Dr. Diana Marangu-Boore is a board certified paediatric pulmonologist affiliated with the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She is committed to improving respiratory health regionally and globally through discovery, translation and intervention. Her current research focuses on the genetics and immunology of recurrent and persistent pneumonia and its intersection with interventional pulmonology.

Professor, Chief Physician Doctoral Supervisor Foreign Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences Honorary President of Chinese Medical Association Chinese Society of Pediatrics President of China National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases President of China Medicine Education Association Pediatric Committee Foreign Academician of Royal Irish Medical Association President of Asian Society for Pediatric Research (ASPR) BOD Member of Asian Pacific Academy of Pediatric Allergy, Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI) Chief Member of Expert Committee on Children’s Drug Use National Health and Family Planning Commission of P.R. China Vice Chief Member of Chinese Medical Doctor Association-Pediatric Resident Standardized Training Deputy Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Pulmonology

Adaeze C. Ayuk is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, and a Sub- specialist in Paediatric Pulmonology from the University of Cape Town South Africa, with Distinction. She has had Respiratory clinical trainings at Guys and St Thomas Hospital London (Prof Bateman), the Queen Mary University/Barts and the London Hospital (Prof Grigg) and the Royal Brompton Hospital London (Prof Bush). She won the 2011 American Thoracic Society (ATS) small grant award and the young investigators award of the Conference of International Paediatric Pulmonologist (CIPP) in 2012. She has also won the Buist Pathway to Leadership award (BPLA) in 2021 and is the current co-lead Level 2 Faculty for PATS-MECOR research course programe. She serves as an official in the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (National Treasurer), the Nigerian Thoracic Society (Vice President) and the immediate past assembly secretary European Respiratory Society. She is the Sectional Editor for Paediatrics in the Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice (NJCP) and also for Journal of the Pan African Society (JPATS). She has over 90 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently a Professor of Paediatrics and a Consultant Paediatric Pulmonologist at the University of Nigeria (UNN).