Antoni Torres

Medical Doctor, Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Allergy, Clinical Institute of Thorax, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, and Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain Antoni Torres is currently Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain; Senior Consultor of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. He is the Director of 34 PhD programmes, is currently participating in 14 European Union projects and has participated in 30 research projects supported by public fundings. His previous appointments include Head of the Department of Pneumology and Respiratory Allergy of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (2004–2010). Professor Torres has received many awards for scientific achievement, the most recent the Murray Kornfeld award by the ACCP for his contribution to research in the respiratory field and the Presidential Award of the European Respiratory Society. In addition, he is Associate Editor of several journals including European Respiratory Journal, Thorax, Intensive Care Med, BMC infectious Diseases and Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He is also on the editorial board of many journals including the American Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, Chest, Critical Care Medicine and Journal of COPD. The Professor has also authored or co-authored 470 original articles and 190 book chapters.