Contributors

GUEST EDITOR

ATUL C. MEHTA, MB, BS, FACP, FCCP

Professor of Medicine, Chief Medical Officer,

Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Managed by

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Staff

Physician, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland

Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

AUTHORS

SANJAY AGRAWAL, MD, FCCP

Department of Respiratory Medicine,

Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of

Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire, United

Kingdom

DEVANAND ANANTHAM, MBBS,

MRCP, FCCP

Consultant, Department of Respiratory

and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore

General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine,

Duke-NUS, Graduate Medical School,

Singapore

FUMIHIRO ASANO, MD, FCCP

Director, Department of Pulmonary Medicine

and Bronchoscopy, Gifu Prefectural General

Medical Center, Gifu, Japan

HEINRICH D. BECKER, MD

Head, Department of Interdisciplinary

Endoscopy, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg

University, Heidelberg, Germany

JONATHAN A. BENNETT, BS, MD,

DM, FRCP

Department of Respiratory Medicine,

Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals

of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicestershire,

United Kingdom

ROBERTO F. CASAL, MD

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer

Center, Houston, Texas

ROBERT J. CERFOLIO, MD

Professor of Surgery, Chief of Section of

Thoracic Surgery at University of Alabama

at Birmingham; Department of Surgery,

University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama

HENRI G. COLT, MD

Professor of Medicine, Director of Clinical

Programs, University of California, Irvine

Medical Center, Pulmonary Division, Orange,

California

GERARD COX, MB, FRCP(C), FRCP(I)

Professor of Medicine, McMaster University,

Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health,

St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton,

Ontario, Canada

GEORGE A. EAPEN, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Pulmonary

Medicine, The University of Texas M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

RALF EBERHARDT, MD

Department of Pneumology and Critical Care

Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of

Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

ARMIN ERNST, MD

Chief, Interventional Pulmonology; Director,

Clinical, Sponsored and Translational

Research Interventional Pulmonology/Thoracic

Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center; Associate Professor of Medicine

(Pediatrics) and Surgery, Harvard Medical

School, Boston, Massachusetts

Interventional Pulmonology

DAVID FELLER-KOPMAN, MD, FCCP

Director of Bronchoscopy and Interventional

Pulmonology, Associate Professor of

Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical

Care, The Johns Hopkins Hospital,

Baltimore, Maryland

CATHERINE M. FREE, MD, DM, MRCP

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield

Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS

Trust, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

XAVIER GONZALEZ, MD

Chief Scientific Officer, Spiration, Inc,

Redmond, Washington

CHRISTOPHER A. HERGOTT, MD, FRCPC

Interventional Pulmonary Medicine Fellow,

Division of Respiratory Medicine, University

of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

FELIX J.F. HERTH, MD, DSc, FCCP

Department of Pneumology and Critical Care

Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of

Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

ELIF KUPELI, MD

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Mesa

Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

PYNG LEE, MD

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care

Medicine, Singapore General Hospital,

Singapore

ANDREW R.L. MEDFORD, BS, MD, DM,

MRCP, Dip(Clin Risk Mgt)

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield

Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester

NHS Trust, Leicestershire; Consultant

Respiratory Physician, North Bristol Lung

Centre, Southmead Hospital, Avon, United

Kingdom

ATUL C. MEHTA, MB, BS, FACP, FCCP

Professor of Medicine, Chief Medical Officer,

Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Managed by

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Staff

Physician, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland

Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

SEPTIMIU D. MURGU, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University

of California, Irvine Medical Center,

Pulmonary Division, Orange, California

YEHUDA SCHWARZ, MD, FCCP

Director of Pulmonary Medicine, Department

of Pulmonology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical

Center; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv

University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

STEVEN C. SPRINGMEYER, MD

Vice President and Medical Director,

Spiration, Inc, Redmond, Washington;

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,

University of Washington, Seattle,

Washington

ALDA L. TAM, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Diagnostic

Radiology, Section of Interventional Radiology,

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer

Center, Houston, Texas

ALAIN TREMBLAY, MDCM, FRCPC, FCCP

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of

Respiratory Medicine, University of Calgary,

Calgary, Canada

DOUGLAS E. WOOD, MD

Professor and Chief, Division of

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Endowed Chair

of Lung Cancer Research, University of

Washington; University of Washington

Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

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