International
Lung
Ultrasound
Symposium

Libertario Demi received his BS and MS degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and his PhD degree in applied physics from the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) in 2013. After a post doctorate period at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), he worked as consultant for TMC Science & Technology (Belgium), as research scientist for IMEC (Belgium), as well as visiting scholar at Twente University (the Netherlands) and visiting professor at Stanford University (USA) and Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST). In 2018, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy) as an Assistant Professor. In the same year, he founded ULTRa (Ultrasound Lab Trento). Since 2021 he is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering within the same Department. His research has brought significant advances to the understanding of the interaction between ultrasound waves and lung tissue as well as on the formation mechanisms of lung ultrasound (LUS) imaging artifacts through numerical, experimental, and clinical studies. Seminal work is in the application of quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy for the characterization and classification of lung tissue alterations. Since 2020 he had made major contributions to the clinical application of LUS to COVID-19 patients, by leading the Italian Covid-19 Lung Ultrasound (ICLUS) Project: an international effort aimed at developing a standardized imaging protocol, scoring system and computer aided solution dedicated to the analysis of LUS data from COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 patients. He is author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications (95 international journal papers, 2 book chapters, 90 proceedings), 2 patents, 4 international best-poster awards, and many contributions to international conferences, including invited talks. He is Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE Senior Member, member of the Medical Ultrasound Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, and Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Federico Mento received his M.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering (summa cum laude), and his PhD in Information and Communication Technology (summa cum laude) from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He was awarded as best PhD in Information and Communication Technology (35th cycle). Currently he is a PostDoc at the Ultrasound Research Lab, University of Trento. His main research interests include image processing, lung ultrasound, medical imaging, and signal processing. He published 26 papers on lung ultrasound imaging in international journals (IEEE TUFFC, IEEE TMI, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Intensive Care Medicine, Ultrasonics). He served as a reviewer for international journals (among which, IEEE TUFFC, ERJ Open, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Scientific Reports, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Computers in Biology and Medicine).

Marie Muller is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in Physics from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France in 2002, and her Ph.D in Physical Acoustics from the University of Paris, France in 2006. After a postdoctorate at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, she returned to Paris, as an Assistant Professor with the Institut Langevin. In 2014, she moved to North Carolina and joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She is also an associate Faculty with the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NCSU. Dr. Muller has pioneered the use of ultrasound multiple scattering to characterize the lung parenchyma. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the prestigious Galien Medstartup Award in 2020, in collaboration with E-scopics, the ICU Early Career Award, the Young Investigator Award from the French Society of Acoustics, the PhD thesis award from the French Society of Biological and Medical Engineering and IEEE France Section, the Prize for a Young Parisian female researcher from the City of Paris, and the Stephens award at the International Congress of Ultrasonics. She is a member of IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. She is also a founding member and member of the board of the International Bone Ultrasound Society.

Tiziano Perrone received his Degree in Medicine and Surgery and Specialty in Internal Medicine (cum laude) respectively in 2004 and 2009 from the University of Pavia (Italy). In 2012 he obtained a PhD degree in Internal Medicine and Life Sciences from the University of Pavia (Italy). He graduated in clinical ultrasound, vascular ultrasound and emergency ultrasound in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. After the resident period he worked as Emergency Doctor (2009-2010) then as Doctor in the Internal Medicine Department where he was chief of the Internal Ultrasound Service (2010-2021) in San Matteo Hospital of Pavia (Italy). Since 2016 he is the referent for the Ultrasound Bed-Side school of SIMI (Italian Society of Internal Medicine). Since May 2021, he is responsible of the Emergency Medicine Ward of the Emergency Center at Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo (Italy). He has been a member of SIMI Regional Lombardy Council form 2018 until 2021 and organized some national congress on various internal medicine themes. He is a member of SIUMB and SIMI and councillor of the Scientific Committee of AdET. He published 38 publications indexed in Scopus which received 765 citations.

Riccardo Inchingolo is Adjunct Professor at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Italy. He received his bachelor’s, postgraduate in Respiratory Diseases’, and PhD in General and Clinical Microbiology degrees from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, in 2006, 2011, and 2015, respectively. He is certified as Expert Trainer in Medical Simulation from 2020 and received European Spirometry Driving Licence in 2014 and 2021. He achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 06/D1 - Cardiovascular and Respiratory diseases in 2022. The main research areas are: basic knowledge, clinical application, experimental trials of lung ultrasound in respiratory diseases and medical education with simulation systems. He is member of the National Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Pneumology / Italian Respiratory Society from 2019 and member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Thoracic Ultrasound - AdET from 2015. He is Associate Editor in Frontiers Respiratory Pharmacology, Review Editor in Frontiers Critical Care Anesthesiology, Topical Advisory Panel Member of Antibiotics journal and Topical Advisory Panel Member of Biomedicines journal.

Andrea Smargiassi is a Pulmonologist at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Italy. He received his bachelor’s degree from Università Gabriele D'Annunzio, Chieti-Pescara in 2006, postgraduate in Respiratory Diseases’, and PhD in Occupational, Environmental and Social Medicine degrees from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He is certified as Expert Trainer in Medical Simulation from 2020. The main research areas are: basic knowledge, clinical application, experimental trials of lung ultrasound in respiratory diseases and medical education with simulation systems. He is member of European Respiratory Society from 2007 and member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Thoracic Ultrasound - AdET from 2015.

Frank Wolfram received PhD degree from the medical faculty of the Schiller University Jena in 2016. The area of research is related to pulmonary application of therapeutic Ultrasound using one lung filling as well as lung related safety. He is section leader of the German Society of Ultrasound (DEGUM), scientific board member of the European Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (UIM) and recently Project Leader of the European Ultrasound Federation (EFSUMB) for Sonography related bio-effects on Lung.

Francesco Feletti (MD, PhD) is an Italian radiologist who holds the positions of Tenure Track Researcher at the University of Ferrara and Dirigente Medico with a Qualified Professional Assignment at AUSL Romagna. With over 15 years of experience in thoracic ultrasound, Dr. Feletti has developed an extensive clinical and research portfolio in this field. He has published two monographs: 1. L’Ecografia Toracica (Athena Medica, 2010); 2. Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging (Springer, 2020).
Dr. Feletti is also the author of numerous scientific papers, focusing on key areas such as: 1) The intersection of normal and pathological findings, with comparisons to X-rays and CT imaging. 2) The role of ultrasound in ICU, including lung recruitment assessment. 3) The use of ultrasound in military and aerospace settings.
In collaboration with the scientific society EXTREMESPORTMED (www.extremesportmed.org), Dr. Feletti has extended the applications of ultrasound to outdoor sports, such as rock climbing, scuba diving, and endurance sports.
Most recently, Dr. Feletti led an international team in developing guidelines for the use of ultrasound in preterm neonates (BMC Medicine, 2025).

Francesco Corradi received his BS degree in Medicine (cum laude) at the University of Bologna (Italy) in 1998, his doctoral degree in Internal medicine at the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2003, his PhD degree of Ultrasonography at the University of Bologna (Italy) in 2007, his doctoral degree in Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Genova (Italy) in 2011. He worked as a visiting researcher at the Liver Unit ICU, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Catalunia, Spain. He is accredited in Clinical Ultrasonography and in Echo Color Doppler (2009) by the Italian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (SIUMB). Since 2021 he is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Pisa. Since 2022 he is Director School of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pisa. He achieved the National Scientific qualification as Full-Professor in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 06/L1 (Anesthesiology). In his research activity took part to clinical research projects aimed at functional evaluation of acute respiratory failure by lung ultrasonography, computer aided diagnosis, ultrasound central vascular access positioning and check, pathophysiology of hemodynamic changes in critical care patients induced by sepsis, hemorrhage and hypotensive states, as detected by means of Doppler ultrasound. He is author of 134 peer-reviewed publications in international journal, 5 book chapters, 40 proceedings, 1 patent, 2 best-poster awards, and many contributions to international conferences, including invited talks. He is member of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care (SIAARTI), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), European Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (ESAIC), World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS) and European Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiovascular Care (ESC-ACVC). Co-Chair of the 2nd International Consensus Conference on Lung Ultrasound (ICC LUS 2.0) by WINFOCUS, Co-Chair of the 18th WINFOCUS World Congress, WINFOCUS research sub-committee. He is editorial board member of “COPD” and “Journal Clinical Medicine”.

Dr. Egan obtained his MD at the University of Toronto, Canada. After a rotating internship, he served as a medical officer and flight surgeon in the Canadian Armed Forces. He returned to Toronto for training in genera and cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. During his residency, he performed research with Dr. Joel Cooper, and was present at the world’s first successful single lung transplant. After serving as Instructor of Surgery and as Washington University’s first thoracic transplant fellow, Dr. Egan began his career as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. He started UNC’s lung transplant program, and supervised a translational research lab, investigating the possibility of recovering lungs hours after death for transplant, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. In 2007, he stopped operating due to a neurologic disability. He began to work for a UNC Translational Research Institute, where he met Dr. Marie Muller, who wanted to use lung tissue to study quantitative lung ultrasound. This partnership has shown the utility of ultrasound multiple scattering to determine severity of pulmonary edema, pulmonary fibrosis, and how to localize pulmonary nodules.

Davide Fontanarosa presently works as Professor in the School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health, at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane (Australia). Previously he worked as Senior Scientist at Maastro Clinic (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and at Philips Research (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). He was awarded his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) with a thesis on: “Evaluation of speed of sound aberration and correction for ultrasound guided radiation therapy”. His major fields of research are: artificial intelligence for automatic interpretation of ultrasound imaging; image guidance in radiotherapy; minimally invasive surgery and orthopaedics (in particular using quantitative ultrasound imaging); advanced radiotherapy treatment planning and adaptation strategies.

Nicole M. Duggan, MD. Dr. Duggan received her BA degree at Scripps College in Molecular Biology, and her medical degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine. During medical school she was awarded several research fellowships including from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Her research fellowship was spent at Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigating cellularized devices for healing acute traumatic injuries. Dr. Duggan completed residency training in Emergency Medicine as well as Fellowship training in Emergency Ultrasound at the Harvard University affiliated Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospitals, and subsequently joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the director of research for the Emergency Ultrasound Division. Dr. Duggan’s work focused on creating machine learning models to automate point-of-care ultrasound use in acute care settings. Lung ultrasound is a cornerstone of her clinical research, in particular automating lung ultrasound interpretation to guide clinical decision-making and therapies.

Sandra Magnoni received her BS degree in Medicine in 1996 and her doctoral degree in Anesthesia and Intensive Care in 2003. She worked for a post doctorate period (2002-2004) at the Centre for Neuroscience Research, University of Edinburgh (UK) and as a visiting scholar (2012) at the Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis (USA). She works as supervisor for under and post graduate medical students and as post doctoral supervisor. She is a senior member of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care (SIAARTI) and of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). She is editorial board member of “Journal of Neurotrauma” and “Frontiers in Neurology”.
She is a senior Intensive Care physician with specific multi-year experience in the management of the critically ill patients with acute brain injury, multi-organ and respiratory failure. Since 2018 she works in Trento, at the local Hospital and Trauma Center S. Chiara, after a long working experience at the University Hospital IRCCS Policlinico in Milan. Her scientific interests have been focusing on clinical and translational research in acute brain injury, cerebral multimodal monitoring and brain and lung image analysis in the critically ill patients. She is authors of more than 50 peer reviewed publications in high impact journals, including Science (in 2008) and Science Translational Medicine (2021).

Haichong Zhang is Assistant Professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, United States, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include Robotic Lung Ultrasound.

Sleiman Ghorayeb is Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Hofstra University, Professor of Radiology and Molecular Medicine at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Residency and Doctoral Research at the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and PA Studies, and Investigator at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Center for Immunology and Inflammation at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health. Dr. Ghorayeb is the director of the Ultrasound Research Lab at Hofstra. His research focuses primarily on theoretical and experimental studies in therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound. He maintains strong collaborations at the international and domestic levels. He led the development of new techniques and procedures in fetal lungs tissue characterization and stem cell stimulation in the fields of Dentistry and Ophtalmology. He holds research practices with the departments of Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine at Northwell Health. Dr. Ghorayeb is the recipient of the Athanasios Papoulis Award, Eta Kappa Nu Honors Award, and the Hofstra Research Mentor of the Year Award and Presidential Research Award. Dr. Ghorayeb is Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, invited Fellow of the British Royal Society of Medicine, Senior Member of IEEE, member of the International Cartilage Research Society, and invited member of the Scientific Research Honor Society Sigma Xi.

Dott. Eisenmann is a senior physician and head of the Pulmonary Medicine Department at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, University Hospital, Germany.  He is currently the head of the Thoracic Ultrasound Section of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin (DEGUM).