COMMITTEES
LHC 2026 Congress Organizing Committee
Gülistan Karadeniz Congress President İzmir
Özlem Erçen Diken Congress Scientific Committee Chair Adana
Halil İbrahim Yakar Congress Secretary Tokat
Neslihan Özçelik Congress Scientific Program Officer Rize
Elif Torun Parmaksız Congress Papers and Posters Responsible İstanbul
Cengizhan Sezgi Congress Financial Secretary Gaziantep
Barış Demirkol Congress External Relations Specialist İstanbul
Özlem Şengören Dikiş Congress Press Officer Muğla
Şeyma Özden Congress Social Program Officer İstanbul
Akın Kaya LHICS Board of Directors Ankara
International Scientific Committee Members (in alphabetical order by surname)
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
Yılmaz Bülbül Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Farabi Hospital, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Trabzon, Türkiye
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, Department of Pulmonology, İstanbul, Türkiye
Erhan Dinçer University of Minnesota, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Minnesota, USA
Dildar Duman Chair of the Interstitial Lung Diseases Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Mükremin Er Chair of the Tobacco Scientific Board, Ankara, Türkiye
Ümran Erbay Kütahya Health Sciences University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Kütahya, Türkiye
Serdar Evman Chair of the Minimally Invasive Chest Surgery Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Daniela Gompelmann Medical University of Vienna, Department of Pulmonology, Vienna, Austria
Hari Kishan Gonuguntla Department of Pulmonology, Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, Hyderabad, India
Felix Herth University of Heidelberg, Thoraxklinik, Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Critical Care Medicine, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Elliot Ho City of Hope, Interventional Pulmonologist and Critical Care Medicine, California, USA
Douglas Kyle Hogarth University of Chicago Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Chicago, USA
Vivienne Kahlmann Erasmus University Rotterdam, Training of Pulmonologist, Netherlands
Mehmet Karadağ Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Bursa, Türkiye
Shaf Keshavjee University of Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Cancer Clinical Research Unit, Toronto, Canada
Murat Kıyık Chair of the Thoracic Oncology Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
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. Abdulah 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
Mehmet Akif Özgül Chair of the Interventional Pulmonology Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Tevfik Özlü Medikal Park Karadeniz Hospital, Chest Diseases Clinic, Trabzon, Türkiye
Alberto Papi Professor of Respiratory Medicine University of Ferrara, Director of the Respiratory Unit of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
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
Eva Polverino Hospital Clinic, Pulmonology Department, Barcelona, Spain
Ramon Rami Porta Hospital Universitari Mutua Terrassa, Service of Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, Spain
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
Özlem Saniye İçmeli Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Diseases Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Nurhan Sarıoğlu Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Balıkesir, Türkiye
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
Hülya Şahin HSU Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Department of Chest Diseases, İzmir, Türkiye
Elif Tanrıverdi Chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Dursun Tatar HSU Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Department of Chest Diseases, İzmir, Türkiye
Fatma Merve Tepetam Chair of the Asthma and Allergy Immunology Scientific Board, İstanbul, Türkiye
Walter De Wever Department of Radiology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Marlies Wijsenbeek Centre for Interstitial Lung Diseases and Sarcoidosis, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ASYOD Board of Directors
Ahmet Emin Erbaycu President
Gamze Kırkıl Vice President
Özlem Erçen Diken General Secretary
Mustafa Çörtük Accountant
Akın Kaya Member
Efsun Gonca Uğur Chousein Member
Celal Buğra Sezen Member
Ersin Günay Member
Nuri Tutar Member
Cengizhan Sezgi Member
Neslihan Özçelik Member
Hadice Selimoğlu Şen Member
Gülistan Karadeniz Member