Dr. Salim Surani currently works as the Director of Medical Critical Care services at Christus Spohn Hospitals-Corpus Christi. He serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, department of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the program director for Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program at Bay Area Medical Center, Corpus Christi. He has done his fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas. Dr. Surani has done his Master’s in Public Health & Epidemiology from Yale University and Masters in Health Management from University of Texas, Dallas. Dr. Surani also has served as board trustee and secretary of THE CHEST Foundation. He currently serves as co-chair for ACCP practice operations steering committee. Dr. Surani has authored more than 150 articles in the peer review journals and has written several books and book chapters. He is involved in teaching residents for more than two decades.

Dr. BaHammam is currently is a tenured Professor of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh Saudi Arabia. He completed his residency training at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He established the first Sleep Medicine Fellowship program in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and subsequently chaired a committee, which established the Saudi regulation for accreditation of sleep medicine specialists and sleep technologists in 2012. For his contribution to sleep medicine, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (2016) by KSU. He published more than 200 scientific articles, more than 35 chapters, and two books. He is a member of the editorial board of several international medical journals. Further information about his work can be found at https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/ashammam/home

Andrew Churg is Professor of Pathology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He obtained his PhD and MD from the University of Chicago, and did a fellowship in lung pathology with Charles Carrington at Stanford University. His laboratory has long focused on the effects of occupational and environmental agents on the lung. In addition he has major interests in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma and interstitial lung disease.He is the course director for two CME courses sponsored by the American Society for Clinical Pathology: Update in Pulmonary Pathology, and Update in Surgical Pathology.

Charles Feldman is Professor of Pulmonology and Chief Physician, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to his Medical Degree (MB BCh) he holds a PhD and DSc from the University of the Witwatersrand. Both these doctorates were awarded for theses on the topic of community-acquired pneumonia. Professor Feldman is on the editorial board of a number of local and international journals and he belongs to a number of national and international societies. He has more than 250 publications and is a National Research Foundation (SA) A-rated scientist.

Dr Hirose was graduated from Nagasaki University School of Medicine in 1990, underwent general surgery residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital; then, Cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and Hahnemann University Hospital. He is practiced at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and appointed as Professor of Surgery. He has more than 250 peer review publications and he is serving editorial board in numerous cardiovascular and thoracic surgery related journals. He is member/fellow of STS, AATS, ACCP, and ACCM. His primary interest is mechanical circulatory assist device and ECMO.

Sebastian Johnston is Professor of Respiratory Medicine & Allergy at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Honorary Consultant Physician in Respiratory Medicine & Allergy at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He is Director of the MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, a Principal Investigator in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Respiratory Infection at Imperial College London and is the Clinical Academic Training Lead for Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College & Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust.

He is an NIHR Senior Investigator, he holds the only Asthma UK Clinical Professorship and is the only Adult Respiratory Researcher in Europe to hold a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant.

Dr. Madison is Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Physiological Systems at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received his medical training at Harvard Medical School, Washington University, and UCSF. During his 26 years at the University of Massachusetts he has devoted his career to NIH-funded basic research, teaching, and clinical care. His main research interest has been calcium signaling in airway smooth muscle and his main clinical interests have included asthma, COPD, and the diagnosis and management of chronic cough. He has over 90 publications, reviews and chapters and he also has served on editorial boards and been a section editor for major textbooks

Professor Vincent is Professor of intensive care medicine at the University of Brussels and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He obtained his PhD degree at the University of Brussels in 1982.He is President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. He is member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.Dr. Vincent has signed more than 900 original articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 1000 original abstracts, and has edited 102 books.He is the editor-in-chief of Critical Care, Current Opinion in Critical Care, and ICU Management & Practice and member of the editorial boards of about 30 other journals.

Ali Saeed Wahla, MBBS, is a Staff Physician in the Respiratory & Critical Care Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He is an Interventional pulmonologist and works as the lung cancer lead for the institute. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Wahla worked as a consultant physician in the Department of Intensive Care at King Abdul Aziz Medical City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to this, Dr. Wahla worked as a Consultant Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center in Lahore, Pakistan. It was here that he co-established the first Interventional Pulmonary program in the country. During this time, he also served as the Director of the Intensive Care Unit, where he established and ran a respiratory therapy training program.

Dr. Diaz completed her Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, Dr. Diaz is also serving as the Program Director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and Co-Director at the Maryland ALS Center of Excellence. Her research interests include treatment of chronic respiratory failure with noninvasive ventilation, neuromuscular disease including ALS, and sleep medicine.