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Professor Fernando Martinez leads one of the University of Arizona’s most prominent and innovative institutes, BIO5, which is the hub for collaborative, interdisciplinary research that holds the promise to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, feed humanity, and preserve safe, livable environments.

He is the Regents' Professor, Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine, Director of the Arizona Respiratory Center, and Director of the Arizona Clinical Translational Science Institute at the University of Arizona. Dr. Martinez is internationally renowned for his work studying the childhood origins of adult airway disease, and is focused on finding the links between genetic disposition and environmental triggers underlying the development of asthma and chronic airflow limitation.

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Professor of Pediatrics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet and Head of the Asthma and Allergy Department of the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital of the University of Munich.

Erika is Head of the Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich. She is also Director of the Munich site of the Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich (CMC-P) and Coordinator of Disease Area (Asthma & Allergy) both within the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL).

Her research interests have been focused on the epidemiology of paediatric respiratory and allergic diseases, in particular the role of genetic and environmental, particularly microbial factors, for the development of asthma and allergic diseases.

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Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton.

His main research areas of interest are: health promotion and the management of common self-limiting illnesses. These topics link evidence about effectiveness with the effect of management of patient beliefs and behaviour, better understanding the importance of the patient centred approach to the consultation.

Professor Little has been awarded the Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research by the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the Discovery prize by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

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Professor Szefler is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Director of the Pediatric Asthma Research Program and Research Medical Director for the Breathing Institute and the Section of Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He is also the Interim Medical Director of the Research Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Professor Szefler’s major contributions are directed toward the individualized use of asthma therapy. He is currently the Co-Principal Investigator for the Denver site of the NHLBI PrecISE Network that is evaluating precision medicine for severe and exacerbation-prone asthma. For the past fifteen years, he has directed a school-centered asthma program (AsthmaCOMP) funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease Program. He is also the Co-Principal Investigator for the Colorado site of the NHLBI DECIPHeR Alliance that is focused on reducing asthma risk in children with health disparities in the State of Colorado.

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Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.

His research interests include respiratory/allergy diseases (e.g. asthma, food allergy), effects of Vitamin D supplementation in respiratory/allergic diseases.

He is founder/director of the Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet), an international collaboration that aims to improve public health through projects in emergency care with a focus on respiratory/allergy emergencies, health services research in emergency care, and adverse social determinants of health.

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