Stephen Durham
Institution:
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
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Stephen Durham is Head of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Professor of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital.
His clinical practice includes asthma, rhinitis, immunotherapy, general allergy and food and drug allergy. His research interests include basic mechanisms of allergic rhinitis and asthma and he has a particular focus on translational studies of allergen immunotherapy. He has over 400 publications and a current H index of 64. He is Past President of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Head of the Allergy Consortium of the International Immune Tolerance NIAID USA and External Adviser to the NIH Inner City Asthma Consortium.
Felix Herth
Institution:
Department of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Postgraduate Training:
1990 – 1996 Resident; Internal Medicine, Städt. Klinikum Karlsruhe
1996 – 1997 Resident; Dept. of Pulmonology,Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
1997 – 1999 Fellow; Dept. of interdisciplinary Endoscopy and Oncology, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
1999 – 2003 Ass. Med. Director Dept. of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy and Oncology, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
2003 Medical Director Experimental Endoscopy, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
1990 – 1996 Resident; Internal Medicine, Städt. Klinikum Karlsruhe
1996 – 1997 Resident; Dept. of Pulmonology,Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
1997 – 1999 Fellow; Dept. of interdisciplinary Endoscopy and Oncology, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
1999 – 2003 Ass. Med. Director Dept. of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy and Oncology, Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
2003 Medical Director Experimental Endoscopy, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Current Position
Since 2004 Head of Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
Speciality certification:
1997 German Board of Internal Medicine certified
1998 Pulmonary Mecidine certified
2000 Bachelor of Economic Health
2002 Professor of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2006 Full Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Major Committee Assignments:
2006 Vice-President of European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (EAB)
2009 European Health Leader
2012 Assembly secretary of the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
2012 President of European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (EAB)
2013 Editor in Chief Respiration
Professional Society
German Society of Pulmonology
European Respiratory Society
European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
American Association of Bronchology
World Association of Bronchology
Julius Janssen
Institution:
Canisius-Wlhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Christoph Lange
Institution:
Medical Clinic Research Center Borstel and University of Lübeck, Germany
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Christoph Lange is Professor of International Health / Infectious Diseases at the University of Lübeck, Head of Clinical Infectious Diseases and principle attending physician at the Medical Clinic of the Research Center Borstel, Germany and Head of the Clinical Tuberculosis Center at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF).
He is Honorary Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, the University of Namibia in Windhoek and the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova in Chisinau, where he travels regularly for teaching.
Gilbert Massard
Institution:
Director of Medical Education, University of Luxembourg
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, Luxembourg
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Current affiliations
Professor, Director of Medical Education, University of Luxembourg
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, Luxembourg
President of the Commission for Oncology, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
President of the 3C Committee for Oncology HUS-Centre Paul Strauss
Secretary of the Federation of Multi-Organ Transplantation, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
Curriculum
1978 Final examination, secondary studies (Luxemburg)
1979 – 1984 Medical studies, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg
1984 – 1989 Residency, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
1992 Lung Transplantation fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Professor, Director of Medical Education, University of Luxembourg
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Hôpitaux Robert Schuman, Luxembourg
President of the Commission for Oncology, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
President of the 3C Committee for Oncology HUS-Centre Paul Strauss
Secretary of the Federation of Multi-Organ Transplantation, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
Curriculum
1978 Final examination, secondary studies (Luxemburg)
1979 – 1984 Medical studies, Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg
1984 – 1989 Residency, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg
1992 Lung Transplantation fellowship at McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Diplomas
1980 Instructor in anatomy
1984 Certificat de synthèse clinique et thérapeutique
1989 Docteur en Médecine
1989 Specialist in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
1989 Examination Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, USA
1991 Diplôme d’Université, microsurgery
1993 Master’s degree in anatomy and embryology
1994 Master’s degree in transplantation immunology
1995 “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (PhD equivalent)
1996 Professor of cardio-thoracic surgery
Scientific societies
Collège de Pathologie Respiratoire
Société Française de Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardiovasculaire
European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
European Respiratory Society
American Association for Thoracic Surgery
Horst Olschewski
Institution:
Medical University Graz, Austria
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Zarir Udwadia
Institution:
Hinduja Hospital & Research Center, Breach Candy Hospital, and Parsee General Hospitals, India
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Dr Zarir F Udwadia is a consultant chest physician and MD, DNB, FCCP (USA) and FRCP (London) attached to the Hinduja Hospital & Research Center, Breach Candy Hospital, and Parsee General Hospitals. He has struck the unique balance of combining a busy clinical practice with internationally acclaimed medical research. He sees over 10,000 patients annually in his extremely busy clinics.
Special interests include TB, MDR-TB, and ILD.
He is a prolific researcher and has over 170 PubMed indexed medical research publications in the worlds premier academic medical journals. He has been invited to deliver lectures at conferences and universities around the world including the Royal Society of Medicine (London), the Royal College of Physicians (London), the European Respiratory Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the International TB Union, and several lectures at Harvard University, Boston.
He was the first to report cases to Totally Drug Resistant TB from India. This stirred up intense medical and media attention in 2012 with 2500 articles in newspapers and news sites across the world including BBC, CNN, Reuters, Times UK, Canadian Globe, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Science, Nature and a special feature on him in the prestigious Lancet.
He was Invited to join the USAID India End-TB alliance and the Global TB Network (GTN) to pursue global TB elimination.
He has been advisor to the WHO, and was invited to Geneva on several occasions to help formulate the current TB and MDR-TB guidelines.
He is on the Core Committee of doctors elected by the Indian government to inform Bombay’s COVID-19 pandemic response.
In 2017 Open Magazine nominated him as one of their twenty five top minds for his impact on public health.
He has given two TED talks one on Drug Resistant Tuberculosis and the other on COVID-19, both of which have been widely viewed.
Johan Vansteenkiste
Institution:
University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
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Johan Vansteenkiste is Professor of Internal Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and Head of Clinic in the Respiratory Oncology Unit and its Clinical Trial Unit at the Leuven University Hospital, Belgium.
Professor Vansteenkiste studied Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven before becoming a Board Certified Pulmonologist-Oncologist. He had additional training in Respiratory Oncology at the European School of Oncology in Milan, Italy, and in Respiratory Endoscopy at the Laser Centre in Marseille, France, before gaining his PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1996. Professor Vansteenkiste is an active member of different national and international societies such as IASLC, ASCO, ESMO, ERS, and others. He is member of the Board of Directors of IASLC in 2009-2013 and member of the ESMO Lung Educational Group and Guidelines Group. He was Secretary of the Thoracic Oncology Assembly of the ERS and member of the ERS School Board from 2009-2012. He is the principal investigator or co-investigator in several clinical trials in the area of lung cancer. He is Associate Editor at the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and several other journals, and author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on Respiratory Oncology.
Claus Vogelmeier
Institution:
University Medical Center Giessen and Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
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Claus F. Vogelmeier is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. After qualifying in medicine from the University of Munich, Dr. Vogelmeier started his professional career at the Hospital of the University of Munich.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine, in Pulmonary Medicine, in Cardiology and in Allergology. Dr. Vogelmeier spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, USA. He was nominated Professor of Medicine at the Philipps-University of Marburg in 2001.
Claus Vogelmeier is an active member of several respiratory societies including the American Thoracic Society and the European Respiratory Society. From 2009 till 2011 he was president of the German Respiratory Society. Also in 2009 he became Chairman of the German Asthma and COPD Network. Since 2010 he is a member of the Science Committee and the Board of Directors of GOLD, since 2014 he serves as the chair of the Science Committee of GOLD. In 2014 he was awarded with the honorary title “Fellow of the European Respiratory Society”, in 2018 with the honorary tile “Fellow of the American Thoracic Society”. From 2018 to 2019 he was the President of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM).
He has a long-standing scientific and clinical interest in obstructive lung diseases with topics ranging from pathogenetic aspects to novel diagnostic methods and clinical studies. He has published more than 400 scientific papers, reviews and book chapters, with numerous research articles in peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the European Respiratory Journal, Chest and Lancet Respiratory Medicine. He has lectured nationally and internationally at numerous scientific meetings and congresses.
Mark Woodhead
Institution:
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Mark Woodhead has a full-time NHS contract including 12 (11 NHS, 1 CLRN) programmed activities to provide Respiratory and General Medical care. He is responsible for on average 20 inpatients, conduct three outpatient clinics, two ward rounds, one Lung cancer multi-disciplinary team meeting and one bronchoscopy list per week. He supervises a team of one SpR, one SHO/Clinical fellow and one F1. He is on-call for the acute medical take one weekend in 7 plus week nights.
Present Appointment
Since 2011 Honarary clinical professor of respiratory medicine, University of Manchester
Since 1992 Consultant in general and respiratory medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Professional Memberships
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
British Thoracic Society
European Respiratory Society
American Thoracic Society
Current National Offices
2012 – 2014 Chair NICE Pneumonia Guideline Development
Since 2010 National Clinical Adviser to DoH Chief Scientific Officer on pneumonia
2008 – 2010 Member, British Thoracic Society Infection Specialist Advisory Group
Current Local Offices
Since 2011 TB Cohort Review – workstream lead for Northern SHA
Since 2010 Member Northern SHA TB Summit
Since 2008 Pneumonia Lead, NWSHA Advancing Quality Programme
Teaching – Medical Students
2009 & 2011 Awarded: Exceptional Medical Student Role Model
Since 2010 Academic Adviser
Weekly clinical teaching and regular PBL to 3rd, 4th and 5th year students Annual Clinical lecture to year 1 students
Editorship
Since 1997 Associate Editor, European Respiratory Journal
Since 2010 Academic Adviser
