FACULTY MEMBERS

Edgar BELTETON
Dr. Edgar Beltetón’s training in the last 20 years has been in the area of lung diseases in children and he has dedicated himself to teaching care and service within the pediatric community in his country. His interest in recent years has been to promote medical education in the Guatemalan pediatric community, and to date he has held 20 pediatric congresses. After leading the positions of medical director of the most important private hospitals in the country, he created the 1^st Pediatric Private Hospital in Guatemala, and has been leading the aerodigestive area. His teaching relationship with physicians of international prestige allows him to host the event on this occasion.

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Andrew BUSH
pic andrew bush Prof. Andrew Bush is the Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College and Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK. He an NIHR emeritus Senior Investigator. His main research interests are the invasive and non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation, paediatric clinical physiology, and orphan lung diseases.
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Anne CHANG
Anne_Chang_small-200 Prof. Anne Chang is an established clinician researcher recognised for her contributions to clinical research in the areas of paediatric cough, bronchiectasis and evidence based articles. She has helped develop and apply evidence based medicine for respiratory illness in children, in Australia and internationally in the areas of cough, bronchiectasis and asthma.
She is the Division Leader of Child Health at the Menzies School of Health Research and leads an Australian National Health and Medical Research Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Children’s Lung Health. Her main clinical practice is at the Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. She has been a NHMRC practitioner fellow since 2004 and has published over 400 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. Her major interest are in Indigenous health issues, evidence based management, airway disease, protracted bacterial bronchitis, cough and suppurative lung disease in children.

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Andrew COLIN
Andrew headshot 170217 Andrew Colin, MD is the Batchelor Professor of Cystic Fibrosis and Pediatric Pulmonology and Chief emeritus of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami. He has continually held leadership positions with the International Congresses of Pediatric Pulmonology (CIPP) and served as the President of its 10th and 11th Congresses. Professor Colin completed fellowships in pediatric pulmonology at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem and Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He remained at Harvard for 15 years ranked Associate Professor, and at Boston Children’s Hospital served as Clinical Chief of the pulmonary program, he was also in charge of the Pediatric Pulmonary Clerkship of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Colin published extensively and presented nationally and internationally in areas of his interest: structural and functional development and morbidity of the respiratory system with related physiological measurements, including lung diseases of late prematurity, infants with CF and HIV. Pediatric bronchoscopy. Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the lung. Pediatric Radiology. He directs the fellowship training program at the University of Miami and trained some 60 fellows in pediatric pulmonology. In 2017, he became the first ever recipient of “PEDS Lifetime Contributions to Pediatric Respiratory Medicine Award” of the ATS Assembly on Pediatrics. At Harvard, he received a Pulmonology Teaching Award named after him, as well as the 2004 Klaus Peter International Teaching Award. He has been named Honorary Fellow of the pediatric pulmonary societies of Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand.

R. Paul GUILLERMAN
pic-paul-guillerman--200 Dr. R. Paul Guillerman is Professor of Radiology at the Baylor College of Medicine and Administrative Liaison for Academic Affairs in the Department of Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. He has given over 180 invited lectures at national and international meetings, authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical journal publications, and co-edited the latest edition of the Springer textbook Pediatric Chest Imaging. He is a recipient of the Master Clinician Award for Excellence in Patient Care by Baylor College of Medicine, Slovis Award for Best Basic Science Paper in the journal Pediatric Radiology, and Caffey Awards for Best Basic Science Paper and Best Clinical Paper at annual meetings of the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR). He served as co-director of the Center for Diagnostic Imaging of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Therapeutic Development Network from 2011-2020 and as a member of the CFF Preschool Age Screening and Monitoring Workgroup, Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease Research Network (ChILDRN), SPR Research & Education Board of Directors, and SPR CT and Thoracic Imaging Committees. He currently serves on the Imaging Gently Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of the SPR, and as Chair of the Professionalism and Career Development Committee of the SPR.

Mikhail KAZACHKOV
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Prof. Mikhail Kazachkov is a Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Director of Gastroesophageal, Upper Airway and Respiratory Diseases (GUARD) Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at New York University, USA
Professor Kazachkov did his pediatric pulmonary training first in Saint Petersburg, Russia and later in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He obtained in-depth expertize in pediatric bronchoscopy, which defined his career, which is all dedicated to treating children with chronic cough, asthma, pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory conditions.
He often sees children with complex, or difficult-to-diagnose conditions, and takes care of them with his team from NYU Langone’s Pediatric Gastroesophageal, Upper Airway, and Respiratory Diseases (GUARD) Center. He has major interest and expertize in aerodigestive disorders and in management of neurologically impaired children with chronic respiratory problems. He serves as a Pulmonologist for Familial Dysautonomia Center at NYU.
Dr. Kazachkov’s research analyses causes of chronic cough in children. He studies aerodigestive disorders and actively participates in microbiome studies at NYU.

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Amir KUGELMAN
Prof. Amir Kugelman is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in The R&B Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. He specialized in Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology in Children’s Hospital, LA, CA, and is currently the Director of the Department of Neonatology in Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel and the past Chairman of the Israeli Society of Pediatric Pulmonology.
His main research is in Neonatal Pulmonology, focusing on non- invasive ventilation, non-invasive respiratory monitoring in the NICU and the Pediatric Department, and in the prevention and treatment of Chronic Lung Disease of premature infants. Other areas of interest and research: Iatrogenesis in NICUs, late preterm infants, outcome of VLBW infants, and delayed cord clamping in the delivery room.

Jean-Paul PRAUD
praud Prof. Jean-Paul Praud is a Pediatric Pulmonologist and clinician-researcher at the Sherbrooke University Hospital, Quebec, Canada. He is a former Director, Pediatric Pulmonology Division, and a former Director, Center for Research into Maternal and Child Health, University of Sherbrooke. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Neonatal Respiratory Physiology since 2009.
He was co-founder of CIPP and Past-President, CIPP V. He has been President, ICPP-The Course, since 2007. He was a member of the Central Organizing Committee of all CIPP meetings and ICPP-Courses.
He is internationally renowned for his unique research contributions in the field of neonatal respiration, nasal respiratory support and sleep apneas, and has published 200 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.

Manuel SOTO-MARTINEZ
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Dr. Manuel E. Soto-Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Pulmonology, School of Medicine of the University of Costa Rica. Graduated in Paediatrics from the University of Costa Rica in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he completed his fellowship in respiratory medicine at the Royal Children´s Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In addition, he completed his Masters in Epidemiology at the National University of Costa Rica (2013-2015). He is currently a Paediatric Respiratory Physician and Sleep Physician at the Respiratory Department, Hospital Nacional de Niños, San José, Costa Rica.

Heather ZAR
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Prof. Heather Zar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Director of the School of Child and Adolescent Health at Red Cross Childrens Hospital at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. After specialising in Paediatrics she did a fellowship in Paediatric Pulmonology, then a PhD. She is based at Red Cross Childrens Hospital, one of the largest dedicated childrens’ hospital in Africa. She leads a large department in providing care for sick children, training of undergraduate and post graduate students, undertaking research and advocacy to promote child health. Her work on childhood respiratory diseases, including tuberculosis, pneumonia, asthma and HIV-associated lung diseases has been internationally recognized; she has published more than 200 peer reviewed publications and has substantial international grant support. She has established a strong training program in childhood lung diseases including training several paediatricians in Africa. She currently serves as President of the Pan African Thoracic Society and President of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies. She received the World Lung Health award in 2014.