Organizing Committee
Leading experts shaping WBC 2027
Conference Highlights
WBC 2027 will feature comprehensive coverage of bronchiectasis research, clinical management, and patient care across the following key topic areas:
COMMITTEE CHAIR
Gregory Tino
🇺🇸 USA
University of Pennsylvania
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Gregory Tino, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is the Chief of the Department of Medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and Senior Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Tino is an inaugural member of the Academy of Master Clinicians at Penn Medicine.Â
Dr. Tino received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he was awarded the Harold Elster Memorial Prize for highest academic standing in the graduating class.
He currenty serves as Treasurer of the American Thoracic Society.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.Â
Dr. Tino is a clinician-educator who has received multiple awards for teaching at Penn. He has a specific clinical and research interest in bronchiectasis and has been a Principal or Sub-Investigator for multiple clinical trials in bronchiectasis.
🇺🇸 USA
New York University
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Doreen J. Addrizzo-Harris, MD, FCCP, is the Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She has an extensive background in bronchiectasis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection and medical education. She serves as the Associate Director for Clinical & Academic Affairs and is the Director of the Bronchiectasis and NTM Clinical and Translational Program at NYU. She is now serving her 26th year as the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She is currently the Chair of the Clinical Care Network Steering Committee of the Bronchiectasis and NTM Association.Â
She is also the Chair of the annual North American Bronchiectasis and NTM Symposium at NYULH each December. She served as the Chair of the 6th World Bronchiectasis & NTM Conference in 2023 and is the Past President of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the Association of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD). She is a passionate educator on the topic of bronchiectasis and NTM and is focused on bringing high quality care to patients living with these diseases. She has lectured extensively on bronchiectasis and NTM lung disease and is PI of many clinical trials in bronchiectasis and NTM lung disease.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
University of Oxford
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Rhodes Chair of Experimental Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford
Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal
Chair of the European Bronchiectasis Network (EMBARC)
Chair of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society
🇺🇸 USA
Georgetown University
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Georgetown University
🇮🇱 Israel
Carmel Medical Center and the Technion, Haifa
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Michal Shteinberg is heading the bronchiectasis and adult CF unit in the Pulmonology institute and CF center, Carmel medical center, Haifa, Israel. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Faculty of medicine at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Her main research interests are bronchiectasis and adult CF, and NTM and other chronic airway infections.
The Organizing Committee brings together world-renowned experts dedicated to advancing bronchiectasis research and patient care through this landmark conference.