Guest Editors
James D. Chalmers
James D. Chalmers is Asthma and Lung UK Chair of Respiratory
Research at the University of Dundee (Dundee, UK) and a
Consultant Respiratory Physician at Ninewells Hospital (Dundee).
His research and clinical interests lie in difficult respiratory
infections, particularly bronchiectasis and pneumonia, and include
COVID-19.
James is Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and is
Chair of the Science and Research Committee of the British
Thoracic Society (BTS). He leads the Respiratory Research Group
at the University of Dundee and has published 400 peer reviewed
articles in the area of respiratory infections.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, James was Chair of the European
Respiratory Society (ERS) Task Force for COVID-19, which
produced the ERS living guidelines for the management of
hospitalised patients with the virus. He was also a member of the
NICE Long Covid Guideline committee and was chief investigator
of a number of observational and intervention studies focused on
novel therapeutics for COVID-19. He is part of the management
board of PHOSP-COVID, the UK national observational study into
the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Catia Cilloniz
Catia Cilloniz is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine of
the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Coordinator of the
Pneumonia Research Group of Applied Research in Infectious
Respiratory Diseases and Critically Ill Patients Group of IDIBAPS
at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Barcelona), and Coordinator of
the Worldwide Pneumonia Awareness Campaign: Pneumolight.
Catia received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the
University of Barcelona and the Mentor award from the Spanish
Society of Pneumology. In 2019, she became a Fellow of the
European Respiratory Society (ERS).
Catia has authored 210 scientific publications, 10 book chapters
and one book. Her major achievements can be summarised as
follows: she has studied the immunological profile of pneumonia
Copyright ©ERS 2024. Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-181-8. Online ISBN: 978-1-84984-182-5. Print ISSN: 2312-508X. Online
ISSN: 2312-5098.
vi https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10012124
James D. Chalmers
James D. Chalmers is Asthma and Lung UK Chair of Respiratory
Research at the University of Dundee (Dundee, UK) and a
Consultant Respiratory Physician at Ninewells Hospital (Dundee).
His research and clinical interests lie in difficult respiratory
infections, particularly bronchiectasis and pneumonia, and include
COVID-19.
James is Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and is
Chair of the Science and Research Committee of the British
Thoracic Society (BTS). He leads the Respiratory Research Group
at the University of Dundee and has published 400 peer reviewed
articles in the area of respiratory infections.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, James was Chair of the European
Respiratory Society (ERS) Task Force for COVID-19, which
produced the ERS living guidelines for the management of
hospitalised patients with the virus. He was also a member of the
NICE Long Covid Guideline committee and was chief investigator
of a number of observational and intervention studies focused on
novel therapeutics for COVID-19. He is part of the management
board of PHOSP-COVID, the UK national observational study into
the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Catia Cilloniz
Catia Cilloniz is Associate Professor at the School of Medicine of
the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Coordinator of the
Pneumonia Research Group of Applied Research in Infectious
Respiratory Diseases and Critically Ill Patients Group of IDIBAPS
at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Barcelona), and Coordinator of
the Worldwide Pneumonia Awareness Campaign: Pneumolight.
Catia received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the
University of Barcelona and the Mentor award from the Spanish
Society of Pneumology. In 2019, she became a Fellow of the
European Respiratory Society (ERS).
Catia has authored 210 scientific publications, 10 book chapters
and one book. Her major achievements can be summarised as
follows: she has studied the immunological profile of pneumonia
Copyright ©ERS 2024. Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-181-8. Online ISBN: 978-1-84984-182-5. Print ISSN: 2312-508X. Online
ISSN: 2312-5098.
vi https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10012124