Doctor José M. Porcel is Vice President of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, Medical Director (CEO), Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine, and Head of the Pleural Medicine Unit at the University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova (Lleida, Spain), as well as Coordinator of the Research Group of Cancer Biomarkers at the Biomedical Research Institute (IRBLLEIDA) in Lleida, Spain. Dr. Porcel's clinical and research interests focus primarily on pleural diseases, of which he has published extensively. He has been internationally recognized for contributions made in the field, particularly concerning the discovery and evaluation of pleural fluid biomarkers for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. He is ranked first among the world experts in Pleural Effusions (https://expertscape.com/ex/pleural+effusion). He has edited 8 medical books, authored more than 300 original manuscripts, and presented more than 100 invited lectures on pleural diseases in 16 countries in the past 10 years. His current h-indexes are 42 (Web of Science) and 43 (Scopus).