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Abman, Steven	Professor, Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Aurora CO 80045 USA	USA
Adatia, Ian	Director, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care and Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Canada
Adnot, Serge	Professor of Physiology Service de Physiologie Explorations Fonctionnelles Head	France
Aiello, Vera Demarchi	Pathologist-in-chief Surgical Pathology Section Laboratory of Pathology at the Heart Institute (InCor) University of Sao Paulo Medical School	Brazil
Ajuluchukwu, Janet	Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, PMB 12003, Idiaraba, Lagos-Nigeria	Nigeria
Al Dabbagh, Maha Mohammad	Pediatric Pulmonologist Section Head Pediatric Department King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital	Saudi Arabia
Al-Ghamdi, Badr Rashed	Associate Professor Consultant Pulmonologist College of Medicine - King Khaled University	Saudi Arabia
Al-Hajjaj, Mohamed Saleh	Professor Mohamed Saleh Al-Hajjaj MD, FRCP(C) Professor of Pulmonary Medicine & Consultant Pulmonologist Chairman, Saudi Thoracic Society Head, Respiratory Division, Medicine Department King Saud University & King Khalid University Hospital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
AL-Saidi, Fatmah	MOH-Kuwaite AL Rashid Chest and Allergy Centre	Kuwait
Al-Tamimi, Omar	Assisstant Professor of Pediatric , Consultant of pediatric cardiology , Interventional cardiologist .In-charge of pediatric pulmonary hypertension clinic .King Abdulaziz Medical City	Saudi Arabia
Aldammas, Saleh	MD, Consultant - Section of Pulmonary Medicine, Director - Lung Transplant Programme, Director - Sleep Medicine Unit, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Honorary Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
Aldashev, Almaz	Head, Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine Professor of Biochemistry Chief Secretary Academician of National Academy of Sciences The Fellow of National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic	Kyrgyz Republic
Alkhorayyef_A	Fellow in Pediatric Respiratory Medicine at Alberta Childern Hospital,Calgary,AB,Canada	canada
Almodovar, Sharilyn	Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine University of Colorado Denver	USA
Amado, Veronica	PhD and Medicine Professor of Universidade de Brasilia	Brazil
Anand, Inder	Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Director of the Heart Failure Program, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN.	USA
Anthi, Anastasia	Senior physician Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonary Hypertension clinic University Hospital "ATTIKON"	Greece.
Antunes, Carlos Maurício	Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Parasitology, Epidemiology Branch, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil	Brazil
Arakaki, Jaquelina Sonoe Ota	Coordinator of the Pulmonary Circulation Department of the Brazilian Thoracic Society (2006-2008) Coordinator of the Pulmonary Circulation Group of the Federal University of Sao Paulo Vice-President of the Paulista Thoracic Society	Brazil
Araujo, Maria Ilma	Professor and Reseacher at Federal University of Bahia and Bahiana's School of Medicine	Brazil
Archer, Stephen	Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology The University of Chicago	USA
Arif, Gulnaze Mahomed	Cardiologist- Hospital Central de Maputo	Mozambique
Badagliacca, Roberto	Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Dep.Cardiovascular and Respiratory Science, University of Rome "Sapienza"	Italy
Badesch, David	Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). Chair of Scientific Leadership Council Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), Chair Pulmonary Circulation Assembly American Thoracic Society (ATS)	USA
Bahous, Joudy	Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Department at the St. Georges Hospital Achrafieh, Lebanon	Lebanon
Bandeira, Angela	Memorial S. Jose hospital - Recife-pe PROCAPE - Pernambuco's University Recife-Pe-Brazil	Brazil
Banja, Hanaa Hasan	Canadian Board of Pediatric and pediatric Pulmonology, MD, FRCPC Consultant Pediatric Pulmonologist	Saudi Arabia
Banker, Darshan Navin	Director - Bankers Heart Institute	India
Barbera, Joan-Albert	Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Unit. Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine. Thorax Institute. Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona	Spain
Barnes, Kathleen	Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Mary Beryl Patch Turnbull Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Director, Bayview Genetics Research Facility (BGRF) and The Lowe Family Genomics Core, Johns Hopkins University	USA
Barst, Robyn	Professor Emerita of Pediatrics Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons New York, New York USA	USA
Beltran, Miguel	CARDIOLOGIST, HOSPITAL ANGELES, TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Head of the Pulmonary Circulation Chapter for the Cardiology Mexican Society	Mexico
Ben-Dov, I	Sheba Medical Center	Israel
Berger, Rolf	Professor Dr R.M.F.Berger Pediatric Cardiology Beatrix Children's Hospital University Medical Center Groningen	Netherlands
Binotto, Maria Angelica	Staff Cardiologist, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo	Brazil
Boban,Thomas	Consultant Physician, NHS, Portugal	Portugal
Boutet, Kim	Professor of Medecine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Staff pneumologist, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, Canada and Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada	Canada
Burton, Rosie		South Africa
Butrous, Ghazwan	Professor of Cardiopulmonary Sciences University of Kent, Canterbury Chief Scientific Adviser. Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich Laboratories	UK
Cáneva, Jorge Osvaldo	MD, FCCP, Professor of Medicine Favaloro University Chief - Pulmonary Section University Hospital Favaloro Foundation	Argentina
Caramuru, Lucia Helena	Staff Cardiologist of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at The Heart Institute, University of São Paulo	Brazil
CerroMarin, Maria	Head of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension “la Paz” Children´s Hospital, in Madrid	Spain
Champion, Hunter	Assistant Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Division of Cardiology	USA
Changming, Xiong	Chief physician, Professor , Deputy Director	P.R.China
Chao,Wu	physician	P.R. China
Chaouat, Ari	Service des Maladies Respiratoires et Réanimation Respiratoire	FRANCE
Chen, Wendy	Resideant, Beijing cadiopulmonary vascular diseaes institution	P.R.China
Cheng, Xian-sheng	Prof. Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital	P. R. China
Chinello, Pierangelo	2nd Infectious Diseases Division "L. Spallanzani" National institute for Infectious Diseases Rome	Italy
Chung, Wendy	Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genetics	USA
Cicalini, Stefania	2nd Infectious Diseases Unit National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy	Italy
Cilliers, Antoinette Myrna	Professor of Paediatric Cardiology	South Africa
Colley, Dan	Director, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases; Professor of Microbiology; University of Georgia	United States of America
Corrêa, Ricardo de Amorim	Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais/Belo	Brazil
Corris, Paul	Professor of Thoracic Medicine Director National Pulmonary Hypertension Service (Newcastle) Academic Director Institute of Transplantation Institute of Cellular Medicine Newcastle University and Freeman Hospital Newcastle	U.K.
Cortez, Patricia	Professor of Pediatric Cardiology Director Department of Pediatric Cardiology Metropolitano Hospital	Ecuador
Crosby, Alexi	Department of Medicine Addenbrooke's Hosptial Cambridge UK	UK
D, Dharmarajan	Cardiologist, Coimbatore, India.	India
Damasceno, Albertino	Professor of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University	Mozambique
Date, Hiroshi	Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University	Japan
de Jesus Perez, vinicio	Pulmonary and critical care medicine stanford university	USA
Devereux, Richard	Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY	USA
Dikshit, Madhu	Head, Cardiovascular Pharmacology Unit,CDRI, Lucknow, India	India
Domingues, Ana Lucia Coutinho	RUA PROF. MORAES RÊGO, S/N - HOSPITAL DAS CLÍNICAS	Brazil
Duenas, Ruben	Professor of Medicine Head of Pulmonary Department - Shaio Clinic Sabana University	Colombia
Dunne, David W	Professor of Parasitology, University of Cambridge	UK
Dupuis, Jocelyn	Associate Professor of Medicine Montreal Heart Institute	Canada
Dweik, Raed	Associate Professor and Director, Pulmonary Vascular Program Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic	USA
ELHassan, Isam Eldin ELKhidir	ElShaab Teaching Hospital	Sudan
Elliott, Greg	Professor of Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine, Chairman, Department of Medicine Intermountain Medical Center	USA
Ercilla, Jose	Clinic Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology INCOR - Essalud Lima - Perú	Peru
Erzurum_s	Chair and Professor Pathobiology Department, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	USA
Escribano, Pilar	Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid.	Spain
Estupiñán, Sergio H. López		Mexico
Fagan, Karen	University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA	USA
Favaloro, Liliana	MD. Favaloro Foundation	Argentina
Feinstein, Jeffrey	Associate Professor, Pediatrics and, by courtesy, BioEngineering Director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Associate Director, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University Medical Center	USA
Fenwick, Alan	Professor of Tropical Parasitology; OBE; Director, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative	UK
Ferreira, Rita	Universidade de Pernambuco-Hospital Universitario Osvaldo Cruz, Santo Amaro, Recife-PE Hospital Esperança, Ilha do Leite, Recife-PE Brazil	Brazil
Flores, Sonia	Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine	USA
Frost, Adaani	Professor of Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine Director - Pulmonary Hypertension Centre	USA
Gassmann, Max	Professor of Veterinary Physiology Director of the Institute for Veterinary Physiology (http://www.vetphys.uzh.ch) and Chairman of the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)	Switzerland
Gatzoulis, Michael	Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant CardiologistAcademic Head, Adult Congenital Heart Centre and Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart Lung Institute Imperial College London	UK
Geraci, Mark	Head, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine Professor of Medicine Director, Translational Medicine Program Co-Director, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute	USA
Ghio, Stefano	Heart Failure and Pulmonary hypertension Unit	Italy
Ghofrani, Ardeschir	Professor of Medicine Head of Pulmonary Hypertension Division Medical Clinic II University Hospital Giessen	Germany
Gibbs, Simon	Senior Lecturer, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Hammersmith Hospital, London	UK
Girgis, Reda	Associate Professor Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland	USA
Gomberg, Mardi	Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Pulmonary Hypertension Center	USA
Goncharova, Natalia	MD, PhD Federal Centre of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology named V.A. Almazov	Russia
Graham, Brian	Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Sciences University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center	USA
Granton, John	Associate professor of medicine, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto. Head, pulmonary hypertension program, University Health Network. Program director, critical care medicine, University of Toronto.	Canada
Grimminger, Friedrich	Professor of Internal Medicine Chief, Centre for Interdisciplinary Oncology Director, Department of Oncology/Respiratory Medicine University Hospital Giessen	Germany
GU, Qing	Cardiovascular institute and Fuwai Hospital	P.R. China
Gutierrez, Rocio	RN, Graduated from the National University of Mexico, Nursing School at the National Heart Institute MBA- Masters Degree in Administration Sciences (Health Systems) from the National University of Mexico	Mexico
Hales, Charles	Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School	USA
Hansmann, Georg	Physician Scientist Department of Cardiology Children's Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School	USA
Harikrishnan, S	Associate Professor in Cardiology Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology	India
Hassoun, Paul	Professor of Medicine< Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program	USA
Haworth, Sheila Glennis	Professor of Developmental Cardiology University College London Consultant and Lead Clinician UK Pulmonary Hypertension Service for Children Department of Pediatric Cardiology Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children	UK
He, Jianguo	Professor of Cardiology, Director of pulmonary vascular disease center,Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital	P. R. China
Heath Freudenthal, Alexandra	Pediatric cardiologist in La Paz Bolivia at "Kardiozentrum" Felowship in RWTH-aachen - Germany	Bolivia
Hemingway, Janet	Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Previously Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Director of Research for Biosciences and Preclinical Sciences, University of Cardiff and before that Senior Lecturer and Royal Society Junior Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	UK
Highland, Kristin B.	Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine Division of Rheumatology and Immunology Medical University of South Carolina 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 812 CSB	USA
Hirani, Naushad	Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada	Canada
Hoeper, Marius	Department of Respiratory Medicine Hannover Medical School	Germany
Horn, Evelyn	Director, Perkin Heart Failure Center Weill Cornell Medical Center Division of Cardiology	USA
Ibrahim, Ahmed Saadeldin	Respiratory Physician with special interest in Cardiology Elshaab Teaching Hospital (Khartoum Sudan)	Sudan
Idrees, Majdy	Head, Saudi Advisory Group for Pulmonary Hypertension Head, Pulmonary Medicine & Pulmonary Vascular Unit Department of Medicine Riyadh Military Hospital Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
Ishizaki, Takeshi	Fukui Prefecture School of Medicine Fukui Medical University, Matsuoka-Cho	Japan
Jadhav, Sonali Prakash	Medical Expert Cipla Ltd	India
Jerjes, Carlos	Director of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Clinic Unidad de Investigacion Clínica en Medicina SC Head of Emergency Care Department Hospital de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares y del Torax	Mexico
Johns, Rogers A	Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine John Hopkins School of Medicine	USA
Johnson,Sindhu	Clinical Associate University Health Network Pulmonary Hypertension Programme, University Health Network; University of Toronto Scleroderma Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital; Division of Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital	Canada
Jones, Peter Llyod	Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Lecturer in Design Penn-CMREF Center for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Research University of Pennsylvania	US
Kartha, Chandrasekharan Cheranellore	Professor of Eminence, Disease Biology and Molecular Medicine, Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology	India
Kashour, Tarek	Adjunct Professor Department of Medicine University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada Head Cath Labs and Outreach Program Prince Salman Heart Centre King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
Kilpatrick, David	Professor of Medicine, University of Tasmania, 43 Collins Street Hobart, Australia 7000	Australia
Klinger, James Raymond	Associate Professor of Medicine, Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital	USA
Kolosionek, Ewa	PostDoc Research Fellow	UK
Kothari, Shyam Sunder	Professor(cardiology), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Newdelhi, India	India
Kramer, Mordechai	Head, Pulmonary Institute, Bellinson Hospital Rabin Medical Center	Israel
Kumar, Bhupesh	Assistant Professor, Anaesthesia and Intensive care, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India	India
Kumar, Krishna	Professor and Head, Pediatric Cardiology Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center	India
Kumar, Praneet	Resident - Internal Medicine Cleveland Clinic Foundation	USA
Lambertuccia, José Roberto	Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease Branch, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Brazil
Langleben, David	Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Director, Division of Cardiology, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease.	Canada
Levy, Roger	Professor of Rheumatology at The State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Brazil
Li, Yuesheng	Professor/Director, Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases; Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control on Schistosomiasis on Lake Region, China; Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia HHMI International Research Scholar, USA	P.R.China
Liu, Jinming
Liu, Zhihong	Professor of Cardiology Centre for Pulmonary Vascular Disease , Cardiology Fuwai Hospital Chinese Acadamy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College	P.R.China
Lopes, Antonio Augusto	Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Director, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, The Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School	Brazil
Lu, xianling	Physician of pulmonary vascular disease center cardiovascular institute & Fuwai hospital	P.R. China
Lupi, Eulo		Mexico
MA, Zhuang
Macchia, Alejandro	Staff. Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology. Consorzio Mario Negri Sud. Santa Maria Imbaro (CH). Italy	Italy
Machado,Roberto	Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine	USA
MADAN_T	U N M . ICRC, AHMEDABAD,GUJARAT , INDIA ASST. PROFESSOR IN CARDIOLOGY	india
Martins, Ricardo	Staff Cardiologist. Departament of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease.Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia. São Paulo, SP. Brazil	Brazil
Mathai, Stephen C.	Instructor of Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	USA
Matthew, Rajamma	Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, New York Medical College, USA	USA
Maulik, Subir Kumar	Professor of Pharmacology, AIIMS, New Delhi,India	India
Maurer, Mathew	Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Columbia University Medical Center	USA
Mayosi, Bongani	Professor and Head of Department of Medicine: Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town. Chief Specialist: Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. President: South African Heart Association	South Africa
McGoon, Michael	Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic,	USA
McLaughlin, Vallerie	Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan	USA
Mehta, Parthiv	Consultant Pulmonologist Mehta Hospital & Cardiopulmonary Care Centre, Ahmedabad Hon. Intensive Care Specialist Seth V.S. General Municipal Hospital & N.H.L. Medical College, Ahmedabad	India
Memon, Ali M	Assitant Professor Pediatric Emergency Medicine	Pakistan
Meyer, Gisela Martina Bohns	Cardiologist - Chief Coordinator of Pulmonary Hypertension Service - Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa De Porto Alegre, Brazil	Brazil
Michelakis, Evangelos	Professor of Medicine University of Alberta - Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program Department of Medicine	Canada
Minai, Omar	Pulmonary Vascular Program, Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Cleveland Clinic	USA
Mishra, Smita	Senior Consultant Department of Pediatric Cardiology Max Heart & Vascular Institute	India
Mocumbi, Ana Olga	Dr Instituto do Coração, Moçambique	Mozambique
Moiseeva, Olga	Head of noncoronary disease department	Russia
Morrell, Nicholas	Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine	UK
Mubarak, Kamal K.	Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, University of Florida	USA
Mudawi, Salma Barakat Mohamed	National center for GI and liver diseases, Ibn Sina Hospital	Sudan
Mukhtar, Maowia M.	Professor of Immunology Institute of Endemic Diseases University of Khartoum	Sudan
Naeije, Robert	Consultant at the Department of Cardiology, and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic of the Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the Free University of Brussels; and Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine, and of Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine at the Institute of Sports Medicine, Free University of Brussels	Belgium
Nallari, Pratibha	Professor, Department of Genetics, Osmania University.	India
Narasimhan, Chitra	Pediatric Cardiology Division, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology	India
Newman, John	Elsa S. Hanigan Professor of Pulmonary Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	USA
Ntsekhe, Mpiko	Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer Cardiac Clinic, UCT & Groote Schuur Hospital	South Africa
Ogah, Okechukwu	CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN / CARDIOLOGIST Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria	NIGERIA
Opitz, Christian Frieder	Klinik für Innere Medizin – Schwerpunkt Kardiologie	Germany
Opotowsky, Alexander Sasha	Fellow - Cardiovascular Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	USA
Orfanos, Stylianos	Associate Professor of Medicine and Critical Care, University of Athens Medical School Co-Director Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Attikon University Hospital	Greece
Ostergaard, Louise	Postdoc, group leader Institute of Veterinary Physiology Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zürich	Switzerland
Oudiz, Ronald	MD, FACP,FACC, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center	USA
Palevsky, Harold	Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program Penn Presbyterian Medical Center	United States
Pascal Gabriela	Cardiologist Hospital de Clinicas de Montevideo.	Uruguay
Pasha, Qadar	Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi- INDIA	India
Peacock, Andrew	Director Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit, Regional Heart and Lung Centre	UK
Petrosillo, Nicola	Director, 2nd Infectious Diseases Division National Institute for Infectious Diseases"Lazzaro Spallanzani"	Italy
Porres-Aguilar, Mateo	Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellow University of Utah Health Sciences Center/School of Medicine	USA
Preston, Ioana	Assistant Professor of Medicine Tufts School of Medicine, Co-Director Pulmonary Hypertension Center Tufts Medical Center, Director Pulmonary Function Test Laboratory Tufts Medical Center.	USA
Pritzker, Marc	Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery University of Minnesota Lillehei Heart Institute	USA
Provencher, Steve	Director - Pulmonary Hypertension Programme Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de l'Université Laval	Canada
Pulido, Tomas	Professor of Medicine La Salle University, Mexico City. Attending Physician Cardiopulmonary Department National Heart Institute Mexico City, Mexico	Mexico
Pullamsetti, Soni Savai	Research Scientist, Medical Clinic II	Germany
Puri, Goverdhan Dutt	Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India	India
Rabinovitch, Marlene	Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatrics Professor (by courtesy) Developmental Biology Research Director of the Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Stanford University School of Medicine	USA
Raj SS, Binil	Research Scholar Cardiovascular Disease Biology Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology	India
Ramirez, Alicia	Pulmonologist MD Unidad de Investigacion Clinica en Medicina	Mexico
Reiss, Irwin	Associate Professor ErasmusMC-Sophia Children's Hospital Department of Pediatric Surgery Pediatric Intensive Care Unit	Netherlands
Rich, Stuart	Professor of Medicine University of Chicago Section of Cardiology Center for Pulmonary Hypertension	USA
Richalet, Jean-Paul	Professor of Physiology University Paris 13 AP-HP Hôpital Avicenne	France
Roberts, Kari	Assistant Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine.	USA
Rohit, Manojkumar	Associate Professor Cardiology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education Department of Cardiology Chandigarh	India
Rollinson, David	Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories Department of Zoology The Natural History Museum	UK
Sachdeva, Ashutosh	Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program	USA
Safwat, Tarek	Professor of Pulmonary Medicine Head of the Bronchology Society Egypt	Egypt
Said, Sami I.	MD; Distinguished Professor State University of New York Departments of Medicine, Physiology & Graduate Program in Pharmacology Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Health Sciences Center	USA
Salloum, Rafah	Rheumatology Fellow University of Chicago	USA
Sandoval, Julio	Head, Cardiopulmonary Department National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez” Mexico	Mexico
Santana, Maria Virginia Tavares	Director of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Patients "Dante Pazzanese" Institute, São Paulo-Brazil President of Pulmonary Circulation Study Group of Brazilian Society of Cardiology	Brazil
Sastry, Bhagavathula	Head, Department of Cardiology, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad, India.	India
Saxena, Anita	Professor Department of Cardiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India	India
Schermuly, Ralph	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralph Schermuly Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research Research Group Leader "Lung Vascular Remodeling and Anti-Remodeling" Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Member Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System (ECCPS) GIESSEN/BAD NAUHEIM	Germany
Schulze-Neick, Ingram	Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist with Special Interest in Pulmonary Hypertension	UK
Schweiger, Christian	Associate Professor University Essen Pharmaeutical Medicine	Switzerland
Seeger, Werner	Professor of Internal Medicine - Section Head of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - Chairman of the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) - Chairman of the Excellence Cluster 'Cardio-Pulmonary System' (ECCPS) - Director, Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research - JLU GIESSEN/MPI BAD NAUHEIM	Germany
Sharifuzzaman, Mohammad		Bangladesh
Sharma, Ruchik	Assistant in Cardiac Anesthesia, Children's Hospital Boston	USA
Shuang, Liu		P.R. China
Silva, Rosalvo Abreu	Médico Pneumologista (TESBPT) - Serviço de Pneumologia - Hospital Santa Izabel - Salvador(BA) Coordenador do grupo de circulação pulmonar.	Brasil
Sivasubramonian, Sivasankaran	Additional Professor of Cardiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. 695011	India
Sliwa-Hahnle, Karen	Professor Director: Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit Department of Cardiology, Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
Soto, Francisco Javier	Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine. Master of Science in Epidemiology. Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program. Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin	USA
Spiekerkoetter, Edda	Instructor in Medicine Vera Moulton Wall Center Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Service Stanford University	USA
Srivastava, Savitri	Director & Head of Pediatric Cardiology, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center	India
Steen, Virginia	Professor Division of Rheumatology Department of Medicine Georgetown University Medical Center LL Gorman 3900 Reservoir Road, NW	USA
Stenmark, Kurt	University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Director, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Lab Head, Developmental Lung Biology Lab	U.S.A.
Stewart, Duncan J	CEO and Scientific Director, Ottawa Health Research Institute	Canada
Stewart, Katia	Was Volunteer staff cardiologist at "Hospital del Nino"(Children's hospital)- La Paz/Bolivia Former Pediatric Cardiology Resident from InCor- Heart Institute, Sao Paulo- Brazil Currently in training- University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD	USA
Stothard, Russell	Honorary Scientific Secretary - RSTM&H WHO collaborating Centre Schistosomiasis Natural History Museum	UK
Sweiss, Nadera	Assistant Professor of Medicine Rheumatology Sarcoidosis and Scleroderma Clinic	USA
Taichman, Dareen	Assistant Professor of Medicine Assoc Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program University of Pennsylvania;	USA
Tayeb_s	Consultant Physician Cardiologist Sudan Heart Centre	Sudan
Thebaud, Bernard	Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics University of Alberta	Canada
Thistlethwaite, Patricia	Associate Professor of Surgery Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of California, San Diego	USA
Tibboel, Dick	Professor Dr. Pediatrics Department of Pediatric Surgery Sophia Children's Hospital Erasmus Medical Center	Netherlands
Tivane_A	Cardiothoracic and vascular Surgeon - Clermont Ferrand and Paris,France Master of Sciences in Surgical Sciences: Postembolic chronic pulmonary hypertension - Paris, France Maputo Heart Institut, Mozambique	Mozambique
Tomar, Munesh	Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist,EHIRC, Delhi, India	India
Torbicki, Adam	Dept. Chest Medicine Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland	Poland
Trembath, Richard	Professor of Medical Genetics King's College London Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust South East England Genetics Clinical Director Bexley Care Trust, Specialised Consortium Services South East London 221 Erith Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 6HZ Director of NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Foundation Trust/ King's College London	UK
Tuder, Rubin	Hart Family Professor of Medicine and Pathology Director, Program in Translational Lung Research Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine University of Colorado at Denver	USA
Vizza, Carmine Dario	Assistant Professor in Cardiology Pulmonary Hypertension Unit - Dept of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease University of Rome La Sapienza, 00161 Rome	Italy
Voelkel, Norbert	Director, Virginia Johnson Center for Pulmonary Research	USA
Waetge,Daniel		Brazil
Wang, Chen	Professor of Medicine President of Beijing ChaoYang Hospital, Past-president of Chinese Thoracic Society Director of Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine Beijing ,Chao-Yang Hospital ,Capital Medical University,Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care Department	P. R. China
Wang, Jun	Professor Department of Physiology Capital Medical University Beijing, P.R.China	P.R.China
Wang, xingxiang		P.R. China
Waxman, Aaron	Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Harvard Medical School	U.S.A.
Weir, Kenneth	Cardiologist, Minneapolis VAMC. Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Minnesota	USA
Weissmann, Norbert	Professor of Experimental Pneumology, Chair for "Molecular Mechanisms of Emphysema, Hypoxia and Lung Aging", Exzellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) Medical Clinic II/V	Germany
Wilkins, Martin	Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Head of Experimental Medicine & Toxicology Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital	UK
Wojciak-Stothard, Beata	MSc, PhD, Lecturer in Vascular Biology	United Kingdom
Wynn, Thomas	Senior Investigator - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease - National Institutes of Health	USA
Xie, Wanmu	Attending Physician Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Capital Medical University	P. R. China
Yang, Yuanhua	Professor, Chief physician Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine	P.R.China
Yuan, Jason	Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego	USA
Zamanian, Roham	Assistant Professor of Medicine Director, Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Service Faculty, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Stanford University Medical Center	United States
Zeng, Weijie	resident physician, Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital	China
Zhai, Zhenguo	Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine	P.R. China
Zhao, Lan	Lecturer in Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology Experimental Medicine and Toxicology Imperial College London	UK

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Abman, Steven

Professor, Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Director, Pediatric Heart Lung Center University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, Aurora CO 80045 USA

USA

Adatia, Ian

Director, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care and Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Professor of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Canada

Adnot, Serge

Professor of Physiology Service de Physiologie Explorations Fonctionnelles Head

France

Aiello, Vera Demarchi

Pathologist-in-chief
Surgical Pathology Section
Laboratory of Pathology at the Heart Institute (InCor)
University of Sao Paulo Medical School

Brazil

Ajuluchukwu, Janet

Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, PMB 12003, Idiaraba, Lagos-Nigeria

Nigeria

Al Dabbagh, Maha Mohammad

Pediatric Pulmonologist Section Head
Pediatric Department
King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital

Saudi Arabia

Al-Ghamdi, Badr Rashed

Associate Professor

Consultant Pulmonologist

College of Medicine - King Khaled University

Saudi Arabia

Al-Hajjaj, Mohamed Saleh

Professor Mohamed Saleh Al-Hajjaj MD, FRCP(C)
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine & Consultant Pulmonologist
Chairman, Saudi Thoracic Society
Head, Respiratory Division, Medicine Department
King Saud University & King Khalid University Hospital
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

AL-Saidi, Fatmah

MOH-Kuwaite
AL Rashid Chest and Allergy Centre

Kuwait

Al-Tamimi, Omar

Assisstant Professor of Pediatric , Consultant of pediatric cardiology , Interventional cardiologist .In-charge of pediatric pulmonary hypertension clinic .King Abdulaziz Medical City

Saudi Arabia

Aldammas, Saleh

MD, Consultant - Section of Pulmonary Medicine, Director - Lung Transplant Programme, Director - Sleep Medicine Unit, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Honorary Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, King Saud University

Saudi Arabia

Aldashev, Almaz

Head, Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine Professor of Biochemistry Chief Secretary Academician of National Academy of Sciences The Fellow of National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic

Kyrgyz Republic

Alkhorayyef_A

Fellow in Pediatric Respiratory Medicine at Alberta Childern Hospital,Calgary,AB,Canada

canada

Almodovar, Sharilyn

Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
University of Colorado Denver

USA

Amado, Veronica

PhD and Medicine Professor of Universidade de Brasilia

Brazil

Anand, Inder

Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Minneapolis,
Director of the Heart Failure Program,
VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN.

USA

Anthi, Anastasia

Senior physician
Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonary Hypertension clinic
University Hospital "ATTIKON"

Greece.

Antunes, Carlos Maurício

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Parasitology, Epidemiology Branch,
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Brazil

Arakaki, Jaquelina Sonoe Ota

Coordinator of the Pulmonary Circulation Department of the Brazilian Thoracic Society

(2006-2008)

Coordinator of the Pulmonary Circulation Group of the Federal University of Sao Paulo

Vice-President of the Paulista Thoracic Society

Brazil

Araujo, Maria Ilma

Professor and Reseacher at Federal University of Bahia and Bahiana's School of Medicine

Brazil

Archer, Stephen

Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology The University of Chicago

USA

Arif, Gulnaze Mahomed

Cardiologist- Hospital Central de Maputo

Mozambique

Badagliacca, Roberto

Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Dep.Cardiovascular and Respiratory Science, University of Rome "Sapienza"

Italy

Badesch, David

Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC). Chair of Scientific Leadership Council Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), Chair Pulmonary Circulation Assembly American Thoracic Society (ATS)

USA

Bahous, Joudy

Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Department at the St. Georges Hospital Achrafieh, Lebanon

Lebanon

Bandeira, Angela

Memorial S. Jose hospital - Recife-pe PROCAPE - Pernambuco's University Recife-Pe-Brazil

Brazil

Banja, Hanaa Hasan

Canadian Board of Pediatric and pediatric Pulmonology, MD, FRCPC
Consultant Pediatric Pulmonologist

Saudi Arabia

Banker, Darshan Navin

Director - Bankers Heart Institute

India

Barbera, Joan-Albert

Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Unit. Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine. Thorax Institute. Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona

Spain

Barnes, Kathleen

Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Mary Beryl Patch Turnbull Scholar, Johns Hopkins University Director, Bayview Genetics Research Facility (BGRF) and The Lowe Family Genomics Core, Johns Hopkins University

USA

Barst, Robyn

Professor Emerita of Pediatrics Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons New York, New York USA

USA

Beltran, Miguel

CARDIOLOGIST, HOSPITAL ANGELES, TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

Head of the Pulmonary Circulation Chapter for the Cardiology Mexican Society

Mexico

Ben-Dov, I

Sheba Medical Center

Israel

Berger, Rolf

Professor Dr R.M.F.Berger

Pediatric Cardiology

Beatrix Children's Hospital

University Medical Center Groningen

Netherlands

Binotto, Maria Angelica

Staff Cardiologist, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo

Brazil

Boban,Thomas

Consultant Physician, NHS, Portugal

Portugal

Boutet, Kim

Professor of Medecine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Staff pneumologist, Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal, Montreal, Canada and Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Canada

Burton, Rosie

South Africa

Butrous, Ghazwan

Professor of Cardiopulmonary Sciences
University of Kent, Canterbury
Chief Scientific Adviser. Pfizer Global Research and Development, Sandwich Laboratories

Cáneva, Jorge Osvaldo

MD, FCCP, Professor of Medicine
Favaloro University
Chief - Pulmonary Section
University Hospital
Favaloro Foundation

Argentina

Caramuru, Lucia Helena

Staff Cardiologist of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease at The Heart Institute, University of São Paulo

Brazil

CerroMarin, Maria

Head of the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
“la Paz” Children´s Hospital, in Madrid

Spain

Champion, Hunter

Assistant Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Division of Cardiology

USA

Changming, Xiong

Chief physician, Professor , Deputy Director

P.R.China

Chao,Wu

physician

P.R. China

Chaouat, Ari

Service des Maladies Respiratoires et Réanimation Respiratoire

FRANCE

Chen, Wendy

Resideant, Beijing cadiopulmonary vascular diseaes institution

P.R.China

Cheng, Xian-sheng

Prof. Cardiology, Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital

P. R. China

Chinello, Pierangelo

2nd Infectious Diseases Division "L. Spallanzani" National institute for Infectious Diseases Rome

Italy

Chung, Wendy

Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genetics

USA

Cicalini, Stefania

2nd Infectious Diseases Unit National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Italy

Cilliers, Antoinette Myrna

Professor of Paediatric Cardiology

South Africa

Colley, Dan

Director, Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases;
Professor of Microbiology;
University of Georgia

United States of America

Corrêa, Ricardo de Amorim

Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais/Belo

Brazil

Corris, Paul

Professor of Thoracic Medicine
Director National Pulmonary Hypertension Service (Newcastle)
Academic Director Institute of Transplantation
Institute of Cellular Medicine
Newcastle University and Freeman Hospital Newcastle

U.K.

Cortez, Patricia

Professor of Pediatric Cardiology Director Department of Pediatric Cardiology Metropolitano Hospital

Ecuador

Crosby, Alexi

Department of Medicine
Addenbrooke's Hosptial
Cambridge UK

D, Dharmarajan

Cardiologist, Coimbatore, India.

India

Damasceno, Albertino

Professor of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University

Mozambique

Date, Hiroshi

Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University

Japan

de Jesus Perez, vinicio

Pulmonary and critical care medicine
stanford university

USA

Devereux, Richard

Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY

USA

Dikshit, Madhu

Head, Cardiovascular Pharmacology Unit,CDRI, Lucknow, India

India

Domingues, Ana Lucia Coutinho

RUA PROF. MORAES RÊGO, S/N - HOSPITAL DAS CLÍNICAS

Brazil

Duenas, Ruben

Professor of Medicine
Head of Pulmonary Department - Shaio Clinic
Sabana University

Colombia

Dunne, David W

Professor of Parasitology, University of Cambridge

Dupuis, Jocelyn

Associate Professor of Medicine
Montreal Heart Institute

Canada

Dweik, Raed

Associate Professor and Director, Pulmonary Vascular Program

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic

USA

ELHassan, Isam Eldin ELKhidir

ElShaab Teaching Hospital

Sudan

Elliott, Greg

Professor of Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine, Chairman, Department of Medicine Intermountain Medical Center

USA

Ercilla, Jose

Clinic Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology

INCOR - Essalud

Lima - Perú

Peru

Erzurum_s

Chair and Professor Pathobiology Department, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland
Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University

USA

Escribano, Pilar

Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid.

Spain

Estupiñán, Sergio H. López

Mexico

Fagan, Karen

University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA

USA

Favaloro, Liliana

MD. Favaloro Foundation

Argentina

Feinstein, Jeffrey

Associate Professor, Pediatrics and, by courtesy, BioEngineering Director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Associate Director, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University Medical Center

USA

Fenwick, Alan

Professor of Tropical Parasitology; OBE; Director, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative

Ferreira, Rita

Universidade de Pernambuco-Hospital Universitario Osvaldo Cruz, Santo Amaro, Recife-PE
Hospital Esperança, Ilha do Leite, Recife-PE
Brazil

Brazil

Flores, Sonia

Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine

USA

Frost, Adaani

Professor of Medicine - Baylor College of Medicine
Director - Pulmonary Hypertension Centre

USA

Gassmann, Max

Professor of Veterinary Physiology Director of the Institute for Veterinary Physiology (http://www.vetphys.uzh.ch) and Chairman of the Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)

Switzerland

Gatzoulis, Michael

Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant CardiologistAcademic Head, Adult Congenital Heart Centre and Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension
Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart Lung Institute
Imperial College London

Geraci, Mark

Head, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Director, Translational Medicine Program
Co-Director, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

USA

Ghio, Stefano

Heart Failure and Pulmonary hypertension Unit

Italy

Ghofrani, Ardeschir

Professor of Medicine Head of Pulmonary Hypertension Division Medical Clinic II University Hospital Giessen

Germany

Gibbs, Simon

Senior Lecturer, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Hammersmith Hospital, London

Girgis, Reda

Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

USA

Gomberg, Mardi

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Pulmonary Hypertension Center

USA

Goncharova, Natalia

MD, PhD
Federal Centre of Heart, Blood and Endocrinology named V.A. Almazov

Russia

Graham, Brian

Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Sciences
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

USA

Granton, John

Associate professor of medicine, faculty of medicine, University of Toronto. Head, pulmonary hypertension program, University Health Network. Program director, critical care medicine, University of Toronto.

Canada

Grimminger, Friedrich

Professor of Internal Medicine Chief, Centre for Interdisciplinary Oncology Director, Department of Oncology/Respiratory Medicine University Hospital Giessen

Germany

GU, Qing

Cardiovascular institute and Fuwai Hospital

P.R. China

Gutierrez, Rocio

RN, Graduated from the National University of Mexico, Nursing School at the National Heart Institute
MBA- Masters Degree in Administration Sciences (Health Systems) from the National University of Mexico

Mexico

Hales, Charles

Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

USA

Hansmann, Georg

Physician Scientist
Department of Cardiology
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School

USA

Harikrishnan, S

Associate Professor in Cardiology
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology

India

Hassoun, Paul

Professor of Medicine<
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program

USA

Haworth, Sheila Glennis

Professor of Developmental Cardiology University College
London Consultant and Lead Clinician UK Pulmonary Hypertension Service for Children Department of Pediatric Cardiology Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

He, Jianguo

Professor of Cardiology, Director of pulmonary vascular disease center,Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital

P. R. China

Heath Freudenthal, Alexandra

Pediatric cardiologist in La Paz Bolivia at "Kardiozentrum"
Felowship in RWTH-aachen - Germany

Bolivia

Hemingway, Janet

Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Previously Professor of Insect Molecular Biology and Director of Research for Biosciences and Preclinical Sciences, University of Cardiff and before that Senior Lecturer and Royal Society Junior Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Highland, Kristin B.

Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Medical University of South Carolina
96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Suite 812 CSB

USA

Hirani, Naushad

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada

Canada

Hoeper, Marius

Department of Respiratory Medicine Hannover Medical School

Germany

Horn, Evelyn

Director, Perkin Heart Failure Center
Weill Cornell Medical Center Division of Cardiology

USA

Ibrahim, Ahmed Saadeldin

Respiratory Physician with special interest in Cardiology
Elshaab Teaching Hospital (Khartoum Sudan)

Sudan

Idrees, Majdy

Head, Saudi Advisory Group for Pulmonary Hypertension Head, Pulmonary Medicine & Pulmonary Vascular Unit Department of Medicine Riyadh Military Hospital Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Ishizaki, Takeshi

Fukui Prefecture School of Medicine Fukui Medical University, Matsuoka-Cho

Japan

Jadhav, Sonali Prakash

Medical Expert Cipla Ltd

India

Jerjes, Carlos

Director of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Clinic

Unidad de Investigacion Clínica en Medicina SC

Head of Emergency Care Department

Hospital de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares y del Torax

Mexico

Johns, Rogers A

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
John Hopkins School of Medicine

USA

Johnson,Sindhu

Clinical Associate
University Health Network Pulmonary Hypertension Programme, University Health Network;
University of Toronto Scleroderma Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital;
Division of Rheumatology, Toronto Western Hospital

Canada

Jones, Peter Llyod

Associate Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Lecturer in Design
Penn-CMREF Center for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Research
University of Pennsylvania

Kartha, Chandrasekharan Cheranellore

Professor of Eminence,
Disease Biology and Molecular Medicine,
Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology

India

Kashour, Tarek

Adjunct Professor Department of Medicine University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada Head Cath Labs and Outreach Program Prince Salman Heart Centre King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Kilpatrick, David

Professor of Medicine, University of Tasmania, 43 Collins Street
Hobart, Australia 7000

Australia

Klinger, James Raymond

Associate Professor of Medicine,
Brown Medical School,
Rhode Island Hospital

USA

Kolosionek, Ewa

PostDoc Research Fellow

Kothari, Shyam Sunder

Professor(cardiology), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Newdelhi, India

India

Kramer, Mordechai

Head, Pulmonary Institute, Bellinson Hospital
Rabin Medical Center

Israel

Kumar, Bhupesh

Assistant Professor, Anaesthesia and Intensive care, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

India

Kumar, Krishna

Professor and Head, Pediatric Cardiology Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center

India

Kumar, Praneet

Resident - Internal Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

USA

Lambertuccia, José Roberto

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease
Branch, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Brazil

Langleben, David

Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Director, Division of Cardiology, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease.

Canada

Levy, Roger

Professor of Rheumatology at The State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazil

Li, Yuesheng

Professor/Director, Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases;

Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control on
Schistosomiasis on Lake Region, China; Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia

HHMI International Research Scholar, USA

P.R.China

Liu, Jinming

Liu, Zhihong

Professor of Cardiology
Centre for Pulmonary Vascular Disease , Cardiology
Fuwai Hospital Chinese Acadamy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union
Medical College

P.R.China

Lopes, Antonio Augusto

Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Director, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease, The Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School

Brazil

Lu, xianling

Physician of pulmonary vascular disease center
cardiovascular institute & Fuwai hospital

P.R. China

Lupi, Eulo

Mexico

MA, Zhuang

Macchia, Alejandro

Staff. Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Epidemiology. Consorzio Mario Negri Sud. Santa Maria Imbaro (CH). Italy

Italy

Machado,Roberto

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

USA

MADAN_T

U N M . ICRC, AHMEDABAD,GUJARAT , INDIA
ASST. PROFESSOR IN CARDIOLOGY

india

Martins, Ricardo

Staff Cardiologist. Departament of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease.Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia. São Paulo, SP. Brazil

Brazil

Mathai, Stephen C.

Instructor of Medicine,
Pulmonary Hypertension Program,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

USA

Matthew, Rajamma

Associate Professor, Pediatrics,
Section of Pediatric Cardiology,
New York Medical College, USA

USA

Maulik, Subir Kumar

Professor of Pharmacology, AIIMS, New Delhi,India

India

Maurer, Mathew

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center

USA

Mayosi, Bongani

Professor and Head of Department of Medicine: Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town. Chief Specialist: Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. President: South African Heart Association

South Africa

McGoon, Michael

Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic,

USA

McLaughlin, Vallerie

Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan

USA

Mehta, Parthiv

Consultant Pulmonologist
Mehta Hospital & Cardiopulmonary Care Centre, Ahmedabad
Hon. Intensive Care Specialist
Seth V.S. General Municipal Hospital & N.H.L. Medical College, Ahmedabad

India

Memon, Ali M

Assitant Professor Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pakistan

Meyer, Gisela Martina Bohns

Cardiologist - Chief Coordinator of Pulmonary Hypertension Service - Complexo Hospitalar Santa Casa De Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazil

Michelakis, Evangelos

Professor of Medicine
University of Alberta - Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program

Department of Medicine

Canada

Minai, Omar

Pulmonary Vascular Program, Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Cleveland Clinic

USA

Mishra, Smita

Senior Consultant
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Max Heart & Vascular Institute

India

Mocumbi, Ana Olga

Instituto do Coração, Moçambique

Mozambique

Moiseeva, Olga

Head of noncoronary disease department

Russia

Morrell, Nicholas

Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine

University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

Mubarak, Kamal K.

Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, University of Florida

USA

Mudawi, Salma Barakat Mohamed

National center for GI and liver diseases, Ibn Sina Hospital

Sudan

Mukhtar, Maowia M.

Professor of Immunology
Institute of Endemic Diseases
University of Khartoum

Sudan

Naeije, Robert

Consultant at the Department of Cardiology, and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic of the Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology of the
Faculty of Medicine of the Free University of Brussels; and Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine, and of Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine at the Institute of Sports Medicine, Free University of Brussels

Belgium

Nallari, Pratibha

Professor,
Department of Genetics,
Osmania University.

India

Narasimhan, Chitra

Pediatric Cardiology Division,
Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology

India

Newman, John

Elsa S. Hanigan Professor of Pulmonary Medicine

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

USA

Ntsekhe, Mpiko

Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer
Cardiac Clinic, UCT & Groote Schuur Hospital

South Africa

Ogah, Okechukwu

CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN / CARDIOLOGIST
Department of Medicine,
University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

NIGERIA

Opitz, Christian Frieder

Klinik für Innere Medizin – Schwerpunkt Kardiologie

Germany

Opotowsky, Alexander Sasha

Fellow - Cardiovascular Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

USA

Orfanos, Stylianos

Associate Professor of Medicine and Critical Care, University of Athens Medical School
Co-Director Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Attikon University Hospital

Greece

Ostergaard, Louise

Postdoc, group leader
Institute of Veterinary Physiology
Vetsuisse Faculty
University of Zürich

Switzerland

Oudiz, Ronald

MD, FACP,FACC, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

USA

Palevsky, Harold

Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

United States

Pascal Gabriela

Cardiologist Hospital de Clinicas de Montevideo.

Uruguay

Pasha, Qadar

Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi- INDIA

India

Peacock, Andrew

Director
Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit,
Regional Heart and Lung Centre

Petrosillo, Nicola

Director, 2nd Infectious Diseases Division National Institute for Infectious Diseases"Lazzaro Spallanzani"

Italy

Porres-Aguilar, Mateo

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellow
University of Utah Health Sciences Center/School of Medicine

USA

Preston, Ioana

Assistant Professor of Medicine Tufts School of Medicine,
Co-Director Pulmonary Hypertension Center Tufts Medical Center,
Director Pulmonary Function Test Laboratory Tufts Medical Center.

USA

Pritzker, Marc

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery
University of Minnesota Lillehei Heart Institute

USA

Provencher, Steve

Director - Pulmonary Hypertension Programme
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de l'Université Laval

Canada

Pulido, Tomas

Professor of Medicine La Salle University, Mexico City. Attending Physician Cardiopulmonary Department National Heart Institute Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico

Pullamsetti, Soni Savai

Research Scientist, Medical Clinic II

Germany

Puri, Goverdhan Dutt

Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

India

Rabinovitch, Marlene

Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatrics Professor (by courtesy) Developmental Biology Research Director of the Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Stanford University School of Medicine

USA

Raj SS, Binil

Research Scholar
Cardiovascular Disease Biology
Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology

India

Ramirez, Alicia

Pulmonologist MD

Unidad de Investigacion Clinica en Medicina

Mexico

Reiss, Irwin

Associate Professor
ErasmusMC-Sophia Children's Hospital
Department of Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Netherlands

Rich, Stuart

Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago
Section of Cardiology Center for Pulmonary Hypertension

USA

Richalet, Jean-Paul

Professor of Physiology University Paris 13 AP-HP Hôpital Avicenne

France

Roberts, Kari

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine.

USA

Rohit, Manojkumar

Associate Professor Cardiology
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education
Department of Cardiology
Chandigarh

India

Rollinson, David

Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories Department of Zoology The Natural History Museum

Sachdeva, Ashutosh

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program

USA

Safwat, Tarek

Professor of Pulmonary Medicine

Head of the Bronchology Society

Egypt

Egypt

Said, Sami I.

MD; Distinguished Professor
State University of New York
Departments of Medicine, Physiology & Graduate Program in Pharmacology
Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
Health Sciences Center

USA

Salloum, Rafah

Rheumatology Fellow
University of Chicago

USA

Sandoval, Julio

Head, Cardiopulmonary Department National Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez” Mexico

Mexico

Santana, Maria Virginia Tavares

Director of Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Patients "Dante Pazzanese" Institute, São Paulo-Brazil President of Pulmonary Circulation Study Group of Brazilian Society of Cardiology

Brazil

Sastry, Bhagavathula

Head, Department of Cardiology, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad, India.

India

Saxena, Anita

Professor
Department of Cardiology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India

India

Schermuly, Ralph

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralph Schermuly

Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research

Research Group Leader "Lung Vascular Remodeling and Anti-Remodeling"

Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC)

Department of Internal Medicine

Faculty Member Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary System (ECCPS)

GIESSEN/BAD NAUHEIM

Germany

Schulze-Neick, Ingram

Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist

with Special Interest in Pulmonary Hypertension

Schweiger, Christian

Associate Professor University Essen
Pharmaeutical Medicine

Switzerland

Seeger, Werner

Professor of Internal Medicine - Section Head of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - Chairman of the University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) - Chairman of the Excellence Cluster 'Cardio-Pulmonary System' (ECCPS) - Director, Max-Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research - JLU GIESSEN/MPI BAD NAUHEIM

Germany

Sharifuzzaman, Mohammad

Bangladesh

Sharma, Ruchik

Assistant in Cardiac Anesthesia, Children's Hospital Boston

USA

Shuang, Liu

P.R. China

Silva, Rosalvo Abreu

Médico Pneumologista (TESBPT) - Serviço de Pneumologia - Hospital Santa Izabel - Salvador(BA)
Coordenador do grupo de circulação pulmonar.

Brasil

Sivasubramonian, Sivasankaran

Additional Professor of Cardiology,
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. 695011

India

Sliwa-Hahnle, Karen

Professor
Director: Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit
Department of Cardiology, Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa

Soto, Francisco Javier

Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Master of Science in Epidemiology.
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program.
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

USA

Spiekerkoetter, Edda

Instructor in Medicine
Vera Moulton Wall Center
Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Service
Stanford University

USA

Srivastava, Savitri

Director & Head of Pediatric Cardiology,
Escorts Heart Institute & Research Center

India

Steen, Virginia

Professor Division of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
LL Gorman
3900 Reservoir Road, NW

USA

Stenmark, Kurt

University of Colorado Denver
School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Lab
Head, Developmental Lung Biology Lab

U.S.A.

Stewart, Duncan J

CEO and Scientific Director, Ottawa Health Research Institute

Canada

Stewart, Katia

Was Volunteer staff cardiologist at "Hospital del Nino"(Children's hospital)- La Paz/Bolivia

Former Pediatric Cardiology Resident from InCor- Heart Institute, Sao Paulo- Brazil

Currently in training- University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

USA

Stothard, Russell

Honorary Scientific Secretary - RSTM&H WHO collaborating Centre Schistosomiasis Natural History Museum

Sweiss, Nadera

Assistant Professor of Medicine Rheumatology
Sarcoidosis and Scleroderma Clinic

USA

Taichman, Dareen

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assoc Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
University of Pennsylvania;

USA

Tayeb_s

Consultant Physician Cardiologist
Sudan Heart Centre

Sudan

Thebaud, Bernard

Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics University of Alberta

Canada

Thistlethwaite, Patricia

Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of California, San Diego

USA

Tibboel, Dick

Professor Dr. Pediatrics Department of Pediatric Surgery Sophia Children's Hospital Erasmus Medical Center

Netherlands

Tivane_A

Cardiothoracic and vascular Surgeon - Clermont Ferrand and Paris,France
Master of Sciences in Surgical Sciences: Postembolic chronic pulmonary hypertension - Paris, France
Maputo Heart Institut, Mozambique

Mozambique

Tomar, Munesh

Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist,EHIRC, Delhi, India

India

Torbicki, Adam

Dept. Chest Medicine Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland

Poland

Trembath, Richard

Professor of Medical Genetics King's College London Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust South East England Genetics Clinical Director Bexley Care Trust, Specialised Consortium Services South East London 221 Erith Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 6HZ Director of NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Guy’s and St.Thomas’ Foundation Trust/ King's College London

Tuder, Rubin

Hart Family Professor of Medicine and Pathology Director, Program in Translational Lung Research Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine University of Colorado at Denver

USA

Vizza, Carmine Dario

Assistant Professor in Cardiology
Pulmonary Hypertension Unit - Dept of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease University of Rome La Sapienza, 00161 Rome

Italy

Voelkel, Norbert

Director, Virginia Johnson Center for Pulmonary Research

USA

Waetge,Daniel

Brazil

Wang, Chen

Professor of Medicine President of Beijing ChaoYang Hospital, Past-president of Chinese Thoracic Society Director of Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine Beijing ,Chao-Yang Hospital ,Capital Medical University,Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care Department

P. R. China

Wang, Jun

Professor
Department of Physiology
Capital Medical University
Beijing, P.R.China

P.R.China

Wang, xingxiang

P.R. China

Waxman, Aaron

Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program,
Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine,
Brigham and Woman's Hospital,
Harvard Medical School

U.S.A.

Weir, Kenneth

Cardiologist, Minneapolis VAMC. Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Minnesota

USA

Weissmann, Norbert

Professor of Experimental Pneumology, Chair for "Molecular Mechanisms of Emphysema, Hypoxia and Lung Aging", Exzellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System,
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, University of Giessen Lung Center (UGLC) Medical Clinic II/V

Germany