European Respiratory Monograph Pulmonary Vascular Pathology: A Clinical Update Edited by M. Demedts is currently a Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has been the Chief of Pneumology since 1990. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, President of the National Certification Board of Pneumology, and was Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal from 1988–1990. He was also the founding vice-chairman and chairman of “Colloquium Vlaamse Longartsen” from 1986–1998. M. Demedts is the author or co-author of over 20 books and 400 scientific papers in national or international journals. M. Delcroix is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research interests are primarily in the area of pulmonary vascular pathology, with particular emphasis on pulmonary embolism, in vitro pulmonary vascular reactivity, and noninvasive follow-up of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. She has been a Fellow of the National Scientific Research Fund and is currently staff member of the Department of Pneumology, in charge of the Centre for Pulmonary Vascular Pathology, at Gasthuisberg University Hospital. M. Delcroix has also been involved with numerous phase-III clinical trials on the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. R. Verhaeghe is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium. He has been a specialist in internal medicine since 1974 and a consultant in vascular medicine since 1978. He was a Fellow of the Belgian National Research Foundation from 1969–1974, and gained the Frans Van Goidsenhoven prize of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine in 1974. He was an international Fellow of the National Institutes for Health in 1975–1976: research fellow at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA. G.M. Verleden is currently Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg in Belgium. He is responsible for the care of asth- matics and is the medical director of the Leuven Lung Transplant programme. His research interests are primarily in the area of inflammation of the airways with particular interest in the role of the airway smooth muscle in asthma and chronic rejection after lung transplantation. The mechanisms underlying symptom perception in asthmatics are also explored in his different experimental set-ups. G.M. Verleden is a member of several international societies, dedicated to respiratory and transplant medicine. Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline, Belgium. M. Demedts M. Delcroix R. Verhaeghe G.M. Verleden Mono 27 CV (title page).qxd 18/11/2003 10:34 Page 1