Dr Alessandro Onofri is a pediatric pulmonologist and Consultant at the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital in Rome, where he has been working since 2017. He completed his residency in Pulmonology in Italy and underwent advanced training at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, where he specialized in pediatric sleep-disordered breathing and home mechanical ventilation in children. Since his residency, Dr Onofri’s primary clinical and research interests have focused on sleep-related breathing disorders, long-term non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation, and telemedicine. Over the years, he has published several peer-reviewed articles in journals with impact factor as well as book chapters on these topics. Dr Onofri is actively involved in the management of a telemedicine program dedicated to children receiving long-term home mechanical ventilation. He also teaches annually in the Master’s Program in Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. In 2023, he was awarded the prize for “Project Innovation in the Use of ICT – Feasibility, Sustainability, and Replicability” for his project “Use of Telemedicine in the Medically Complex Child on Long-Term Home Mechanical Ventilation.”

Dr. Joel Reiter is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine. Having completed his residency in pediatrics he completed a pediatric pulmonary fellowship at the Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, FA, followed by a fellowship in sleep medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Hospitals, in Boston, MA. Dr. Reiter returned to Israel in 2014 and joined the Hadassah Pediatric Pulmonary unit. In 2016 he established the Hadassah sleep center and sleep laboratory. He is a Hebrew University Medical School senior lecturer and coordinator for the course on the Respiratory System of the Sick Person. Chairman of the Israeli Sleep Research Society committee. Dr. Reiter’s research interests include diagnosis and treatment of asthma, bronchiolitis, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia and sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea and narcolepsy.