HEATHER ZAR (SOUTH AFRICA)
Heather Zar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Red Cross Childrens Hospital and Director of the SA-MRC Unit on Child & Adolescent Health University of Cape Town UCT. A global expert in childhood respiratory diseases, her work focuses on pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma and HIV-associated lung diseases. She’s established an African birth cohort study, the Drakenstein Child Health study, to investigate the early life determinants of health. She’s published more than 550 peer reviewed publications and mentors or has graduated 50 PhD or masters students. She is President of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies, serves as an advisor to WHO, UNICEF and the Gates Foundation and is immediate past President of the Pan African Thoracic Society. She received the World Lung Health award from ATS in 2014. In 2018 she was awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Laureate for Africa and Arabia and in 2020 the SA-MRC Platinum medal for contributions over a lifetime.
ANDREW BUSH (United Kingdom)
Director, Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College; Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute;
Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital
My research interests include the invasive and non-invasive measurement of airway inflammation in children, in particular the use of endobronchial biopsy in the management of severe asthma, and also respiratory mass spectrometry. I have supervised 50 MD and PhD degrees, authored nearly 700 papers in peer review journals, and written more than 120 chapters in books and monographs. I am Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Currently I am Guidelines Director of the European Respiratory Society, having previously chaired the Publications Committee. I am an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator, and Chief Investigator in a £4.64 million Wellcome Strategic Award. Most importantly, I have the six greatest grandchildren in the world, Dylan and Jack (both in South Africa, where a colleague unkindly but accurately described me as Professor of Wine, Cricket and Grandchildren at the University of Cape Town), Oscar and his twin siblings Aya and Fletcher in London, and Lydia in Bristol.
FERNANDO FERRERO (Argentina)
• Chefe do Departamento de Medicina do Hospital Infantil Pedro de Elizalde, Buenos Aires
• Professor, Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade de Buenos Aires
• Pesquisador Independente, Conselho de Pesquisa em Saúde, Governo da Cidade de Buenos Aires
• Ex-Presidente da Sociedade Latino-Americana de Pesquisa Pediátrica
PABLO BROCKMAN (CHILE)
Director of Pediatric Sleep
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pulmonology
School of Medicine
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
SILVIA CHIANG (EUA)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics Alpert Medical School of Brown University Center for International Health Research of Rhode Island Hospital
Attending Physician, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Hasbro Children's Hospital