Dr. Konstantinos Kostikas, MD, PhD, FCCP, FERS Dr. Konstantinos Kostikas is Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Respiratory Medicine Department of the University of Ioannina, Greece. He was trained at the University of Athens Medical School and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and has worked in academia and the pharmaceutical industry in global medical affairs roles. Dr. Kostikas is a member of the GOLD COPD Assembly. He has 221 publications in PubMed (h-index 37) and is the Editor in Chief of Pneumon Journal and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, PLoS One, Diagnostics, and Frontiers in Medicine.