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Tim Aksamit is a consultant and associate professor in the pulmonary disease and critical care medicine division of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Dr. Aksamit received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL; medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, and medical training in internal medicine as well as pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City where he also was a chief resident. Additional research was completed at Hammersmith Hospital in London, U.K. Prior to joining the staff at Mayo Clinic in 1998 he was in private practice in Madison, WI. He has also previously served as the director of the medical intensive care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Aksamit’s research and clinical interests have focused on mycobacterial disease and bronchiectasis. He has co-authored a previous international statement by the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Disease Society of America on the diagnosis and treatment of nontuberculous mycobacterial disease and currently serves as chair of the U.S. Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry. He has collaborated and closely worked as an investigator on a number of multicenter clinical trials and research projects with international colleagues in Europe, Australia, and Japan involving bronchiectasis and mycobacterial pulmonary disease. He has additionally served as a scientific advisor for the EMBARC European bronchiectasis registry and each of the four World Bronchiectasis Conferences in Hannover, Milan, Washington D.C. and Barcelona. Other positions held include past chair of the State of Minnesota Tuberculous Advisory Committee as well as current director of the Mayo Mycobacterial and Bronchiectasis Clinic and medical director of Chaplain Services Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.