Konstantinos Kostikas, MD PhD FCCP

Dr Konstantinos Kostikas is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Respiratory Medicine Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece, and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore. He was trained at the University of Athens Medical School and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and has worked in clinical practice and academia, as well as in the pharmaceutical industry in Global Medical Affairs roles.

Dr Kostikas has more than 290 publications in PubMed (with >12,000 citations in Google Scholar, h-index 59), focusing on COPD, severe asthma, and new technologies. He is the Editor in Chief of Pneumon Journal, the official journal of the Hellenic Thoracic Society (www.pneumon.org), and associate editor of COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. He is also a member of GOLD COPD Assembly.