Khuloud Bajbouj is an Assistant Professor at College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She has a PhD degree from Institute of Pathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany. Her field of experience and research interests are in the areas of cancer research, immunology and airway remodeling in asthma. She has published many research papers in prominent international journals. She is involved in multiple internal and external funded projects focusing on understanding the immunological aspects behind many causes of human diseases.

Dr. Baraldi is Professor of Pediatrics, Women’s and Children’s Health Department, University of Padova, Italy; Head, Unit of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care, University of Padova; Past-Head of the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Unit, University of Padova; and Past-President Italian Society for Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (SIMRI). His primary research interests: neonatology, pediatric asthma, respiratory infections, markers of airway inflammation, BPD and metabolomics.

Associate Professor, University of Padova. Main areas of expertise on respiratory research are immunology and cell biology of asthma and COPD, with particular interest on evaluating the pathogenetic mechanisms of different endotypes. My most recent interest is on the field of lung immunologic response to air pollution. I’ve been involved from long time in evaluation committees either at my university (University of Padova), the Italian Ministry of University and Research, or the European Respiratory Society (College of Experts).

Elena Bargagli is Associate Professor at Siena University in Italy and a pulmonologist at the AOUS Hospital Interstitial Lung Diseases Unit of rare lung diseases at the Lung Transplantation Unit. She has published several manuscripts about biomarkers in different diffuse lung diseases. Her clinical interests include connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD), idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Her main research interest focus is on the study of proteomic analysis in the fluids of patients with ILD, chitinase potential role in sarcoidosis pathogenesis, and the identification of prognostic biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She obtained her medical degree and completed her training in respiratory medicine at the University of Siena, Italy, and subsequently specialized in ILD in the regional ILD specialist center in Siena. She is (co)author of more than 100 manuscripts on ILD and sarcoidosis.

I am a Pulmonology resident at Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, in Porto, Portugal. I am also a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto.

Bauer – Sales & Marketing Director EU • more than 15 years in endoscopic field • started as an endoscopic engineer for flexible endoscope accessories • worked for 4 years as an Application Specialist for self expandable stents in pulmology and gastroenterology • worked as an Area Sales Manager for a big german endoscopic company from Tuttlingen and managed a team of sales reps • worked as a product specialist (imagination systems) and as a New Business Development Manager for flexible Endoscopy

Luca Bertolaccini is a Thoracic Surgeon at the Division of Thoracic Surgery, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan (IT). Luca Bertolaccini is an Associate Editor (Thoracic) of the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Editor of the Statistic Corner Column of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He was the former Associate Editor (Thoracic) of the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery. He also serves on several editorial boards and reviews many scientific journals. He is a member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, European Respiratory Society, Royal Society of Statistics, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, and Scandinavian Society for Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery. His primary clinical interests focus on Lung Cancer Surgery, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Oncology. Luca Bertolaccini’s research interests and leading publications focus on Lung Cancer Surgery and Biostatistics.