Claudio Sorino is Associate Medical Director of the Respiratory Pathophysiology Unit, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, S. Anna Hospital in Como, Italy, as well as Professor of Medicine and Human Anatomy at the Insubria University, Italy. He earned his MD, Specialization in Respiratory Medicine and his PhD in Experimental and Clinical Pulmonology from the University of Palermo, Italy. He completed a fellowship in Pulmonary Pathophysiology at the Arizona Respiratory Center and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, University of Arizona, USA. He has extensive clinical and research experience in respiratory pathophysiology, airway diseases, and pleural diseases. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals and book chapters in the field of respiratory medicine. He is the author and editor of the books “Diagnostic Evaluation of the Respiratory System” (Jaypee, 2017), “Pleural Diseases” (Elsevier, 2021), and “Rare and Interstitial Lung Diseases” (Elsevier, 2023). He is President of the Italian Association for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Respiratory Diseases.
Michele Mondoni is an assistant professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Milan. He graduated from the University of Milan in 2002. After specializing in Respiratory Medicine, he received his II Level Master's Degree in Interventional Pulmonology and Pulmonary Immunopathology at the University of Parma in 2011.
His main areas of expertise are interventional pulmonology and interstitial lung diseases. His primary research interests include clinical and interventional pulmonology. He joined the Editorial Board of BMC Pulmonary Medicine in 2018 and has been a Senior Editorial Board Member since 2020.
Filippo Lococo is a specialist in thoracic surgery. He obtained a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome, where he subsequently specialized in thoracic surgery. Currently, he holds the role of Medical Director at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic and Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, in Rome. He mainly deals with laser lung surgery, tumors of the pleura and mediastinum, lung cancer, pneumothorax and pleural effusion, lung metastases, lung ultrasound, minimally invasive surgery of the thorax, and intrathoracic chemotherapy. He
has carried out clinical and surgical activities at important international centers such as the Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease in Osaka, Japan, and the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. For his research activity, he has obtained national and international awards and recognition, such as the Mario Selli Award and the Masaoka Award.
David Feller-Kopman is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include bronchoscopy, critical care medicine, and interventional pulmonology. He serves as the director of interventional pulmonology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He earned his M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and performed a combined fellowship in
pulmonary and critical care medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
His research interests include pleural pathophysiology, including the treatment of recurrent pleural effusions; investigating the physiology and pathophysiology of non-malignant central airway obstruction; and improving the multidisciplinary treatment of patients with complex airway disease. He is a member of the board of directors for the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. He has been recognized with the Geoffrey McLennan Memorial Award for Advances in Interventional Pulmonology by the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, and
received the Pasquale Ciaglia Award from the American College of Chest Physicians. He was recently inducted into the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
