: I am Professor of Internal and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Patras, Greece and Head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at the University Hospital of Patras, Greece as well as Associate Professor Adjunct at Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Department, Yale School of Medicine, USA. From 2019 – 2022 I was also an Executive Officer-Internal Auditor of European Respiratory Society and since 2018 i serve as a member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) College of Experts, official reviewer of ERS fellowships and Awards, mentor of ERS young scientists (ERS mentoring scheme), Associate Editor of Respiratory Research and Frontiers in Medicine. I am the head of the ERS Task Force on IPF and Lung cancer. I enumerate 267 publications in Scopus and 250 in PubMed with 7713 citations and H-index 48 ( 31% as first author, 23% as last author, and 46% as middle author).