David Mannino, MD, is currently the Medical Director at the COPD Foundation. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1981 and completed his fellowship in pulmonary medicine at West Virginia University. He served as a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1991 to 2004 and as Professor at University of Kentucky from 2004 to the present. He has over 350 publications and is on the editorial board of several respiratory journals.

Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Bronchoscopy Unit, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Main areas of expertise on respiratory research are acute respiratory failure and interventional pulmonology with particular interest on the endoscopic approach of tracheal diseases and airway tissue regeneration with stem cells. Founder of the integrated multidisciplinary team on surgical and endoscopic approach to tracheal diseases. He is reviewer, editorial board member and associate/academic editor of several international journals and has published extensively in the field of pulmonary medicine and interventional pulmonology.

Darcy D. Marciniuk, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, Master FCCP is a Professor of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and Associate Vice-President Research at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Dr. Marciniuk is recognized internationally as an expert and leader in clinical exercise physiology, COPD, and pulmonary rehabilitation with more than 425 invited national/international presentations and 240 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and reviews. Dr. Marciniuk serves as Deputy Editor – Outreach for the journal CHEST, is a past-President of CHEST and the Canadian Thoracic Society, past-Chair of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) and a Fellow in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Stefano Marinari is director of the Respiratory Diseases Unit of Giuseppe Mazzini Hospital, Teramo, Italy. He is professor of Respiratory Physiopathology at the University of Chieti. His fields of interest cover interstitial lung diseases, COPD and nutritional aspects of chronic lung diseases. Stefano Marinari is Associate Editor of the Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine and member of italian delegation of CHEST.

PGY-2 Internal Medicine Resident at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. He is interested in Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine.

Director of Respiratory Unit of Integrated University Hospital of Verona Elect President of Italian Thoracic Society Member of the Italian Delegatio of Chest

Dr. Moores is the Associate Dean for Assessment and Professional Development and Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She received her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University in 1989 and then completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. Upon graduation from her fellowship, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduating Fellow Award and the Baily K. Ashford Award for Outstanding Clinical Research. Throughout her career, she has been awarded several teaching awards, including the Walter Reed Department of Medicine Outstanding Teacher, The Army Internal Medicine Master Teacher Award, the William P. Clements Award for Outstanding Military Educator, the American College of Chest Physicians Edward C. Rosenow Master Teacher Honor Lecture, the American College of Physicians Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award, and the 2018 CHEST Master Clinician Educator Award. Dr. Moores is currently the Chair of the CHEST Antithrombotics Guidelines and is an author on the VTE Treatment and VTE in COVID 19 Guidelines. Dr. Moores has more than 100 invited presentations and more than 70 published journal articles and book chapters, which reflect her interests in venous thromboembolism, medical education, and adult learning.