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Peter J. Barnes, MD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS
Professor of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Head of Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Prof. Barnes qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and was appointed to his present post in 1987. He has published over 1,000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics and has edited over 40 books. He is also amongst the top 50 most highly cited researchers in the world and has been the most highly cited clinical scientist in the UK and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher for over 150 years. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee of the WHO/NIH global guidelines on asthma (GINA) and COPD (GOLD). He also serves on the Editorial Board of over 30 journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Chest and Respiratory Editor of PLoS Medicine. He has given several prestigious lectures, including the Amberson Lecture at the American Thoracic Society and the Sadoul Lecture at the European Respiratory Society. He has been awarded honorary MD degrees from the University of Ferrara (Italy), Athens (Greece), Tampere (Finland) and Leuven (Belgium).
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Vito Brusasco, MD.
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Dr. Brusasco’s prior educational and professional career includes a fellowship and position as Associate Consultant in Anesthesiology Research at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He has been a member of the American Thoracic Society since 1988, serving as Chair of the Program Committee (2003-2004) and then of the Planning Committee (2004-2006) of the Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly. Dr. Brusasco has been a member of: the American Physiological Society since 1987, serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Physiology (2001-2005); the European Respiratory Society since 1990, serving as Head of the Clinical Physiology and Integrative Biology Assembly (1997-2001) and currently as co-Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal. Dr. Brusasco has a long-standing interest in respiratory and exercise physiology. He co-chaired the ATS-ERS Task Force for standardization of lung function testing. He has published over 150 papers in several eminent peer-reviewed journals of respiratory medicine. |
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Peter M.A. Calverley, MD. FRCP
Professor of Pulmonary and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Aintree Hospitals, Liverpool, UK
Prof. Calverley qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1973 and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of both London and Edinburgh in 1990. He was Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal between 2000 and 2005, and Associate Editor of Thorax between 1990 and 1995, and from 2004 to date. He was also Editor of Clinical Science between 2002 and 2004. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine since 2002. Prof. Calverley is the author of over 300 scientific articles & book reports, mainly in Pulmonary Rehabilitation & Sleep Medicine.
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Bartolome R. Celli, MD. FCCP
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division and Professor at Havard University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Prof. Celli’s primary research interest is in COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation, exercise, respiratory muscles and control of breathing. He has published over 300 scientific papers and edited several books related to COPD. The laboratory he directs has concentrated on biomarkers for COPD and outcomes of this disease. Prof. Celli is on the CHEST Editorial Board and has served on the ACCP-SEEK Editorial Board and several NetWork steering committees. He is past chairman of the Clinical Assembly of the American Thoracic Society and past president of the Massachusetts Thoracic Society and New England College of Chest Physicians. His trainees have served around the United States and the world.
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J. Mark Madison, MD. FCCP
Chief of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, UMass Medical Center, Worcester,
MA, USA
Prof. Madison received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1979, trained in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital of Washington University, and completed fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine at University of California in San Francisco (UCSF). He served as a member of the faculty at UCSF and then the University of Massachusetts, since 1990, where he has been active in basic research, clinical care, and teaching. His scientific interests are focused on calcium signaling in airway smooth muscle cells, adrenergic signaling in airway smooth muscle cell and lung imaging. He serves on the editorial board of CHEST.
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Donald A. Mahler, MD. FCCP
Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Ctr, Lebanon,
NH, USA
Prof. Mahler is renowned for his work in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, COPD, evaluation of dyspnea & in particular cardiopulmonary exercising that formed part of the ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1972; completed his internship in Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in 1973; did his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover in 1977 & completed his fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in 1980. He serves as a member of the Comprehensive Thoracic Clinical Oncology Group, the American Thoracic Society & the American College of Chest Physicians.
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