COMMITTEES
LHC 2027 Congress Organizing Committee
Özlem Erçen Diken Congress President Adana
Mehmet Akif Özgül Congress Scientific Committee Chair İstanbul
Nagihan Durmuş Koçak Congress Secretary İstanbul
Huriye Berk Takır Congress Scientific Program Officer İstanbul
Bünyamin Sertoğullarından Congress Papers and Posters Responsible İzmir
Hüseyin Melek Congress Financial Secretary Bursa
Nur Aleyna Yetkin Congress External Relations Specialist Kayseri
Pınar Mutlu Congress Press Officer Çanakkale
Selda Günaydın Congress Social Program Officer Giresun
Eren Göktuğ Ceylan Specialist Representative Hatay
Helin Su Kaya Assistant Representative İstanbul
Akın Kaya LHICS Board of Directors Representative Ankara
International Scientific Committee Members (in alphabetical order by surname)
Abhinav Agrawal Abhinav Agrawal, Northwell Health Physician Partners Hospital, Department of Interventional Pulmonology and Bronchoscopy, New York, USA
Muhammed Emin Akkoyunlu Chair of the Sleep Disorders Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Remzi Bağ Mayo Clinic, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Florida, USA
Rafiq Bayramov Azerbaijan Medical University, Head of the Department of Pulmonology, Baku, Azerbaijan
Eihab Bedawi Oxford Pleural Unit, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Brearley Wing, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
Güven Bektemür Chair of the Health Policies Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Servet Bölükbaş University Medical Center Essen - Ruhrlandklinik, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Essen, Germany
Ivane Chkhaidze Medical Director of the M. Iashvili Children's Central Hospital and the Head of Tbilisi State Medical University's Department of Pediatrics, Tbilisi, Georgia
Francis Couturaud Univ Brest, INSERM U1304-GETBO, CIC INSERM 1412, Brest, France; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brest, Département de Médecine Interne et Pneumologie, Brest, France; FCRIN INNOVTE Network, Saint-Etienne, France
Erdoğan Çetinkaya University of Health Sciences, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pulmonology, İstanbul, Türkiye
Erhan Dinçer University of Minnesota, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Minnesota, USA
Ahmet Emin Erbaycu Bakırçay University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology, İzmir, Türkiye
Daniela Gompelmann Medical University of Vienna, Department of Pulmonology, Vienna, Austria
Hari Kishan Gonuguntla Department of Pulmonology, Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India
Ömür Güngör Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Diseases Scientific Board, Ankara, Türkiye
Felix Herth University of Heidelberg, Thoraxklinik, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Critical Care Medicine, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Douglas Kyle Hogarth University of Chicago Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Chicago, USA
Vivienne Kahlmann Erasmus University Rotterdam, Training of Pulmonologist, Netherlands
Hasan Kahraman Chair of the Lung Infections and Tuberculosis, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye
Gülistan Karadeniz Chair of the COPD Scientific Board, İzmir, Türkiye
Talat Kılıç Chair of the Interstitial Lung Diseases Scientific Board, Malatya, Türkiye
Murat Kıyık SBÜ, University of Health Sciences, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pulmonology, İstanbul, Türkiye
Vladimír Koblížek Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Prague, Chzechia
Stavros Konstantinides University Medical Center Mainz, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Mainz, Germany
Lorcan McGarvey Queen’s University of Belfast, Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Department of General Internal and Respiratory Medicine, Belfast, UK
Aida Mujakovic Pulmonologist Intensivist at General Hospital Prim. Dr. Abdullah Nakas, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Veronika Muller Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Septimiu Murgu University of Chicago Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Chicago, USA
Gökhan Mutlu University of Chicago Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chicago, USA
Neslihan Özçelik Chair of the Digital Health Scientific Board, Rize, Türkiye
Tevfik Özlü Medikal Park Karadeniz Hospital, Chest Diseases Clinic, Trabzon, Türkiye
Esra Pehlivan Chair of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Mehtap Pehlivanlar Küçük Chair of the Intensive Care Scientific Board, Trabzon, Türkiye
Venerino Poletti University of Bologna, Forli City Hospital, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Forli, Italy
Najib M. Rahman University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Unit of Respiratory Trials, Oxford, UK
Luca Richeldi Head of the Interstitial Lung Disease Unit at the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK, and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Laurent Savale Public Assistance Hospitals, Pulmonology Department, Paris, France
Florence Schleich University of Liege, Pulmonology Department, Liege, Belgium
Olivier Sitbon Hospital Bicetre, Pulmonology Department, Paris, France
Paolo Spagnolo University of Padua, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Padua, Italy
Grigoris Stratakos Interventional Pulmonology Unit of the 1st Respiratory Medicine Department, "Sotiria" Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Sevda Şener Cömert Chair of the Thoracic Oncology Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Erhan Tabakoğlu Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology, Edirne, Türkiye
Elif Tanrıverdi Chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Jacobo Sellares Torres Consultant of the Pneumology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain
Furkan Ufuk University of Chicago Medicine, Radiology, Chicago, USA
Efsun Gonca Uğur Chousein Chair of the Interventional Pulmonology Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Yurdagül Uzunhan Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Avicenne, APHP INSERM U1272 Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Marlies Wijsenbeek Centre for Interstitial Lung Diseases and Sarcoidosis, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Berna Botan Yıldırım Chair of the Tobacco Scientific Board, Ankara, Türkiye
LHICS Board of Directors
Gamze Kırkıl President
Nuri Tutar Vice President
Ersin Günay General Secretary
Ercan Kurtipek Accountant
Hadice Selimoğlu Şen Member
Neslihan Özçelik Member
Akın Kaya Member
Demet Turan Member
Mustafa Çörtük Member
Özlem Şengören Dikiş Member
Nagihan Durmuş Koçak Member
Gülistan Karadeniz Member
Bünyamin Sertoğullarından Member