Meet the EpiCreators

EpiCentral is co-created with the expertise and guidance of global experts; read on to meet our EpiCreators and hear from them why they are excited about EpiCentral.  

Professor Teal S. Hallstrand, MD, MPH

Professor Hallstrand is a pulmonary medicine expert with particular interest in asthma, including difficult-to-control asthma and airway hyperresponsiveness including exercise-induced bronchoconstriction.

Professor Teal S. Hallstrand, MD, MPH

Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington

Seattle, United States of America

Professor Hallstrand is Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington, and a board-certified physician at the Asthma Clinic at UW Medical Centre – Northwest Campus.

His main clinical and research interests include the management of asthma, difficult-to-control asthma, the pathogenesis of airway hyperresponsiveness, including exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, and the role of epithelial dysfunction in asthma.

Professor Hallstrand has published in several peer-reviewed journals. His most recent publications (2022/2023) include the update of the 2005 European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) technical standard document for the interpretation of routine lung function tests, and several studies on the role of immunity and inflammation in asthma.

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Professor Louis-Philippe Boulet, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Laval University

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Professor Gianni Marone, MD

Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II

Biography coming soon.

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Professor Celeste Porsbjerg, MD, PhD

Professor of Severe Asthma, Bispebjerg Hospital

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Professor Christopher Brightling, PhD, FMedSci

Clinical Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital

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Professor Bruce Levy, MD

Division Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Assistant Professor Marco Caminati, MD

Assistant Professor in Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona

Biography coming soon.

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Professor Pascal Chanez, MD, PhD

Professor in the Department of Respiratory Diseases, University of Aix-Marseille

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Dr Simon Couillard MD-MSc

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke

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Associate Professor Delbert (Del) Dorscheid MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia

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Professor Enrico Heffler, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Postgraduate Residency Program in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Humanitas University

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Dr Tanya M. Laidlaw, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Professor Ian Pavord, MA, DM, FRCP, FERS, FMedSci

Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Oxford

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Associate Professor Gilda Varricchi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Naples Federico II

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