Top 10 reasons to join us at the 20th WCBIP/WCBE this June
  1. More than 500 confirmed participants already
  2. More than 150 invited speakers from around the world
  3. ACCME and UEMS accreditation for CME credits
  4. Over 50 General Sessions, 4 Skills Lab (hands-on, including Human cadaver-based sessions), Product Symposia, Meet the Professor breakfast sessions, Keynote speeches
  5. More than 250 abstracts from 50 different countries
  6. More than 16 entries for the Video Contest
  7. Many awards, prizes, and special events
  8. A fully fledged social program with live music and entertainment
  9. Good old Mid-western hospitality and country scenery
  10. This is the premier IP event of the year, and will be great!

Without further ado, register now for sessions, skills lab (hands-on) or the social program below!


wcbip.org/register
May 15, 2018
Special hotel rates offer ends

June 13, 2018
WABIP Board of Regents meeting
Opening ceremony

June 14-16, 2018
Scientific program - See schedule here



Mayo Clinic College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 18.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™




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Target Audience

Physicians and care providers who care for patients with disorders of the larynx, pharynx, esophagus, and lungs. This event is designed to provide education for otolaryngologists, gastroenterologists, pulmonologists, and thoracic surgeons.
Sessions include

  • 3-D Printing and Modeling: Use in surgical planning and education
  • Airway in the Office: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
  • Airway Stents: Past, Present, and Future
  • Airway Tuberculosis and Bronchoscopic Intervention
  • Aspiration Evaluation and Management
  • Biomechanical Properties of Airway and Esophageal Stents; Implications for Practice
  • Bronchoscopic Management of the Different Faces of Obstructive Lung Diseases
  • Bronchoscopy Education Project Around the World
  • Challenging Pediatric Airway and Interventional Pulmonary Cases
  • Chylothorax; Diagnosis and Management
  • Complex Airway Cases; Discussion with the Experts
  • Controversies in Therapeutic Bronchoscopy
  • CP dysfunction: Bars and Diverticuli-
  • Cryobiopsies for Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases
  • Diagnosis and management of swallowing disorders in elderly
  • Drug induced sleep bronchoscopy
  • Early stage lung cancer and premalignant lesions - the bronchoscopists view
  • Endoscopic Management of Pediatric Laryngotracheal Obstruction
  • Expert Management of Pleural Infections
  • Gaining Access to the Periphery of the Lung: Multi-Modality Approach
  • GERD in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis
  • GI diagnostic evaluation in patients with Airway stenosis
  • Global Interventional Pulmonary Training
  • Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century: An Interventional Pulmonologist's Perspective
  • How to Build an Academic Career in Interventional Pulmonology
  • How to Create a Lung Cancer Screening Program
  • Instructional Strategies for Interventional Pulmonary Training
  • Is Bronchoscopic Lung Cancer Ablation the Next Frontier in Interventional Pulmonology
  • Lung Transplantation; Complications from an Interventional Pulmonologists Perspective
  • Management of Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis: a unique model
  • Management of Stage III NSCLC: The Importance of the Multidisciplinary Tumor Board
  • Management of the Complex Asthmatic; Biologics and Thermoplasty
  • Managing Multicentric Ground Glass Opacities
  • Mesothelioma Diagnosis and Management – What is the Interventional Pulmonologists Role?
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery for Lung Cancer
  • Models of Multidiscilinary Management of Airway Disease
  • Molecular Biomarkers for Early Detection of Lung Cancer
  • Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis: Optimizing outcome in recalcitrant airway stenosis-
  • New Frontier in Endobronchial Ultrasound
  • Novel clues for diagnosis and therapy of dysphagia
  • Novel Surgical Therapies in Idiopathic Subglottic Stenosis (iSGS)
  • Percutaneous Tracheostomy
  • Photodynamic Therapy in Thoracic Malignancies
  • Rebiopsy at Disease Progression in Non-Small Cell Carcinoma
  • Selection and management of advanced airway prosthesis – Adult and Pediatric Patients
  • Silver Anniversary of the Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology
  • Specimen Acquisition and Interpretation for Targeted and Immunotherapy of Late Stage Nonsmall Cell Carcinoma
  • Swallowing Symposium
  • Systematic Sampling of Lymph Nodes in the Mediastinum
  • The Introduction of New Bronchoscopic Technologies Into Latin America
  • Tracheobronchomalacia and Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse: Multidisciplinary Approach
  • Tracheoesophageal Fistulas: A Multidiscipline Approach to Management
  • Translational Science Advances in Laryngotracheal Stenosis
  • Using technology to transform multi-institutional collaboration and clinical trials-
  • WABIP Rare Lung, Airway and Pleural Disorders
  • WABIP Task Force on Stents for Malignant and Benign Stenosis
  • What is the Best Modality to Sample a Peripheral Lung Nodule?


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We look forward to seeing you in Rochester next June.

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