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Laurent Brochard, MD, is Head of the Intensive Care Unit at Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been chair of the critical care program committee of the ATS and has been editor-in-chief of the journal Intensive Care Medicine for six years. He has published more than 240 peer-reviewed papers mostly in the field of Invasive and Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation, ARDS and COPD.
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Scott Budinger, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University. His research work has focused on the role of the alveolar epithelium in the development of acute lung injury and in the response to particulate matter air pollution.
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Serpil Erzurum, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Pathobiology at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Using translational and clinical science approaches, her work has focused on investigation of airway and pulmonary vascular diseases.
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Elliot Israel, MD, is the Director of Clinical Research in the Pulmonary Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Israel’s research interests center on aspects of asthma pathobiology and airway reactivity. His research helped define the role for leukotriene modifiers in the treatment of asthma. His teaching accomplishments were recognized in 2002, when he was honored with the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award of Harvard Medical School.
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Paul T. Schumacker, PhD, is the Patrick M. Magoon Professor of Neonatology Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University. His research interests center on oxygen metabolism, molecular oxygen sensing mechanisms, and models of cardiopulmonary disease.
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