Medical Advisors

Brazil
Dr. Carlos Carvalho, Medical Advisor for Brazil, was born and grew up in Sao Paulo, Southeast of Brazil. He completed his medical school education at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1977. He did his internal medicine residency at the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, and continued to the University of Sao Paulo to do his pulmonary and critical care medicine residency, completing the program in 1982. He is an Associate Professor of Pulmonology at the University of Sao Paulo Medical School and a Supervisor of Pulmonary Division and Chief of Respiratory ICU - Hospital das Clinicas - University of Sao Paulo. His research interests lie in respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, critical care, pulmonary fibrosis and diffuse parenchymal lung diseases including LAM.

UK
Dr. Simon Johnson, Medical Advisor for England, is Reader in Respiratory Medicine at Queens Medical Centre / University of Nottingham UK. He has a longstanding interest in the biology and treatment of lymphangioleiomyomatosis, runs the UK LAM register and is active in laboratory and clinical research including LAM clinical trials. Dr Johnson is Co-chair of the European Respiratory Society LAM Task Force, a Member of the LAM Foundation Scientific Board and the Tuberous Sclerosis Association Specialist Advisory Panel.

France
Dr. Romain Lazor, Medical Advisor for France, is a specialist in respiratory medicine with both clinical and scientific activities focused on rare pulmonary diseases, including LAM. He is working at both the Reference Center for Orphan Lung Diseases in Lyon (France), and the Respiratory Department of the Bern University Hospital (Switzerland). He created and is leading the Swiss Group for Interstitial and Orphan Lung Diseases (SIOLD), as well as the Swiss national registry for rare pulmonary disorders. He is also a member of the core panel of the ERS LAM Taskforce, the scientific committee of the French LAM patient association (FLAM), and the French network of respiratory physicians working on orphan lung diseases (GERMOP).

Germany
Dr. Hubert Wirtz, Medical Advisor for Germany, was born in Frankfurt, Germany and studied medicine in Würzburg, Bavaria. He received his Postdoctoral fellowship at the CVRI, University of California, San Francisco (Fellow of Leland Dobbs, John Clements). Came back to Germany in 1989 to continue training in internal and respiratory medicine at Maximilians University in Würzburg, Bavaria. Dr. Wirtz is a full professor at the University of Leipzig since 1999 and head of the department of Respiratory Medicine. His studies include research on surfactant, alveolar type II cells, stretch, effects of cigarette smoke on surfactant secretion, exhaled breath condensate in various diseases including ARDS, lung cancer, COPD; studies on angiogenesis and bFGF in lung cancer. He is a member of the lung transplant team in Leipzig.

Japan
Dr. Yoshikazu Inoue, Medical Advisor for Japan, is a Director of the Department of Diffuse Lung Diseases and Respiratory Failure, Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Kinki-Chuo Chest Medical Center. He is a pulmonary physician who treats many patients in his clinic with intractable lung diseases, including LAM. He has studied interstitial pneumonias/pulmonary fibrosis and rare lung diseases. Dr. Inoue serves as board member on several research groups for intractable lung diseases, and scientific meetings for ILD and respiratory failure in Japan. He is also one of the medical advisers of J-LAM and he is involved in the MILES Trial in Japan.

The Netherlands
Jan Grutters (1966) is Chest Physician at the St Antonius Hospital and Universtity Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 2001 he was awarded an ERS Research Fellowship at the Imperial College and Brompton Hospital London. In 2003 he completed his thesis entitled ‘Genetic polymorphisms and phenotypes in sarcoidosis' (ISBN: 90-393-3514-1). His current research interest is in the field of Interstitial Lung Diseases.

Romania
Dr. Mugur Bosinceanu was born in Iasi, Romania, on 13.02.1971. He graduated the medical school at The University of Medicine "Gr.T.Popa" Iasi in 1996. In 2001, he had finished his residency in thoracic surgery. Between 2003 and 2004, Mugur Bosinceanu was located in Toulouse, France as a thoracic surgeon at Hopital Larrey, Clinique de Chirurgie Thoracique. At this moment, he is a full time thoracic surgeon at The Hospital of Respiratory Diseases- Iasi, Romania. His fields of particular interest are LAM and the complications of this disease, surgery of tuberculosis, surgery of mediastinal tumors, videomediastinoscopy and video assisted thoracic surgery.

New Zealand
Dr John Kolbe, Medical Advisor for New Zealand, is a respiratory physician at Green Lane Hospital and Assoc Prof of Medicine, Dept of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Auckland. After graduating from the University of Queensland and then working in Adelaide, Associate Professor Kolbe undertook clinical training in Respiratory Medicine at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland and then a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore. He is involved in under-graduate and post-graduate teaching. He has published widely in international journals and current research interests include life-threatening asthma, non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation, oxygen therapy and bronchiectasis. Dr Kolbe is a Past- President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and is currently President of the Adult Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

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