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Welcome to IPCRG Athens 2024On behalf of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) working with our Greek colleagues, we invite you to join with us at the 12th World Conference, taking place in Athens, Greece, from 9-11 May 2024.The theme of the conference is Creating Change. Therefore, as well as a unique opportunity for researchers, the meeting has a strong educational focus, including valuable updates on key primary care issues, essential skills such as motivational communication and a new focus on leadership capacity building. The international Scientific Programme Committee chaired by Prof Ioanna Tsiligianni, University of Heraklion, has developed a varied programme enabling you to select from skills-based workshops, plenary sessions, oral abstract sessions and conversation cafés.It is ten years since we have been in Athens, and a lot has happened since then! As well as our once every two year opportunity to meet with global primary care colleagues, this is also an opportunity to meet new colleagues from Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East.Following the success of our post-pandemic meeting in Malaga in 2022, we are working with an experienced team of primary care clinicians to produce a programme that meets our peers’ learning needs and curiosity.Our aim is to attract over 800 family and integrated care physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and allied healthcare professionals to Athens, providing plentiful opportunities for networking. Our speakers will address topics and issues relevant to countries of all income levels, including asthma, allergy, COPD, respiratory infections and symptoms such as breathlessness and cough in an exciting mix of plenaries, debates, interactive sessions, and workshops.We received excellent feedback from the individuals and organisations that attended our recent World Conferences. In 2022 we attracted 750 delegates; in 2021 over 800 virtual participants and in 2018, over 1000 attended in-person, from over 30 countries worldwide. The 12th IPCRG World Conference is the ideal place for you to meet primary care role models, academics, teachers, and early adopters of innovation and to support the continued development of primary care to deliver good respiratory outcomes.The Scientific Programme will build on successful features from 2022 such as sessions on greening respiratory care and building sustainable primary care practices given huge pressures on time at the moment. Every session will have a case study or “so what does this mean for me” discussion to consolidate learning and suggest ways to change practice.In addition we will incorporate learning from our Munich Scientific Meeting which attracted nearly 60 good quality primary care respiratory abstracts, to ensure there is a strong academic programme.We look forward to seeing you at the 12th IPCRG World Conference.With my best wishesEe Ming Khoo, IPCRG PresidentDear colleagues and friends,It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Athens, Greece and to invite you to participate in the 12th IPCRG World Conference, taking place from 9-11 May 2024 at Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Greece.The International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) promises a highly scientific programme focused on primary health care, led by distinguished experts. It will give the opportunity to all participants to exchange knowledge and ideas, in the most vibrant city of Greece.Alongside the scientific programme, participants will enjoy Athens, the seat of democracy, full of historical sites, with an excellent Mediterranean climate and surrounded by the "big blue" of the Aegean Sea, which allows for a perfect event for science, education, networking and lasting memories.After the successful meeting we had in Athens in 2014 and after a decade of development, Athens is renovated and I will dare to say more welcoming than ever, with the same culture and warm hospitality. It is a challenge to compete with yourself when you are 10 years older but strong bonds of friendship and heartfelt ways of doing things remain the same, so I look forward to welcoming you warmly again. Most of you connect me with Crete, but Athens always brings me back to my childhood, as I was born and raised a few hundred meters from the venue; I am glad that my childhood home is in the epicenter of IPCRG again. Athens still keeps a neighborhood feel, and you will enjoy exploring it. So, this conference combines two central parts of my soul: Athens and IPCRG that I have been active in for almost 20 years.Seeing you in Athens will be a great pleasure and our doors are open wide to welcome you all, friends, colleagues, students. So, save the date and join us…., in beautiful and historic Athens, Greece!Yours sincerelyIoanna TsiligianniChair of the Scientific Programme CommitteeAssociate Professor of General Practice and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete