The first 2-day symposium entirely devoted to dyspnea was in Manchester England in 1965. The second such meeting was in San Diego in 2005. Leaders in dyspnea research summarized their views of the state of the field, which had changed considerably since 1965.  Other experts ran workshop-discussions in several topics. There were volunteer posters, and a few volunteer papers were presented orally.

Information on the 2005 meeting is listed or linked-to below:

2005 Program

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Invited Speakers:

R. Banzett, Harvard University, USA.

T. Nishino, Chiba University, Japan.

P. Davenport, University of Florida, USA.

S. Gandevia, Univesity of South Wales, Australia.

R. Schwartzstein, Harvard University, USA.

D. O'Donnell, Queen's University, Canada.

J. Corner, University of Southhampton, UK.

P. Meek, University of New Mexico, USA.

Special Presentation: K. Evans, Harvard University, USA.

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Submitted Abstracts

Oral Presentations:

"Destruction of pre-Bötzinger Complex may not eliminate "air hunger" in awake goats" J.M. Wenninger, H.V. Forster, L.G. Pan, and R. Banzett

"Cerebral activity with the Relief of Dyspnea" Andrew Binks & Andrea Vovk

"Relief of dyspnea: brain activation, qualitative sensory aspects and physiological determinants" C. Peiffer, N. Costes, Ph. Herve & L. Garcia-Larrea.

"Speaking-Related Dyspnea in Healthy Subjects" Jeannette D. Hoit, Robert W. Lansing, Kristen E. Perona, Robert B. Banzett*

"Differences between sensory and affective aspects of dyspnea during resistive load breathing".Andreas von Leupoldt, Bernhard Dahme

"Amplitude reductions in early evoked potential conponentsand impaired perception of respiratory load with hypoxia" Danny Eckert, Peter Catcheside, Rachel McDonald, Amanda Adams, Michael Hlavac, Kate Webster and Doug McEvoy.

"Air hunger in response to hypercapnia in the Modified Rebreathing Test : Subjective feelings and breathing responses diverge". Omer Van den Bergh, Wan Li., Els Daems, Ilse Van Diest, Steven De Peuter, Katleen Bogaerts & Karel P. Van de Woestijne. 

"Relationship between severity of dyspnea and likelihood to benefit with opioid intervention" Currow DC, Abernethy AP, Fazekas B, and Frith P.

Poster Presentations:

"Method for comparing dyspnea and pain in fMRI settings"  Andreas von Leupoldt, Bernhard Dahme

"Imagined Suffocation as a Trigger for Hyperventilation" Omer Van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest, Steven De Peuter, Elke Wellens,  & Karel P. Van de Woestijne

"Cultural specificities of medically unexplained dyspnea in China". Jiangna Han, M.D., Ph.D., Yuanjue Zhu, M.D., Ph.D., Shunwei Li, M.D., Ph.D., Dongmei Luo, M.A., Xiansheng Chen, M.A., Zheng Hu, M.A., Claudia Put, Ph.D., Karel P. Van de Woestijne M.D., Ph.D., & Omer Van den Bergh Ph.D.

"A multi-site randomized controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the palliative management of dyspnea" AP Abernethy, DC Currow, PA Frith, AJ Crockett, BS Fazekas, S Booth, CF McDonald, K Clark, D Woods and IH Young

"Psycho-emotional Aspects of Dyspnea and Other Breathing Problems: How the Combination of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and YBT (Yoga Breathing Techniques) Can Help." Vijai Sharma

"Structural and functional neural characteristics in a developmental model of impaired awareness to respiratory stimuli" R. M. Harper, P. M. Macey, R. Kumar, M.A. Woo, R.K. Harper

"Parenteral Opioid Dose Titration and Ventilatory Function" Bassam Estfan, Declan Walsh, Mellar P. Davis, Susan B. LeGrand, Ruth L. Lagman,  Philip Shaheen

"Dyspnea in Patients with Environmental Chemical Intolerance" Andrea Vovk

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List of 2005 Attendees:

Amy Abernethy (Duke University Medical Center)

Lewis Adams (Griffith University)

Robert Banzett (Harvard University)

Andrew Binks (Harvard University)

Ginger Carrieri-Kohlman (UCSF)

Michael Carr (GlaxoSmithKline)

Pei-Ying Chan (University of Florida)

Yang-Ling Chou (University of Florida)

Craig Conoscenti (Boehringer-Ingleheim Inc.)

Jessica Corner (Southampton University)

Margaret Covey (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Paul Davenport (University of Florida)

Alex Derchak (VivoMetrics Inc.)

Eben Rubin (Boehringer-Ingleheim Inc.)

Danny Eckert (Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health)

Karleyton Evans (Massachussetts General Hospital)

Hubert Forster (Medical College, Wisconsin)

Gregory Fritz (Brown University)

Simon Gandevia (University of New South Wales)

Abe Guz (Imperial College, London)

John Hansen-Flaschen (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center)

Ronald Harper (UCLA)

Patrick Henky (VivoMetrics, Inc.)

Thomas Hixon (University of Arizona)

Jeanette Hoit (University of Arizona)

Rich Kallet (University of California, San Francisco)

Mary Kapella (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Paul Kennedy (VivoMetrics, Inc.)

Kieran Killian (McMaster University)

Bob Lansing (University of Arizona & Harvard University)

Suzanne Lareau (Veterans Adm. Med. Ctr. Albuquerque)

Janet Larson (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Susan LeGrand (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

Doug McEvoy (Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health)

Paula Meek (Veterans Adm. Med. Ctr Albuquerque)

Jere Mitchell (University of Texas)

Shakeeb Moosavi (Imperial College, London)

Judith Neubauer (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)

Takashi Nishino (Chiba University)

Denis O’Donnell (Queen's University, Ontario)

Mark Parshall (University of New Mexico)

Claudine Peiffer (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital, Paris)

Frank Powell (University of California, San Diego)

Barbara Rogers (NECA)

Richard Schwartzstein (Harvard University)

John Severinghaus

Vijai Sharma (Behavioral Medicine Center, Tennessee)

Michael Smyth (VivoMetrics, Inc.)

Sam Sprague (Liberation Medical)

Eytan Szmuilowivz (Massachussetts General Hospital)

Jay Thomas (University of California at San Diego)

Omer Van Den Bergh (University of Leuven)

Andreas Von Leupoldt (University of Hamburg)

Andrea Vovk (Harvard University)

Julie Wenninger (University of Wisconsin)