Stelios Loukides MD FCCP Ass Professor Respiratory Medicine University of Athens Medical School, Attiko Hospital Brief CV: I was born in Thessaloniki at 1963. I finished medical school on 1987. After 5 years training I took my specialty degree on 1994. I did a post-doctoral fellowship from 1996 to 1998 at Royal Brompton Hospital, National Heart & Lung institute under the supervision of Prof PJ Barnes. From 1998 to 2005 I worked at the National Health system at Veterans Hospital Department of Respiratory Medicine. At 2005 I was elected as lecturer at the University of Athens Respiratory Medicine Dept. From that time I am working at the 2nd Respiratory Medicine Dept, Attiko University Hospital both as an academic and as a clinician. Αt 2010 I was elected as an Associate Professor at the University of Athens Respiratory Medicine Dept. My main research and clinical interests are Asthma & COPD, particularly inflammatory mechanisms obtained from non invasive techniques. I am member of the European Respiratory Society, American Thoracic Society and Fellow [elected] of American College Chest Physicians. I am currently serving ERS as the chairman of ERS monitoring airway diseases group. I am an official member of the ERS fellowship evaluation committee. I have 76 publications in medical indexed journals. More than 200 presentations or/and chairing in international congresses. 2500 citations in scopus and ISI with 25 h index. In 2010 with my colleagues I received the annual ERS award for inflammatory airway diseases. I have already served as a reviewer in more than 60 pub med indexed journals.