Airway Vista 2022

Warren Gefter
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Gefter is Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, on the emeritus faculty. He has served as Chief of the Thoracic Imaging Section and Associate Chair for Cardiothoracic Imaging in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gefter has expertise and broad clinical experience in advanced thoracic imaging techniques. His research has focused primarily on functional and quantitative pulmonary imaging, including pioneering work in lung MRI. Dr. Gefter has more than 500 publications, including over 200 peer-reviewed original research papers, and has presented more than 450 lectures worldwide. He recently published a state-of-the-art paper on pulmonary functional imaging in Radiology (Gefter WB, Lee KS, Schiebler ML et al. Radiology 2021;299:524-538). Dr. Gefter has served as Chair of the chest scientific programs for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and the Fleischner Society. He received the John West Award in 2019 from the International Workshop on Pulmonary Functional Imaging (IWPFI) in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to the field of functional pulmonary imaging,” and was named by the Journal of Thoracic Imaging among the “luminaries” in the field. Dr. Gefter currently serves on the American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute Thoracic Panel.

Elliot Israel
Professor, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Anne E. Holland
Professor, Monash University and Alfred Health

Anne Holland is Professor of Physiotherapy at Monash University and Alfred Health in Melbourne, Australia. Anne’s research program investigates new models of rehabilitation for people with chronic respiratory disease. Her recent clinical trials have tested novel models of pulmonary rehabilitation to improve access and uptake, including low cost home-based models and telerehabilitation. Professor Holland has published over 300 peer reviewed journal articles and her publications have been cited over 16 000 times, including in 27 clinical guidelines for chronic lung disease, oxygen therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory management. She has been an Editor for the Cochrane Airways Group since 2009, providing editorial oversight for Cochrane Reviews of non-drug treatments for respiratory disease. In 2016 Anne received the American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly Award, in recognition of a career of service to the field of pulmonary rehabilitation. She is a Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), and in 2021 was awarded the TSANZ Society Medal, the first allied health professional to be afforded this honour.

Ian Adcock
Professor, Imperial College London

Current appointment

Professor of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Other positions/roles

Co-leader, Innovative Medicines Initiative European Union/EFPIA U-BIOPRED project.
Current Leader U-BIOPRED
PI, Asthma UK Asthma Centre on Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
PI COPD-MAP, Lead Workstream3 on airway remodelling and inflammation
PI Biomedical Research Unit (BRU) in COPD and Asthma at RBH
Elected amongst founding Fellows of the European Respiratory Society in 2013
Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biologists in 2010
Elected to Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society in 2019
Elected to Member of the Academia Peloritana dei Pericolanti in 2019
Former Head ERS Assembly 5 (Airways Diseases) 2015-2017.

Ian Adcock graduated from St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School in 1987 with a PhD in Molecular Pharmacology. He started working with Professor Peter J Barnes at the National Heart and Lung Institute on the molecular mechanisms of glucocorticoid action in the lung in 1990. In 2004 he became Professor of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology at Imperial College London. Dr Adcock is a former Head of Assembly 5 (Airway Diseases) within the ERS and has served on both the ERS and ATS Programme Committees.

Research interest

My main interests lie in the effects of glucocorticoids on airway inflammation in patients with severe asthma and also in COPD patients. The roles of oxidative stress, infection and epigenetics in modulating steroid responses in in vitro and in vivo have also been a long term research focus. Recent studies have focussed on novel drug interventions and the detection of drug-response signatures in large patient datasets such as that in U-BIOPRED.
An important aspect of the group is to perform translational research. Thus, although many of these studies are performed in immortalised, cultured cell lines we have endeavoured to confirm results in primary human cells obtained from normal, asthmatic and COPD subjects by biopsy, bronchio-alveolar lavage or following extraction from peripheral blood. We also use animal models of chronic airway inflammation as a tool to understanding the inflammatory processes present in inflamed airways.

Dr Adcock has published >500 peer-reviewed articles
Google h-index: 124; Citations: 55,110. WoS H Index =94.

Shigeo Muro
Professor, Nara Medical university

Shigeo Muro is a professor of Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nara Medical University. He had studied at Kyoto University had been trained in Chest disease institute hospital Kyoto university. He received Ph.D. supervised Prof. Mishima and Oku at Kyoto university, and postdoctoral training by Professor Qutayba Hamid at Meakins Christie Laboratories, McGill university, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Scientific Assembly on Obstructive Pulmonary Disease of the Japanese Respiratory Society. He is a member of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Japanese Respiratory Society, Japanese Society of Allergology, Japan Society of Respiratory care and rehabilitation, APSR, and American Thoracic Society.

Dawn DeMeo
Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Mary Rice
Assistant Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Andrew Synn
Associate Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

Dr. Andrew Synn is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA, USA. Dr. Synn’s research focuses on the use of quantitative image analysis to non-invasively identify pulmonary vascular abnormalities and improve clinical phenotyping of lung disease. Using data from the Framingham Heart Study and local clinical cohorts, his work has demonstrated that vascular “pruning” on CT imaging is associated with more severe airways disease and associated pulmonary vasculopathy, including greater risk of airflow obstruction, poorer lung function, right ventricular dysfunction, and greater risk of death. He also recently found that pruning on CT is correlated with structural remodeling of the pulmonary vessels on histology. Dr. Synn’s work is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Lung Association.

Sei Won Lee
Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Ji Ye Jung
Severance Hospital and Yonsei University College of Medicine

Dr. Jung is working as Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital and Yonsei University College of Medicine in Republic of Korea. After completion of her medical graduation at Yonsei University College of Medicine, she got her PhD degree at the same university. She had trained as an intern, resident and clinical fellow at Severance Hospital. She is a member of Asia Pacific Society of Respirology, Korean Society of Internal Medicine, Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, and Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine. She is a member of Editorial Board of Yonsei Medical Journal and Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. She is also a steering committee of Korean COPD Study Group and Korean Bronchiectasis Study Group. Her main research focus is to discover novel biomarkers to improve the care and diagnosis of patients with COPD. She has more than 100 publications in national & international journals and manages various clinical trials as principal investigator.

Woo-Jung Song
Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Joo-hee Kim
Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital

Current Position
Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine

Education
1998-2004 M.D. Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea
2008-2010 M.S. Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea
2011-2018 PhD. Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea

2004-2005 Internship, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea
2005-2009 Resident training, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea
2009-2011 Fellow training, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University Hospital, Suwon, South Korea
2011-2013 Clinical instructor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea
2013-2018 Assistant professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea
2019-2020 Visiting Scholar, Department of Otolaryngology/Allergy-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
2019- present Associate professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea

Major Professional Societies
Korean Association of Internal Medicine
Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Hyun Jung Kim
Keimyung university Dongsan hospital

Current Position
Assistant professor, Division of pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung university Dongsan hospital

Education and Training
M.D School of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea (2007)
M.S degree Graduate School, Yeungnam University (2014)
PhD, Graduate School, Ulsan University (2016)
Internship in Yeungnam University Hospital (2007)
Residency in Yeungnam University Hospital (2008-2011)
Fellowship of Pulmonology department, Yeungnam University Hospital (2012)
Fellowship of Pulmonology and Critical Care medicine, Asan Medical Center (2013-2014)

Professional Experience
Clinical assistant professor in Kyungpook national university hospital (2015-2016)
Clinical assistant professor in Keimyung university Dongsan hospital (2017)

Sun Hye Shin
Samsung Medical Center, Seoul

Current Position
Clinical Instructor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Education
2012 Bachelor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
2017 Master of Science in Medicine, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
2021 Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine, School of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

Major Professional Experience
2012-2013 Internship, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
2013-2017 Residency, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
2017-2019 Fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
2019-Present Clinical Instructor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Major Professional Societies
Member of The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
Member of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
Member of The European Respiratory Society

Ji-Ho Lee
Wonju Severance Christian Hospital

Jieun Kang
Ilsan Paik Hospital

Current Position
- Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea

Education
- Ajou University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Republic of Korea
- Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Republic of Korea

Major Professional Societies
- Member of The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
- Member of Korean Association of Internal Medicine

Gyu Young Hur
Korea University Guro Hospital

Han-Ki Park
Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital

Current Position
Assistant Professor in division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Internal medicine

Education & Training
1999.3 – 2005.2: Seoul National University College of Medicine
2005.3 – 2006.2: Rotating Internship, Seoul National University Hospital
2006.3 – 2010.2: Residency, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital
2013.5 – 2015.2: Fellowship in department of allergy and clinical immunology, Seoul National University Hospital
2015.3 – 2016.5: MD healthcare, corporate research institute
2016.6 – 2017.2: Research assistant professor of allergy and clinical immunology, Ajou University Hospital
2017.3 –: assistant professor of allergy and clinical immunology, Kyungpook national university.

Research interests
Airway inflammation and gut microbiota
Gut microbiome and immune response

Sun Young Yoon
Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital

Mi-Ae Kim
CHA Bundang Medical Center

Current Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonology, Allergy and Critical care medicine

Education
Mar 2000-Feb 2006 College of Medicine, CHA University, Bachelor
Mar 2008-Feb 2010 College of Medicine, Graduate School,Master
Mar 2010-Feb 2017 College of Medicine, Graduate School,Ph.D

Training
Mar 2006-Feb 2007 Bundang CHA Hospital, Internship
Mar 2007-Feb 2011 Bundang CHA Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Residency
Mar 2011-May 2012 Asan Medical Center, Department of Pulmonary and Critical care medicine, Fellowship
Jun 2012-Feb 2014 Ajou University hospital, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Fellowship

Major Professional Societies
- Korean Association of Internal Medicine
- Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy & Clinical Immunology
- Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease

Dave Singh
Clinical pharmacology & respiratory medicine, University of Manchester, UK

Professor Singh is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester, UK.

He graduated in medicine from Cambridge University and then specialised in clinical pharmacology and respiratory medicine. His research interest is the development of new drugs for asthma and COPD. He is the medical director of the Medicines Evaluation Unit, where he has acted as principal investigator in over 400 clinical trials. He is a member of the GOLD Science Committee. He was previously the chair of the European Respiratory Society airway pharmacology group. He is currently an editor of the European Respiratory Journal and European Respiratory Review. He is a fellow of the European Respiratory Society and of the British Pharmacology Society. He has over 350 publications.

Ji-Yong Moon
Hanyang University Guri Hospital

Sang Min Lee
Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Jihye Yun
Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Heejun Park
Deputy General Manager, Clinical Strategy Dept., Coreline Soft

Kum Ju Chae
Jeonbuk National University Hospital

Sanghun Choi
Kyungpook National University

My main research is to perform high-performance computational simulations and to perform population-based lung imaging analysis. The ultimate aim of my research is to develop the efficient intervention via imaging-based clustering, and to understand underlying structural and functional mechanism of lung diseases. I received academic training in both mechanical and biomedical engineering. I graduated from the University

of Iowa with a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering and with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. I also graduated from Seoul National University (in South Korea) with a master’s degree in

mechanical engineering. At the University of Iowa, I explored structural and functional alterations of asthma

populations with novel computational techniques. At Seoul National University, I developed a finite element method for solving two-phase flows with the strong effect of surface tension. I am now a member of ATS RSF from 2012, and a head of machine learning and fluid mechanics laboratory (MLFM) in Kyungpook National University from March 2017.

Jae Seung Lee
Asan Medical Center, Seoul

Seokho Hong
Kangwon National University Hospital

Hee Kwon
Director, LifeSemantics Corp.

Wilhelm Holzapfel
Handong Global University

Ji-Hwan Ryu
Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine