Editorial Team

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

  1. Professor and Chairman Yoshinori Marunaka, Dr. Marunaka is Professor and Chairperson, Departments of Molecular Cell Physiology and Bio-Ionomics, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan, and also serves as Director, the Library at the university, and Director and Professor, Japan Institute for Food Education and Health, St. Agnes’ University. He is President-Elect, The Physiological Society of Japan, and Chief Editor, Journal of Physiological Sciences; Editor, Peer J; Review Editor, Frontiers in Physiology; Associate Editor, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research; Editorial Board Member, Respiratory and Translational Medicine etc, and Chair of Grants and Awards Committee, International Society for Translational Medicine. He was also The President, International Society of Cancer Metabolism, Editorial Review Board Member, American Journal of Physiology Renal Physiology, and a member, Program Committee Member, American Thoracic Society. He further serves as Review Board Member, Research Grants of Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Canada, Review Board Member, Research Grants of Wellcome Trust, England, Review Board, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the President of the 86th Annual Meeting, Physiological Society of Japan (2009), and also the President of the 3rd Meeting of International Society for Proton Dynamics in Cancer (2012). He was awarded “Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana” (Italian Government), The Premier's Research Excellence Award (Canadian Government), Scholar Award
(Medical Research Council of Canada) and Research Award from The National Kidney Foundation of USA. He obtained MD degree (1979) and PhD degree (1985) from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He was Instructor, Department of Physiology, Shiga University Medical Science, Research Associate, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). His current research focuses on regulation of epithelial ion transport including Na+, H+ and Cl-, epithelial cell growth, and roles of H+ and Cl- in cell function including cell growth, neurite elongation, diabetes mellitus etc., Japan
  2. President Antonio M. Esquinas, Antonio M. Esquinas, MD, PhD, is staff physician of Intensive Care unit of Hospital Morales Meseguer in Murcia (Spain), associated Fellow College Chest Physicians, International Fellow American Association of Respiratory Care and Director International School of Non-invasive mechanical Ventilation, President International Association of NIV, and Ibero American Association of Bioethics in NIV. Scientific activities related with editor in chief and author of numerous chapters, articles and books focus on mechanical ventilation, no invasive mechanical ventilation, postoperative pulmonary complications and associated respiratory technologies., Spain

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

  1. Wajhul Qamar, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  2. Joana Espiga de Macedo, Esplanada do Castelo,, Portugal
  3. Ayedh Dhafer Alahmari, Batterjee Medical College, Saudi Arabia
  4. Aslı Gorek Dilektasli, Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
  5. Associate Professor Kyoichi Kaira, Gumna University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University, Japan
  6. Michael Wegmann, Head of the Division of Asthma Mouse Models Priority Area Asthma & Allergy Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences Borstel Airway Research Center North (ARCN) Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
  7. Jan Hau Lee, Children’s Intensive Care Unit KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore
  8. Tomoo Kishaba, Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Japan
  9. Yao Lu, Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China
  10. Mohammad Hasan Alfelali, Kids Research Institute, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia
  11. Professor Marcia Margaret Menezes Pizzichini, Internal Medicine Division - NUPAIVA University Hospital –UFSC, Brazil
  12. David Perez, Service of Thoracic Surgery. Planta 5ª N. Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Spain
  13. Professor Ying-Fu Chen, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, Province of China
  14. Professor Zeljko Antun Cvetnic, Croatian Veterinary Institute Zagreb, Croatia
  15. Associate Professor Silin Pan, Qingdao Women and Children’s Hospital, China
  16. Professor Mariano García-Yuste, University Clinic Hospital, Spain
  17. William Eduard Sterlacci, Institute for Pathology, Clinical Center Bayreuth, Germany
  18. Johannes Ruediger Kratz, University of California San Francisco, United States
  19. Fabrizio Luppi, Centre for Rare Lung Diseases Department of Respiratory Diseases Huniversity Hospital Modena, Italy
  20. Professor Hakkı Gökbel, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Turkey
  21. Associate Professor Servet Kayhan, İstanbul Kemerburgaz University, School Of Medicine, Turkey
  22. Professor Prabodh Kumar Sehajpal, Guru Nanak Dev University, India
  23. Associate Professor Banu Musaffa Salepci, Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Kartal Training and Research Hospital, Chest Diseases Clinic., Turkey
  24. Sonia López-Cuenca, Intensive Care Unit and Burn Unit. Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Spain
  25. Professor Patricia Tak Hing Tai, Allan Blair Cancer Centre, Canada
  26. Masoud Shamaei, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Masih Daneshvari University Hospital, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
  27. Professor Kirill Pavlovich Ivanov, Laboratory of thermoregulation and bioenergetics., I.P.Pavlov Institute of Physiology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
  28. Professor Bogusław Andrzej Buszewski, Chair of Environmental Chemistry & Bioanalytics Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
  29. Giuseppe Francesco Sferrazza Papa, Respiratory Unit, San Paolo Hospital, Dipartimento Scienze della Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
  30. Anastasios V. Koutsopoulos, University of Crete, Medical School and Heraklion University Hospital, Greece
  31. Professor Prashant Hanamantraya Patil, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India
  32. Associate Professor Mahdi Najafi, Research department, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
  33. Professor Marcio Vinicius Donadio, Institute of Biomedical Research, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Brazil
  34. Head Jeng-Shing Wang, Head, Respiratory Care Center, Yuan’s General Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  35. Matija Rijavec, Laboratory for Clinical Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Slovenia
  36. Professor / Chair Sam Gregory Marshall, Texas State University College of Health Professions Department of Respiratory Care, United States
  37. Professor Makoto Hoshino, Atami Hospital, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
  38. Professor Margaret T.T. Wong-Riley, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
  39. Associated Professor Kuo-Chin Kao, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  40. Professor Shun Lu, Shanghai JIao Tong University, China
  41. Jacob Zeitani, Mediterranea hospital, Italy
  42. Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, India
  43. Professor Thierry Bienvenu, Laboratoire de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire, GH Paris Centre,, France
  44. Associate Professor Altug Kosar, Maltepe University The Hospital of Medical School, Turkey
  45. Associate Professor Ozkan Yetkin, Inonu University Hospital, Turkey
  46. Ömer Faruk Çiçek, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children’s Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
  47. Professor Nikolaos G Koulouris, Head of 1st Department of Respiratory Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, “SOTIRIA” Hospital, Greece
  48. David Laszlo Tarnoki, Semmelweis University, Hungary
  49. Courtnee Erin Melton, Clinical Translational Research Coordinator, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States
  50. Professor Takeshi Terashima, Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospital, Japan
  51. Jacek Nasiłowski, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology and Allergology Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
  52. Sule Comert, Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
  53. Pablo M-L Sinues, Switzerland
  54. Assistant Professor Elif Taslidere, Bezmialem Vakif University, Turkey
  55. Associate Professor Massimo Corradi, University of Parma, Italy
  56. Associate Professor Shahid Ijaz Sheikh, The Ohio Sate University College of Medicine, United States
  57. Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, Semmelweis University, Hungary
  58. Professor Prakash Singh Bisen, Institute for Medical Sciences, Jaipur National University, India
  59. Associate Professor Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., Chile
  60. Associate Professor Bruno D’Agostino, Second University of Naples, Italy
  61. Chung-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Taiwan, Province of China
  62. Kevin Molloy, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Ireland
  63. Mahmoud Loubani, Castle Hill Hospital Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom
  64. Takeharu Koga, Koga Clinic for Internal & Respiratory Medicine, Japan
  65. Scientist Avi Kumar Bansal, National JALMA Institute of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Miyazaki Marg, India
  66. Shidai Jin, The first affiliated hospital of Nanjing Medical University, China
  67. Professor Hui-Li Gan, Beijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Sciences,, China
  68. Associate Professor Jaeku Kang, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, Konyang University, Korea, Republic Of
  69. CHALAPATHI RAO ADIDAM VENKATA, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St.Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
  70. Professor Mariano García-Yuste, University Clinic Hospital, Spain
  71. Amr Suhail Albanna, King Abdulaziz Medical City – Western Region, Saudi Arabia
  72. Professor Jeong Seon Ryu, Internal Medicine, Inha University hospital, Korea, Republic Of
  73. Chief of Pediatrics Kong-Sang Wan, Chief of Pediatrics, Taipei city hospital-Renai branch, Taiwan, Province of China
  74. Nicola J Roberts, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom
  75. Carlos Galvez, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University General Hospital of Alicante, Spain
  76. Smit Singla, Karmanos Cancer Institute McLaren Flint, United States
  77. Wajdi Mkacher, Department of Physiology and Lung Function Testing (UR12 ES06), Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Tunisia
  78. Shih-Chi Ku, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  79. Professor Nikolai Konstantin Chemeris, Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Acad. Sci.,, Russian Federation
  80. Professor Shah-Hwa Chou, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  81. Associate Professor Ali KARAKUŞ, Medical Faculty, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey
  82. Associate Professor Hai Feng Ou Yang, Xijing Hospital, China
  83. Abdullah Cetin Tanrikulu, Dicle University Medical school, Turkey
  84. Associate Professor Sanda A Predescu, Rush University, Cohn Research Bldg, United States
  85. Professor Takao Ayuse, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  86. Jihen Ben Amar, Tunis, Tunisia
  87. Associate Professor Sanjib Bhakta, The Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London,, United Kingdom
  88. Satoshi Hamada, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
  89. Clinic Senior Professor Julio Gomez-Seco, New Medical Center, United Arab Emirates
  90. Professor Akira Umeda, International University of Health and Welfare Shioya Hospital, Japan
  91. Associate Professor Bahadir Taha Uskul, Istanbul Bilim University, School of Medicine,, Turkey
  92. Associate Professor Dilaver TAS, GMMA Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Turkey
  93. Yingjie Cui, Xuzhou Kuangshan Hospital, China
  94. Hélder Freitas Spínola, Universidade da Madeira Campus Universitário da Penteada, Portugal
  95. Naziha Khammassi, University hospital assistant, Tunisia
  96. Professor Sadhna Sharma, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
  97. Nurdan Kokturk, Department of Pulmonary Med, Gazi University School Of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
  98. Amanda Laura Helen Tufman, Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology,Department of Internal Medicine V, Ludwig Maximilians University Hospital, Munich, Germany
  99. Professor Luis Manuel Teran, Immunogenetics and Allergy, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico
  100. Adriana Claudia Lunardi, Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Physical Therapy, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  101. Ramune Jacobsen, Research Unit for Dietary Studies, The Parker Institute, Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, Denmark
  102. Associate Professor Chiharu Tabata, Cancer Center, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
  103. Married Yousser Mohammad, Professor of Pulmonary in Syrian private University, Damascus University and Tishreen U, Syrian Arab Republic
  104. Munish Luthra, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical care & Sleep Medicine, 39 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive, Atlanta, United States
  105. Associate Professor Majed Odeh, Chief, Department of Internal Medicine A, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
  106. Amrita Dosanjh, Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology, San Diego, United States
  107. Professor Raquel Duarte, Institute of Public Health. Porto University, Portugal
  108. Professor Lavi Oud, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, United States
  109. Fátima Morais, Hospital da Luz, Lisboa and Hospital Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
  110. Evangelia A Fouka, General Hospital “G.Papanikolaou”, Pulmonary Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  111. Olena Radomska Oliveira, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  112. Professor Mradul Kumar Daga, Maulana Azad Medical College, India
  113. Weihua Xu, Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province, China
  114. Associate Professor Yesim Salik Sengul, School Of Physical Therapy And Rehabilitation, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
  115. Mauro Musa Zamboni, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  116. Associate Professor João Tadeu Ribeiro-Paes, São Paulo State University, Brazil
  117. Jorge Soliz, Medicine Faculty, Laval University, Canada
  118. Chiara Porro, University of Foggia - Medical Faculty, Italy
  119. Associate Professor Dante D. Cáceres, School of Public Health, University of Chile, Chile
  120. Assistant Professor Hongwei Yao, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
  121. Associate Professor Adnan Yilmaz, Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
  122. Professor and Chief Hon-Yi Shi, Taiwan, Province of China
  123. Mona Mlika, Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Tunisia
  124. Associate Professor Jeremy B Coquart, University of Rouen, France
  125. Aleksandar Sovtic, Mother and Child Health Institute of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro
  126. Professor Kazuyoshi Imaizumi, Fujita Health University, Japan
  127. Associate Professor Torsten Goldmann, Research Center Borstel, Germany
  128. Hiroshi Hamakawa, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Japan
  129. Professor Minoru Takeuchi, Animal Medical Science, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
  130. Kalidhindi Rama Satyanarayana Raju Raju, JSS College of Pharmacy, India
  131. Professor Thomas Tschernig, Saarland University, Germany
  132. Professor Rui-tao Wang, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, China
  133. professor Yasuyuki Taooka, Akiota Hospital, Japan
  134. Professor Joaquin Zúñiga, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villega, Mexico
  135. Ying Chang, Center for Translational Medicine, Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, China
  136. Flavio Colaut, City Hospital, via Montegrappa, Italy
  137. Jin Gu Lee, Yonsei University College of Medicine Severane Hospital, Korea, Republic Of
  138. Professor Mehmet Ekici, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale University, Turkey
  139. Assistant Professor Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  140. Professor Babak Amra, Bamdad respiratory research institute, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
  141. Professor Praveen Kumar Neema, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur, India
  142. Anastasia Sorokina, Federal Research and Clinical Center of FMBA, Russian Federation
  143. Vasileios S Skouras, 401 General Army Hospital, Greece
  144. Martin Simon Dres, Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation Médicale, France
  145. Nailya Kubysheva, Russian Federation
  146. Paolo Innocente Banfi, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Italy
  147. Professor Andre Martins Galvao, College of Medicine, Health Science Center at Mauricio de Nassau University, Brazil
  148. Professor Nurten Aksoy, Faculty of Medicine, Harran University, Turkey
  149. Stephan Steiner, Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine, Auf dem Schafsberg, Germany
  150. Jinquan Yu, The university of HongKong-Shenzhen hospital, China
  151. Associate Professor Sy Duong-Quy, Hospital Cochin, Paris Descartes University, France
  152. Ioannis Psallidas, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit Churchill Hospital, United Kingdom
  153. Marco Ciotti, Polyclinic Tor Vergata Foundation, Italy
  154. Associate Professor P. S Sriram, University of Florida, United States
  155. Assistant Professor Cherry Kay Ballard-Croft, University of Kentucky, United States
  156. Professor Filipe Moreira de Andrade, Universidade Federal de Viçosa., Brazil
  157. Professor Yoe-Sik Bae, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic Of
  158. Sebastian Ley, Chirurgische Klinik Dr. Rinecker, Germany
  159. Mohammed Herrag, Mohammed VI Teaching hospital, Morocco
  160. Professor Roy John Korula, Pushpagiri Heart Institute, Pushpagiri Medical College and Hospital, India
  161. Professor Gerald S Supinski, University of Kentucky, United States
  162. Assistant Professor Alessandro Rubini, University of Padova, Italy
  163. Assistant Professor Suzy A.A Comhair, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, United States
  164. Jining Lu, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, United States
  165. Ali COŞKUN, Izmir Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
  166. Professor Asmita Anilkumar Mehta, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, India
  167. Assistant Professor Yan Sanders, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
  168. Specialist Raffaele Giordano, University of Naples “FEDERICO II”, Italy
  169. Professor Andrey Akopov, Pavlov First State Medical University, Russian Federation
  170. Jürgen Knobloch, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Germany
  171. Feng Yih Chai, Hospital Keningau, Malaysia
  172. Mario Fl Gaudino, Weill Cornell Medical College, Italy
  173. Nagarajan Muthialu, Great Ormond Street Hospital, United Kingdom
  174. Professor Akin Kaya, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
  175. Associate Professor Shigeo Masuda, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
  176. María-Jesús Cruz, Institut de Recerca Vall d’Hebron, Spain
  177. Professor Ramakant Dixit, J L N Medical College, Ajmer, India
  178. Professor Dan Constantin Stanescu, Catholic Universrty of Louvain, Belgium
  179. Rashmi Ranjan Das, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Sijua, India
  180. Associate Professor Pablo Demelo-Rodríguez, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Spain
  181. Associate Professor Füsun Şahin, Yedikule Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
  182. Antonio Torres, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain
  183. Associate Professor Mohammed Ouda Al Ghobain, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Saudi Arabia
  184. Senior Lecturer Giovanni Mariscalco, Glenfield General Hospital, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
  185. Assistant Professor Xingbin Ai, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, United States
  186. Hideki Kawai, Akita Red Cross Hospital, Japan
  187. Associate Professor John K. C. TAM, National University Hospital, Singapore
  188. Assistant Professor Rajul Rastogi, Near Delhi Public School, India
  189. Associate Professor Lea Bentur, Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital Rambam health Care Campus, Israel
  190. Associate Professor Felip Burgos, Hospital Clínic – University of Barcelona, Spain
  191. Professor Ahmet Ursavaş, University of Uludag, Scholl of Medicine Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Turkey
  192. Consultant Ajay Kumar Jha, Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, Global Health City, India
  193. Professor Kazuyoshi Kuwano, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
  194. Professor Yi Shi, Jinling Hospital, China
  195. Professor Dolly Mehta, College of Medicine 835 S Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, United States
  196. Assistant Professor Joy Sarkar, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  197. Vadim Shlyonsky, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  198. Associate Professor Yong Zhou, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
  199. Associate Professor Shu Wu, University of Miami School of Medicine, United States
  200. Philippe François Gosset, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, France
  201. Associate Professor Nikki L Jernigan, University of New Mexico, United States
  202. Associate Professor Hong-Long James Ji, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, United States
  203. Ioannis K Toumpoulis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  204. Juan Jose Ortega-Albás, Universitary General Hospital of Castellón, Spain
  205. Bebiana Conceição Fernandes Palheiros Conde, Nursing School of University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal
  206. Associate Professor Shampa Chatterjee, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, United States
  207. Associate Professor Ru-Jeng Teng, Medical College of Wisconsin,, United States
  208. Mohamed Shehata, Universit tsstra e 22, 50937 Koln, Germany
  209. Professor Ahmed M Al-Jumaily, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  210. Professor Yong-Xiao Wang, Albany Medical College, United States
  211. Professor Linhong Deng, Changzhou Key Laboratory of Respiratory Medical Engineering Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences Changzhou University, China
  212. President Antonio M. Esquinas, Antonio M. Esquinas, MD, PhD, is staff physician of Intensive Care unit of Hospital Morales Meseguer in Murcia (Spain), associated Fellow College Chest Physicians, International Fellow American Association of Respiratory Care and Director International School of Non-invasive mechanical Ventilation, President International Association of NIV, and Ibero American Association of Bioethics in NIV. Scientific activities related with editor in chief and author of numerous chapters, articles and books focus on mechanical ventilation, no invasive mechanical ventilation, postoperative pulmonary complications and associated respiratory technologies., Spain
  213. Associate Professor Antonio Manenti, University of Modena, Italy
  214. Chairman Fahad Mohammed Al-Hameed, Intensive Care Department Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training Program King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) King Abdulaziz Medical City-WR (KAMC-WR), Saudi Arabia
  215. Professor Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, United States
  216. Assistant Professor Frédéric Perros, Université Paris-Sud - LabEx LERMIT - DHU Thorax Innovation (TORINO), France
  217. Associate Staff Scientist Shuguang Leng, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, United States
  218. Maryam Ali Al-Nesf Al-Mansouri, Hamad Medical Corporation, Hamad General Hospital, Qatar
  219. Head Harinder Singh Bedi, Department of Cardio Vascular Endovascular & Thoracic Surgery, Christian Medical College & Hospital, India
  220. Professor and Chief Jang-Ming Lee, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  221. Associate Professor Yeh Chunn Kuan, International Islamic University Malaysia Bandar Indera Mahkota Campus, Malaysia
  222. Assistant Professor Hani M.S. Lababidi, King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia
  223. Luis Ignacio Gonzalez Granado, Hospital 12 octubre, Spain
  224. Associate Professor Ju Cao, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing Medical University, China
  225. Professor Ahmed Salem BaHammam, University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  226. Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Spain
  227. Professor and Chairman Yoshinori Marunaka, Dr. Marunaka is Professor and Chairperson, Departments of Molecular Cell Physiology and Bio-Ionomics, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan, and also serves as Director, the Library at the university, and Director and Professor, Japan Institute for Food Education and Health, St. Agnes’ University. He is President-Elect, The Physiological Society of Japan, and Chief Editor, Journal of Physiological Sciences; Editor, Peer J; Review Editor, Frontiers in Physiology; Associate Editor, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research; Editorial Board Member, Respiratory and Translational Medicine etc, and Chair of Grants and Awards Committee, International Society for Translational Medicine. He was also The President, International Society of Cancer Metabolism, Editorial Review Board Member, American Journal of Physiology Renal Physiology, and a member, Program Committee Member, American Thoracic Society. He further serves as Review Board Member, Research Grants of Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Canada, Review Board Member, Research Grants of Wellcome Trust, England, Review Board, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the President of the 86th Annual Meeting, Physiological Society of Japan (2009), and also the President of the 3rd Meeting of International Society for Proton Dynamics in Cancer (2012). He was awarded “Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana” (Italian Government), The Premier's Research Excellence Award (Canadian Government), Scholar Award
(Medical Research Council of Canada) and Research Award from The National Kidney Foundation of USA. He obtained MD degree (1979) and PhD degree (1985) from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He was Instructor, Department of Physiology, Shiga University Medical Science, Research Associate, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). His current research focuses on regulation of epithelial ion transport including Na+, H+ and Cl-, epithelial cell growth, and roles of H+ and Cl- in cell function including cell growth, neurite elongation, diabetes mellitus etc., Japan
  228. Francesco Pollari, Klinikum Nürnberg - Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany
  229. Tevfik Ilker Akcam, Dr. Suat Seren Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery Hospital (Turkey, Izmir), Turkey
  230. Professor Myung-Haing Cho, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic Of
  231. Luke Wisely Garratt, Research Officer, Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia
  232. Vijay Hadda, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
  233. Assistant professor Susan M. Abughosh, University of Houston, United States
  234. Ji Ye Jung, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Korea, Republic Of
  235. Associate Professor Mohamed Nagy Ahmed, Cohen Children’s hospitals at New York, Hofstra University, United States
  236. Professor Claudio Marabotti, C.N.R. Insitute of Clinical Physiology， Pisa, Italy
  237. Nelly Solomonia, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia
  238. Renae J McNamara, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia
  239. Emmanouil Petrou, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
  240. Professor Qi Guo, Affiliated Futian Hospital, Guangdong Medical College,, China
  241. Professor Ping Chen, The 2nd Xiangya Hospital, Central-South University, China
  242. Isao Ito, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan
  243. Alexander G. Mathioudakis, Aintree University Hospital, United Kingdom
  244. Professor Manfred Arthur Neuberger, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  245. Stefania Costi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
  246. Associate Professor Motoshi Takao, Mie University, School of Medicine, Japan
  247. Antonio Loforte, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University, Italy
  248. Scientific Director Alena Skrahina, The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Belarus
  249. Associate Professor Yu-Chung Wu, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  250. Associate Professor Nedim Durmus, Hacettepe University Medical School, Turkey
  251. Associate Professor Javier Aspa, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Spain
  252. Scientist Ramesh Kumar, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India
  253. Professor Ke_Fang Lai, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, China
  254. Leyla Pur Ozyigit, Koç University School of Medicine, Turkey
  255. Assistant Professor Agnes Wilhelmina Boots, Maastricht University, Netherlands
  256. Ernesto Crisafulli, Pneumology and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, "Carlo Poma" Hospital, Italy
  257. Professor Mehmet Oguz Koksel, Mersin University School of Medicine, Turkey
  258. Associate Professor Janvier Gasana, FIU College of Public Health & Social Work, United States
  259. Assistant Professor Paschalis Steiropoulos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  260. Andrea Banfi, University of Szeged department of Pediatrics, Hungary
  261. Professor Tomoko Betsuyaku, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
  262. Siti Munira Yasin, Faculty of Medicine Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  263. Professor Alexey V Polonikov, Kursk State Medical University, Russian Federation
  264. Consultant Manish Gautam, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, United Kingdom
  265. Erna Sziksz, Semmelweis University, Hungary
  266. Tania Silvia Frode, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
  267. Associate Professor Seong-Hyop Kim, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Korea, Republic Of
  268. Associate Professor Bharat Bhushan, Government Medical College, Amritsar, India
  269. Associate Professor Alper Findikcioglu, Baskent University Adana Hospital, Turkey
  270. Professor Medhat Mossaad Tiba, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University, Egypt
  271. Professor Jan IT Poelaert, UZ Brussel, Belgium
  272. Associate Professor Min ZHOU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School Of Medicine, China
  273. Pofessor Alaa Ibrahim Brik, Zagazic University, Egypt
  274. Professor Ali A El Solh, University at Buffalo Western New York Healthcare System, United States
  275. MRCS Philemon Sylvester Gukop, St George’s University hospital foundation trust London, United Kingdom
  276. Professor David John Barnes, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Medical Centre, Australia
  277. Professor Ibtesam Kamel Afifi, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt
  278. Mirko Di Martino, Lazio Regional Health Service, Italy
  279. Mr Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, University College London Hospitals UCLH, United Kingdom
  280. Professor Antonio Mattos Castro, Federal University of Pampa, Brazil
  281. Professor Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
  282. Chief of staff Chia-Ming Chang, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  283. Professor Viroj Wiwanitkit, Surin Rajabhat University, Thailand
  284. Associate Professor Changzhou Shao, Fudan University, China
  285. Professor V K Vijayan, Baby Memorial Hospital, India
  286. FCCP Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, Roswell Park Cancer Institute / University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States
  287. Professor Raymond Farah, Ziv Medical Center, Israel
  288. Associate Professor Bartosz Karol Kubisa, Pomeranian Medical University of Szczecin Regional Pulmonary Hospital, Poland
  289. Associate Professor Huang Chao-Cheng, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, Province of China
  290. FRCS Pankaj Kumar Mishra, James Cook University Hospital, United Kingdom
  291. Simone Gattarello, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Spain
  292. Christopher Papandreou, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
  293. Professor Wing P. Chan, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, Province of China
  294. Associate Professor Calvin Sze Hang Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
  295. Associate Professor Chun-Ru Chien, Taiwan, Province of China
  296. Vice Dean Mohammed Dhafer AlAhmari, Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Chairman, Respiratory Care Program, Chairman, Institutional Research Board (IRB), Saudi Governor for Respiratory Care, AARC, Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
  297. Gian Luca Casoni, University of Ferrara, Italy
  298. FRCP Jack Kastelik, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and east Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, United Kingdom
  299. Cristina Canova, University of Padova, Italy
  300. FRCS Syed Suhail Ahmed Qadri, Castle Hill Hospital, United Kingdom
  301. Roy Alton Pleasants, Duke University Division of Pulmonary, United States
  302. Professor Francesco Puma, Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, Italy
  303. Fabrizio Facchinetti, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A., Italy
  304. Associate Professor Bugra Harmandar, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Cardiothoracic Centre, Turkey
  305. Gianluca Trifirò, Policlinico University, Italy
  306. Professor Mee Sook Roh, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Korea, Republic Of
  307. Associate Professor Engin Tutkun, S.B. Ankara Meslek Hastalıkları Hastanesi, Turkey
  308. Professor Kagan Ucok, Faculty of Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey