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 interests are the invasive and non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation, paediatric clinical physiology, and orphan lung diseases.
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Michael FAYON 

Prof. Michael FAYON was born in the Seychelles Island and trained as a Pediatrician (Intensive Care, Neonatology, Pediatric Pulmonology) in Bordeaux (FR), Montreal (CA), and Paris (Prof Grimfeld, FR). He holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Epidemiological Research (Univ of Montreal) et a PhD in Health Biology (Bordeaux Univ). His special interests are preschool wheezing, asthma and cystic fibrosis. He is currently the lead physician of the Pediatric Pulmonology Unit in Bordeaux University Hospital and has held positions in the Executive Committee of the European CF Clinical Trials network & the Scientific Committee of the National Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Society (SP2A). Pr FAYON has always been a strong supporter of the CIPP since the beginning.

Sotirios FOUZAS

Dr Sotirios (Sotiris) Fouzas is Associate Professor in Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the University of Patras (Greece) and vice-president of the Hellenic Paediatric Respiratory Society.
After he completed his training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Pulmonology (ERS-HERMES diplomate) in Greece, he served as Research Fellow (ERS Research and Training Fellowship) at Children’s University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland.
His main research interests focus on infant and paediatric lung function testing (multiple breath washout, forced oscillations, respiratory muscle testing, volumetric capnography) in various disorders. He also has special interest in computational physiology of the respiratory system (gas exchange in relation to stage of lung development, long-term variability of lung function in relation to sex and age).
He has over 85 publications in peer-reviewed journals and authored several book chapters in the field of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.

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 publications, and co-edited the latest edition of the Springer textbook Pediatric Chest Imaging. He is a recipient of the Master Clinician Award for Excellence in Patient Care by Baylor College of Medicine, Slovis Award for Best Basic Science Paper in the journal Pediatric Radiology, and Caffey Awards for Best Basic Science Paper and Best Clinical Paper at annual meetings of the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR). He served as co-director of the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Therapeutic Development Network from 2011-2020 and as a member of the CFF Preschool Age Screening and Monitoring Workgroup, Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease Research Network (ChILDRN), SPR Research & Education Board of Directors, and SPR CT and Thoracic Imaging Committees. He currently serves on the Imaging Gently Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of the SPR, and as Chair of the Professionalism and Career Development Committee of the SPR.

Eitan KEREM

Prof. Eitan Kerem, 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, and the development of novel mutation-specific pharmacological therapies to correct the basic defects in cystic fibrosis.
His many interests extend beyond cystic fibrosis, and he has been central to studies examining environmental interactions with genetic diseases and its influence on the disease severity, genetic markers of asthma and allergy in closed populations, and variability of disease in closed populations exposed to different environments. Increasingly, his efforts have turned to understanding the genetics of primary ciliary dyskinesia in Jewish and Palestinian children. In addition he published leading papers on management of community acquired pneumonia in children and was the first to characterize nectrotizing pneumonia and risk factors for complicated pneumonia in children.
The promotion of the medical, ethical and rights aspects of children with chronic diseases is at the forefront of his interest. He published many papers in this field and is known for his advocacy for children in need.
He also has a record of building bridges between Israelis and Palestinians furthering peace through medicine wherever possible.
Professor Kerem received a number of prestigious awards the last being the European CF Society Award in 2014.
He has authored over 170 papers covering all aspects of Pulmonology.

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 the Israeli Society of Pediatric Pulmonology.
His main research is in Neonatal Pulmonology, focusing on non- invasive ventilation, non-invasive respiratory monitoring in the NICU and the Pediatric Department, and in the prevention and treatment of Chronic Lung Disease of premature infants. Other areas of interest and research: Iatrogenesis in NICUs, late preterm infants, outcome of VLBW infants, and delayed cord clamping in the delivery room.

Emmanouil PARASKAKIS

Dr Emmanouil Paraskakis is Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Crete  and Head of the Paediatric Respiratory Unit of the University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He is the President of Hellenic Paediatric Respiratory Society. Dr Paraskakis was born in Greece received his medical and PhD degree from the Medical School of University of Crete. Prior to his current position he worked as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Paediatric Respiratory Department of the Royal Brompton Hospital London and Imperial College London University, UK, as a Consultant Pediatrician at the University Hospital of Heraklion and as Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Thrace, Greece. His main research interest is non-invasive inflammatory biomarkers in paediatric respiratory diseases, asthma and wheezing disorders. He has participated in international and national research multicenter programs and he has published several papers, a textbook and chapters on paediatric pulmonary diseases.

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 V. He has been President, ICPP-The Course, since 2007. He was a member of the Central Organizing Committee of all CIPP meetings and ICPP-Courses.
He is internationally renowned for his unique research contributions in the field of neonatal respiration, nasal respiratory support and sleep apneas.

Kostas PRIFTIS

Prof. Kostas N. Prifti  is Professor in Paediatrics-Paediatric Pulmonology, at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) Medical School, Greece. Graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, defended his PhD thesis at the NKUA, and completed his research fellowship in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Children’s Respiratory Unit, University of Nottingham Medical School, UK (1989). He has founded the two-year Master Program in Paedatric Respiratory Medicine of NKUA Medical School. His research focuses on childhood asthma, bronchology and allergy

Giovanni ROSSI

Prof. Giovanni A. Rossi is the former chief of the Pulmonary and Allergy Units and of the Cystic Fibrosis Centre at the G. Gaslini Research Institute and University Hospital in Genoa and the former adjunct Professor of Paediatric Pulmonology at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is at present Chief Emeritus at the Gaslini Research Institute and University Hospital.
He graduated from the University of Genoa, Italy and trained in Respiratory Medicine at the San Martino University Hospital, in Genoa, and then at the Pulmonary Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, U.S.A., as Visiting Associate.
Dr. Rossi was Member of the Executive Committee of the Société Européenne de Physiologie Clinique Respiratoire, Chairman of the “Lung Cell Biology” Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), Member of the ERS Executive Committee, society of which he has been recently appointed “Foundation Fellow”. He also served as an Associate Editor on the Editorial Boards of several respiratory, allergy and pediatric journals. He has published >300 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals and has at present a H. index of 52.
Dr. Rossi’s major areas of basic and clinical research have been the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of respiratory disorders, including interstitial, obstructive and infectious diseases. In this last field, his work has focused mainly on the characterization of the host-virus interaction at lower respiratory tract level, with the aim of developing novel strategies for the prevention and treatment of these high-impact respiratory disorders for which specific therapies are often not yet available.

Bruce K. 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 pediatric pulmonary physician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC). As a Rhodes Scholar, he trained as a post doc in Biomedical Engineering at Oxford University and in Paediatric Respirology at Sick Kids in Toronto. He holds the MD and Masters in Engineering degrees from Tulane and an MBA degree from Wake Forest University School of Business.
Dr. Rubin received the 2008 Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award, the top research honor given by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), in 2011 he presented the Phil Kittredge Memorial Keynote lecture at the AARC in 2012, he was awarded Jimmy Young Memorial medal from the AARC. He holds honorary appointments in 4 medical schools. He is on the editorial board of 12 medical journals, has published more than 300 original research papers and chapters and holds nine patents. Dr. Rubin and his research team study aerosol therapy for lung diseases, airway inflammation and excessive mucus that contributes to lung disease.
He is also an accomplished magician, an elected member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and over the past 25 years had taught medical magic in 30 countries on 5 continents.