Respiration day - chronic airway diseases and their comorbidities

The aim of the 2026 edition of “respiration day” is to provide the view of where the respiratory clinicians and researchers are and where they are heading in the field of chronic respiratory diseases, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), asthma, bronchiectasis and their comorbidities, and the role of small airway diseases in these respiratory diseases. The main aim of the meeting is educational, and the speakers have been specifically invited to translate in their lectures the most important recent discoveries to the potential improvement of clinical practice. A significant proportion of time (40%) will be devoted to discussion. The meeting is divided in 5 sessions.