Speaker's Highlight

• Don Sin University of British Columbia, St. Paul Hospital (Canada)
  Kenneth R. Chapman Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (Canada)
• Parameswaran Nair McMaster University (Canada)
  Carolyn Calfee UCSF (U.S.A.)
• Gregory P. Downey University of Colorado School of Medicine (U.S.A.)
  David A. Schwartz University of Colorado School of Medicine (U.S.A.)
• Neil Schluger Tuberculosis Control Branch, California Department of Public Health (U.S.A.)
  Nick Kim Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego (U.S.A.)
• Nicola Hananiah Baylor College of Medicine (U.S.A.)
  Jae-Joon Yim Seoul National University College of Medicine (Republic of Korea)
• Koichiro Asano Tokai University School of Medicine (Japan)
  Diahn-Warng Perng Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taiwan)
• Konstantinos Kostikas University of Ioannina (Greece)
  Karin Klooster University Medical Center Groningen (Kingdom of the Netherlands)

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  Richard Russell Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
• Mona Bafadhel King’s College London (United Kingdom)
  David Jackson Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College London (United Kingdom)
• James Chalmers University of Dundee (United Kingdom)
  David Price University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)