Professor Jørgen Vestbo FMedSci
Professor Respiratory Medicine
University of Manchester
Elected Fellow 2018
Respiratory medicine, COPD, epidemiology, clinical research and intervention research
Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University Hospital of South Manchester, Jørgen Vestbo is a world-leading clinical academic in respiratory medicine. He has been an outstanding President of the European Respiratory Society, and is currently advisor to the WHO General Secretary on non-communicable disease. He chaired the GOLD scientific committee, whose 2011 and 2017 COPD guidelines have been downloaded over one million times. |His research has changed our thinking on the epidemiology of COPD. His work has laid the platform for many further epidemiological studies which have confirmed his findings, and provided a basis for interventions for patient benefit.