ICC collaboration with JTD

The global respiratory initiatives founded by the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the World Health Organization (WHO) were created in 1992 in collaboration with Drs. Claude Lenfant, Director of NHLBI, Suzanne Hurd, Director of the Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI, and Nikolai Khaltaev of the Non-communicable Diseases Branch of WHO; Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD was the Coordinator and Executive Director of these initiatives. Global leaders in respiratory medicine such as Profs. Romain Pauwels, Nanshan Zhong, Tim Clark, and others brought the new clinical practice guidelines to colleagues worldwide.