Ashwin Basavaraj, MD, FCCP, ATSF is an Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Section Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center. He is also an Associate Director of the Bronchiectasis and NTM Program at NYU Langone Health.
His research focuses on evidence base in oncology, clinical trials, drug development, cancer care quality, healthcare delivery and global oncology. Dr. Desai received his medical degree from the prestigious B.J Medical College in Ahmedabad, India. He holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
Nicolas Girard is a pneumologist specializing in thoracic oncology, for the treatment of patients with lung cancer or rare thoracic cancers. He is experienced in the treatment of thymic tumors—thymomas and thymic carcinomas—as part of his work in the RYTHMIC network. He is domain leader for rare thoracic cancers for the European Reference Network EURACAN.
Ravi Kalhan, MD, MS is Deputy Division Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Northwestern. He additionally serves as co-director of the Center for Education and Career Development in the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute.
Antonio Passaro, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist at the Division of Thoracic Oncology of the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. He received the PhD in molecular medicine with a thesis on lung cancer.
Sandip Patel is a Professor at UCSD and a Medical Oncologist focusing on early phase clinical trials of immunotherapy and thoracic oncology.
Dr. Rajagopal is an Associate Professor of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Biochemistry at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Christina Thornton, MD PhD FRCPC is an adult respirologist in the Division of Respirology, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Calgary, Canada. Dr. Thornton is a clinician scientist specializing in cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis. She completed the MD/PhD program at the University of Calgary as part of the Leaders in Medicine program.
Dr. Turvey is an Infectious Diseases consultant. Areas of clinical focus include Tuberculosis, Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria, and HIV. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Born in Burnaby, BC, she completed a B.Sc. at Simon Fraser University in Biology and Chemistry and then a thesis-based M.Sc. in Forest Ecology (2007) at the University of British Columbia before deciding to pursue medicine. In 2011, she obtained an M.D. from the University of British Columbia. She completed her Core Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases training at the University of Alberta in 2017, and she is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine in both Canada and the USA.