Current Controversies in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Report from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Scientific Committee

Affiliations

• ¹ 1 Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ² 2 New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
• ³ 3 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁴ 4 Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁵ 5 University of Texas Health Science Center and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas.
• ⁶ 7 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ 8 McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ⁸ 9 State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
• ⁹ 10 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹⁰ 11 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
• ¹¹ 12 Faculty of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.
• ¹² 13 Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, United Kingdom.
• ¹³ 14 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• ¹⁴ 15 Servicio de Neumonología y Cirugía de Tórax, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
• ¹⁵ 16 School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
• ¹⁶ 17 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁷ 18 University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹⁸ 19 Respiratory Medicine Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁹ 20 Hôpital Cochin (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris), Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ²⁰ 21 Thorax Institute, Hospital Clinic Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ²¹ 22 Chest Research Foundation, Pune, India.
• ²² 23 University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• ²³ 24 St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ²⁴ 25 University Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• ²⁵ 26 Universidad de la República, Hospital Maciel, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ²⁶ 27 Education and Research Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• ²⁷ 28 University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL).
• ²⁸ 29 Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts; and.
• ²⁹ 30 Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.