Authors:
Peter W. Hellings1,2,3; Isam Alobid4; Wilma T. Anselmo-Lima5; Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen6,7; Leif Bjermer8; Lisa Caulley9,10,11; Adam Chaker12; Jannis Constantinidis13; Diego M. Conti14; Eugenio De Corso15; Martin Desrosiers16; Zuzana Diamant8,17,18,19; Philippe Gevaert3; Joseph K.Han20; Enrico Heffler21,22; Claire Hopkins23; Basile N. Landis24; Olga Lourenco25,26; Valerie Lund27; Amber U. Luong28; Joaquim Mullol29; Anju Peters30; Carl Philpott31,32; Sietze Reitsma33; Dermot Ryan34; Glenis Scadding35; Brent Senior32; Peter Valentin Tomazic36; Elina Toskala37; Thibaut Van Zele3; An-Sofie Viskens1,38; Martin Wagenmann39; W. J. Fokkens33
1KU Leuven Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research unit, Leuven, Belgium
2University Hospitals Leuven, Clinical Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leuven, Belgium
3Ghent University, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Upper airways research laboratory, Ghent, Belgium
4Rhinology and Skull Base Unit, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Center of Biomedical Research in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain
5Division of Otorhinolaryngology, Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ribeirao Preto Medical School-University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
6Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
7Department of Otorhinolaryngology, hospital clinic Barcelona, Spain
8Department of Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Institute for Clinical Science, Skane University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
9Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada
10Clinical Epidemiology Program, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
11Institut for Klinisk Medicin, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
12Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology and Center for Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), TUM School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany
131st Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
14The European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases Scientific Expert Team Members, Brussels, Belgium
15Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Rhinology, A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation, IRCSS, Rome, Italy.
16Department of ORL-HNS, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
17Department of Microbiology Immunology & Transplantation, KU Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
18Department of Respiratory Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Thomayer Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
19Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University in Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
20Department of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia, USA
21Personalized Medicine, Asthma and Allergy – IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital – Rozzano (MI), Italy
22Department of Biomedical Sciences – Humanitas University – Pieve Emanuele (MI), Italy
23Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Guys and St. Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom
24Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
25FCS-UBI, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Beira Interior, 6200-506 Covilhã, Portugal.
26CICS-UBI, Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, 6200-506 Covilhã, Portugal
27Royal National Ear, Nose and Eastman Dental Hospital, UCLH, London, UK
28Otolaryngology-HNS, McGovern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
29Rhinology Unit and Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, FRCB-IDIBAPS, Universitat de Barcelona, CIBERES. Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
30Department of Otolaryngology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31Rhinology & ENT Research Group, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
32Norfolk & Waveney ENT Service, James Paget and Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals, Norfolk, United Kingdom
33Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
34Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
35Royal National ENT Hospital, London and Division of Immunity and Infection, University College, London, UK
36Department of General Otorhinolaryngology, H&N Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
37Otolaryngology-HNS, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
38Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
39Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany