Conference Committees

Meet the dedicated professionals shaping the scientific program and guiding the future of interventional pulmonology.

Sonali Sethi, MD

AABIP President
Program Organizing Committee Chair

Niral Patel, MD

Scientific Program
Committee Chair

Hans Lee, MD

Scientific Program
Committee Co-Chair

  • Program Organizing Committee (POC)

Sonali Sethi, MD

AABIP President
Program Organizing Committee Chair

Carla Lamb, MD

AABIP Past President,
2024-2026

Ashutosh Sachdeva, MBBS

AABIP Secretary-Treasurer

Septimiu Murgu, MD

AABIP Past President,
2022-2024

Jose De Cardenas, MD

Scientific Program Committee Chair

Niral Patel, MD

Scientific Program Committee
Co-Chair

Audra Schwalk, MD

Simulation Chair

Van Holden, MD

Simulation Co-Chair

Laura Frye, MD

2025 Scientific Program Chair

Ellen Volker, MD

Communications Committee Chair

George Cheng, MD

Research Committee Chair

Ara Chrissian, MD

Education Committee 

Colleen Channick, MD

Education Committee

  • AABIP Support Team

Denise Holcomb

Director of Operations

Brittany Holcomb

Annual Conference Project Manager; Administrative Director

Amy Peacock

Admin Support Team

Leigh Porter-Hepokoski

Admin Support Team

Bridget Heredia

Social Media and Marketing

Christine Alawahab

Simulation Support Team

Erika Carriere

Simulation Support Team

  • Scientific Sub-Committees
Advanced Bronchoscopy
  • Jaskaran Sethi, MD: Co-Chair
  • Lakshmi Mudambi, MD: Co-Chair
  • Sisir Akkineni, MD
  • Emily DuComb, MD
  • Jason McClune, MD
  • Or Kalchiem-Dekel, MD
  • Ramsy Abdelghani, MD
  • Joon Chang, MD
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Uzair Ghori, MD: Co-Chair
  • Upendra Kaphle, MD: Co-Chair
  • Jaspal Singh, MD
  • Ashutosh SAchdeva, MD
  • Kaled Alshabani, MD
Medical Education
  • Raed Alalawi, MD: Co-Chair
  • Alfin Vicencio, MD: Co-Chair
  • John Hinze, MD
  • Laura Frye, MD
  • Van Holden, MD
  • Rebecca Priebe, ACNP-BC
  • Joshua Boster, MD
Pleural Disease
  • Sujith Cherian, MD: Co-Chair
  • Elliot Backer, MD: Co-Chair
  • Irene Riestra, MD
    Anastasiia Rudkovskaia, MD
  • Diana Espinoza, MD
  • Christopher Chang, MD
  • Rebecca Cloyes, AARN-CNP
Therapeutic Bronchoscopy
  • See Wei Low, MD: Co-Chair
  • Angela Sherman, RRT: Co-Chair
  • George Chaux, MD
  • Michal Reid, MD
  • Chan Yue PU, MD
  • Muhammad Sajawal Ali, MD
  • Yu Htwe, MD
  • Amrita Karambelkar, MD
Miscellaneous
  • Jonathan Kurman, MD: Co-Chair
  • Shailendra Das, MD: Co-Chair
  • Mona Sarkiss, MD
  • Coral Giovacchini, MD
  • Hasnain Bawaadam, MD
  • Lauren Grant, MD
  • Janet Cady, DNP, CRNP