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 Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Lee BrownLee BrownLee K. Brown received the BS (1972) in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and the MD (1976) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York (now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), USA. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine, USA, after having retired from UNM as a tenured Professor of Internal Medicine in 2022. He then established and medically directed the Sleep Institute of NM, leaving that position after almost two years of service. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Sleep Medicine (ABSM). His research interests include circadian rhythm disorders; sleep disordered breathing; other sleep disorders; pulmonary and sleep physiology; and pleural disease. He previously held faculty positions at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of Arizona College of Medicine, USA. He is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi honorary societies. He has been listed in Castle Connolly “Top Doctors of America” for Sleep Medicine (21 years to present) and Pulmonary Medicine, a “Top Doctor” in U.S. News and World Report, and won the Outstanding Clinician Award from the New Mexico Thoracic Society. He received the Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) in 2003. He has served on the Boards of Directors or Trustees of the American Thoracic Society, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), and the Greater Albuquerque Medical Association (GAMA); he served as President of GAMA in 2008 and now is a Councilor representing GAMA to the New Mexico Medical Society and once again a member of the GAMA Board of Trustees. Dr Brown has been elected to fellowship in multiple professional organisations: the AASM, the American College of Physicians, the ACCP, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr Brown has been active in both the ACCP, the AASM and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) in past years. He chaired the Sleep Network for the ACCP, and was a member or chair of numerous committees of the AASM and ATS. He was appointed to the State of NM Advisory Board for Respiratory Care in 2010 and has been chairing the Board since 2014; he also chairs the Polysomnography Practice Advisory Committee of the NM Medical Board. He has served on the Editorial Board of CHEST for the ACCP, was an Associate Editor and Founding Section Editor (Emerging Technologies) for the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and is co-editor of the Section on Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology for Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. Dr Brown currently serves on an AASM guideline task force focused on home sleep apnea testing equipment. He was co-editor of an issue of Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine on Hypoventilation Syndromes in 2008 and co-editor of an issue of Sleep Medicine Clinics on Advanced PAP Therapies and Non-invasive Ventilation in 2017. Dr Brown's most recent research funding was as site Principle Investigator for the LOFT-HF Study: The Impact of Low Flow Oxygen Therapy on Hospital Admissions and Mortality in Patients with Heart Failure and Central Sleep Apnea. He is the author or co-author of 153 research reports, clinical guidelines, official statements, reviews, book chapters, and editorials, all in peer reviewed media. At present he is the first author on a comprehensive review of Idiopathic Central Sleep Apnea submitted to the journal SLEEP, and coauthor of a report on the results of the LOFT-HF study, submitted to the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Ashima S SahniAshima S SahniDr Sahni is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She also serves as the Co-Director of Respiratory Care at UI Health and the Associate Program Director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at UIC. Dr Sahni completed her medical degree (MBBS) in India before moving to the United States, where she completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County—one of the Midwest's pioneering medical institutions. She subsequently completed a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and further specialised in Sleep Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr Sahni played a key role in developing UI Health's inpatient sleep consult service and the non-invasive ventilation (NIV) clinic, implementing innovative approaches to inpatient screening, ventilator titration and home monitoring. Her clinical and research interests include sleep-disordered breathing, pulmonary and sleep physiology, non-invasive ventilation, neuromuscular disease, and the management of complex sleep-related breathing disorders. She is especially focused on improving the transition of care between inpatient and outpatient settings for patients with chronic respiratory and sleep-related conditions. Dr Sahni is a committed leader in professional societies. She has served on the Executive Board of the Illinois Sleep Society, including a two-year term as Treasurer. Nationally, she has contributed to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) as a member involved in developing inpatient sleep disorder guidelines and the ICSD-3 TR, Appendix A. She is a frequent presenter and panelist at national and international conferences and has led several non-invasive ventilation (NIV) workshops, including those hosted by ATS, CHEST, and regional Chicagoland initiatives. She is the recipient of numerous honours, including the CARE Award, the Distinguished CHEST Educator Award, and Fellow recognition from both the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP) and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (FAASM). She is a peer reviewer for several journals and has published extensively in the fields of pulmonary and sleep medicine. Dr Sahni is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed research articles, clinical guidelines, reviews, book chapters, and editorials. Douglas J ConradDouglas J ConradDouglas Conrad MD has provided care for adult CF patients since 1989. He has directed the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at the University of California San Diego, USA, beginning in 1996 where he also serves as the director of the adult PCD program. His clinical interests involve adult CF and PCD care as well as the treatment of chronic advanced airway infections including therapies targeting standard pathogens, fungi and mycobacteria. Dr Conrad's research interests the airway microbiome in CF and bronchiectasis, airway microbiology and ecology, microbial community metabolism, airway proteomics and the statistical modeling techniques that are required to integrate multi-omic analysis with clinical features and outcomes. Mark L MeterskyMark L MeterskyDr Metersky served as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA, for six years before stepping down in 2025. He has had a long-standing interest in pulmonary infections and has published extensively in the areas of bronchiectasis, pneumonia and HIV-related lung disease. He has been the Director of the UConn Center for Bronchiectasis for over 15 years, where he has conducted numerous clinical trials and other research relating to bronchiectasis. He has held leadership positions in the COPD Foundation's bronchiectasis research efforts, including serving as Chair of the US Bronchiectasis and NTM Research Registry. Dr Metersky has remained active in clinical and translational research, having published over 200 papers and book chapters. He has held several national leadership positions, including co-chair of the ATS-IDSA National Guideline panel on Ventilator Associated and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia and Chair of the Quality Improvement and Implementation Committee of the American Thoracic Society. In addition, he has maintained a busy clinical practice and has been named as a Castle-Connolly Top Doctor for 18 consecutive years. Adam J ShapiroAdam J ShapiroAdam J. Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He also serves as the Medical Director of the North American Clinical and Research Center Network for the PCD Foundation. His clinical and translational research focuses on Bronchiectasis and Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, conducted through the Genetic Disorders of Mucociliary Clearance Consortium.

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