Professor of Medicine, Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Endowed Chair for Pulmonary Research, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Foundation Fellow, European Respiratory Society (ERS); Member, ERS and the American Thoracic Society (ATS)…

King’s College London, London, UK…

Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, USA; Chief of the Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Past President, American Thoracic Society (ATS) (2011-2012)…

Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Disease and Virology, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK…

Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California, San Diego, California, USA; Chairman, Council of Global governors, the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)…

Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; Master Fellow of American College of Chest Physicians; Past President, European Respiratory Society (ERS) (1994)…

Head, Respiratory Rehabilitation Clinic; Head, Counselling Center for Smoking Cessation; Senior Physician in Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology, and Pulmonology; Specialist Physician in Medical Rehabilitation; Smoking Cessation Adviser, Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania; Coordinator of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Working Group of the Romanian Society of Pneumology (SRP); Board of Regents, CHEST/American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP); Past Chair, CHEST Global Council of Governors; Member, ACCP Pulmonary, Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation NetWork Steering Committee; CHEST member, Global Council of Governors, Chest Global Governor for Romania; Fellow, ACCP (FCCP)…

Pulmonary Medicine & Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh…

Professor Sir Peter Barnes FRS, FMedSci. Professor of Thoracic Medicine, Imperial College London, UK…