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Faculty members
Ioana Agache
Ioana Agache is Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania and Past President of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) 2017-2019. Her research in the field of Asthma and Allergy and Clinical Immunology focused on asthma phenotypes and endotypes, immune modulation and...
Savvas Andronikou
Savvas Andronikou (MBBCh, FCRad, FRCR, PhD (UCT), PhD(Wits)) is a pediatric radiologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He holds the John Westgate Hope Endowed Chair and is Vice Chair for clinical research at CHOP radiology. He also holds honorary professorships at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom and the...
Paul AURORA
Dr. Paul Aurora has been a consultant at GOSH since 2002, where he primarily works in tertiary paediatric respiratory medicine, but also has additional duties in lung transplantation, and some duties in cardiac transplantation. He has particular interest in caring for children with rare or complex lung diseases, and children who have multisystem...
Andrew Bush
Prof. Andrew Bush is the Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Section (Paediatrics), Imperial College, Professor of Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK. He is also Editor in Chief of Thorax, with Professor Ian Pavord. His main research...
Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez
Castro-Rodriguez is a Professor (Full) of Pediatrics at Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, and Chief of Research Commission at the Division of Pediatrics. He was graduated in Medicine from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, in Lima, Peru; and completed the residency in Pediatrics. He was...
Ioana CIUCA
Ioana Ciuca is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania, Coordinator of the Pediatric Pneumology Training Programme and head of Pediatric Pulmonology Unit at Clinical County Hospital Timisoara. After completed the Pediatrics training she specialised in Pulmonology,...
Malena Cohen Cymberknoh
Prof. Malena Cohen-Cymberknoh, M.D. is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the Head of the Pediatric Pulmonology Unit and the CF Center at Hadassah Medical Center. Her special research interest fields include Cystic fibrosis, Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, asthma and other chronic lung disease. Prof....
Andrew Colin
Andrew Colin, MD is the Batchelor Professor of Cystic Fibrosis and Pediatric Pulmonology and Chief emeritus of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami. He has continually held leadership positions with the International Congresses of Pediatric Pulmonology (CIPP) and served as the President of...
Adnan Custovic
Adnan Custovic is Clinical Professor of Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College London. His research has focused upon the origins and natural history of asthma and allergy across the life-course, with an emphasis on prevention and translation for patient benefit. His research findings are of great practical significance, and have...
Renato Cutrera
Renato Cutrera, MD, PhD, graduated in Medicine at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1981, and obtained the board in pediatrics and in respiratory diseases in 1985 and 1994, respectively. He is, since 2000, head of the Pediatric Pulmonology Unit, Respiratory Intermediate Care Unit, Sleep and PLTVU at the Pediatric Hospital “Bambino...
Karin De Winter - De Groot
Karin de Winter is a pediatric pulmonologist and member of the staff of the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital – Universitary Medical Center Utrecht (WKZ-UMCU) since May 2009. In 2019 she graduated on a thesis on clinical validation of intestinal organoids as...
Christian DEBRY
Christian Debry is Professor of ENT, Chairman Medical Unit including Neurology, Neurosurgery and ENT department at Strasbourg University Hospital Center, France. He is Member of the Administration Council of French ENT Society, the Administration Council of the French ENT and Head and Neck surgery Board and the French Association of ENT...
Lionel Donato
Lionel Donato is a hospital practicioner specialized in pediatric pulmonology at Strasbourg University Hospital, France. He as particular expertise in the area of pediatric bronchoscopy including interventional procedures in partnership with intensivists, anesthesiologists, ENT, thoracic and cardiac surgeons. He has been teaching the art of...
Refika Ersu
Dr. Refika Ersu is a pediatric respirologist with a clinical and research expertise in sleep disordered breathing and chronic respiratory failure in children. After completing medical school and pediatrics residency in Istanbul, Turkey, she worked as a research fellow with Prof. Bush at Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK. She then finished a...
Michael Fayon
Professor Michael Fayon was trained as a Pediatrician (Intensive Care, Neonatology, Pediatric Pulmonology) in Bordeaux (FR), Montreal (CA), and Paris (FR). He holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Epidemiological Research (University of Montreal) et a PhD in Health Biology (Bordeaux University). His special interests are preschool...
Andres Floto
Andres Floto is Professor of Respiratory Biology in the Molecular Immunity Unit of the University of Cambridge (based at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology), Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and Director of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Innovation Hub. His basic research is focused on understanding...
Eric Forno
Professor Erick Forno, MD MPH, is a pediatric pulmonologist and Vice-Chair for Clinical Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. Prof. Forno's overarching research interests are the epidemiology and genomics of asthma. He is particularly...
Aviv Goldbart
Aviv Goldbart serves as the Head of the Dept. of Pediatrics B at the Soroka University Medical Center, and as a Full Professor of Pediatrics in the faculty of health sciences at the Ben Gurion University, in Beer-Sheva, Isreal. Prof. Goldbart is an international expert in the field of Sleep Disordered Breathing. His medical school degree is...
Pierre GOUSSARD
Prof Pierre Goussard is a full professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Heath at Stellenbosch University, and the Head of Clinical Units: Paediatric Pulmonology and Paediatric Intensive Care at Tygerberg Hospital. He is also the chair of the Tygerberg Hospital Children’s Trust. Tygerberg Hospital acts as a referral centre for...
R. Paul Guillerman
Dr. R. Paul Guillerman is Professor of Radiology at the Baylor College of Medicine and Administrative Liaison for Academic Affairs in the Department of Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He has given over 180 invited lectures at national and international meetings, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical journal...
Stuart Haggie
Dr. Stuart Haggie (MBBS, FRACP) is a consultant respiratory paediatrician and aeromedical retrieval doctor for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network and the Shoalhaven Hospital. A member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Stuart is enrolled in a doctorate of philosophy focussing on complicated paediatric pneumonia...
Imogen Hanvey
Imogen Hanvey is a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (low-intensity therapist) at Oxford Health NHS. Her research background is in the impact on young people of growing up with a disabled or chronically ill sibling, influenced by her own experiences of having a brother with Cystic Fibrosis. This topic formed the basis of her Psychology MSc...
Eitan Kerem
Prof. Eitan Kerem, MD, a world known leader in Cystic Fibrosis research, is a principal investigator of numerous national and international multicenter clinical trials. He is the author of seminal publications in the field, including phenotype-genotype relationships, disease prognostic factors, the molecular mechanisms for disease variability,...
Gerard Koppelman
Gerard Koppelman is a clinician-scientist whose goal is to improve early diagnosis and prevention of asthma, and to optimize treatment of asthma in childhood. As a pediatric pulmonologist, he focuses on children with severe chronic lung disease. He investigates inception, progression and remission of chronic lung disease. In his research,...
Amir Kugelman
Prof. Amir Kugelman is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in The R&B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. He specialized in Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology in Children's Hospital, LA, CA, and is currently the Director of the Department of Neonatology in Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel and the past Chairman of...
Fernando D. Martinez
Dr. Fernando D. Martinez is a Regents’ Professor and Director of the Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.Dr. Martinez is a world-renowned expert, and one of the most highly regarded researchers, in the field of childhood asthma. His primary research interests are the natural history,...
Gustavo Nino
Professor Gustavo Nino, M.D., M.S., is Director of Sleep Medicine and Airway Biology Research in Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C. He is also Principal Investigator and Tenured Faculty in Pediatrics and Genomics and Precision Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has been...
Marielle Pijnenburg
Marielle Pijnenburg, MD, PhD, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Pediatrics, division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Marielle Pijnenburg is associate Professor in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and head of the department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology in Sophia...
Petr Pohunek
Prof. Petr Pohunek, MD PhD FCCP. Head, Division of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases, Pediatric Department, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic.Chairman of the Czech Society for Pediatric Pulmonology.Chairman, Group 7.7 (Pediatric Bronchology) of the Pediatric Assembly of the...
Marti Pons Odena
Dr Martí Pons is consultant paediatrician for pediatric intensive care in Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, one of the largest paediatric teaching hospitals in Spain. He is also in charge of the Home ventilation program.Graduated from Medical School at Barcelona University in 1990,Martí did his PhD research in the same university,...
Jean-Paul Praud
Prof. Jean-Paul Praud is a Pediatric Pulmonologist at the Sherbrooke University Hospital, Quebec, Canada, and Director, Center for Research into Maternal and Child Health, University of Sherbrooke. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Neonatal Respiratory Physiology since 2009.He was co-founder of CIPP and Past-President, CIPP...
Aroonwan Preutthipan
Dr. Aroonwan Preutthipan is Professor and Directors of Pediatric Pulmonary Division and also Ramathibodi Hospital Sleep Disorder Center, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. She has been elected as the President of Sleep Society of Thailand since 2016.For her professional training background, she earned Board of Pediatrics and Subboard...
Susana QUIJANO
Susana QUIJANO-ROY Position: Full-time Prof. Child neurologist at the Garches Neuromuscular Center Head of the Pediatric Neuromuscular Unit, Pediatric Neurology & ICU Department. Raymond Poincaré Hospital, 92380 Garches, France DIPLOMAS : 1998- MD, Pediatrics. 1999 -Inter-University Diploma of Myologie : UPMC...
Bruce Rubin
Prof. Bruce Rubin is the Jessie Ball duPont Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and Physician in Chief of the Children’s Hospital of Richmond. He is also Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at VCU. Prof Rubin is a...
Sejal Saglani
Sejal Saglani is Reader in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Paediatrics, Royal Brompton Hospital, London.The focus of her research includes: 1) mechanisms underlying the development of wheezing disorders in preschool children and factors...
Alan Smyth
Prof. Alan Smyth is professor of Child Health at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham Children’s Hospital. His clinical focus is cystic fibrosis (CF). His research interests include effective ways to treat infection in CF and minimising the adverse effects of treatment. He...
Manuel Soto-Martínez
Dr. Manuel E. Soto-Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Pulmonology, School of Medicine of the University of Costa Rica. Graduated in Paediatrics from the University of Costa Rica in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he completed his fellowship in respiratory medicine at the Royal Children´s Hospital in Melbourne,...
Renato Stein
Renato T. Stein, MD, MPH, PhD graduated in Medicine in 1979 from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, in Porto Alegre, Brazil where he completed his residency in Pediatrics in 1982. He took over as Assistant Professor at the Department of Pediatrics in 1986, and from 1987 to 1989 was a fellow in the Pediatric Pulmonary Service in...
Sarabon Tahura
Sarabon Tahura is Associate Professor in Pediatric Pulmonology at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital & Institute and consultant at Square Hospitals Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is the 1st Pediatric Interventional Pulmonologist in Bangladesh, performs all basic & advanced bronchoscopic procedures in children and neonate, that appears as passion in...
Paul J. Turner
Dr Paul Turner is a Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Allergy & Immunology at Imperial College London, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research, funded by the Medical Research Council, European Commission, NIHR and UK Food Standards Agency among others, focusses on the...
Stijn Verhulst
Prof. Stijn Verhulst, MD, PhD is professor in pediatrics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and head of the pediatric pulmonoly and sleep unit at the Antwerp University Hospital. He is also director of the Antwerp Cystic Fibrosis Center and consultant at Inkendaal Hospital, Belgium. His research mainly focuses on the complications and...
Elianne Vrijlandt
Elianne Vrijlandt is Head Patient Care of the Beatrix Children’s Hospital (BCH), University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. After specializing in Pediatrics (2000) she did a fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology, then a PhD. She obtained a permanent position in Groningen in 2003 and finished her PhD thesis on Respiratory Health in...
Jason Weinman
Dr. Jason Weinman is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is the Director or Thoracic Imaging and Computed Tomography at the Children’s Hospital of Colorado. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed medical journal publications and co-authored 5 book chapters. He is chair of the...
Gary W.K. Wong
Professor Gary Wong obtained his undergraduate medical education from the University of Alberta, Canada. He subsequently received fellowship training at University of British Columbia, and Children’s Hospital of British Columbia and visiting Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Munich, Germany. Dr Wong’s main...
Marco Zampoli
Associate Professor Marco Zampoli completed his paediatric pulmonology training at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and the University of Cape Town. His clinical and research interests are wide and include pleural infections, cystic fibrosis (CF), interstitial lung diseases and sleep medicine. Prof. Zampoli is head of the...
Heather Zar
Heather Zar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Director of the School of Child and Adolescent Health at Red Cross Childrens Hospital at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. After specialising in Paediatrics she did a fellowship in Paediatric Pulmonology, then a PhD. She is based at Red Cross...
