Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine was launched in 1995. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of pulmonary medicine is divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Editors and Section Editors for this issue. EDITORS IN CHIEF Robert BaughmanFigureDr Robert Baughman is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, USA. After completing undergraduate training at Yale University, USA, he received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, USA. He joined the Internal Medicine staff at the University of Cincinnati after completing both an internal medicine residency and fellowship training in pulmonary diseases at the University of Cincinnati. His major research interests include the treatment of sarcoidosis and bronchoalveolar lavage. Along with his long-time collaborator Dr Elyse Lower, he has developed several novel treatments for sarcoidosis, including methotrexate, thalidomide, leflunomide, and infliximab. Current studies include treatments for sarcoidosis associated fatigue and pulmonary hypertension due to sarcoidosis. Dr Baughman's publications include over 150 original papers and over 70 review articles and/or book chapters. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Chest. He is co-Editor of the journal Sarcoidosis, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Vasculitis. In addition, Dr Baughman is the editor of books on sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, and ventilator associated pneumonia. Marjolein DrentFigureDr Marjolein Drent is professor of interstitial lung diseases (ILD) at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Faculty of Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands and pulmonologist at the ILD Center of Excellence St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, Netherlands. Her oration was entitled: ‘Breathtaking inspirations’. After she finished her training as a physical therapist, she received her medical degree from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is a co-editor and guest editor of several sarcoidosis issues of international journals. She is the editor of ILD Care Today. She is a reviewer of many international journals. She has (co-) authored over 300 papers and book chapters. Furthermore, she is concerned with several educational assignments, organisation of postgraduate courses and congresses, guideline development, as well as clinical trials. She is the co-editor of several ILD related e-learning modules. She is past president of WASOG (World Association of Sarcoidosis and other Granulomatous diseases). She is a member of the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research (FSR) Scientific Advisory Board. She is the founder and chair of the ILD Care (interstitial lung diseases including sarcoidosis and lung diseases related to occupation and environment management and research) Foundation. She is an honorary member of Sarcoidose.nl (Dutch Sarcoidosis Society) and founder and a member of the advisory board of the Dutch Pulmonary Fibrosis Society. In 2012 she was nominated for the World Sarcoidosis Person of the Year Award for her tireless research work in defining the psychological burden faced by patients and their families. Dublin, Ireland. She is ambassador for Compassion for Care and the youth smoking prevention foundation. She was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau by Royal Decree. This royal honor was awarded in 2016 by the deputy mayor of Ede, Netherlands. SECTION EDITORS Zuzana DiamantFigureDr Zuzana Diamant, MD, PhD, is a pulmonologist and clinical pharmacologist and professor by special appointment (asthma and allergy research) at Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden. She is also affiliated with the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University Medical Center of Groningen, the Netherlands and Department of Respiratory Medicine at Thomayer Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Dr Diamant also acts as Research Director of the Respiratory and Allergy at a pharmacological unit, QPS-NL, Groningen, the Netherlands, where she set up a phase I/II respiratory unit in 2012 in close collaboration with her academic partners. Furthermore, she is actively involved in several American Thoracic Society (ATS), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) initiatives: she is EAACI Asthma Section past Chair (2017–2019), acted as a member of the Scientific Program Committee and served as local congress chair (Biologicals 2018, Prague, Czech Republic, and International Severe Asthma Forum (ISAF) 2018, Madrid, Spain) and on several international task forces. Dr Diamant has worked for more than 25 years in clinical and translational asthma and allergy research, with a focus on clinical asthma models, biomarkers and sampling methods and their applicability in disease pheno/endotyping, pathophysiologic mechanisms and drug interventions. Furthermore, she is involved in teaching and supervising PhD students and postdocs and serves on several scientific advisory boards. She has coauthored over 120 peer reviewed articles (original research, reviews, expert opinions, books) and has been involved as a member of the editorial board of 4 scientific journals in the field of respiratory medicine, allergy and pulmonary pharmacology. Nicola A. HananiaFigureNicola A. Hanania, MD, MS is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Asthma and COPD Clinical Research Center at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. He completed his medical training at the University of Jordan, Jordan followed by a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. He subsequently completed a fellowship in critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he later earned a master's degree in clinical investigation. As a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Dr Hanania has served on the Board of Regents and as Chair of the Clinical Pulmonary, Airways Networks and Council of Networks for this organization. He has been on the Board of Trustees of the Chest Foundation since 2012. In addition, he is a current member of the Health Policy Committee of the American Thoracic Society, the European Respiratory Society, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He has served on several guideline and workshop panels including the ACP/ATS/ACCP/ERS Clinical Practice guidelines on COPD and the CTS/ACCP COPD exacerbations guidelines. Dr Hanania has received multiple awards including the ACCP's Distinguished Scholar in Respiratory Health, ACCP Humanitarian Award, Career Investigator Award (K23) from the NIH, Fulbright and Jaworski's Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching and Evaluation, and the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Department of Medicine at Baylor. Baylor also named him to the Academy of Distinguished Educators for 2003–2010. Dr Hanania is a Deputy Editor of Respiratory Medicine and is Associate Editor of Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine (Asthma Section) and Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Dr Hanania's research interests focus on the pharmacology and management of asthma and COPD. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, editorials and reviews on these topics. He is actively involved in clinical trials investigating novel treatments. He is Principal Investigator for the American Lung Association Airway Clinical Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator in several clinical trials in asthma and COPD. He has been invited and has lectured widely at local, regional, national and international meetings. Maarten van den BergeFigureMaarten van den Berge, MD, PhD, is a pulmonologist and Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. He has a research interest in both clinical studies and translational research with focus on genomic approaches to unravel the mechanisms leading to asthma and COPD development and treatment response. Associate Professor van den Berge is a member of the ERS and director of the ERS Clinical Research Collaborations (CRC). He has published more than 150 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals.

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