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16 - 18 September 2026

28th European Practicum on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Meeting Chair

  • Professor Denny Levett
  • Professor Mike Grocott

CPX International Board

  • Professor Piergiuseppe Agostoni President of CPX International
  • Dr Daniel Dumitrescu
    Vice President
  • Professor Mike Grocott
  • Professor Dr Alfred Hager
  • Professor Dr Denny Levett 
    Co Director for Education & Certification
  • Professor Dr F. Joachim Meyer Co Director for Education & Certification
  • Professor Arno Schmidt-Trucksass
  • Dr Tim Takken
    Director for Young Community
  • Dr Paul Older
    Executive Director of CPX International
  • Dr Marshall Riley

About the course

 This is an enhanced iPOETTS course with an additional day of content, that includes teaching on CPET in important perioperative co-morbidities including heart failure, pulmonary hypertension, respiratory disease as well as paediatric CPET. 

The above will be combined with interpretation practice in small group tutorials. 

Further information:

  • Accredited for training by the iPOETT Society
  • Limited delegate places per course
  • Faculty to Delegate ratio 2:15
  • Lectures, small group tutorials and workshops
  • Underlying Physiology
  • Test Interpretation
  • Respiratory and Cardiac abnormalities
  • Testing Practicalities
  • Setting up a new service

 

Please note this is a face-to-face course taking place in Southampton, UK. You would need to be available to attend in person. 

As part of this course, there is also an abstract competition running. Details can be found by clicking here.

Price

£975.00

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Registration entitles participants to:

  • Free membership to CPXI for 2027
  • Certificate of participation
  • Daily coffee breaks and refreshments
  • Light lunches during the congress
  • Attendance at the welcome reception 

 

Kindly specify any dietary preferences or restrictions at the time of registration.

There will also be an optional dinner on the Wednesday evening, details to follow.

Agenda

The agenda for the three days is available to view by clicking each day tab. You can also download a copy of the agenda by clicking the button below. 

Time

Session

Venue

08:30-09:30

Registration

 

08:30-09:30

Refreshments and Exhibition

Lounge

09:30-09:40

Welcome and Introduction

Denny Levett

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09.40 -11:50

 

Welcome and Introduction

Session Chair: Denny Levett

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09:40-10:30

Physiological basis of exercise performance

Arnold Schmidt-Truckass

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

10:30-11:00

The Anaerobic Threshold: what it is and how to find it

Susan Ward

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

11:00-11:30

Refreshments & exhibition

Restaurant & Lounge

11:30-12:30

 

Tutorial 1:

Normal responses and the 9 panel plot

 

Group 1:  Beaulieu Room

Group 2: Hamble Room

Group 3:  Avon Room

Group 4:  Savernake Room

Group 5:  Club Room

12:30-13:00

 

Normal Values and their pitfalls

Alfred Hager

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

13:00-14:00

Lunch & exhibition

Restaurant & Lounge

14:00-18:00

 

Session Chair: Mike Grocott

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14:00-14:20

 

Exercise test design: ramp and constant work-rate

Marshall Riley

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14:20-15:00

Workshop 1:

Ramp exercise test

Group A:  Avon Room

Group B:  Savernake Room

Group C:  Beaulieu Room

Group D:  Hamble Room

15:00-15:30

Formatting exercise test results and writing the report

Daniel Dumistrescu

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

15.30-16:00

Refreshments & exhibition

Restaurant & Lounge

16:00-17:00

Tutorial 2:

Identifying the Anaerobic Threshold and interpretative strategies

 

Group 1:  Beaulieu Room

Group 2: Hamble Room

Group 3:  Avon Room

Group 4:  Savernake Room

Group 5:  Club Room

17.00—17:45

Paul Older Lecture:

Exercise on Everest

Denny Levett

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

18.00-19.00

Welcome Reception

Restaurant & Lounge

9:00-11:00

Session Chair: Denny Levett

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09:00-09:30

 

CPET in heart failure and ischaemia

Daniel Dumitrescu

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09:30-10:00

CPET: Using Cardiac Output monitoring and NIRS

Piergiuseppe Agostoni

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

10:00-10.30

 

CPET in congenital heart disease

Alfred Hager

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

10.30-11.00

 

Refreshments & Exhibition

 

Restaurant & Lounge

11:00-11.30

 

CPET in cardiac rehabilitation

Piergiuseppe Agostoni

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

11.30-12.30

 

Tutorial 3:

Interpreting CPET in Cardiac Disease

 

Group 1:  Beaulieu Room

Group 2: Hamble Room

Group 3:  Avon Room

Group 4:  Savernake Room

Group 5:  Club Room

12:30-13.30

 

Lunch & exhibition

 

Restaurant & Lounge

13.30-15:20

 

Session Chair: Sandy Jack

 

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

13.30-14:00

 

CPET in lung diseases

Marshall Riley

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14:00-14:30

CPET in Pulmonary Hypertension

Daniel Dumitrescu

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14.30-15.00

 

CPET in pulmonary rehabilitation

Joachim Myer

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

15:00-16:00

 

Tutorial 4:

CPET in Respiratory Disease

 

Group 1:  Beaulieu Room

Group 2: Hamble Room

Group 3:  Avon Room

Group 4:  Savernake Room

Group 5:  Club Room

16:00-16.20

 

Refreshments & exhibition

Restaurant & Lounge

16:20-17:00

 

Workshop 2:

Constant-load exercise test

 

Group A:  Avon Room

Group B:  Savernake Room

Group C:  Beaulieu Room

Group D:  Hamble Room

17:00-17:45

 

CPET in unexplained breathlessness

James Hull

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

08:30-13:00

 

Session Chair: Piergiuseppe Agostini

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09:00-09:30

 

CPET in perioperative care

Denny Levett

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

09:30-10:00

 

CPET in prehabilitation: an evidence synthesis and guidelines

Mike Grocott

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

10:00-10.30

 

Exercise mechanisms in cancer prehabilitation

Malcolm West

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

10.30-11.00

 

Refreshments & exhibition

Restaurant & Lounge

 

11:00-11:45

 

Plenary Lecture

My journey from CPET to prehabilitation

Sandy Jack

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

11.45-12.45

 

Tutorial 5:

Perioperative Medicine and Prehab

 

Group 1:  Beaulieu Room

Group 2: Hamble Room

Group 3:  Avon Room

Group 4:  Savernake Room

Group 5:  Club Room

12.45-13:30

 

Lunch

 

Restaurant & Lounge

 

13.30-16:00

 

Session Chair: Denny Levett

 

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

13:30-14:00

 

CPET in children

Tim Takken

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14:00-14:30

 

CPET in athletes

Arnold Schmidt-Truckass

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

14:30-15:00

CPET in metabolic myopathies

Marshall Riley

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

15:00-15:20

Coffee and refreshments

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

15:20-17:00

Abstract Competition Final

Oral presentations followed by prize giving

Beaulieu Room (Main LT)

17:00

 

CLOSE OF COURSE

 

 

Abstract Competition

Abstracts are invited for the 28th European Practicum on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing.

Abstracts must address topics related to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing. Abstracts submitted for consideration must be an original idea, concept, or an improvement or revision of a previous idea. Submissions are peer-reviewed for scientific content, logical presentation, and current interest of the topic to the scientific community.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Clinical applications of CPET.
  • New methodologies or technologies in CPET.
  • Innovative research in exercise physiology.
  • CPET in specific populations (e.g., paediatrics, heart failure, athletes).
  • Novel insights into interpreting CPET data.

 

For more information, you can find the full competition details by clicking the button below. If you are ready to submit, please click the submit your abstract button. 

Venue

Balmer Lawn Hotel
Lyndhurst Road
Brockenhurst
New Forest
SO42 7ZB

Venue Accessibility

The conference room and facilities are on the ground floor of the hotel. This includes the conference room and toilets. 

The lunch area is located on the ground floor.

If you have any particular requirements, please let the EBPOM team know via email.

Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors:

Accomodation

There are various options in the local area of Brockenhurst for accommodation, for all budgets. 

As well as The Balmer Lawn, close to the venue is:

 

For more options you can visit the New Forest tourist page.

There are also several AirBNB options in the local area. You can search here

Transport

The Balmer Lawn is located near excellent transport links. You can find a link to Google Maps here 

Driving

There is parking available for all delegates at the Balmer Lawn Hotel.

The hotel is eight miles from M27 Junction1. 

When you leave the motorway, follow signs to Lyndhurst and then Brockenhurst. The hotel is on the left as you enter Brockenhurst, and is clearly visible from the road.

By Train
 
The hotel is a 10 minute walk from Brockenurst station.  There are cabs available at the station should you not wish to walk.
 
Brockenhurst is on the direct line from London Waterloo on South West Trains.  There are two direct trains an hour (1 hour 35 minutes journey time)
 
It is also on the Cross Country train route with direct trains to Reading, Oxford, Coventry, Birmingham, Stockport and Manchester.
Flying
 

By far the easiest way to get to Brockenhurst from Europe is to fly to Southampton airport. This is a small airport.  

The train station is 100metres from the airport gates.  There are two trains an hour from Southampton Airport Parkway (the airport station) to Brockenhurst and it is a 10 minute walk from Brockenhurst train station to the hotel.
 
If you fly to Heathrow there is a two hour train journey (approx) or uber journey to Brockenhurst.