Doctor Louis-Philippe Boulet is a respirologist at the Institut de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (Quebec Heart and Lung Institute). He is a Professor of medicine at the department of Medicine at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada and holds a chair in Knowledge translation education and prevention in respiratory and cardiorespiratory health at Laval University.

He is a past chair of the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS), past chair (and current member) of the CTS Respiratory Guidelines Committee. He is also a member of many Canadian and International medical societies as well as guidelines committees, including current ATS/ERS (American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society), Committees on Diagnosis of asthma, Severe asthma and the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Cough Guideline Committee. He has been past member of the Board of directors of ATS and ACCP. He has been a founding member of the Quebec Respiratory Health Education Network.

He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). He is the immediate past-president of InterAsma, the Global Asthma Association. He is a member of the AllerGen Canadian Network of Centers of excellence, of GARD (Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases, WHO), FIRS and ARIA.

He has been Associate Editor of CHEST, the European Respiratory Journal and the Canadian Respiratory Journal. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine journal and Associate editor of Clinical and Experimental Allergy. He has received many awards and performed many Honorary lectures.

In addition to his clinical practice and teaching, Dr. Boulet has a research program, mainly on the themes of asthma phenotypes, airway responses, inflammation and remodeling, respiratory allergy, respiratory health of athletes, knowledge translation and health education.

He has written more than 700 medical publications, in addition to close to 700 abstracts, 43 book chapters and edited/authored 17 books. Doctor Boulet is frequently invited as a speaker at national and international meetings.

Ruby Pawankar, MD, PhD, FRCP (UK), FAAAAI, is currently the President of the Asia-Pacific Association of Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI). She is also the Historian (2016-2017) and Past-President of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) (2014-2015), and served as President, WAO, 2012-2013. She is also currently the President of the Indian Academy of Allergy (IAA) and Council Board Member of the Collegium Internationale Allergolicum (CIA). She is Professor of Allergy, Department of Pediatrics at Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, Guest Professor, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, and Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. After graduating in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Pune, India, Prof. Pawankar post graduated from BJ Medical College, Pune and then trained in Allergy & Clinical Immunology at Nippon Medical School and Juntendo University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

Prof. Pawankar serves on numerous committees of several academic organizations and grant reviews, is a Member/Fellow of many academic organizations, including the Japanese Society of Allergology (JSA), AAAAI, EAACI, ACAAI, Royal College of Physicians, UK. Prof. Pawankar is a recipient of many academic awards like the International Distinguished Fellow Award of ACAAI, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Allergy, DN Shivpuri Award, the SK Malik Oration Award, and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from the President of India for excellence in medicine. Besides her clinical and teaching assignments in allergy, her research has focused especially on airway allergies inparticular the cellular and molecular mechanisms of allergy, impact of environmental pollutants, and novel therapies for allergies. Among her key contributions is the role of gd T cells in allergy and mast cells with increased Fcepsilon receptor expression as a major source of the obligatory pro- allergic Th2 cytokines capable of driving local allergen specific IgE synthesis. She has also worked on the role of epithelial cells as immune-regulators in allergic airway disease This has resulted in 460 publications and an h-index of 64. She is an Editor of several peer-reviewed journals and books including ‘Allergy Frontiers’ by Springer Nature, the WAO White Book on Allergy, Update on Respiratory Disorders, etc and is a co-author of several consensus documents and an expert panelist at United Nation’s Rio+20 pre panel on Environment and Health.

Prof. Pawankar has organized several international congresses including the 10th Trans Pacific Allergy Congress, the 9th Asian Rhinology Symposium, the Middle East Allergy Congress, the WAO International Scientific Conference (WISC) 2012, the World Allergy Congress 2013, Milan, Italy, was Scientific Chair for APAAACI-APAPARI Joint Congress 2016 and many educational programs and has been visiting faculty at several reputed institutions worldwide.

At an organizational level her vision continues to be to create a channel of dialogue with multidisciplinary stakeholders to address the unmet global public health issue of asthma and allergic disease in an integrated and holistic approach that can lead to increased resources for research, improved patient care, better health care delivery, and preventative strategies.

Professor Suleiman Al-Hammadi joined MBRU in February 2021, and appointed as a Dean for College of Medicine in March 2021. Prof. Al-Hammadi served the CMHS at UAEU for more than 17 years with different higher administrative responsibilities, Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs, Vice Dean and Acting Dean. Clinically, he established the first of its kind Allergy and Clinical Immunology Service in UAE by starting specialized clinic at Tawam hospital in 2004. He is a well-recognized leader and clinician in his field at international and regional level.

He is involved in Academic Medicine for almost 20 years, taking care of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate pediatric specialty training. He is continuously enhancing Medical Education and involved at its leadership in UAE. He is representing UAE at the Arab Board of Health Specializations, as a member of the Pediatric Executive committee (2014-2018), and advisory Committee to the Secretary General recently.

Prof. Al-Hammadi is an accomplished scholar in his field, published more than 35 original articles in peer-reviewed journals, some of which are novel and unique to the region, in addition to regular participation and presenting at international, regional, and local conferences.