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Around 100 delegates from as far as Northumbria, Exeter and Kent braved flooding for the 2019 Midlands Interstitial Lung Disease meeting

The event was organised by Nottingham BRC’s respiratory team, and got the event’s hashtag - #MILD2019 – trending on Twitter.

They heard presentations on the latest in epidemiology, pathology, biomarkers and treatments of Interstitial lung disease (ILD).

Contributors included:

• Prof Eric White (Ann Arbour, USA)
• Dr Leticia Kawano-Dourado (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Professor Gisli Jenkins (NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and University of Nottingham)
• Professor Bibek Gooptu (University of Leicester)
• Geraldine Burge and Dr Richard Thompson (Birmingham)
• Dr John Hutchinson (Mansfield)

Aimed at all health care professionals with an interest in ILD and researchers on the University of Nottingham’s INJUSTIS (It’s Not JUST Idiopathic FibrosiS) multicentre study, the mid November event was organised by Natalie Stevenson, Lucy Howard and Dr Fasihul Khan from the Nottingham ILD team, and sponsored Boehringer Ingelheim.

The team plans to host another meeting next year. For more information on the INJUSTIS study please visit the study website.