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tributors

Assoc. Prof. Ljiljana Bulat Kardum MD, piratory physiology section at ERS. Cer-
PhD tified European project manager, received
a certificate in 2010. Project manager co-
Ljiljana Bulat Kardum is a specialist in in- ordinator in the 6th and 7th Framework EU
ternal medicine and pulmonology. Since Programs and Interreg projects for Slove-
2008 she has been the head of the Depart- nia.
ment of Pulmonology of the Clinical Hos- He is a member of many European advi-
pital Center Rijeka, with focus on COPD sory boards in development of new drugs
and asthma , and an associate professor for asthma and COPD.
at Medical School, University of Rijeka,
Croatia. She has published several profes- Prof. Irena Hočevar Boltežar MD, PhD
sional and scientific articles, participated
at domestic and international congress- Irena Hočevar Boltežar has finished study
es and is the author of several chapters in of medicine at University of Ljubljana
books." (UL). She obtained her MSc, and PhD
degree at the same university. Since 1987
Assist. Prof. Matjaž Fležar MD, PhD she has been employed at the University
Medical Centre Ljubljana, Department of
Specialist in Pulmonology and Internal ORL & HNS in Ljubljana. In 1993 she
medicine and former Director of the Uni- finished her training in otorhinolaryngol-
versity Clinic of Respiratory and Aller- ogy and started working also at Faculty
gic Diseases Golnik, Slovenia. He is spe- of Medicine, UL. She has expanded her
cialized in lung function testing and sleeps knowledge at Harvard Medical School,
medicine, senior consultant in the field of Boston, USA, and HNO-Universitätsk-
obstructive lung diseases, principal inves- linik Graz, Austria.
tigator in a number of clinical trials in At the moment she has a position of full
asthma and COPD. Currently, he is the professor, is the head of the Department
head of the Respiratory function labora- of Otorhinolaryngology at Faculty of
tory at University Clinic Golnik. Medicine, and also a lecturer for students
He is a Member of EBAP at ERS, Na- of speech pathology at University of Lju-
tional delegate at ERS for Slovenia in bljana. She is the head of Center for Voice,
years 2005-2008, member of the Res-
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