Session # 01: Infectious Diseases

• Climate change and infectious disease: a review of evidence and research trends.
• Antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes: risks, current concern and future thinking.
• How to differentiate a bacterial infection from a colonization?
• Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics.

Session # 02: Rheumatic Diseases

• Outlook of the latest guidelines for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Advances in the pathogenesis and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.
• Effectiveness of physiotherapy in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
• Inflammation in osteoarthritis: the latest progress and ongoing challenges.

Session # 03: Pulmonary Diseases

• Advances in asthma: new understandings of asthma's natural history, risk factors, underlying mechanisms and clinical management.
• The microbial etiology of community-acquired pneumonia: from classical bacteriology to host transcriptional signatures.
• Pulmonary hypertension associated with lung disease: new insights into patho-mechanisms, diagnosis and management.
• Artificial intelligence in COPD CT images: identification, staging, and quantitation.

Session # 04: Cardiovascular Diseases

• Resistant hypertension: Diagnosis, evaluation and treatment practical approach.
• Endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and coronary artery disease: potential biomarkers and promising therapeutic approaches.
• Postoperative atrial fibrillation: from mechanisms to treatment.
• Heart failure management guidelines: new recommendations and implementation.                      

Session # 05: Endocrine Diseases

• From glucose lowering agents to disease-modifying drugs: an evidence-based approach for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
• Diagnosis and treatment of hyperglycemia in pregnancy: type 2 diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes.
• Approach to obesity treatment in primary care: insights form the clinical studies.
• The management and metabolic characterization of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism.

Session # 06: Neurological Diseases

• The inter-relationship between delirium and dementia: the importance of delirium prevention.
• Unraveling the genetic basis of epilepsy: Recent advances and implications for diagnosis and treatment.
• Neuronal injuries in cerebral infarction and ischemic stroke: from mechanisms to treatment.
• New perspectives in the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer’s disease.

Session # 07: Digestive Diseases

• Pathophysiology and treatment options for gastroesophageal reflux disease: looking beyond acid.
• Irritable bowel syndrome: controversies in diagnosis and management.
• Understanding autoimmune pancreatitis: Clinical features, management challenges, and association with malignancies.
• New treatment paradigms in primary biliary cholangitis.

Session # 08: Kidney Diseases

• Transition from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease: mechanisms, models and biomarkers.
• Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation, management and treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
• Acute glomerulonephritis with concurrent suspected bacterial pneumonia: is it the tip of the iceberg?
• Kidney stones, hypercalciuria, and recent insights into proximal tubule calcium reabsorption.

Session # 09: Tropical Diseases

• Current status of malaria control and elimination: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, progress and challenges.
• Dengue hemorrhagic fever: a growing global menace.
• Updates on dengue vaccine and antiviral: where are we heading?
• Chikungunya vaccine development, challenges, and pathway toward public health impact.

Session # 10: Critical Care

• The effective management of shock: moving from physiology to guidelines to precision medicine and ultimately personalized medicine.
• Bridging the gap: intensivists at the crossroads of clinical care and financial strategy.
• Making sepsis the next success story in global health.
• Augmented reality, simulation-based design, and other cutting-edge educational tools in critical care.

Session # 11: Palliative Care

• Mapping of current practices of palliative care for patients with heart failure.
• Evaluation of the palliative care day hospital for patients with advanced cancer.
• Predictive symptoms of mortality in interstitial lung disease: findings from geriatrics and palliative care clinics.
• Challenges in the decision-making process for sedation in palliative care: A qualitative interview study with healthcare professionals, patients and relatives.

Session # 12: Clinical Research

• AI tools for clinical research: the basics for internists.
• How to write and publish an article: practical insights and innovative ideas.
• Innovative digital techniques in data collection, data analysis and clinical research.
• Advanced statistical methods in clinical research.