Prof. Charles Feldman obtained his MB BCh degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1975, and served his internship at Johannesburg Hospital. He subsequently completed his fellowship training in Internal Medicine at Johannesburg Hospital and received his FCP (SA) in 1981. He received his PhD in 1991 for a thesis entitled “Aspects of Community-acquired Pneumonia.” He was registered as a sub-specialist in Pulmonology in 1993 and elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1997. From 1982 he worked as a consultant in the Division of Pulmonology/Critical Care in the Department of Medicine at Hillbrow Hospital in Johannesburg, and in 1986 he became Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Pulmonology Unit of that Hospital. He was appointed as Professor of Pulmonology and Chief Physician at Johannesburg Hospital from 1995 until the end of 2017, and since 1 January 2018, he has been the Distinguished Professor of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interest is in the field of community-acquired pneumonia, and in particular, pneumococcal pneumonia. He has a number of publications in books and book chapters, as well as more than 380 articles in indexed, peer reviewed journals.