Paul Cullinan Paul Cullinan cannot clearly remember how he became interested in occupational lung diseases but after almost 30 years in the field, he has no regrets. He is a consultant physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital (London, UK) – in some senses, the birthplace of the specialty in the UK – and holds a chair at Imperial College London (London, UK). These posts combine clinical practice with research and teaching. Formerly a member of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Committee – and chair of its research working group – he is now a member of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Workplace Health Expert Committee and of the Independent Medical Expert Group, which advises on matters of compensation for members of the UK Armed Forces. In 2015, he co-chaired, with Hille Suojalehto, a European Respiratory Society (ERS) task force on specific inhalation challenge testing in the diagnosis of occupational asthma. viii https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10023520