ERS | monograph Guest Editors Antonio Anzueto Antonio Anzueto is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, TX, USA, and the Chief of the Pulmonary Disease Section at The South Texan Veterans Health Care System. He is a faculty member in the Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine division. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala, and completed his training at both Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Guatemala City, and the University of Texas Health Science Center. Antonio Anzueto is a reviewer for most prestigious scientific journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the European Respiratory Journal and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, the 2011 American–European Consensus Conference on ARDS, the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society Acute Exacerbations Task Force, and many other medical institutional and organisational committees. Antonio Anzueto has published over to 250 papers in peer-review journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the European Respiratory Journal, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, the Lancet and the Archives of Internal Medicine, and has vast experience as an invited speaker and moderator at many scientific meetings. His areas of interest include COPD, pulmonary infections including chronic bronchitis and community-acquired pneumonia, sepsis, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. He is the recipient of a number of awards ranging from the Du Pont/ American College of Chest Physicians Young Investigator Award to the Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Texas Health Science Center. Copyright ©ERS 2015. Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-063-7. Online ISBN: 978-1-84984-064-4. Print ISSN: 2312-508X. Online ISSN: 2312-5098. ERS Monogr 2015 69: ix–x. DOI: 10.1183/2312508X.10008215 ix