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A.G.W. Whitfield
A.G.W. Whitfield (Allan George Williams Whitfield, 1909–1987) was a British physician and professor of medicine at Birmingham, known for research on lung volume and radiation lung damage.
Adrian R. Martineau
Adrian R. Martineau is a British clinical professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London who studies vitamin D for tuberculosis and respiratory infections.
AE Tattersfield
AE Tattersfield, born Anne Elizabeth Tattersfield in 1940, is a British respiratory physician who was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Nottingham from 1984 to 2005.
Allan I Pack
Allan I. Pack (Allan Ian Pack) is a physician-scientist in sleep medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on the genetics of sleep and obstructive sleep apnea.
Àlvar Agustí
Àlvar Agustí (Alvar Agustí García-Navarro), born in Barcelona in 1956, is a Spanish pulmonologist and COPD researcher, professor at the Universitat de Barcelona and chair of the global COPD initiative GOLD since 2016.
Andrew Bush
Andrew Bush, born 1954, is a British pediatric respiratory physician at Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, known for work on severe childhood asthma and cystic fibrosis.
Andrew H. Limper
Andrew H. Limper is a pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he has researched Pneumocystis pneumonia and pulmonary fibrosis since the 1980s.
Anne E. Tattersfield
Anne E. Tattersfield, born in 1940, is a British respiratory physician and asthma researcher who was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham from 1984 to 2005.
Anthony S. Rebuck
Anthony S. Rebuck is a respiratory physician and asthma researcher at the University of Toronto, known for his 1992 study of beta-agonists and asthma deaths.
Anthony Seaton
Anthony Seaton (born 1938) is a British respiratory and occupational physician at Aberdeen whose 1995 Lancet paper on ultrafine particles reshaped air pollution science and UK standards.
Antoní Torres
Antoni Torres is a Spanish pulmonologist and professor at the University of Barcelona who leads IDIBAPS research on respiratory infections and received the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
Arend Bouhuys
Arend Bouhuys (1925–1979) was a Dutch-born pulmonary physician and respiratory physiologist who directed Yale's Lung Research Center and helped establish byssinosis, or brown lung, as a recognized occupational disease in the United States.
Arthur S. Slutsky
Arthur S. Slutsky is a Canadian pulmonary and critical-care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital whose research on ventilator-induced lung injury changed worldwide ARDS care.
Ashley Woodcock
Ashley Woodcock, born 1951, is a British respiratory medicine professor at the University of Manchester known for asthma and COPD trials and leading the CFC-free inhaler transition.
Asrar B. Malik
Asrar B. Malik is an American pharmacologist and vascular biologist at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on endothelial permeability, lung inflammation, and acute lung injury.
Athol U. Wells
Athol U. Wells, also published as Athol Wells, is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital and professor at Imperial College London, known for interstitial lung disease research.
Atul Malhotra
Atul Malhotra is a physician-scientist in sleep medicine and critical care at UC San Diego, where he led the 2024 trial showing tirzepatide can treat obstructive sleep apnea.
Augusto A. Litonjua
Augusto A. Litonjua is a pulmonologist and epidemiologist who is Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, known for leading the VDAART trial of prenatal vitamin D to prevent childhood asthma.
Barry L. Fanburg
Barry L. Fanburg (1932–2024) was an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Tufts Medical Center, known for research on oxygen toxicity and pulmonary hypertension.
Bartolomé R. Celli
Bartolomé R. Celli is a Venezuelan-trained pulmonary physician and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for the BODE index and co-chairing ATS/ERS COPD guidelines.
Benjamin Burrows
Benjamin Burrows (1927–2002) was an American pulmonary physician-scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, known for epidemiological research on COPD and obstructive airway disease.
Benoît Nemery
Benoît Nemery, full name Benoit Nemery de Bellevaux, is a Belgian physician-scientist in lung toxicology and occupational medicine at KU Leuven, becoming Emeritus Professor in 2018.
Bi‐Sen Ding
Bi-Sen Ding (丁楅森) is a Chinese vascular biologist known for angiocrine factors, blood-vessel signals that direct lung and liver regeneration or fibrosis, and a researcher at Sichuan University since 2016.
Bonnie Ramsey
Bonnie Ramsey is an American pediatric pulmonologist at the University of Washington who led trials of inhaled tobramycin, dornase alfa, and the CF drug ivacaftor.
Brian J. Lipworth
Brian J. Lipworth, also known as Brian Lipworth, is a British physician-scientist in respiratory medicine who holds the Chair of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine at the University of Dundee.
Bruce D. Levy
Bruce D. Levy is an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who studies how lung inflammation resolves, appointed dean of WashU Medicine in 2026.
Carl W. White
Carl W. White is an American physician-scientist in pediatric pulmonology, now Professor Emeriti at the University of Colorado, known for his 1984 coronary angiogram study.
Carlo Forlanini
Carlo Forlanini (1847–1918) was an Italian physician who invented therapeutic artificial pneumothorax, collapsing the tuberculous lung with nitrogen gas as the first effective tuberculosis treatment before antibiotics.
Charis Roussos
Charis Roussos is a Greek pulmonary physician-scientist known for respiratory muscle fatigue research, who trained over a hundred physicians and is considered the father of academic intensive care in Greece.
Charles B. Carrington
Charles B. Carrington was an American pulmonary pathologist whose 1969 and 1978 papers defined the classification of chronic eosinophilic and interstitial pneumonias; chronic eosinophilic pneumonia bears his name.