Dr Peter George is a consultant respiratory physician and clinical lead for interstitial lung disease at Royal Brompton Hospital. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College and a member of the BTS specialist advisory group for interstitial lung disease. His clinical and research interests are idiopathic and connective tissue disease associated ILD, sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis and he has focused on the overlap between the pulmonary vasculature and interstitium an area which may be particular pertinent to sarcoidosis.

Dr Renzoni is an ILD specialist working in the Royal Brompton Hospital ILD Unit. Key clinical specialist interests include sarcoidosis, idiopathic and connective tissue disease associated ILD, hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Key research interests include prognostic and outcome biomarkers in lung fibrosis across ILD entities, as well as research into the effects of supplemental oxygen in fibrotic lung diseases. She has participated as co-author to the ATS/JRS/ALAT clinical practice guideline group for the diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and to the ATS clinical practice guidelines on use of supplemental oxygen in chronic respiratory diseases. She is a member of the ERS task force for genetics in pulmonary fibrosis. She is an Associate Editor for Respirology. She currently chairs the European Respiratory Society group for diffuse lung diseases of known origin (12.02).

Dr Felix Chua is a consultant respiratory physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London. He specialises in interstitial lung diseases, sarcoidosis and other complex or rare pulmonary conditions. He has published papers and book chapters in his specialist areas.

Dr Rakesh Sharma is a consultant cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital and Cardiology Lead for Cardiac Sarcoidosis.

He qualified in 1995 with triple honours from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School (now part of King’s College London) and was Proxime Accesit to the University of London Gold Medal. He underwent postgraduate training at tertiary centres in London.

Dr Sharma was awarded a British Heart Foundation fellowship to study his PhD in cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. For his research, he won the Young Investigator Prize at the American Heart Association.