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Clinical Advisors

Respiratory

Professor Jean Bousquet
Head of the INSERM Laboratory on the Immunology of Asthma,
University of Montpellier
France

Professor Stephen Holgate
University of Southampton, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, Respiratory, Cell and Molecular Biology, Southampton, UK

Oncology

Professor Jeffrey Tobias
Department of Oncology, University College Hospital, London, UK

Gastroenterology

Dr John De Caestecker
Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester, UK

Psychiatry

Dr Cornelius Katona
Dean, Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, UK

Dr Paul E Keck
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Cardiology

Professor Desmond Julian
Retired; former Professor of Cardiology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; past Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation

Anesthesiology

Professor Paul Barash
Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Professor Rajinder Mirakhur
Professor of Anaesthetics, Queen's University, Belfast, UK

Last updated: May 2007