Affiliations

• ¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and lung diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Care and Research Institute, Tradate, Italy giovannibattista.migliori@fsm.it.
• ² Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ³ Dept Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent Belgium.
• ⁴ Respiratory Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
• ⁵ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Southampton University Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ⁷ University Respiratory Medicine Unit, Evgenidio Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ⁸ European Lung Foundation, UK.
• ⁹ 7th Respiratory Medicine Dept, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ¹⁰ Centre of Pneumology, Coimbra University Hospital, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ¹¹ Dept of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology, Otto Wagner Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹² Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium Depts of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹³ ERS Executive Director 2012-2015, European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ ERS Deputy Executive Director/Director of Finance and Administration, European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ ERS Head of the Executive Office, European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Centre for Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, The University of Manchester and University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.