KATERINA DIMAKOU (Greece)

  • Chest Physician, Director of 5th Respiratory Department, Chest Diseases Hospital of Athens
  • Member of EMBARC (The European Bronchiectasis Network) Steering Committee
  • Member of the ERS bronchiectasis guidelines committee
  • Member of COPD and Asthma working group of the Hellenic Thoracic Society

PIETER C. GOEMINNE (Belgium)

  • Respiratory physician and staff member at AZ Nikolaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
  • Chair of the Infectious Disease Working group of the Belgian Respiratory Society
  • Specialist in Bronchiectasis, reviewer for several journals and active member of the EMBARC network

SILVIA HARTL (Austria)

  • Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Otto Wagner hospital Vienna

CHARLES S. HAWORTH (UK)

  • Director of the Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection at Papworth Hospital
  • Co-author of the US CF Foundation and European CF Society NTM guidelines published in Thorax in December 2015 and co-chair of the BTS NTM guidelines committee
  • Member of the BTS bronchiectasis and ERS bronchiectasis guidelines committees
  • European Union member founder of iABC and CFMATTERS consortia
  • Co-chief investigator of three current international novel therapy clinical trials in people with bronchiectasis
  • Site Principal Investigator for the European Cystic Fibrosis Society Clinical Trials network and is a member of the CF Foundation Data Safety Monitoring Board
  • Member of EMBARC (The European Bronchiectasis Network) Steering Committee

MICHAEL LOEBINGER (UK)

  • Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital with a special interest in respiratory infections, non-tuberculous mycobacteria and bronchiectasis
  • Member of EMBARC (The European Bronchiectasis Network) Steering Committee
  • Co-chairs the BTS bronchiectasis guideline committee
  • Steering committee member for the BTS non-tuberculous mycobacteria and ERS bronchiectasis guidelines
  • Founding member of the UK and European clinical and research bronchiectasis networks
  • Member of the ERS Respiratory Infection Education task force

ANTONI TORRES (Spain)

  • Full Professor in Medicine (Pulmonology) at the University of Barcelona and Director of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit at Hospital Clínic
  • Chair of the research group on Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
  • Coordinator of the CIBER group on respiratory diseases (Ciberes), an SGR (Generalitat de Catalonia) group
  • Member of EMBARC (The European Bronchiectasis Network) Steering Committee

TOBIAS WELTE (Germany)

  • Head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover
  • Member of the board of directors of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) and director of the Hannover DZL site BREATH (Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover)
  • Member of EMBARC (The European Bronchiectasis Network) Steering Committee
  • President of ERS – European Respiratory Society