Prof. Dr. Stelios Loukides is an Ass Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his MD studies at the Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1987. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the National Health System at Veterans Hospital Department of Respiratory Medicine. In 2005 he was elected as a Lecturer at the University of Athens Respiratory Medicine Department. He was an official member of the ERS fellowship evaluation committee. His research interests include asthma COPD inflammation.