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Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the South Paris University (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay) in Le Kremlin-Bic\u00eatre, France. He is the Director of the French National Reference Center for Pulmonary Hypertension and Chief of the Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, H\u00f4pital Bic\u00eatre, Assistance Publique H\u00f4pitaux de Paris. He was Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal from 2013 to 2017. He has published more than 700 peer-reviewed articles, mostly in the field of respiratory medicine with an emphasis in pulmonary hypertension and related topics. He is a Fellow of the European Respiratory Society (FERS Foundation Fellow) and has received several distinctions including the 1997 Fran\u00e7ois Brenot Award and the 2006 Cournand Lecture Award from the ERS, the 2009 Descartes-Huygens Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2016 Rare Disease Award of the Fondation de France (Fondation Eliane and G\u00e9rard Pauthier), and the 2018 ERS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Since 2017, Dr. Humbert is the vice-coordinator of the European Reference Network for rare and low prevalence respiratory diseases (ERN-LUNG).\u00a0 Dr. Humbert was recently named European Respiratory Society President Elect for 2020, and will thus be the ERS President for 2021-2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"