Speakers

Professor Ian Adcock

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Professor Ian Adcock

Head of Airways Disease
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

Professor Ian Adcock obtained his PhD in Molecular Pharmacology in 1987 London University. After undertaking MRC-funded positions in Edinburgh and in London he joined Professor Sir Peter J Barnes' group in 1990 at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) to work on the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoids in the lung. In 2004 he became Professor of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology at Imperial College London and is currently Head of Airways Disease at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI).

Professor Adcock's research focus is inflammatory mechanisms of severe asthma and COPD and in understanding relative glucocorticoid insensitivity. Recent work has examined the role of epigenetics in airway inflammation and glucocorticoid function and the use of multi-omic analysis to define severe asthma and COPD molecular subphenotypes and drug responses.

Professor Adcock is the PI of the EU/EFPIA IMI UBIOPRED initiative to determine biomarkers of severe asthma using integrated 'omics and clinical features. He is a Co-PI in the MRC-funded PRISM study to identify multi-omic biomarkers of T2 biologic responder/non-responder populations in severe asthma. He was awarded the ERS GOLD medal for COPD in 2019. Dr Adcock was formerly Head of the ERS Assembly 5 (Airway Diseases). Dr Adcock has published >600 papers (H-index = 138).

Dr. Jesse Van Akkeren

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Dr. Jesse Van Akkeren

Internist-intensivist
Maxima MC Veldhoven/Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Dr. Jesse Van Akkeren is Internist-intensivist, Maxima MC Veldhoven/Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In 2001, after completing his academic training as internist and subsequently intensivist at the Free University of Amsterdam, he started to work at Máxima Medical Center in Veldhoven and Eindhoven. He was soon asked to become medical head of both ICU's, one CCU, and the Medium Care Unit for the usual term of 5 years. Within 3 years, as one of the forerunners in the Netherlands, he was able to realize 24/7 "closed format intensive care" in both hospital locations.

In 2018 he implemented closed-loop ventilation as first-line modality for all invasively mechanical ventilated patients (first ICU in the Netherlands with this policy). From that moment he has helped several other hospitals to implement this as well.

He frequently gives lectures, workshops, and hands-on simulation training on advanced mechanical ventilation in the Netherlands as well as internationally.

Outside of work, he has a great love for playing guitar, mountain biking, skiing and other outdoor activities.

Dr. Sita Andarini

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Dr. Sita Andarini

Associate Professor
Division of Thoracic Oncology
Division of Respiratory Immunology and Interstitial Lung Disease
Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia – Persahabatan Hospital, Jakarta
Indonesia

Dr. Sita Andarini is currently Associate Professor at Division of Thoracic Oncology and Division of Respiratory Immunology and Interstitial Lung Disease, Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia – Persahabatan Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. After completing her MD and Pulmonologist at Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia, she obtained PhD at Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Japan. She is currently head of Thoracic Oncology Indonesian Society of Respirology, Head of Assembly of Lung Cancer for Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, and member of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Her interest includes thoracic oncology especially immuno-oncology and driver oncogene, and interstitial lung diseases. She involved in several clinical research of lung cancer and interstitial lung disease. She published several papers, receiving research grants and awards in lung cancer and interstitial lung disease.

Professor Antonio Anzueto

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Professor Antonio Anzueto

Professor of Medicine
Section Chief of Pulmonary
South Texas Veterans Healthcare System
The University of Texas Health San Antonio
USA

Dr.Antonio Anzuetois a Professor of Medicine and Section Chief of Pulmonary at South Texas Veterans Healthcare System, an affiliated Institution with the University of Texas Health San Antonio and specializes in Pulmonary Medicine/ Critical Care. He completed His undergraduate studies at Colegio Liceo Javierin 1972. He received his Doctor of Medicine in 1979 at the University of San Carlos, in Guatemala City. In 1989, he completed her internship and residency in internal medical followed by Pulmonary Medicine/ Critical Fellowship at University of Texas, Health, San Antonio. He is an active member of the American Thoracic Society, American Collegue of Chest Physicians (CHEST), European Respiratory Society, Latin American Thoracic Society (ALAT), Global Obstruction Lung Disease (GOLD). Dr. Anzueto has over 300 publications in other high rated journals Dr. Anzueto have participate as a member of the Executive and Scientific Committee of the World Global COPD (GOLD Initiative); American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS), COPD Guidelines committee (2004, 2010); ATS/ERS COPD Exacerbation Guidelines committee (2018); ARDS - ATS/ERS/European Critical Care Society, ARDS Berlin conference (2012); ATS/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) community acquired pneumonia clinical practice guidelines (CAP) (2005, 2019). His expertise in Pulmonary and Critical Care has been recognized by the ERS in 2015 when he was name "Honorary Fellow of the ERS" and in 2018 by the ATS that also named him "Honorary Fellow".

Professor Philip Bardin

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Professor Philip Bardin

Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
Monash University, Melbourne
Australia

Professor Phil Bardin is Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 2008 he has been Director, Lung & Sleep Medicine, Monash University and Medical Centre, Melbourne. He is recognised for investigation of obstructive lung diseases (asthma, COPD) and has conducted extensive research of new asthma and COPD therapies. Recently research has particularly focused on severe asthma and vocal cord dysfunction/inducible laryngeal obstruction (VCD/ILO).

He is a recipient of ongoing Australian NH&MRC funding, has chaired the Australian NH&MRC Grant Review Panel (Respiratory & Sleep Medicine) and served on the Australian NH&MRC Academy. Currently he is co-Editor-in-chief of Respirology, official journal of the APSR.

Dr. Alison Bauer

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Dr. Alison Bauer

Associate Professor
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
Colorado School of Public Health
USA

Alison Bauer is an Associate Professor in Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. She is an environmental and occupational toxicologist and cancer biologist and her research program focuses on the effects of the environment, including climate factors, on pulmonary disease (e.g., early-stage lung cancer, asthma, and acute lung injury). Her goals are to improve public health policy by the enhancement ofour understanding of pulmonary toxicants, and to elucidate downstream mechanisms to inform prevention. Her post-doctoral training was at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the Laboratory of Respiratory Biology. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Pharmacology and her B.S. in biochemistry from Pennsylvania State University. She has on-going research studies with collaborators at NIEHS, CU Boulder, Michigan State University, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany, and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. She is currently the assembly chair of EOPH at the ATS.

Professor Guy Brusselle

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Professor Guy Brusselle

Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Ghent University
Belgium

Professor Guy Brusselle received his medical degree (M.D.) at Ghent University in 1990. Investigating the functional role of cytokines interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-5 (IL-5) in allergic asthma, he obtained his Ph.D. in 1997. As a respiratory physician with a keen clinical and scientific interest in asthma, severe asthma and COPD, he joined the Ghent University Hospital in 2002. Since 2008, he is professor of medicine at Ghent University, teaching "Methodology of Scientific Research and Study design" to medical students and pharmaceutical sciences students. Since 2021 he teaches the course "Respiratory Medicine" to master medical students at the Faculty of Medicine.

Since 2013, he is professor at the Departments of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where he is the Principal Investigator for Respiratory Diseases within the Rotterdam Study, a large prospective population-based cohort study. Currently, he is head of the Laboratory for Translational Research of Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases at Ghent University.

From 2012 to 2015, he has served the European Respiratory Society (ERS) as Guidelines Director. From 2016 till 2019, he has been the chair of the ERS Science Council. Since September 2017, he is member of the Scientific Committee of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and he has joined the Board of Directors of GINA. Since January 2022, he is president of the Belgian Respiratory Society (BeRS).

Dr Lieve Bultynck

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Dr Lieve Bultynck

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Respirology Editorial Office, Institute for Respiratory Health
The University of Western Australia
Australia

Dr. Lieve Bultynck is the Managing Editor of Respirology and Respirology Case Reports, the official journals of the APSR published by Wiley.

In addition, she holds the Managing Editor role for Plant and Soil, an international journal published by Springer-Nature, and has more than 20 years' experience working in academic publishing.

Lieve completed a PhD in plant biology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and has successfully published her research work in several international journals.

She is committed to using her experiences as an author and managing editor to help researchers and clinicians publish their work in English-language journals, and has presented at several workshops for authors.

Professor Andrew Bush

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Professor Andrew Bush

Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology
National Heart and Lung Institute
Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health
Imperial College London
USA

Professor Andrew Bush is a Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College (Foundation Director); Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician,Royal Brompton Hospital.

His research interests include the invasive and non-invasive measurement of airway inflammation in children, and clinical physiology. He has supervised >50 MD and PhDs, co-authored >750 papers in peer review journals, and written >130 chapters in books and monographs. He is Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Currently he is Guidelines Director of the European Respiratory Society, having previously chaired the Publications Committee. He is also an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. Major recent awards include the British Thoracic Society medal (2022, the first Paediatrician to be so honoured), the 2024 James Spence Medal and an Honorary Life Fellowship, the highest honour of the RCPCH, and the 2024 ERS Presidential award. Most importantly, he has the eight greatest grandchildren in the world, Dylan and Jack in South Africa, Oscar and his twin siblings Aya and Fletcher, Lydia, Dominic and Ilyas, all in London.

Dr. Ken Chan

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Dr. Ken Chan

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine & Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr Ken Chan is a respiratory specialist interested in airway diseases and pleural medicine. Dr Chan has beenpractisingsince 2009, with extensive exposure to different respiratory conditions. Dr CHAN is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics at CUHK. He participates actively in research projects on asthma, COPD, pleural infection and malignant pleural effusion. He also received multiple research grants for research on pleural diseases and asthma.

Dr. Jacky Chan

Dr. Johnny Chan

Professor Shao-liang Chen

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Professor Shao-liang Chen

Director of Cardiology and Cath Lab
Nanjing First Hospital & Nanjing Heart Center
Nanjing Medical University
China

Professor Shao-liang Chen is serving as a professor of Interventional Cardiology, Internal Medicine, and Pharmacology, Nanjing Medical University, Chairman of National Coronary Intervention Training Base and International Communication Committee in CSC. He has made three major innovations in cardiology, including Stem cell transplantation to treat patients with acute myocardial infarction, DK crush stenting technique, Pulmonary artery denervation (PADN). And he is still Committing to the development of cardiovascular system.

Professor Shao-liang Chen is a foreign member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a fellow of American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology (ESC), a vice-chair of Asian Heart Society (AHS), a director of International Committee of SCAI.

Dr. Alvin Cheung

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Dr. Alvin Cheung

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr. Alvin Cheung is an anatomical pathologist whose work focuses on the molecular basis of lung cancer and the development of novel therapeutic approaches to treat cancer patients. Alvin was graduated at the University of Hong Kong, received overseas research training at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, and underwent genomic pathology training as a visiting scientist at the TRACERx consortium in 2022-23. Alvin completed his PhD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and continues to dedicate his work on clinical diagnostic services and lung cancer research. He is a principal investigator receiving grants from the Health and medical research fund. He also supervises research for students, and serves as invited reviewer for peer-review journals such as Gut and Pathology.

Dr. Pik-shan Cheung

Dr. Chen-yuan Chiang

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Dr. Chen-yuan Chiang

Vice Superintendent
Wan Fang Hospital
Taiwan

Dr. Chiang Chen-yuan is a pulmonologist trained in Taiwan. He joined The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France in 2003 and was Director, Department of Lung Health, The Union, between 2007-2015. During that period The Union establishes Asthma Drug Facility (ADF) and collaborated with partners to implement ADF pilot projects. He has provided technical assistance to national tuberculosis programme in several countries in Asia and Africa. He was co-chair of regional Green Light Committee (rGLC), Western Pacific Region, from 2011-2020. His current affiliations are Vice Superintendent, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei and Professor of Medicine, Taipei Medical University. He is a member of the Core Group of Global Drug-Resistant TB Initiative (GDI), the Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis (TB TAG) in the Western Pacific Region of WHO and the steering group of Global Asthma Network (GAN).

Dr. Fifian Chiang

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Dr. Fifian Chiang

Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr Fifian Chiang is an associate consultant in respiratory medicine at Grantham Hospital and the honorary clinical assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. She holds strong interest in interventional pulmonology and pleural medicine. She received further training on diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy in National University Hospital Singapore and ambulatory pleural service development in Southmead Hospital, Bristol. She has worked as an instructor and organizer of loco-regional courses on respiratory failure management, thoracic ultrasound use, pleural disease workshops and interventional pulmonology training. She has also been participating in research studies on pleural diseases and lung cancer.

Dr. Wa-keung Chiu

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Dr. Wa-keung Chiu

Consultant
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
United Christian Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. CHIU Wa Keung is currently the Consultant of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of United Christian Hospital. He is the director of PICU / Paediatric Respiratory service of the department. He graduated in the University of Hong Kong in 1989 and started his work in Paediatrics since 1990 in Princess Margaret Hospital. He received his overseas training in paediatric respiratory medicine and paediatric intensive care in Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street of United Kingdom in 1994-1995. He started working in United Christian Hospital since 1996. He is currently the Vice President of Hong Kong Society of Paediatric Respirology and the instructor of the Paediatric Advanced Life Support Course of the Hong Kong College of Paediatricians. His publications included Severe Acute Respiraory Syndrome in children, COVID-19 in children, asthma education programme, Kawasaki disease, tuberculosis lymph node, lumbar puncture in children and congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Dr. Tiffany Choi

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Dr. Tiffany Choi

Associate Professor
School of Health Sciences
Saint Francis University
Hong Kong

Tiffany Choi is a highly skilled and specialized professional in the field of Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy, with extensive and comprehensive clinical experience, a strong foundation in education and a dedication to research and professional development.

Dr. Choi's research interests primarily revolve around various respiratory conditions, with a specific focus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Her expertise extends to areas such as diagnostic lung ultrasound, innovative disease pre-screening techniques, telemonitoring in physical activity, hospital and community-based pulmonary rehabilitation, early mobilization of ventilated patients, oxygen therapy prescription from a physiotherapist perspective, and the validation of clinical scales and assessments. Her research contributions have significantly advanced the understanding and treatment of respiratory conditions, benefiting both patients and fellow practitioners.

Dr. Choi is also a qualified Comprehensive Simulation Educator, demonstrating her commitment to enhancing learning experiences and the practical application of knowledge. In recent years, she has developed a specialization in simulation-based learning and the application of virtual reality in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy. Her expertise in these emerging areas reflects her dedication to staying at the forefront of technological advancements and leveraging innovative approaches to enhance patient care and educational methodologies.

Dr. Kahlin Choo

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Dr. Kahlin Choo

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
North District Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Kahlin Choo is a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at North District Hospital and the Chairperson of Central Committee for COPD under Hospital Authority (HA), Hong Kong. She is also an honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is an Executive Committee member of CHEST (Hong Kong and Macau Delegation), an Executive Board Member of Hong Kong Lung Foundation and the past President of Hong Kong Society of Sleep Medicine. Dr Choo graduated from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, in 1990. She is a Fellow of Hong Kong College of Physicians, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow. She has served as a reviewer for Hong Kong Medical Journal and Respirology. She was the leader of Respiratory Collaborative Care Team that received the HA Outstanding Team Award in 2010.

Professor Peter Cistulli

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Professor Peter Cistulli

Professor of Sleep Medicine
ResMed Chair in Sleep Medicine
The University of Sydney
Australia

Professor Peter Cistulli is a clinician researcher with 34 years' experience in the fields of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine. He is Professor of Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney and holds the ResMed Chair. He leads the Sleep Research Theme within the multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre and holds a prestigious NHMRC Leadership Fellowship to support his research. He is also Clinical Director of the Sleep Medicine Program at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

His thematic research has focused on the causes of sleep related breathing disorders and their treatment, with particular reference to oral appliance therapy. He has published over 300 papers and has received more than $26M in competitive research funding. He has received numerous national and international awards for his academic contributions to the sleep field. He is a former President of the Australasian Sleep Association and a former board member of the Sleep Health Foundation.

Professor Oliver Distler

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Professor Oliver Distler

Head
Department of Rheumatology
The University Hospital Zurich
Switzerland

Professor Oliver Distler is a Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Zurich and Head of the Department of Rheumatology at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland. He is also Head of the Business Division of Traumatology-Dermatology-Rheumatology-Plastic Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich.

Professor Dr. Distler earned his medical degree from the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1997. Subsequently, he completed his internship in internal medicine at Bamberg Hospital and his residency and fellowship at the University Hospital of Regensburg, both in Germany. Professor Dr. Distler then did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Center of Experimental Rheumatology at the University of Zurich and additional fellowships in the Departments of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University Hospital Zurich.

Professor Dr. Distler's research focuses on molecular mechanisms of inflammatory rheumatic diseases, the validation of biomarkers, the identification and characterization of animal models, and the design of proof-of-concept and phase 2/3 trials. He has authored over 250 papers on these topics, and he is a member of the editorial boards of Lancet Rheumatology and Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. Professor Dr. Distler has been a board member and chairman of several academic initiatives, such as the Scleroderma Clinical Trial Consortium and the European Scleroderma Trials and Research Group (EUSTAR). He is currently the Executive Chair of the EULAR-associated FOREUM Foundation.

Dr. Michaela Donaghy

Professor Kwun Fong

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Professor Kwun Fong

Thoracic and Sleep Physician
The Prince Charles Hospital
Australia

Professor Kwun Fong is a thoracic and sleep physician at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH), and professor with the University of Queensland (UQ) School of Medicine. He is the Clinical Manager of the Pulmonary Malignancy Unit at TPCH. Professor Fong is also the Director of the UQ Thoracic Research Centre, which undertakes molecular, genomic, and translational research in lung diseases.

Dr. Siu-leung Fung

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Dr. Siu-leung Fung

Chief of Service
Tuberculosis and Chest Medicine Unit
Grantham Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Siu-leung Leung is Chief of Service at Tuberculosis and Chest Medicine Unit in Grantham Hospital. He also holds as Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Leung received his MBBS in 1990 at the University of Hong Kong and got his MRCP in 1996 from Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.

His special interest is in the fields of interventional puImonology and tuberculosis. He underwent overseas training at Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1999. He is a member of the Special Interest Group in Interventional pulmonology of the Hong Kong Thoracic Society (HKTS). He participated as tutor at the interventional pulmonology workshop, APSR 2012 and hands-on workshop on interventional pulmonology, Autumn respiratory seminar 2016 cum symposium and hands-on workshop on interventional pulmonology of HKTS/CHEST Delegation HK and Macau/ HKLF 2016.

Clinical Professor Anne Goh

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Clinical Professor Anne Goh

Senior Consultant, Paediatric Respiratory Medicine Service and Allergy Service
Department of Paediatrics
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
Singapore

She is the Assembly Head of the Paediatric Lung Disease Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Society of Respirology. She was the past President of the Singapore Paediatric Society and the Asian Paediatric Pulmonology Society. She is a Clinical Professor of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Associate Professor of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore. Dr. Goh is a reviewer for several journals including Respirology Case Reports, Respirology, Singapore Medical Journal, Annals Academy of Medicine, Pediatric Pulmonology, Clinical Experimental Allergy, Pediatric Allergy Immunology, etc as well as for the NMRC Exploratory and Developmental proposals.

With clinical and research interests in areas including respiratory infections, bronchial asthma, obstructive sleep apnoea and allergy, Dr. Goh has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed papers as well as given many presentations at national and international courses and conferences. She is also actively involved in many clinical trials.

Dr. Daniel Goh

Professor Shimpei Gotoh

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Professor Shimpei Gotoh

Department of Respiratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Kyoto University
Japan

Shimpei Gotoh graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University and received Japanese medical license in 2004 and has been a board-certified member and senior fellow of the Japanese Respiratory Society. During his undergraduate days, he trained his basic research skills of cellular and molecular biology at Prof. Shoichiro Tsukita's laboratory. After working as a resident physician at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo during 2004 - 2009, he came back to Kyoto University to initiate the study of lung regeneration using iPS cells at Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University as a graduate student in 2009. After he received Ph.D. for his method of generating lung progenitor cells and alveolar spheroids from human iPS cells, he has led an innovative team as a principal investigator, publishing methods of generating alveolar and airway cells and their applications in the hope of overcoming intractable lung diseases.

Dr. Domenico Luca Grieco

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Dr. Domenico Luca Grieco

Critical Care Physician
General Intensive Care Unit
Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome
Italy

Dr. Domenico Luca Grieco is a Critical Care Physician based at the General Intensive Care Unit of Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS in Rome, Italy. He serves as an assistant professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Catholic University of The Sacred Heart where he earned his MD and certifications in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Grieco's research focuses primarily on respiratory support in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and ARDS, as well as respiratory physiology, encompassing both noninvasive and invasive mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory failure.

Professor David Halpin

Professor Gonzalo Hernandez

Professor Felix Herth

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Professor Felix Herth

Chairman Thoraxklinik and Head
Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine
Thoraxklinik University
Germany

Professor Felix Herth, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg, Germany, graduated from the University of Freiburg, Germany in 1990. He has been Head of the Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine at Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg, since 2004, and CEO and CMO of Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, since 2015.

His research interests include interventional pneumology, end-stage COPD and phenotyping of COPD. His group at Thoraxklinik is one of the world's leading centers for the development of new minimal invasive endoscopic techniques, and his team initiated several trials on phenotyping of COPD for endoscopic lung volume reduction.

Professor Herth is Editor-in-Chief of Respiration and has served on many major committees, including the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and the German Society of Pneumology (DGP). He published more than 600 peer reviewed articles and several books. He has also received numerous awards, including a Research Awards from ERS, CTS, ACCP and DGP.

Dr. James Ho

Dr. Masayuki Hojo

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Dr. Masayuki Hojo

Deputy Director at Center Hospital
Head of Division of Respiratory Medicine
National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo
Japan

Dr. Masayuki Hojo is a clinician scientist, affiliated as Deputy Director at Center Hospital and Head of Division of Respiratory Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo and serve as visiting Professor of Saitama Medical University.

He used to be a research fellow of Meakins Christie Laboratory, McGill University, Canada under the supervision from Professor Jim Martin.

In Japan recognized as his expertise in bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), he actively participates in various scientific committees both Japanese Respiratory Society (JSA) and Japanese Society of Allergology (JSA).

He has made significant contributions to national guidelines, including Asthma Prevention and Management Guidelines by JSA, the JRS Guidelines for the management of ACO, and Practical Guidelines for Asthma Management by The Japan Asthma Society.

Professor Hiromasa Inoue

Professor Kyeongman Jeon

Professor Takeshi Isobe

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Professor Takeshi Isobe

Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Medical Oncology & Respiratory Medicine
Shimane University Faculty of Medicine
Japan

Professor Takeshi Isobe currently is the Professor at Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology & Respiratory Medicine in Shimane University Faculty of Medicine. He is also the President at The Japanese Society for Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis.

He received his M.D. and Ph. D. at the Hiroshima University Faculty of Medicine in 1986 and in 1995 respectively.

Professor Isobe has led The Japanese Society for Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis in promoting the response to the non-tuberculosis mycobacterial infections with the goals of lifelong education, strengthening collaboration, and enhancing research capabilities.

The Department of Respiratory Medicine at Shimane University, which he leads, conducts basic research using mouse models of non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis, COPD and lung cancer, early detection of respiratory diseases through CT screening, and multicenter collaborative research on lung cancer. They have been engaged in medical education and specialist education, and have contributed to the production of many respiratory specialists.

Professor Woo-jin Kim

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Professor Woo-jin Kim

Professor of Internal Medicine
Chief of Environmental Health Center
Kangwon National University Hospital
Korea

Woo-jin Kim is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Environmental Health Center of Kangwon National University Hospital in Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University of Korea, College of Medicine. He has main research interest in COPD and environmental lung health issues, particularly genetic, environmental and epigenetic effects on chronic respiratory disease. He is a member of Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease and American Thoracic Society. He served as head of Environmental, Occupational Health and Epidemiology assembly of Asia-Pacific Society of Respirology and works as an associate editor for Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease and BMC Pulm Med.

Professor Gregory King

Dr. Hoi-yee Kwan

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Dr. Hoi-yee Kwan

Chief-of-Service
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Kowloon Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr Hoi Yee Kwan is a respiratory specialist, now being the Chief-of-Service in Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kowloon Hospital, which is a tertiary center in Hong Kong to manage tuberculosis and MDR-TB. She completed her fellowship training in Respiratory Medicine in 2008, and attained Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and (London) in 2020 and 2023 respectively. She is the Hong Kong Lung Foundation Fellow in 2011, and has been awarded European Respiratory Society short-term research training fellowship in 2016, and International Trainee Scholarship of American Thoracic Society in 2018. Her research interest includes tuberculosis and NTM, and pulmonary rehabilitation. In addition to her clinical practice, she is the co-opted council member of Hong Kong College of Physician, and Ex-co member of American College of Chest Physicians (Hong Kong and Macau Chapter)

Dr. Carrie Kwok

Dr. Bing Lam

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Dr. Bing Lam

Director
Respiratory Medicine Centre
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Bing Lam has been the Director of Respiratory Medicine Centre Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital since 2009. He joined the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital in 1996. After back from 1-year overseas training at Respiratory Division of the University of British Columbia, Dr. Lam obtained his respiratory specialist status in late 90s. After SARS, Dr. Lam had additional training in Infectious Disease and obtained specialist status in Infectious Disease in 2005. His main interest is in early detection of lung cancer, sleep medicine, infection and interventional pulmonology. He is the founding chairman of the charitable organization Asian Pacific Association of Interventional Pulmonology aiming at promoting basic and advanced interventional pulmonology in the region. Dr. Lam has published more than 70 scientific papers in peer review journals. He has received numerous awards, including Sir Robert Black Fellowship, Hong Kong Lung Foundation Fellowship, Croucher Foundation Fellowship, and Young Investigator Award of the Hong Kong Thoracic Society. He is also the honorary associate professor for both the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Connie Lam

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Dr. Connie Lam

Associate Consultant
Interventional Pulmonology Team
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong

Connie Lam is an Associate Consultant and a member of the Interventional Pulmonology Team in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong. She is also a Member and the Treasurer of the Asian Pacific Interventional Pulmonology Alliance (APIPA). She has special interests in diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy, and pleural interventions.

Dr. David Lam

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Dr. David Lam

Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr. David Chi-leung Lam is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He has an interest in translational research and clinical trials in respiratory diseases including lung cancer, smoking and airway physiology, COPD and interventional pulmonology. His research focuses on translational research with biomarkers in lung cancer and airway.

Dr. Lam has published extensively in high-impact international medical journals. As Deputy Editor for Respirology and Associate Editor for Respirology Case Reports, Professor Lam has over 15 years' experience with reviewing manuscripts and guiding others to participate in the peer review process. He was former President of APSR 2021–23 and President of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) in 2023.

Dr. Lam is the recipient of the 2024 APSR Medal and the 2021 APSR Woolcock Research Award for his research achievements, and the 2013 Faculty Teaching Medal from the University of Hong Kong for his teaching accomplishments.

Dr. Wai-lam Law

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Dr. Wai-lam Law

Associate Consultant and Physician in-charge of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
Department of Medicine
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Wai-lam Law was graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997. He completed his fellowship training in Respiratory Medicine and Advanced Internal Medicine in 2005, and attained Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) in 2015. He also completed overseas training of interventional pulmonology and bronchology in Singapore General Hospital and National Cancer Center in Tokyo, respectively in 2006. He is a respiratory specialist, currently being the Associate Consultant and Physician in-charge of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology in Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is also the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine CUHK.

He devotes himself into clinical practice and research in Interventional Pulmonology, Bronchology and Pleural Diseases. In addition to his clinical practice, he is also the Vice-President of Hong Kong Thoracic Society and Asia Pacific Interventional Pulmonology Alliance Limited (APIPA), Convenor of Special Interest Group of Interventional Pulmonology and Hong Kong Pleural Disease Chapter, under Hong Kong Thoracic Society.

Dr. Francis Lee

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Dr. Francis Lee

Senior Consultant Emergency Physician
Acute and Emergency Care Centre
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
Singapore

Dr. Francis Lee is a Senior Consultant Emergency Physician at Acute and Emergency Care Centre in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital with extensive involvement in disaster medicine and emergency ultrasonography. Additionally, Dr. Lee holds adjunct positions as an Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in National University of Singapore, and as Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Nanyang Technological University.

Notably, Dr. Lee actively contributes to healthcare leadership as President of the Alexandra Academy for Clinical and Emergency Sonography and Clinical Director of the Life Support Training Centre. Furthermore, Dr. Lee has chaired the Life Support and Simulation workshop in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He is a Clinical Lead at the Emergency Preparedness Committee and also as a Chairperson at the Ex Kingfisher 2025.

Dr. Lee is a member of several pivotal committees, HAZMAT life support programme. Ministry of Health, Medical Advisory Panel Outward Bound School, Singapore and Agency for Care Effectiveness Ischaemic Heart Disease Expert Group (2024-2026).

Dr. Lee is an Examiner for the Master of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) program, who leverages skills to shape the next generation of emergency medicine professionals.

Professor Gary Lee

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Professor Gary Lee

Professor of Respiratory Medicine
The University of Western Australia
Australia

Professor Y C Gary Lee is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UWA and a consultant chest physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where he set up and directs Australia's first centralized hospital pleural service. He is a world leader in pleural research and heads a translational research group at the Institute for Respiratory Health. His pleural program uniquely integrates clinical, lab and allied health research arms with his clinical pleural service.

He has led several high-profile investigator-led multicentre randomized trials. He has an H-index of 67 (total citations 16000+) from 340+ publications including 10+ papers in the New Engl J Med, JAMA and Lancet journals. His publications have been included in 12+ international guidelines directly impacting global practice.  Professor Lee has received the Research Medal of the Thoracic Society of Australia & NZ (2021) and of APSR (2016) and was the Cancer Council WA Researcher of the Year (2019). He has been an invited speaker in more than 200 conferences in 33 countries.

Professor Kang-yun Lee

Ms. Kuen-han Lee

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Ms. Kuen-han Lee

Associate Nurse Consultant
Medical Department
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong

Ms. Lee Kuen Han received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, from the University of La Trobe University and went on to pursue her Master's in Management from Oxford Brookes University. She was respiratory specialty nurse since 2006. She has been the Lung cancer case manager and the Integrated Nursing Care model for lung cancer patients allowed her to reward the Nightingale Award in 2014. Ms. Lee's current position of Associate Nurse Consultant in Medical department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hospital Authority. It allows her the opportunity to organize and lead a team of respiratory nurses to provide professional care to patients with different respiratory diseases including in-patient care, out-patient nurse clinics and community services.

Professor Kyung-soo Lee

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Professor Kyung-soo Lee

Chair Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Professor Kyung-soo Lee is a chair professor in the thoracic imaging section at the Department of Radiology in the Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (SKKU-SOM) and in the Samsung Medical Center. His research interests focus on the diagnosis and management of lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD). He is a member of the Fleischner Society and an honorary member of European Society of Thoracic Imaging.

Professor Pyng Lee

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Professor Pyng Lee

Professor
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Professor Lee Pyng is Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

She is also Director of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, National University Hospital. Professor Lee has an active interest in lung cancer, pleural disease, obstructive airway disease, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy. She was the past President of Singapore Thoracic Society, and serves on international scientific committees in Lung Cancer, Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology as well as American College of Chest Physician Steering Committees. She represents Singapore as Global Governor for American College of Chest Physicians and is invited locally and overseas to speak and instruct in pleuroscopy, bronchoscopy, bronchial thermoplasty and lung cancer. Professor Lee is the author of publications in peer-reviewed journals, has written a manual and a book on pleuroscopy that worn the British Medical Association Best Book Award in internal medicine in 2011. She received the Young Investigator's award 2000 for work in asthma, Best Poster Award for research in talc and cancer cells at CHEST 2006, Best Original Investigation and Presentation at Chest World Congress 2014, and the Geoffrey McLennan Award for advancing the field of Interventional Pulmonology at CHEST 2014, Austin, Texas. In 2018, she was conferred AC Shah Oration Award for Woman Researcher in Interventional Pulmonology by Indian Association for Bronchology. She has completed her PhD on New Applications of Bronchoscopic Techniques conferred by Vrije University, Amsterdam in 2014, first in Respiratory medicine.

She also received Best Teacher Awards in 2012, 2022, 2023 for undergraduate education; National University Hospital teaching excellence award for post-graduate education in 2014, and the prestigious Outstanding Tutor Award by National University of Singapore Medical Society in 2018. She is conferred the prestigious Pasquale Ciaglia award by CHEST in 2019 for Interventional medicine.

Dr. Jackson Leung

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Dr. Jackson Leung

Resident
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Jackson Leung graduated from the University of Hong Kong. He completed his specialist training in respiratory medicine in 2024. He is now a Resident in Queen Mary Hospital. Dr. Leung has a special interest in interventional pulmonology. During his specialist training, he has performed more than 50 virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN) guided transbronchial lung biopsy, and has experience in doing electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB).

Ms. Rainbow Leung

Dr. Ryan Leung

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Dr. Ryan Leung

Associate Consultant
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr Ryan Hoi-yin Leung finished his undergrad in University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Medicine in 2009 and continued his specialty training in Respiratory Medicine in Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Hong Kong. He further received training in managing pleural diseases in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. He is currently working as Associate Consultant in Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Hong Kong.

Professor Ting-fan Leung

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Professor Ting-fan Leung

Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professor of Paediatrics
Department of Paediatrics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Leung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992, and obtained Doctor of Medicine degree at his alma mater in 2004. He received Immunology and Allergy subspecialty training in The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, Canada in 1997-98. Professor Leung is currently a professor in Department of Paediatrics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor of the Central South University in mainland China. Professor Leung is a Co-Chair of Microbiome and Biodiversity Committee of Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology and Immediate Past President of Hong Kong Society for Paediatric Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He has published more than 430 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his main research interests include natural history, novel diagnostics, genetics and host-microbe interactions of allergic diseases.

Dr. Wai-man Leung

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Dr. Wai-man Leung

Senior Medical Officer
Tuberculosis and Chest Service
Department of Health
Hong Kong

Dr. Wai-man Leung is a specialist in Respiratory Medicine and a Senior Medical Officer of Tuberculosis and Chest Service of the Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He joined TB and Chest Service since his graduate from local Medical School. Dr. Leung is a Fellow in Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He has extensive experience in managing patients suffering from drug-susceptible or drug-resistant tuberculosis. He has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed articles related to the clinical management of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Professor David Lewinsohn

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Professor David Lewinsohn

Oregon Health & Science University
VA Portland Health Care System, Portland
USA

David M. Lewinsohn, MD, PhD is a Professor at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Dr. Lewinsohn received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, his MD and PhD from Stanford University School of Medicine, internal medicine training at the University of California, San Francisco, and fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington.

Dr. Lewinsohn's research interest is in Tuberculosis Immunology. The core research question has been that of how the immune system can find those cells harboring the intracellular bacterium. Dr. Lewinsohn has had a long-standing interest in the development of vaccines for tuberculosis. He participated in the development of the M72/AS01E vaccine, and serves as the chair of the StopTB Partnership Working Group on Vaccines.

Professor Jing Li

Professor Si-yue Li

A/Professor Albert Lim

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A/Professor Albert Lim

Associate Professor
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Singapore

A/Prof. Albert Yick-Hou Lim (MB ChB, MRCP, CCT, MD, FCCP, FRCP, FAMS) is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. Concurrently, Associate Professor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) and Yong Loo Ling School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a clinical consultant at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

A/Prof. Lim completed his specialist training in respiratory and internal medicine in UK. He has a doctorate in medicine (M.D) awarded at a higher degree from the University of Glasgow, UK. He is an accomplished physician and researcher in airway diseases, pulmonary infection, lung function modelling and aspergillus lung diseases. He leads the Bronchiectasis Care Programme and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) service at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

A/Prof. Lim is a PI and CO-I of multiple research grants such the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant. A/Prof. Lim's research focusing on outcome prediction, medical technology innovation and novel drug discovery for respiratory diseases such as COPD, bronchiectasis and NTM infection.

A/Prof. Lim is the principal lead in respiratory medicine of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU. He has a strong passion on teaching. He was also served at the ministry of health on various committees.

Dr. Macy Lui

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Dr. Macy Lui

Consultant Physician of Respiratory Medicine
Queen Mary Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Macy Lui is the consultant physician of respiratory medicine at Queen Mary Hospital and the honorary clinical associate professor of The University of Hong Kong. She has also attained specialist accreditation in respiratory medicine, critical care medicine and advanced internal medicine, and acquired her Doctor of Medicine (MD) at The University of Hong Kong in 2020. The theme of her doctoral thesis was on biomarkers for cardio-metabolic complications of obstructive sleep apnea. Other than sleep medicine, she also has special interest on the clinical use of thoracic ultrasound and management of pleural diseases. She is the organizer and instructor of numerous teaching courses and workshops on point-of-care ultrasound, pleural disease management, respiratory failure, sleep apnea, targeting a board spectrum of loco-regional audience ranging from undergraduates, postgraduates, basic and higher specialty trainees and specialists. She was the first author of a number of original articles, review articles and book chapters, which were published in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. She is the Director of Cluster Sleep Service Hong Kong West Cluster, steering committee members of Point of Care ultrasound for internal medicine, Hospital Authority. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of Hong Kong Thoracic Society, council member of the Hong Kong Society of Sleep Medicine, Deputy editor of Respirology and editorial board member of BMC pulmonary medicine, and Regional Advisor of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Professor Toby Maher

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Professor Toby Maher

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of Interstitial Lung Disease
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
USA

Professor Toby Maher, MBBS, MSc, PhD, is a renowned expert in the field of interstitial lung disease. Currently, he serves as a Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Director of Interstitial Lung Disease at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Prior to this, he held prestigious positions, including the British Lung Foundation Chair in Respiratory Research and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist. Maher has also previously worked as a Professor of Interstitial Lung Disease and headed the Fibrosis Research Group at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. With a medical degree from Southampton Medical School and an MSc in Respiratory Medicine from Imperial College London, Maher's research interests focus on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, encompassing biomarker discovery, early-phase clinical trials, and the pre-clinical validation of potential treatments for fibrotic lung diseases. His extensive expertise and leadership have made him a highly respected figure in the field.

Dr. Asif Mujtaba Mahmud

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Dr. Asif Mujtaba Mahmud

Senior Consultant
Head of Respiratory Medicine
The Asgar Ali Hospital, Dhaka
Bangladesh

Dr. Asif Mujtaba Mahmud is presently working as Senior Consultant and Head of Respiratory Medicine at the Asgar Ali Hospital, Dhaka. He retired as an Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine. He serves as the Secretary General of Bangladesh Lung Foundation and Joint Secretary, National Anti-TB Association of Bangladesh.

He graduated from Chittagong Medical College in 1983, and obtained Diploma in Tuberculous & Chest Diseases and Ph.D. in Respiratory Medicine from Tohoku University, Japan.

Dr. Mahmud has pioneered the clinical management of Multi drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) in Bangladesh. He served as Advisor, WHO Regional Advisory Committee on MDR-TB and a member of the Asia Latent TB expert Working group. He advises the National TB Control Program as technical expert, particularly in the formulation of national guidelines. He was a member of the WHO GDG for updating the WHO treatment Guidelines on DR-TB. He is a member of the Editorial board of Respirology and has a total of 91 publications.

Dr. Judith Mak

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Dr. Judith Mak

Principal Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr. Judith Choi-wo Mak is currently Principal Lecturer of Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong. Her research contributions have been in the understanding of the development of b2-agonist tolerance, and the interaction between glucocorticoid receptors and b2-adrenoceptors in the intracellular signaling pathways. Her recent research focuses on the potential treatments using epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), Dendrobium officinale polysaccharides (DOPs) or repurposed drugs of interest in cigarette smoke-exposed in vitro and in vivo models respectively. She has published well over 170 peer-reviewed papers in international journals including American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, European Respiratory Journal, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. She currently serves as one of the Associate Editors of Respirology.

Dr. Yumiko Matsuo

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Dr. Yumiko Matsuo

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Respiratory Medicine
Shiga University of Medical Science
Japan

Dr. Yumiko Matsuo, M.D., Ph.D., is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan.

She graduated from Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan and received my medical licence in 2010. After completing her residency and obtaining board certification in pulmonary medicine, she began my research career. She has been continuously involved in research at Shiga University of Medical Science.

Her research interests focused on the structure-function relationship of lung diseases, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). She mainly used inspiratory and expiratory computed tomography (CT) data and quantitatively evaluated gas-trapping and emphysematous lesions. Our research group proposed the phenotyping of COPD, which has been widely accepted worldwide. The 19th IREF Young Investigator Award in 2019.

Dr. Rosario Menendez

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Dr. Rosario Menendez

Pulmonologist
Respiratory Infections Accredited Group
Research Institute Universitary Hospital La Fe, Valencia
Spain

Dr. Rosario Menendez was the Head of Section in the Service of Pulmonology in the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe in Valencia. Director of Respiratory Department in the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe in Valencia Spain, from the National Spanish Health System. Assistance Professor of Valencia University.

Dr. Menendez received her undergraduate degree in the University of Oviedo (Spain) and her degree in Pulmonology in Valencia, where she coursed her fellowship in the Hospital La Fe. She has been since then member of the staff in the same hospital and obtained her Ph D in the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1990.

She is member of SEPAR (Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery), ERS (European Respiratory Society), and has served as a member of the ATS Program Committee (2102 to 2015).

Dr. Rosario Menendez has focused her research on lung infections, specifically in community-acquired pneumonia, including epidemiology, quality audits, mortality, biomarkers and severity. During that period, she has served in Spain as Coordinator of the Group on Infections of SEPAR for 3 years and she is an active participant in European and USA Congresses since then. Her tasks have been preparing and leading meetings, program committees in Spain, chairing and contributing in courses on infections in ERS.

She has published 283 indexed (JCR) articles with an H-index of 52, and average citation per article 34.9.

Professor Marc Miravitlles

Professor Parameswaran Nair MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPC, FCAHS

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Professor Parameswaran Nair MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPC, FCAHS

Frederick E. Hargreave Teva Innovation Chair in Airway Diseases & Professor of Medicine Division of Respirology
McMaster University
Canada

Professor Parameswaran Nair is the Frederick E. Hargreave Teva Innovation Chair in Airway Diseases & Professor of Medicine in the Division of Respirology at McMaster University, providing tertiary care to patients with severe asthma and other complex airway and eosinophilic lung diseases. He directs a patient-centred translational research program focussed on charactering bronchitis using sputum biomarkers. His laboratory has contributed to over 350 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 76, >25,000 citations) in high impact general medical, allergy, and respiratory journals, and has been recognized by a Canada Research Chair, Fellowships of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the European Respiratory Society, and the American College of Chest Physicians..

Dr. Matthew Naughton

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Dr. Matthew Naughton

Head of General Respiratory and Sleep \Medicine
Alfred Health and Monash University
Australia

Matthew Naughton is a respiratory and sleep physician at Alfred Health and Monash University, where he holds the position of head of general respiratory and sleep medicine and adjunct clinical professor of medicine. He has clinical – research interests related to cardiopulmonary function in disease and health- awake, sleep and exercise. In particular he has interests in the role of non-invasive ventilation in sub-acute and domiciliary care in cardio-pulmonary disease. He has over 200 publications and served on editorial boards for most international respiratory (eg Am J Respir Crit Care Med) and sleep journals (eg J Clin Sleep Med).

Professor Calvin Ng

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Professor Calvin Ng

Environmental Foundation Professor Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

BSc(Hons) MBBS(Hons) MD(Res)(Lond) FRCSEd FHKAM(Surg) FCSHK FCCP FAPSR

Dr. Ng is Environmental Foundation Professor in Thoracic Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Consultant Surgeon at Prince of Wales Hospital. He graduated from Imperial College, London 1999 and was trained in UK and Hong Kong. He is a pioneer in Uniportal VATS in Asia-Pacific region and corresponding Editor of book Atlas of Uniportal Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery.

His interest in hybrid operating room surgery led to his expertise in CBCT-guided electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy, transbronchial microwave ablation of lung tumours, and world's first robotic bronchoscopy microwave ablation. He is PI/Co-PI of numerous trials on utilization of navigation and robotic assisted bronchoscopy in diagnosis and therapy (NAVABLATE, TARGET, POWER, INCITE-ES, PSR-Emprint, TiLT study etc)

He contributed to more than 290 publications in indexed international journals (Citations 6072; H-index 41; Scopus) and 24 book chapters. He serves as Editor, Assistant Editor and Editorial Boards of numerous journals, such as Annals of Translational Medicine, EJCTS, Cancers; Innovations; JTD; and Frontiers in Surgery. Dr. Ng is also Committee Member to CME, Education, Webinar workgroups for IASLC.

Dr. Daniel Ng

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Dr. Daniel Ng

Honorary Consultant Paediatrician
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Daniel K. Ng is the Founding President of Asian Paediatric Pulmonology Society. He is currently the Honorary Consultant Paediatrician in the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital and United Christian Hospital in Hong Kong. He was the Distinguished Visiting Professor, Capital Medical University, China from 2019-2022. He is the honorary council member of the Hong Kong Society of Paediatric Respirology & Allergy. He is also the medical director of the Mercy Medical Mission, a "hospital-at-home" service, run by a patients' organization, Families of SMA. He serves as advisor of Clean Air Network, a NGO for promotion of cleaner air in Hong Kong. He serves as a board director in a school for handicapped children in Hong Kong, John F Kennedy School.

He was certified as specialist in sleep disorders by the World Association of Sleep Medicine in 2014. He was accredited as subspecialist in paediatric respiratory medicine by the Hong Kong College of Paediatricians in 2016 and awarded diplomate in paediatric respiratory medicine by ERS in 2016.

On the international level, he is currently the head-elect of the paediatric assembly of Asia Pacific Society of Respirology. He served as council member of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and international affairs committee member of the American Thoracic Society and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as well as the regional director of the International Pediatric Sleep Association.

Dr. Ng's main research interests are sleep-disordered breathing, mouth breathing, asthma and allergic rhinitis. Dr. Ng has published 100+ peer-reviewed papers in journals indexed in Web of Science with > 2,000 citation. His H-index is 28. He is currently the Editor of Journal of Pediatric Respirology and Critical Care Medicine and the associate editor of Respirology Case Reports.

Dr. Joyce Ng

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Dr. Joyce Ng

Resident Specialist
Prince of Wales Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Joyce Ng is a resident specialist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. Having completed the specialist training in 2021, she has honed her expertise through valuable training experiences at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University in China and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, focusing on interventional pulmonology. In addition to the clinic work, as an honorary teaching staff member at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Ng is also involved in teaching and mentoring the next generation of doctors and respiratory physicians.

Dr. Ming-yen Ng

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Dr. Ming-yen Ng

Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Ming-yen Ng is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong; and HKU Cardiac Imaging Massive Open Online Course Director.

Dr. Ng undertook his radiology training in Manchester where he underwent subspecialist cardiothoracic imaging training for 2 years and a 1-year cardiac imaging fellowship at Toronto General Hospital before coming to Hong Kong. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR), and Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT).

He sits on various committees for the SCMR, SCCT and RSNA and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He is the current chair of the SCMR Education Committee.

He was awarded the HKU Teaching Innovation Award, Gold Award for Life Sciences by the QS Reimagine Education Award and EdX Finalist 2021 and 2023.

He is actively involved in research with interests in quantitative stress CMR, diabetes, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and COVID-19. He has >70 peer-reviewed publications in JACC, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging and Radiology.

Dr. Jenny Ngai

Professor Ignatius Ou

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Professor Ignatius Ou

Health Science Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
The University of California Irvine
USA

Professor Ou is Health Science Professor of Medicine at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine and holds the Hamoui Salous Endowed Chair for Thoracic Oncology Research.

Professor Ou is the editor-in-chief of Lung Cancer: Targets and Therapy (Dove Press) and Associate editor of Journal of Thoracic Oncology, editorial board member for Annals of Oncology, Clinical Lung Cancer. He served as a member of the scientific program committee for metastatic non-small lung cancer track for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (2016-2018). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts (including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Discovery, Nature Medicine) primarily in the field in targeted therapy including resistance mechanisms to targeted therapy in lung cancer.

Professor Ou is also interested in advocating for LDCT lung cancer screening in never-smokers where the vast majority of actionable driver mutation in NSCLC are identified. He has published a meta-analysis showing that the relative risk of diagnosing lung cancer is the same in Asian female never-smokers as Asian male ever-smokers. With the advent of adjuvant TKI in resected early stage NSCLC with actionable driver mutation, lung. LDCT lung cancer screening in never-smokers is the only way to maximize the benefit of these groundbreaking adjuvant trials.

Dr. Hye-yun Park

Professor Moo-suk Park

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Professor Moo-suk Park

professor and Director of Intensive Care Unit
Severance Hospital, Seoul
Republic of Korea

Professor Moo-suk Park graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine, and was trained in Severance Hospital in Seoul. He has been working at same university as an instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor period. Now he is a professor and Director of Intensive Care Unit in Severance Hospital. He is an Elect-Head of ILD assembly of APSR.

His research areas and topics are interstitial lung diseases, lung transplantation, and critical care. These areas are closely associated with each other and his concern is started in ILD and progress to end-stage care of ILD including intensive care and lung transplantation.

In South Korea, Korea ILD study group under The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (KATRD) made nation-wide ILD cohort at 2008 and new IPF registry (Korea IPF cohort, KICO) in 2018. He acts as a key researcher and development of nation-wide IPF cohort and registry. And He was a corresponding author in a study for Korean Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of IPF.

Professor. Ian Pavord

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Professor. Ian Pavord

Professor of Respiratory Medicine
The University of Oxford
USA

Ian D Pavord is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Oxford University Hospitals. He is a member of congregation at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He was a Consultant Physician from 1995 and Honorary Professor of Medicine from2005 to 2013 at the Institute for Lung Health, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He was elected an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2011&14, an inaugural Fellow of the European Respiratory Society in 2014 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science in 2015.

He has a research interest in the clinical aspects of inflammatory airway diseases and has pioneered the use of non-invasive measures of airway inflammation in the assessment of these conditions. He has identified a number of clinically important phenotypes of inflammatory airway disease, discovered clinically important biomarkers, and played a lead role in the clinical development of three of the most promising new treatments for severe airway disease.

Professor Pavord was co-editor of Thorax from 2010-2015, Chief Medical Officer of Asthma UK from 2008-14, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine from 2005-10 and Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal since 2016-2023. He is the author of over 560 publications and has an H-index of 123 making him the highest cited researcher in asthma worldwide. He received the 2016 European Respiratory Society (ERS) Gold Medal for his research and gave the Cournand Lecture at the 2004 ERS meeting. He chaired the 2017 Lancet Commission on asthma.

Dr. Irina Petrache

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Dr. Irina Petrache

Chief, Tuchman Family Division of Pulmonary
Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
National Jewish Health
USA

Dr. Irina Petrache is Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and associate vice president of faculty development at National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, where she is professor of medicine who holds the Wollowick Endowed Chair in COPD Research. She is also professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, where she co-directs the T32 Training Program in Pulmonary Sciences.

She is a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), where she has served in numerous roles and committees, including as chair of the ATS International Conference. In 2021, Dr. Petrache was elected as an Executive Board Member of the American Thoracic Society; she will serve as ATS President in 2024-2025.

She is an alumna of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program. Dr. Petrache received several awards for her academic activities, including the Elizabeth Rich Award; The Golden Lung Award for excellence in teaching; Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor's Prestigious External Award Recognition and the Research Frontiers Trailblazer Award.

As part of her post-doctoral training, Dr. Petrache completed clinical and research fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Petrache is board certified in internal medicine, clinical care medicine, and pulmonary medicine.

Dr. Petrache held faculty positions as assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and associate professor and then tenured professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Petrache's clinical interests include COPD, emphysema, sarcoidosis, acute lung injury, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary hypertension. She leads a laboratory at National Jewish Health focused on the pathogenesis of emphysema and pulmonary vascular remodeling in COPD, as well as distal lung injury and repair in response to vaping, cigarette smoking, and acute viral infections.

Professor David Price

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Professor David Price

Founder and Head
Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI)
Singapore

Professor David Price is the Founder and Head of the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI) in Singapore, conducting real-life, pragmatic, and observational research, delivering clinical trials and database research across various regions, including the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific area. Additionally, Professor Price is the Head of Optimum Patient Care (OPC) Global in Australia and the UK, a social enterprise focused on disease registries and quality improvement in healthcare. He established the Optimum Patient Care Research Database (OPCRD), which holds data from over 1100 general practices and 19.5 million patients in the UK. Professor Price leads the International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) and the Collaboration on Quality Improvement Initiative for Achieving Excellence in Standards of COPD Care (CONQUEST) registries. With over 888 peer-reviewed publications, an H-index of 103, Professor Price specializes in clinical trial design, exploring ways to improve adherence to treatment plans, and understanding patient attitudes towards respiratory diseases.

Professor Ganesh Raghu

Professor Helen Reddel

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Professor Helen Reddel

Research Leader of the Clinical Management Group
The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
Macquarie University
Australia

Professor Helen Reddel is Research Leader of the Clinical Management Group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Macquarie University, Director of the Australian Centre for Airways disease Monitoring, and a respiratory physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. As Chair of the GINA Science Committee, Prof Reddel has led major evidence-based changes in asthma management, with a strong focus on making guidelines not only evidence-based, but also patient-centred and practical. She is Co-Chair of the large multinational NOVELTY study, investigating clinical trajectories and underlying mechanisms in patients with diagnoses of asthma and/or COPD. Her current research also includes population monitoring of asthma and COPD, clinical studies investigating diagnosis and management of airways disease, and qualitative research about patient perspectives in mild and severe asthma.

Professor Chin-kook Rhee

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Professor Chin-kook Rhee

Deputy Editor
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Korea

Professor Rhee is a member of Editorial Board of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of COPD, BMC Pulmonary Medicine, Frontiers in Medicine, Journal of Thoracic Disease, Journal of Korean Medical Science, and Life. He is also a Deputy Editor of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases.

He is ATS Fellow, Advisory external consultant of ERS Clinical Practice Guideline, Chairperson of APSR Research Committee, Head of APSR COPD assembly, and a member of Planning and Action Committee on APSR Development. He is a member of steering committee of International Severe Asthma Registry (ISAR) and principal investigator of ISAR Korea. He is also a member of many committees of Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease.

Professor Rhee has published more than 260 SCI(E) articles. The focus of his research is COPD and asthma.

Professor Patricia Rivera

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Professor Patricia Rivera

Chief
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
USA

Professor Patricia Rivera is Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Co-Director of the North Carolina Lung Screening Registry.

Professor Rivera's commitment to improving the care of lung cancer patients has led her to dedicate a great deal of her time to promoting state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary care. Her research interests have focused on the early detection of lung cancer, toxicities caused by therapies in lung cancer, and the prevalence of lung cancer in women. She is currently an active participant in the CHEST (American College of Chest Physicians) Lung Cancer Guidelines Initiative and served as an integral part of the guideline's development and implementation. Her expertise in the continuum of lung cancer care catapulted her interest in developing a multidisciplinary lung cancer screening (LCS) program at UNC. She is recognized as one of several pulmonologists with LCS program development and implementation expertise. She has been part of the UNC LCS initiative as a Co-Investigator, developing a lung screening registry, and as a Co-Investigator in the quality improvement of lung cancer screening implementation.

As Co-Director of the North Carolina Lung Cancer Screening Registry and through two NIH/NCI-funded grants, her research focuses on lung cancer screening implementation and the impact of co-morbidities on lung cancer screening outcomes. More recently, her collaboration with colleagues and work on disparities in eligibility and access to lung cancer screening has led me to explore genetic risk scores in lung cancer screening assessment, particularly in underserved populations

Throughout her career, she has appreciated the importance of building and expanding research collaborations and sharing scientific knowledge to move the science of risk assessment and early detection of lung cancer. In April 2022, she transitioned to the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) as Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division and Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute. She participates in the multidisciplinary lung cancer screening program at URMC, currently runs by the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine division. At URMC, she joined a team of researchers dedicated to developing further lung cancer screening research. Moreover, to truly make a difference in mitigating lung cancer disparities, collaborative work with colleagues at the Wilmot Cancer Institute in Rochester and research colleagues at UNC and other institutions is paramount.

Professor Rivera has been steadfastly committed to educating and mentoring the next generation of clinicians and clinical researchers throughout her career. She previously served as the Associate Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1998, she received the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Richard H. Whitehead Lecturer Award, an annual award presented to one faculty member based on "qualities of leadership, dedication, and devotion to medicine and teaching, and in recognition of distinguished contribution to the science and art of medicine." In 2018 she received the First Annual Pulmonary and Critical Care Division Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, given to the faculty member who "exemplifies excellence in patient care, teaching, mentoring, and professionalism."

Dr. Richard Russell

Professor Silke Ryan

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Professor Silke Ryan

Clinical Professor
School of Medicine
University College Dublin
Ireland

Professor Silke Ryan is Clinical Professor at University College Dublin and Consultant in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at St. Vincent's University Hospital Dublin. She graduated in medicine from the University of Jena, Germany in 1998, received her MD by thesis in 1999 and was awarded her PhD degree from UCD in 2006. Dr Ryan has a special interest in respiratory sleep disorders and non-invasive ventilation. Her research focuses on the broad subject of cardiovascular disease mechanisms of obstructive sleep apnoea and in particular, inflammatory responses to intermittent hypoxia. Her research has been published widely with over 90 original manuscripts in prestigious journals such as Circulation, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the European Respiratory Journal and her achievements to date have been recognized by numerous invitations to speak at international conferences and by receiving multiple international awards. Silke is Past President of the Irish Sleep Society and incoming President of the European Respiratory Society (2024-2025).

Professor Hironori Sagara

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Professor Hironori Sagara

Director
Showa University Hospital
Japan

Professor Hironori Sagara graduated from Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine and went on to complete his training in Internal Medicine at Dokkyo Medical University Hospital. Professor Sagara then pursued further studies at the Graduate School of Medicine, specializing in Pulmonary Medicine and Clinical Immunology in 1993.

Throughout his career, Professor Sagara had held various research fellow positions at esteemed institutions such as Juntendo University School of Medicine in Japan in 1993 – 1995 and Southampton University in the UK in 1995 - 1997. He had also served in a few positions as Research Associate, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine throughout the years of 1997 – 2009.

In 2009 - 2013, Professor Sagara was appointed as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital. He has become a board member at the WHO Collaborating Center since Jan 2005 and later has become the Director of the WHO Collaborating Center since 2012. In 2015, he has also held a role as a Board member of WHO-GARD until now.

In 2019, he was elected as the President of the 68th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Allergology.

Currently, Professor Sagara is Director at Showa University Hospital Respiratory Center, Vice-President Showa University Hospital and Director of Showa University Hospital. He has been a Professor and Chairman, Division of Allergology and Respiratory Medicine in Showa University School of Medicine since 2013.

Professor Mitsuo Sato

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Professor Mitsuo Sato

Professor
Division of Advanced Health Sciences
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
Japan

Professor Mitsuo Sato obtained his M.D. from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in 1991, followed by a residency at Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital in 1993.

Professor Sato furthered his education by earning a Ph.D. from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in 2000. He then expanded his research experience as a Postdoctoral Researcher II at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the USA from 2006 to 2007, as Assistant Professor in the renowned John D. Minna lab at the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research.

With a strong background in respiratory medicine, Professor Sato has held various academic positions at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, including Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Respiratory Medicine from 2009 to 2017. Since 2018, Professor Sato has been serving as a Professor in the Division of Advanced Health Sciences at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

Dr. Susumu Sato

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Dr. Susumu Sato

Associate Professor
Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine
Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto University
Japan

Dr. Susumu Sato currently is an Associate Professor in Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine at the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University in Japan. He earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University in 2004, following his M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University in 1996.

With a strong background in respiratory medicine and rehabilitation, Dr. Sato has held various positions within the medical field. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a Lecturer in Rehabilitation Medicine at Kyoto University Hospital, and from 2012 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor in the Rehabilitation Unit, he had also served as a medical staff at Department of Respiratory Medicine at the same hospital for the period of 2010 – 2012 and 2004 – 2007.

Prior to that, Dr. Sato worked as a Chief Physician in Respiratory Medicine at Shiga Medical Center for Adults in 2007 – 2008 and as a Research Associate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University in 2008 - 2010.

Dr. Sato is an active member of numerous prestigious societies, including the ATS, ERS, APSR (Respiratory Structure and Function Deputy Head), JRS, JSRCR(Delegate), JSIM, JSA, JARM, AARC, JSSR, JSRCM. He also serves as Associate Editor on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Fractal Physiology and Frontiers in Networks in the Respiratory System.

Dr. Sato received award, the JRS Young Scientist Award from the Japan Respiratory Society in 2021. In 2023, he also received the JSRCR (Japan Society for Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation) Award for his work with the pulmonary rehabilitation team for lung transplantation at Kyoto University Hospital.

Dr. Hoi-ue Se

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Dr. Hoi-ue Se

Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Hoi-ue Se obtained his primary medical degreefrom the University of Hong Kong in 2013. He found his interest in respiratory medicine, especially in intervention pulmonology, during his early year of work in Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He obtained his fellowship in respiratory medicine in 2020. His area of interest include endobronchial ultrasound, pleuroscopy and bronchoscopic interventions.

Dr. Kay-choong See

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Dr. Kay-choong See

Adj Associate Professor
Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician and Intensivist
The National University Hospital
Singapore

Adj Assoc Prof Kay-choong See is currently a Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician and Intensivist at the National University Hospital, Singapore. He is also the Associate Designated Institutional Official for the National University Health System Residency Program. Adj Assoc Prof See completed Advanced Specialty Training in both Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore, a Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Master of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University. He is competent in bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, ultrasound-guided pleural procedures and thoracoscopy (pleuroscopy). His special interests include public health, medical education, and healthcare quality improvement.

Professor Yoko Shibata

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Professor Yoko Shibata

Professor and Chairman
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Fukushima Medical University
Japan

Professor Yoko Shibata holds an M.D. from Yamagata University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. from the same institution. Professor Shibata is the Chairman at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine in Fukushima Medical University currently. In 1999 – 2001, he was a Research Fellow, Pulmonary Biology (Bruce Trapnell Lab) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In 2001 - 2017, Professor Shibata had held various academic positions in Yamagata university Hospital, including serving as Instructor at Laboratory Medicine from 2001 to 2006, Assistant Professor at the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Nephrology in 2006 – 2017 and Professor, Pulmonary Medicine in 2010 – 2017.

Professor Shibata has also been actively involved in the Japanese Respiratory Society and APSR, holding editorial and leadership roles. He was a member of Editorial committee, 5th edition of JRS COPD guideline in 2017 – 2018 and has been the Editor-in-chief, 6th edition of JRS COPD guideline since 2018. Professor Shibata was a Chairperson for the Assembly of obstructive lung disease at JRS in 2019 – April 2021. Now, he has been the Deputy Head of COPD assembly at APSR and Editor-in-chief, Respiratory Investigation at JRS since 2021 and 2024 respectively.

Professor Shibata's research focuses on the pathogenesis and epidemiology of pulmonary diseases, particularly COPD.

Dr. Alan Shioe

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Dr. Alan Shioe

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery
CUHK Medical Center
Hong Kong

Dr. Sihoe received his medical training at the University of Cambridge, and after working in Scotland and England, he returned to practice Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hong Kong and China, with a special interest in minimally invasive Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS). He was Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Hong Kong and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital before recently moving to private practice in Hong Kong. Dr. Sihoe is currently Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the CUHK Medical Center in Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital.

Dr. Sihoe is an internationally recognized advocate of 'next generation' VATS techniques – especially uniportal and needlescopic chest surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference abstracts and book chapters in the international literature. His work in thoracic surgery and clinical research has won multiple awards – including from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). In 2018, Dr. Sihoe was the recipient of the Medical Sciences Technical Award (2nd Class) from the Chinese Medical Association. In 2023, he received the Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award in Surgery from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). Dr. Sihoe recently stepped down from over a decade of service as the Thoracic Surgery Editor for three of the most important international Cardio-Thoracic Surgery journals: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Asian Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Annals. Dr. Sihoe has previously served in leadership roles in multiple Cardio-Thoracic Surgery societies in Europe and Asia, and he is one of the very few Thoracic Surgeons to have been invited to perform surgery and lecture on every continent in the world.

Professor Dave Singh

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Professor Dave Singh

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Respiratory Medicine
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom

Dave Singh is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester.  He graduated from Cambridge University and trained in clinical pharmacology and respiratory medicine in Manchester, including postgraduate research. His research interest is the development of new drugs for asthma and COPD, involving clinical trials, biomarker studies and basic mechanisms. He has over 450 publications. He is a member of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Science Committee, and was previously the chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) airway pharmacology group. He is the medical director of the Medicines Evaluation Unit, which performs both early and late phase clinical trials. He has been the Principal Investigator for over 450 clinical trials.

Dr. Varinder Singh

Professor Ho So

Dr. Agus Susanto

Professor Kazuhisa Takahashi

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Professor Kazuhisa Takahashi

Professor and Chairman
Division of Respiratory Medicine
Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine
Japan

Dr. Kazuhisa Takahashi is a renowned Professor and Chairman of the Division of Respiratory Medicine at Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine. He obtained his M.D. from Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan in 1985, followed by completing the graduate course and earning his Ph.D. in 1992.

Professor Takahashi furthered his academic and research pursuits as a post-doctoral fellow at the Division of Surgical Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston from 1994 to 1997.

Since 1999, Professor Takahashi has held various positions at Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, from Assistant Professor to the Associate Professor in 2003 and served as Professor and Head of the Division of Respiratory Medicine. His contributions have been further recognized through various appointments, including as Assistant Director and later Director of Juntendo University Hospital. Recently, Professor Takahashi is Dean, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine in 2024.

He is a Distinguished Professor at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xibei Hospital) and a Guest Professor at Peking University and China Medical University.

Dr. Takahashi's expertise extends internationally, as evidenced by his involvement as a Board of Directors member of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) and as President of the Asian Pacific Thoracic Association (APTA). He is also a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and a Full Member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

Dr. Terence Tam

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Dr. Terence Tam

Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr. Terence Tam received his MBBS degree from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2001 and pursued his post-fellowship training in interventional pulmonology in Germany, and Japan. Prior to joining private practice, Dr. Tam had worked for over 20 years in Queen Mary Hospital, where he spearheaded the development of interventional pulmonology service including the introduction of navigational bronchoscopy, bronchial thermoplasty, Dyna-CT-guided bronchoscopy and bedside ultrasound-guided pleural sampling. Dr. Tam is an Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and has co-authored more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He currently serves as the secretary general to the Asia-Pacific Interventional Pulmonology Alliance (APIPA) and as the convenor of the Special Interest Group in Interventional Pulmonology under the Hong Kong Thoracic Society (HKTS).

Dr. Elizabeth Tham

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Dr. Elizabeth Tham

Senior Consultant and Head
Division of Paediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology
Department of Paediatrics
Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute
National University Hospital
Singapore

Dr. Elizabeth Tham is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Division of Paediatric Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology at the Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital; as well as Assistant Professor, Clinician-Scientist, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM), National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also a Principal Investigator in the Growing Up in Singapore towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Singapore PREconception Study of long-Term maternal and child Outcomes (S-PRESTO) cohorts.

She is a Clinician-Scientist with a research focus on childhood allergic disorders, early life immunomodulation and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DoHAD). Her research aims to study risk factors and endophenotypes of childhood allergic disorders, and to elucidate the role of the skin, gut and environmental microbiomes in modulating atopic dermatitis risk and disease control; with an eventual goal of developing translational interventions for disease prevention and improvement of clinical care.

Professor Guanming Tan

Dr. Felicia Teo

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Dr. Felicia Teo

Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine Physician
The Lung Clinic
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
Singapore

Dr. Felicia Teo is a respiratory and intensive care medicine physician based at The Lung Clinic, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, and visiting consultant to the National University Hospital, Singapore.

She underwent subspecialty training in Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London between 2014 to 2015, after which she helped established the Interstitial Lung Disease Service at the National University Hospital, working closely with specialty physicians in respiratory medicine, rheumatology, haemato-oncology and transplant medicine. She is actively involved in clinical research trials and is site-investigator for the national Sing-ILD registry. She continues to contribute in peer-review for local and international journals, and actively participates in local and regional based ILD advisory committees.

Dr. Kin-wang To

Miss Yuet-ling Tsang

Dr. Hoi-nam Tse

Dr. Dora Tsui

Professor Omar Usmani

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Professor Omar Usmani

Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Consultant Physician
The National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

Professor Omar Usmani MB BS, PhD, FHEA, FRCP FERS, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Consultant Physician at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London (ICL), Royal Brompton Hospital and St Mary's Hospital London.

He is an International Authority on Aerosol Science and Inhalation Medicine whose research has fundamentally changed the understanding of therapeutic aerosol deposition and clinical effectiveness in inhaled drug delivery to the lungs. In 2023, he was elected by the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) members to the position President of ISAM.

He qualified in Medicine at King's College London and completed his PhD (in Aerosol Science and Inhalation Medicine) at Imperial College London for which he received the 2005 NHLI Imperial College PhD Prize for the best thesis. In 2015, he was awarded one of the highest accolades in Aerosol Science, the Thomas T Mercer Award from the American Association of Aerosol Research (AAAR) and the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM), recognising his International Research Excellence in Pharmaceutical Aerosols and Inhalable Materials. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the European Respiratory Society (FERS). He was elected as Secretary of ERS Assembly 5 (asthma, COPD, Cough) between 2017-2020 and then elected Head of ERS Assembly 5 between 2020-2023.

His Research Themes are Inhaled Drug Delivery, Airways Physiology, Lung Imaging, Respiratory Pharmacology and Tele-monitoring / E-health. He has pioneered novel and sophisticated techniques of assessing inhaled drug delivery, detecting dysfunction of small airways physiology, and characterising airflow heterogeneity using pulmonary imaging, in order to understand structure-function-treatment relationships in the lungs. He was Co-Chair of the ERS Taskforce on the Guidelines for the Diagnosis of Asthma in Adults (2021).

Professor Hao-chien Wang

Professor Grant Waterer

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Professor Grant Waterer

Clinical Professor of Medicine
The University of Western Australia
Australia

Professor Grant Waterer is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Northwestern, Chicago and Curtin University, Perth. His research has focused on pulmonary infections with over 250 peer reviewed papers and more than 80 invited international presentations. He is currently the Executive Director for Medical Services at East Metropolitan Health Service, Perth and is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine as well as being on the editorial board of 7 other respiratory journals.

Professor Wisia Wedzicha

Dr. Jeff Wong

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Dr. Jeff Wong

Assistant Professor
Division of Respirology, Department of Pediatrics
Dalhousie University, Halifax
Canada

Dr. Jeff Wong is a pediatric respirologist received his education and training in Hong Kong and Canada. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Respirology, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. His academic interests include respiratory physiology, pediatric sleep medicine and complex pediatric respiratory and critical care problems. He published articles on peer-reviewed journals concerning common pediatric respiratory conditions. He coordinated and established the lung function laboratory and respiratory consultation service at the Hong Kong Children's Hospital. He relocated to Canada in 2021 and worked as an out-patient general pediatrician before he took up the current position since early 2024.

Dr. Wai-leung Wong

Professor Kuang-Yao Yang

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Professor Kuang-Yao Yang

Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Taiwan

Kuang-Yao Yang, MD, PhD is a Professor, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is also the Director of Technology ICU, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. Professor Yang has served as the Chair of Critical Care Committee, Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine since 2020, and the Chair of Academic committee, Taiwan Society of Critical Care Medicine since 2022. Professor Yang obtained his medical degree from Taipei Medical University in 1992, and awarded his PhD from the Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University in 2010. From 2001 to 2002 he was a Research Scholar in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA. He has published numerous articles in highly regarded journals. Since 2023, Professor Yang has served as the Assembly Head of Critical Care Medicine, APSR.

Dr. Pan-Chyr Yang

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Dr. Pan-Chyr Yang

Chair Professor
National Taiwan University College of Medicine
National Taiwan University Hospital
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica
Taiwan

Dr. Pan-Chyr Yang is Chair Professor of National Taiwan University. He is former president of National Taiwan University and member of Academia Sinica, World Academic of Science and the National Academy of Inventors. His research interests are lung cancer genomics and precision cancer therapy. He is actively involved in developing novel strategies, including multi-omics, aptamer, nanotechnology and siRNA to improve diagnosis and therapy for cancer and infectious diseases, including COVID-19. His team recently by proteogenomics revealed distinct genetic and environmental signatures of lung cancer pathogenesis and progression in never-smokers. He received the 2020 IASLC Joseph W. Cullen Distinguished Award because of the contributions in leading the lung cancer screening and improving the survival of lung cancer patients.

Professor Se-Ran Yang

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Professor Se-Ran Yang

Professor and Director of the Medical Research Institute
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
School of Medicine
Kangwon National University
Republic of Korea

Se-Ran Yang, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of the Medical Research Institute in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea. She obtained her Ph.D. in Veterinary Public Health from Seoul National University in 2005. Dr. Yang has held various academic positions, including Research Professor at Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine (2011–2012), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Medicine, Emory University, USA (2008–2011) and the School of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA (2005-2008).

Her research focuses on respiratory diseases, particularly pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, and acute lung injury. She has established disease animal models and correlated them with clinical data to better understand these conditions. Additionally, Dr. Yang has developed human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived alveolar organoids, which are used for toxicity assessment. She also applies stem cell therapies to investigate potential treatments for respiratory diseases.

Professor Brendon Yee

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Professor Brendon Yee

Head and Clinical Professor
Faculty of Sleep Medicine
Sydney University
Australia

Professor Brendon Yee is a senior staff specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, affiliated with Central Clinical School, Sydney Medicine, University of Sydney. He is the Head, Faculty of Sleep Medicine, Clinical Professor, Sydney University. He is a Senior Researcher in the Sleep Research Group at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. He has a broad clinical and research intertest in both respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders and respiratory failure.

He is a current (and previous) investigator in a number of NHMRC grants, NHMRC Centre of Excellence and MRFF grants. He has published extensively (over 150 publications) in peer reviewed journals and textbooks. He has trained and mentored many adult sleep medicine fellows/physicians from Australasia, Asia, and Europe.

He was the previous Chair of the Professional Standards Committee at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ). He currently serves on the clinical committee in the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). He is a senior mentor of the International Sleep Research Training Program for the World Sleep Society.

Dr. Yiu-cheong Yeung

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Dr. Yiu-cheong Yeung

Consultant Physician
Head of Respiratory Team
Department of Medicine and Geriatrics
Princess Margaret Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr Yeung is the Consultant Physician of Princess Margaret Hospital. He is the president of CHEST Delegation HK and Macau 2023-2025.

He received his MBBS degree from University of Hong Kong in 1995. He acquired a MPH degree from University of Hong Kong in 2006. He also had acquired fellowship like FHKAM, FHKCP, FRCP (Glasgow, Edin) from Colleges in Hong Kong and UK.

His interest is in interventional pulmonology, COPD, pneumothorax and pleural disease.

Endobronchial one-way valves was used as a form of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction and is a level-A evidence treatment option for patients with advanced emphysema that is supported by extensive scientific data. Endobronchial valves also has a role in the treatment of persistent air-leak complicating pneumothorax.

Detailed patient selection, a professional treatment performance, and dedicated follow up of the valve treatment, including management of complications, are keys to success. During the workshop, the technical aspect of correct assessment of collateral ventilation, proper valve placement and management of the complications are discussed through hands-on practice.

Dr. Chul-gyu Yoo

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Dr. Chul-gyu Yoo

President
Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
Japan

Dr. Chul-gyu Yoo graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine (SNUMC) in 1983 and completed his clinical training at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH). He received his Ph.D. degree from SNU, Post-Graduate College of Medicine in 1989. He worked as a research fellow at the University of North Carolina, USA from 1995 to 1997. He served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, SNUMC and SNUH from July 2014 to July 2018, chairman of the board in Korean Association of Internal Medicine from October 2016 to October 2019, and president of Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases in 2023. He is the current president of APSR since Nov 2023. His clinical practice is mainly focused on pulmonary diseases, especially airway diseases, and his main research interest is the pathogenesis of inflammatory lung diseases including COPD and ARDS. He has given many invited lectures and published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals.

Dr. Chin-wing Yu

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Dr. Chin-wing Yu

Consultant Physician
Medical Department and Intensive Care Unit
North District Hospital
Hong Kong

Dr. Yu Chin-wing graduated with a MBChB degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001. He was admitted to fellow of Hong Kong College of Physicians in respiratory medicine, internal medicine, and critical care medicine in 2008, 2009 and 2014 respectively. Having special interest in interventional pulmonology, Dr Yu had oversea training in Hôpital Nord in Marseille, with scholarship by Hospital Authority Scholarship Program in 2010. He had also intensified his skill in bronchoscopy and peripheral EBUS by a short training course in Shimane University Hospital in Japan. He enjoys learning interventional skills from different experts, and eagers to share with different doctors. Dr Yu is currently a consultant physician in both Medical Department and Intensive Care Unit of North District Hospital.

Professor Rongfei Zhu