Ioana Ciuca is pediatric pulmonologist, Professor in Pediatrics at “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania, coordinator of the Pediatric Pneumology Training programme and Head of Pediatric Pulmonology Unit at Clinical County Hospital Timisoara. After completed the Pediatrics training, she specialized in Pulmonology, being afterwards certified in Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Ultrasonography with PhD in Pediatrics. She is vicepresident of the Romanian National Cystic Fibrosis Society and Pediatric Pulmonology Section of Romanian Respiratory Society. She participated in cystic fibrosis projects, including European Centers of Reference for Cystic Fibrosis (ECORN-CF), attended training programs and courses under European Respiratory Society aegis and training at Evelina Children’s Hospital in London. Her special interests are lung ultrasound in pediatric respiratory diseases, children pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, chronic cough and preschool wheeze. She wrote papers on pediatrics respiratory field, with focus on lung ultrasound scoring development in pneumonia and cystic fibrosis and textbooks for residents doctors in pediatric pulmonology, lung ultrasound and general pediatrics. She is actively involved in the development of Pediatric Pulmonology Training program in Romania.

Dr. Sig Kharasch is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Boston City Hospital. At Boston City Hospital/Boston Medical Center, Sig was Director of the Pediatric Emergency Department for 11 years. He was also Chair of Intern Selection for the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP) and was the recipient of several teaching awards including the Jerome O. Klein Faculty Teaching Award for the Boston Combined Residency Program. Sig joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department in 2012 and completed his fellowship in Emergency Medicine Ultrasound at MGH in 2018. He has published numerous articles on lung and diaphragm ultrasound and has a special interest in POCUS in children with medical complexity. He has spoken nationally and internationally on several topics in point-of-care ultrasound and is a member of the P2 (Pediatric Emergency Medicine POCUS) Network Executive Committee and is Chair of Conferences.