Participants in the Cystic Fibrosis Focus Group consist of students (medical and graduate), postdoctoral researchers, residents, faculty, and physicians from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carle Clinic, and the University of California, San Diego (via videoconference).

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Philip M. Best, Ph.D.: Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and College of Medicine, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Stephanie Ceman, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Debra Deedrich: Coordinator of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.: Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Director of National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors

• Cibele Falkenberg, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral researcher, Assistant Coordinator of CF Focus Group
• Hui Lui: Ph.D. candidate

Janet A. Jokela, M.D., F.A.C.P., M.P.H.: Head, Department of Internal Medicine

Gee Lau, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Pathobiology

• Brent Walling, D.V.M.: Veterinary resident and Ph.D. candidate
• Xonghua Hao, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral fellow
• Zhizhou Kwang

Susan Lansky-Shafer, M.S.: Genetic counselor

Zachary M. Sellers: Founder and Coordinator of CF Focus Group, M.D./Ph.D. candidate, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and College of Medicine

Ashwin Shivakumar, M.D., M.S.: Chief Resident of the Medicine Residency Program

Emad Tajkorshid, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

CARLE CLINIC

Donald Davison, M.D.: Pediatric Pulmonologist, Director of Cystic Fibrosis Clinic

Nancy Mings, M.S.W.: Pediatric Social Worker

Martha Trenkamp, R.D., C.D.E.: Dietitian

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Paul Quinton, Ph.D.: Nancy Olmsted Chair in Pediatric Pulmonology, Professor of Pediatrics

• M. M. Reddy, Ph.D.: Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
• Kevin Shaw, M.D. : Pulmonology fellow
• Jessie Yang, Ph.D.: Postdoctoral fellow

INVITED SPEAKERS AND FORMER MEMBERS

Steven D. Freedman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michael Welsh, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Carver Trust-Roy J. Carver Biomedical Chair in Internal Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of Iowa.

Deborah Nelson, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, University of Chicago.

Gerard Wong, Ph.D.: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics