanna Kabir)
Dr Feary was co-chair for a session on "Occupational hazards of exposure to particulates", and Dr Howlett a co-chair for a session titled "Breathing room: Confronting lung diseases from modern workplaces".
See the full event programme with full abstracts on the BTS website.
