PROFESSOR ANDREW BUSH MD FHEA FRCP FRCPCH FERS FAPSR ATSF Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respirology, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College (Foundation Director); Consultant Paediatric Chest Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital I qualified from Cambridge University and University College Hospital. I initially trained in adult thoracic medicine, obtaining an MD in the Department of Clinical Physiology, Brompton Hospital. I then re-trained in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Brompton and the Royal Postgraduate Medical school. I was appointed Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at the Brompton and Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1991 and was made Professor at Imperial College in 2007. My research interests include the invasive and non-invasive measurement of airway inflammation in children and clinical physiology,. I have supervised more than 50 MD and PhD degrees, co-authored more than 750 papers in peer review journals, and written more than 130 chapters in books and monographs. I am Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Currently I am Guidelines Director of the European Respiratory Society, having previously chaired the Publications Committee. I am an emeritus NIHR Senior Investigator. Honours include the British Thoracic Society medal (2022), the 2024 James Spence Medal and an Honorary Life Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and I am the 2024 ERS Presidential awardee. Most importantly, I have the eight greatest grandchildren in the world, Dylan and Jack in South Africa, Oscar and his twin siblings Aya and Fletcher, Lydia, Dominic and Ilyas, all in London.

Susanna A. McColley, MD, FAAP, ATSF is Professor of Pediatrics in Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Scientific Director for Interdisciplinary Research Partnerships at Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Her primary research focus is cystic fibrosis includes epidemiology, clinical trials of new therapies, improving newborn screening for diagnostic timeliness and equity, and new tools for diagnosis and disease monitoring. As Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology, she is a continuous learner who is dedicated to not only providing a venue for new research, but for reviews, case reports and commentaries that support evidence-based clinical practice, recognition of rare conditions and innovations in the care of children with respiratory disease. She is determined to improve health equity through research, dissemination, educational initiatives and fostering career development. At Northwestern University, she co-leads a course on antiracism in science, directs a National Institutes of Health funded postdoctoral training program, and co-directs a career development core for early career faculty underrepresented in biomedical research through an NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustained Transformation grant. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Rosenau Family Research Foundation, and Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute.

Marco Zampoli completed his paediatric pulmonology training in South Africa where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Paediatrics at the University of Cape Town. Prof. Zampoli is head of the paediatric cystic fibrosis(CF)clinic at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. He completed his PhD on various aspects of CF epidemiology in South Africa and Africa. His other research and clinical interests include primary ciliary dyskinesia, pleural effusions, sleep medicine and long-term home ventilation.