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Fernando J. Martínez

Fernando J. Martínez is a Cuban-born pulmonary physician-scientist known for research on COPD and interstitial lung disease, and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Frank C. Sciurba

Frank C. Sciurba, also known as Frank Sciurba, is an American pulmonologist and COPD researcher who directs the Emphysema COPD Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Frank D. Gilliland

Frank D. Gilliland, also published as Frank Gilliland, is a physician-epidemiologist and Hastings Professor at USC known for the Children's Health Study of air pollution and lung development.

Fredrick Van Goor

Fredrick Van Goor is a Canadian-born cell biologist who, as head of cystic fibrosis research at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, led the biology behind five licensed CF medicines including Trikafta.

Friedrich Grimminger

Friedrich Grimminger is a German pulmonary physician-scientist, professor of internal medicine at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2003, known for the Giessen pharmacotherapy program in pulmonary hypertension.

Ganesh Raghu

Ganesh Raghu is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington known for clinical trials and international guidelines in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring lung disease.

Gary Epler

Gary R. Epler is an American pulmonary medicine physician known for his 1985 New England Journal of Medicine description of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP), later classified as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.

Gary M. Hunninghake

Gary M. Hunninghake, known as "Matt", is an American pulmonologist and genetic epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he directs the Interstitial Lung Disease Program.

Gary W. Hunninghake

Gary W. Hunninghake is an American pulmonary physician-scientist who worked at the National Institutes of Health and then the University of Iowa, known for defining the immunopathogenesis of pulmonary sarcoidosis.

George O'connor

George T. O'Connor is an American pulmonologist and genetic epidemiologist at Boston University and Boston Medical Center whose research focuses on asthma, allergy, COPD, and sleep apnea.

Gerard J. Criner

Gerard J. Criner is an American pulmonologist, founding chair of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at Temple University, known for leading COPD trials including STATCOPE and benralizumab studies.

Guy B. Marks

Guy B. Marks, also known as Guy Marks, is an Australian respiratory physician and epidemiologist who led tuberculosis trials in Vietnam and became President of The Union in 2019.

Guy Brusselle

Guy G. Brusselle is a Belgian pulmonologist and respiratory epidemiologist, a professor at Ghent University and Erasmus MC known for research on severe asthma and COPD.

Hans Kohn

Hans Nathan Kohn (1866–1935) was a German internist and leading Berlin specialist for lung and heart disease, remembered for the pores of Kohn, interalveolar lung connections he described in 1893.

Harold A. Chapman

Harold A. Chapman is an American physician-scientist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, known for research on lung injury, repair, macrophage biology, and lung epithelial progenitors.

Harold R. Collard

Harold R. Collard is an American pulmonologist and physician-scientist who has been Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Francisco since 2022, known for interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis research.

Harry J.M. Groen

Harry J.M. Groen is a Dutch pulmonologist and thoracic oncology researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, known for a 2000 study of PET scanning in lung cancer staging.

Helen K. Reddel

Helen K. Reddel is an Australian respiratory physician and asthma researcher at Macquarie University and the Woolcock Institute who chairs the GINA Science Committee and directs ACAM.

Henry P. Close

Henry P. Close was an American pulmonary physician who served as Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Hospital and taught clinical medicine at Temple University.

Heymut Omran

Heymut Omran, born 1967 in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, is a German pediatric pulmonologist and cilia researcher at University Hospital Münster known for identifying genes that cause primary ciliary dyskinesia.

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping

Hugo Wilhelm Knipping (1895–1984) was a German physician and internist who founded clinical spiroergometry, combining a gas-metabolism apparatus with a crank ergometer in 1929 and heading the University of Cologne's medical clinic from 1939 to 1963.

Ian Pavord

Ian Pavord is a British respiratory physician, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Oxford, known for establishing eosinophilic airway inflammation as a treatable trait in asthma.

J. Randall Curtis

J. Randall Curtis, known as Randy Curtis, was an American pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Washington who improved end-of-life care in ICUs.

J.S. Elborn

J. Stuart Elborn, known as Stuart Elborn, is a Northern Irish respiratory physician-scientist known for cystic fibrosis trials and for founding Belfast's Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre.

Jack Lieberman

Jack Lieberman, M.D., is a pulmonary-medicine researcher known for papers from 1959 to 1961 showing deficient lung fibrinolysis in hyaline-membrane disease, and for later work on alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and emphysema.

Jadwiga A. Wedzicha

Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, born 1953, is a British respiratory physician and professor at Imperial College London known for research on COPD exacerbations and for leading the FLAME trial.

James C. Hogg

James C. Hogg is a Canadian pulmonary pathologist at the University of British Columbia whose work established the small airways as the site of obstruction in COPD.

James Chalmers (Scottish respiratory physician)

James D. Chalmers is a Scottish respiratory physician and clinical scientist known for bronchiectasis research, leading the brensocatib development program, and chairing the European Bronchiectasis Registry since 2014.

James E. Loyd

James E. Loyd is a pulmonary physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, known for genetic studies of pulmonary hypertension and fibrosis, including a 2001 NEJM study.

Jane C. Davies

Jane C. Davies is a British physician-scientist and professor at Imperial College London who led the clinical trials bringing CFTR modulator drugs to people with cystic fibrosis.