List of Contributors

Jason Akulian, MD, MPH
Section of Interventional Pulmonology
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Chong Bai, MD, PhD
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Changhai Hospital
Second Military Hospital
Shanghai, China

Swati Baveja, MBBS
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville, TN, USA

Heinrich D. Becker, MD
Formerly Department of Interdisiplinary Endoscopy
Thoraxclinic at Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany

Ben Bevill, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville, TN, USA

Semra Bilaceroglu, MD
Izmir Dr Suat Seren Training and Research Hospital for Thoracic Medicine and Surgery
Health Sciences University
Izmir, Turkey

Martina Bonifazi, MD
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona;Pulmonary Diseases Unit
Department of Internal Medicine
Azienda Ospedaliero‐Universitaria ‘Ospedali Riuniti’Ancona, Italy

Robert F. Browning Jr., MD, FACP, FCCP
Interventional Pulmonology
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda;Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA

Eric R. Carlson, DMD, MD, FACS
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Tennessee Medical Center University of Tennessee Cancer Institute
Knoxville, TN, USA

Alexander Chen, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, MO, USA

Ara A. Chrissian, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA, USA

David Feller‐Kopman, MD
Interventional Pulmonology
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Erik E. Folch, MD, MSc
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Stefano Gasparini, MD, FCCP
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health
Universita Politecnica delle Marche
Ancona; and
Pulmonary Diseases Unit
Department of Internal Medicine
Azienda Ospedaliero‐Universitaria ‘spedali Riuniti’ Ancona, Italy

Thomas R. Gildea, MD, MS, FCCP
Department of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Respiratory Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Sarah Hadique, MD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV, USA

Richard Helmers, MD
Mayo Clinic Health System
Eau Claire, WI, USA

Wolfgang Hohenforst‐Schmidt, MD
Sana Clinic Group Franken
Department of Cardiology/Pulmonology/Intensive Care/Nephrology
“Hof” Clinics
University of Erlangen
Hof, Germany

Hai‐dong Huang, MD
Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Second Military Medical University
Shanghai;Interventional Pulmonology Center of SMMURespiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Changhai Hospital
Second Military Medical University (SMMU)Shanghai;International Training Center for Interventional
Pulmonology
Henry Ford Hospital
Shanghai, China

Yi Huang, MD
Shanghai Changhai Hospital
Shanghai, China

Takeo Inoue, MD
Division of Respiratory Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
St Marianna University School of Medicine
Kawasaki, Japan

Takeshi Isobe, MD
Division of Medical Oncology and Respiratory Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Shimane University Hospital
Izumo, Japan

Prasoon Jain, MD, FCCP
Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center
Clarksburg, WV, USA

Michael A. Jantz, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA

Mani S. Kavuru, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Jefferson Center for Critical Care
Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ming‐yao Ke, MD
Department of the Respiratory Centre
Second Affiliated Hospital of Xia
Men Medical College
Xiamen, Fujian, China

Danai Khemasuwan, MD, MBA
Tufts University School of Medicine and
St Elizabeth’s Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

Noriaki Kurimoto, MD
Division of Medical Oncology and Respiratory Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Shimane University Hospital
Izumo, Japan

Jonathan S. Kurman, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Department of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI, USA

Stephen C.T. Lam, MD, FCCP
Department of Integrative Oncology
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Vancouver, British Columbia; Cancer Imaging Department and Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carlos Aravena Leon, MD
Department of Pulmonary
Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Respiratory Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA;Department of Respiratory Diseases
Faculty of Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Qiang Li, MD
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Shanghai East Hospital
Tongji University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Xicheng Liu, MD
Department of Interventional Pulmonology
Beijing Children’s Hospital
Capital University of Medicine
Beijing, China

Jing Ma, MD
Department of Interventional Pulmonology
Qilu Children’s Hospital of Shandong University
Jinan, China

Samir Makani, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI, USA

Sean McKay, MD
Interventional Pulmonology
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD, USA

Atul C. Mehta, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine Lerner College of Medicine Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Respiratory Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA

Chen Meng, MD
Department of Interventional Pulmonology
Qilu Children’s Hospital of Shandong University
Jinan, China

Teruomi Miyazawa, MD, PhD, FCCP
Division of Respiratory Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
St Marianna University School of Medicine
Kawasaki, Japan

Blake A. Moore, MD
Section on Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville, TN, USA

Septimiu D. Murgu, MD
Department of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Renelle Myers, MD, FRCPC
Department of Integrative Oncology
British Columbia Cancer Agency
Vancouver, British Columbia;Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David E. Ost, MD, MPH, FACP
Division of Internal Medicine
Department of Pulmonary Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
Houston, TX, USA

Luca Paoletti, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA

Nicholas J. Pastis Jr., MD, FCCP
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA

Sunit R. Patel, MD
Medical Group
Trulock, CA, USA

Andrew Pattison, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Toronto General Hospital
University Health Network
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alexander S. Rabin, MD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Ali Sadoughi, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center
New York, USA

Ala Eddin Sagar, MD
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Thomas Schlieve, DDS, MD
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Dallas, TX, USA

Michael J. Simoff, MD, FCCP
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI, USA

J. Francis Turner, Jr., MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Knoxville, TN;
National Supercomputing Institute
University of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV, USA

Ko‐Pen Wang, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Wei Zhang, MD
Shanghai Changhai Hospital
Shanghai, China

Yang Xia, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Hangzhou,...