Editorial Board
touchREVIEWS in Respiratory & Pulmonary Diseases
Richard Van Zyl-Smit
Editor-in-Chief
Consultant Pulmonologist at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, and Deputy Head of the Division of Pulmonology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Harly Greenberg
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Medical Director, Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center; Professor of Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell Department of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Mario Cazzola
Honorary Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy
Peter Barnes
Professor of Thoracic Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Rodrigo Athanazio
Assistant and Research Physician of the Pulmonology Department at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Rakesh K. Chawla
Dr. Rakesh K. Chawla is Senior Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders at the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Jaipur Golden Hospital, the Saroj Super Specialty Hospital, Delhi and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Delhi. He is Chairman of the Pulmonary Foundation, and a member of the Governing Council of both the Indian College of Allergy and Applied Immunology and the Indian College of Bronchoscopy.
Michal Shteinberg
Dr. Michal Shteinberg heads the Bronchiectasis and Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit in the Pulmonology Institute and CF Center in Carmel Medical Center and Clalit Health Services in Haifa, Israel. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.
Nik Hirani
Dr. Nik Hirani is a Reader and PI in the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Edinburgh and Associate Medical Director at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He leads a regional interstitial lung disease service and his research interests include early phase lung fibrosis clinical trials, exploratory biomarkers and macrophage biology in lung inflammation and repair.
Ronald A Strauss
Director, Cleveland Allergy and Asthma Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Cleveland, OH, USA
Bruce Michael Prenner
Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
Toby Maher
Professor of Medicine and Director of Interstitial Lung Disease at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Professor of Interstitial Lung Disease at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, UK and Honorary Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London.
Anoop M Nambiar
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Interstital Lung Disease Program, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, TX
Margaret Pisani
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Fidaa Shaib
Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Carolyn D’Ambrosio
Program Director, Harvard-Brigham and Women’s Hospital Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Yohannes T Ghebre
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, and Director of Radiation Biology Research & Education, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Marianna Laviola
Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Elinaldo C Santos
Specialist in Critical Care Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), Amapá, Brazil
Brian W Carlin
Pulmonologist, Sleep Medicine and Lung Health Consultants LLC, and Pittsburgh Critical Care Associates, Pittsburgh, PA
Nicola Hanania
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Director of the Airways Clinical Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
David Gozal
Marie M and Harry L Smith Endowed Chair, Department of Child Health, and Pediatrician-in-Chief, MU Women’s and Children’s Hospital, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO
Refika Ersu
Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Felix Herth
Medical Director, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ian Adcock
Professor of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, University College London Hospitals UCLH, London, UK
John Davies
Clinical Research Coordinator, Adult Critical Care at Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC
Daniel R Ouellette
Associate Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
Juzar Ali
Klein Professor of Medicine, Section Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, and Director, Wetmore Mycobacterial Disease Program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
Paul Williams
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Andrea Aliverti
Associate Professor, Department Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano
Antonio Spanevello
Director of the Post-Graduate School in Respiratory Diseases, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Mário Morais-Almeida
Specialist in Allergy and Clinical Immunology and on Health Units Management, Head of the Allergy Center of CUF-Descobertas Hospital and CUF-Infante Santo Hospital in Lisbon and Researcher of CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Porto Medical School, Portugal.
Fabio Midulla
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Terrence Trow
Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Robert A Balk
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
W Michael Alberts
Professor of Oncology and Medicine, Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, University of South Florida College of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
Marc Miravitlles
Chest Physician and Senior Researcher, Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
Pierre Bartsch
Medical Clinic VII, Sports Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany