Editors

Linhong Deng

Distinguished Professor and Founding Director

Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences

Changzhou University

China

Research Interest: Respiratory structure and function, Airway smooth muscle, Airway hyperresponsiveness, Asthma, Biomechanics and mechanobiology, Lung function measurement

Alizaman Sadigov

Professor

Respiratory(Internal) Medicine

Medical University of Baku (Baku city)

Baku

Azerbaijan

Research Interest: Bronchoscopy, Medical thoracoscopy, Pleural procedures, Spirometry and other pulmonary function tests, Sleep related breathing disorders, Non- invasive and invasive ventilation, Ultrasound in pulmonary medicine, Urgent Echocardiography

Shari Barnett Brosnahan

Clinical Instructor
NYU Pulmonary Critical Care
NYU Hospital, New York
USA

Research Interest: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome , Critical Care, ICU Survivorship, Pulmonary-Cardiac Physiology, Medical Education

Guoying Yu

Research Scientist

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Internal Medicine

Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

New Haven,Connecticut

U.S.

Research Interest : ILD, lung cancer, some chronic lung diseases (COPD, Asthma), molecular biology, cell biology, environmental pathology, precise pulmonary medicine

Lo Iek Long

Chief of Service
Department of Geriatrics, CHCSJ
Macau SAR, China

Research Interest : Respiratory Medicine, interventional pulmonology, lung cancer and sleep medicine, Geriatric syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease

Ching-Hsien Chen

Assistant Adj. Professor
Department of Internal Medicine,
Comprehensive Cancer Center,
University of California at Davis
USA

Research Interest: Lung cancer and drug efficacy, Pulmonary fibrosis, Allergic asthma, Oncogenic complexes and cancer progression, Peptide-based therapeutics, Phospholipid retention and signal transduction.

Samransamruajkit R

Chief of PICU

Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatric Pulmonary & Critical Care attending

Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

Bangkok,Thailand

Research Interest: Basic science and clinical trial related to viral respiratory tract infection; especially RSV, High frequency oscillator ventilation/ARDS/LVRM, Sepsis/Septic shock (diagnosis & management), Infection control in PICU/VAP, Therapeutic Hypothermia Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition Asthma treatment.

Malvika Sagar

Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics
Mc Lane Children’s Hospital, Baylor Scott and White, Temple, TX
USA

Research Interest: Pediatric asthma, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, pulmonary hypertension, primary ciliary dyskinesia, sleep related breathing disorders.

Melibea Sierra-Ruiz

Department of Thoracic Surgery

Division of Interventional Pulmonology

Harvard University

Boston, Massachusetts

USA

Research Interest: Asthma, Bronchial thermoplasty, lung cancer, lymphoma, IBV valves, prolonged airleaks, 3D printing

Manabu Sema

Assistant Professor
Health Administration Center
Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)
1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Japan

Research Interest: Interstitial pneumonia, hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Vikrant Deshmukh

Consultant pulmonologist

Nagpur chest center

Nagpur, Maharashtra

India

Research interest: Bronchoscopy, interventional pulmonology, thoracoscopy.

Arjun Mohan

Assistant Professor

Director, ECU Severe Asthma Clinic

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Brody School of Medicine-East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

USA

Research Interest: Severe asthma, sarcoidosis, COPD

Ravi K. Goyal

Associate Director, Health Economics
RTI Health Solutions
300 Park Offices Drive,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
USA

Research Interest: Cancer, pain, maternity and child care, cardiovascular, respiratory, mental health, Health services research, pharmacoeconomics, ,healthcare costs, quality, and outcomes, healthcare policy, comparative effectiveness research using large population level databases, application of advanced statistical techniques, treatment-related adverse events.

Liang Luo

Department of Critical Care Medicine

Wuxi No.2 hospital affiliated to Nanjing Medical University

Nanjing Medical University School of Medicine

Wuxi 214002

China

Research Interest: acute lung injury, acute respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS) , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), clinical research, clinical nutrition, critical care, deep vein thrombosis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, sepsis, septic shock, mechanical ventilation

Bhanu Patibandla

Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland

USA

Research Interest: Critical Care, Pulmonary, Clinical Research, Clinical Nutrition, Ventilation, Disparities in Health Care, and Hemodialysis Vascular Access.

Muhammad Tufail

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Glenfield Hospital

University Hospitals of Leicester

Leicester

United Kingdom

Research Interest : Pleural Diseases, Lung Cancer, Interventional Pulmonology

Ozioma S. Chioma

Department of Infectious Diseases

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

USA

Research Interest: Microbiology, Microbial Pathogenesis, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Microbial Pathogenesis, interstitial lung diseases, Sarcoidosis.

Ran Wang

Associate professor

Anhui Medical University

Anhui

China

Research Interest: pulmonary hypertension, COPD, pulmonary infection, lung cancer, asthma, ARDS

Heedoo Lee

The Pulmonary Center

Boston University School of Medicine

R305, 72 E. Concord St.

Boston, MA 02118

Research Interest: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Pneumonia, Lung Cancer, Cell microenvironment, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Intercellular Communications, Extracellular vesicles (exosomes/microvesicles)

Michelle Marie White

The Irish Centre for Genetic Lung Disease

Department of Medicine

Royal College of Surgeons

Dublin

Ireland.

Research Interest: Immune cell structure and function in the following conditions; Cystic Fibrosis (CF), Alpha-one Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis (NCFB), and impacts treatments and therapeutics have on cellular dysfunction.

C. Villaquiran-Torres

Internal Medicine-Pneumology

University Hospital San Ignacio

Bogotá

Colombia

Research Interest: pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension, chronic disease, chronic obstructive, COPD, exercise

Raffaella Nenna

Pediatrics and Infantile Neuropsychiatry

Sapienza University of Rome

Rome

Italy

Research Interests: bronchiolitis, pneumonia, children, infants, interventional bronchoscopy, Pertussis, Viral infection, bronchoalveolar lavage.

Gurveen Pal Singh Malhotra

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

North Chicago, Illinois

USA

Research Interest: bronchoscopies, EBUS TBNA, pleurex catheter placement, Pulmonary diseases, Critical care

Yves De Souza

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Physical Therapy

Veiga de Almeida University

Brazil

Research Interest: Respiratory and peripheral muscle assessment and training in acute and chronic respiratory conditions; COPD

Keshav Sharma

Senior Clinical Fellow in Interventional Pulmonary / Pleural Disease
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospital Network
UK

Research Interest: asthma, COPD, Pulmonary embolism, Lung cancer, Pleural effusion, Bronchoscopy, Biopsy of Lung and Pleura

Amit Gaud

Internal Medicine

Sai care hospital

Nasik, Maharashtra

India

Research Interest: Sepsis, ARDS, Acute lung injury, Acute respiratory failure, APACHE-II score, APACHE-IV score, SOFA score, Prognostication of respiratory failure, Pneumonia, Deep vein thrombosis and Pulmonary embolism, Mounier Kuhn syndrome, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Bronchial asthma, Tuberculosis

Felix Reyes

Physician resident, Internal Medicine
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York
USA

Research Interest: Asthma, COPD, Benign Lung tumors, Lung Cancer, Health care delivery, High Value Care, Health Policy

Nikhilesh Jain

Director and Chief Intensivist

CHL Hospitals, Indore

India

Research Interest: Tissue perfusion markers in sepsis, Applications of NIV in trauma and ARDS, Nosocomial infections including VAP especially with carbapenem MICs>8, Noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring, Critical care sonography, Scoring patterns and methodologies in nosocomial pneumonias, ARDS in Neuro intensive care.

Nelson Kalema

Makerere University-University of California San Francisco Collaboration

San Francisco

CA, USA

Research Interest: diagnostic and clinical epidemiological studies that are focused on communicable and non-communicable diseases of the lung, scale-up of best practice guidelines in HIV/TB (or other) health-care delivery.

Ashwini Arjuna

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Robert wood Johnson University, NJ.
USA

Research Interest: Lung Transplant, Interventional Pulmonology, Pulmonary Hypertension, Thoracic Oncology

Anandharajan Rathinasabapathy

Allergy, Pulmonary and Criticare Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN 37232
USA

Research Interest: Etiology and therapeutic intervention of pulmonary hypertension in genetic and non-genetic animal models, Animal models of Pulmonary Fibrosis, Stem Cells, Drug Discovery, Insulin Resistance and Metabolism, signal transduction, Renin Angiotensin System

Himaja Koneru

Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical care Medicine
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
USA

Research interest: Lung cancer diagnosis, Pulmonary manifestations of systemic inflammatory conditions, Oncological critical care, Quality Improvement in Medical education

Qiang Cheng

Associate Professor
Institute of Biomedical Informatics & Dept of CS
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506, USA

Research interest : Precision medicine, data mining, pattern recognition, risk factor identification, machine learning, carcinogenesis, biomedical informatics, and artificial intelligence.

Lamia Sfaihi

Associate Professor in pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine and Hedi Chaker university hospital Sfax
Tunisia

Research Interest: Vaccination, Bronchiolitis