ERS/ELF

ERS is an international organisation that brings together physicians, healthcare professionals, scientists and other experts working in respiratory medicine. We are one of the leading medical organisations in the respiratory field, with a growing membership representing over 140 countries worldwide. Our mission is to promote lung health in order to alleviate suffering from disease and drive standards for respiratory medicine globally. Science, education and advocacy are at the core of everything we do.

The European Lung Foundation was founded by the European Respiratory Society in 2000. The aim of ELF is to bring together patients and the public with respiratory professionals to positively influence lung health. The ELF website provides a wealth of useful resources to share the latest developments in lung health research from ERS and its members. ELF also works to ensure that people with lung diseases and the general public have the opportunity to influence respiratory research and guidelines at a European level.

ELF’s key role can be seen as being the public voice of the ERS and the public’s voice in the ERS.

Healthy Lungs for Life is being championed and directed by the following ERS and ELF members: 

• Guy Joos – ERS President
• Mina Gaga – ERS President-Elect
• Dan Smyth – ELF Chair
• Isabel Saraiva – ELF Chair-Elect
• Guy Brusselle – ERS Scientific Chair
• Otto Chris Burghuber – ERS Treasurer
• Carlos Robalo Cordeiro – ERS Secretary General
• Gernot Rohde – ERS Education Council Chair
• Francesco Blasi – ERS Milan Congress Chair
• Stefano Centanni – ERS Milan Congress Chair

Healthy Lungs for Life advisors – the ERS Tobacco Control Committee

• Carlos Jimenez-Ruiz
• Paraskevi Katsaounou
• Dick Heederik
• Dan Smyth
• Bo Lundbäck
• Constantine Vardavas
• Sofia Ravara
• Christina Gratziou
• Werner Bill
• José Ignacio de Grand