1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre

Richard Casaburi is currently Associate Chief for Research and Professor of Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California. He is also Director of the Clinical Respiratory Physiology Laboratory and the Medical Director of the Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center.

Professor Casaburi pursued a research career in biomedical engineering, receiving a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before qualifying in medicine from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the American Physiological Society, American Thoracic Society, and American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Professor Casaburi is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society and the Journal of COPD. He has authored over 195 publications and 160 abstracts.

Dr Casaburi holds the Alvin Grancell/Mary Burns Endowed Chair in the Rehabilitative Sciences at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is President of the Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to advancing the scientific basis and practice of pulmonary rehabilitation.