Chairman:
Hassan S. Alorainy, BsRC, RRT, FAARC
Chairman & Executive Director,
Best of AARC2026 Conference & FRCS Courses
Co-Chairman and Managing Editor, FRCSC
Vice-Chair, AARC International Committee
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Co-Chairman:
Jerome M. Sullivan, PhD, RRT, FAARC
Co-Chairman and Managing Editor, FRCSC
Professor Emeritus
College of Health and Human Services
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH, USA
Committee Member:
Dean R. Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC
FRCS Editor
Managing Editor, Respiratory Care
Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sam P. Giordano, MBA, RRT, FAARC
USA COPD Coalition
AARC Executive Director Emeritus
Senior Member, FRCS Executive Committee
Chair, US COPD Coalition
Dallas, TX, USA
Douglas S. Gardenhire, EdD, RRT, RRT-NPS, FAARC
Chair and Clinical Professor
Governor’s Teaching Fellow
Department of Respiratory Therapy
Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA, USA
J. Brady Scott, PhD, RRT, ACCS, AE-C, FAARC, FCCP
Professor and Program Director
Respiratory Care Program
Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences
College of Health Science – Division of Respiratory Care
RUSH University
Chicago, IL, USA
Dana L. Evans, MHA, RRT, RRT-NPS, FACHE, FAARC
Respiratory Regional Director,
Midwest at Advocate Health
Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
President, American Association for
Respiratory Care
Carl R. Hinkson, MSc, RRT, RRT-ACCS, RRT-NPS, FAARC
Senior Director Ancillary Services
Providence Health & Services
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett,
Everett, WA, USA
Immediate Past President, American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
President, American Respiratory Care Foundation (ARCF)
Emilee Lamorena, MSc, RRT, RRT-NPS
Director of Respiratory, Pulmonary,
and Asthma Program
Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
Orange, California, USA
AARC Chair of Neonatal/Pediatric Section