Asthma & Allergy

The “Asthma & Allergy” Working Group is a very active group that organises meetings three times a year. The group’s aim is to provide a platform and network for doctors and nurses with an interest in asthma care and research.

Shane Hanon

Flesh

Charles Pilette

Secretary

The group’s scientific work includes:
organising the Asthma & Allergy Session during the annual ‘Belgian Pneumology Days’
congress; implementing international guidelines at a Belgian level; the Belgian Severe Asthma Registry (BSAR – see below for further information); and expanding collaboration with international asthma registries.
The creation of a National Asthma Plan for Belgium in collaboration with the Belgian Lung Foundation and the new Advocacy Council established within the BeRS (chairs: Didier Cataldo & Pieter Goeminne)

The group published a paper entitled “Heterogeneity of phenotypes in patients with severe asthma: the ‘Belgian Severe Asthma Registry’” in *Respiratory Medicine* in 2014, has presented numerous abstracts at international conferences, and has new manuscripts in preparation for publication.

Members

  • AWANOU Bérénice
  • BOEYKENS Eva
  • BRADATAN Elena
  • BRUSSELLE Guy
  • CATALDO Didier
  • DE COCK Carole
  • DE MEIRLEIR Liesbeth
  • DELLIS Perrine
  • DEMOLDER Femke
  • DEPUYDT Charlotte
  • Maud DESCHAMPHELEIRE
  • Virginie DOYEN
  • Valérie DUFRESNE
  • Lieven DUPONT
  • Katrien EGER
  • Stephanie EVERAERTS
  • Alexandra FRERE
  • Amaryllis HACCURIA
  • Jean-Luc HALLOY
  • Elke HARDEMAN
  • Guy JOOS
  • LAHOUSSE Lies
  • LINS Muriel
  • LOUIS Renaud
  • MBAZOA Catherine
  • MICHEL Olivier
  • MICHILS Alain
  • MOSSAY Christian
  • PECHE Rudi
  • POTVIN Manu
  • RIEMANN Sebastian
  • RUMMENS Peter
  • SANCHEZ Carole
  • SCHABALLIE Heidi
  • SCHLEICH Florence
  • SCHNEIDER Emmanuelle
  • SCHUERMANS Daniel
  • SIMONIS Hélène
  • SOHY Carine
  • THIMPONT Joël
  • TIOTIU CEPUC Angelica
  • TITS Geert
  • TRIEST Filip
  • VAIA Elleni
  • VAN DER BREMPT Xavier
  • VINTILA Sabina
  • WYNANTS Jokke
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Minutes

Minutes of the previous meeting

  • Minutes – Asthma and Allergy Working Group – Meeting 170225.pdf
  • Minutes – Asthma and Allergy Working Group – Meeting 200324 – Final.pdf
  • Minutes – Asthma and Allergy Working Group – Meeting 201223 – Final.pdf
  • Minutes – Asthma and Allergy Working Group – Meeting 130223 – Final.pdf
  • Minutes – Asthma and Allergy Working Group – Meeting 210322 – Final.pdf

BSAR

BSAR is a secure web-based database which accepts password-protected, anonymised data, subject to fully informed written consent.

The aim of the registry is to collect epidemiological and clinical data in order to raise awareness of severe asthma, to identify various phenotypes, to promote optimal care for these patients, and to serve as a valuable platform for patients to participate in trials of new drugs for severe asthma. Since its inception in 2009, more than 1,800 patients with severe asthma recruited from across the country have been included in the registry. Data from individual centres can be downloaded by registered users.

Find out more about this registry

PAPER – Chronic oral corticosteroid use and persistent eosinophilia in patients with severe asthma from the Belgian Severe Asthma Registry

S. Graff1, S. Vanwynsberghe1, G. Brusselle1, S. Hanon2, C. Sohy3, L. J. Dupont4, R. Peche5, A. Michils6, C. Pilette7, G. Joos2, R. E. Louis8 and F. N. Schleich8

PAPER – COVID-19 and biologics in severe asthma: data from the Belgian Severe Asthma Registry

Shane Hanon, Guy Brusselle, Maud Deschampheleire, Renaud Louis, Alain Michils, Rudi Peché, Charles Pilette, Peter Rummens, Daniel Schuermans, Hélène Simonis, Olivier Vandenplas, Florence Schleich

  • Paper by Dr Sophie Graff – OCS BSAR Respir Res 2020.pdf
  • Paper by Dr Shane Hanon – ERJ 2020 – COVID-19 – BSAR.pdf