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Leadership
Jørgen Vestbo
MD, FRCP, Professor of Respiratory Medicine
Denmark
Place of work
Hvidovre University Hospital.
Experience
Jørgen Vestbo is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Copenhagen and Consultant at Hvidovre University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark. He is also Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Physician at The North West Lung Centre, South Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK. He qualified at, and received his doctorate from, the University of Copenhagen.
Professor Vestbo is a member of the Science Committee of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), the Executive Committee of GOLD, the ‘Screening, Detection and Diagnosis Subgroup’ for the development of the UK COPD National Service Framework, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at the University of Manchester and the Executive Committee of the Burden of Lung Disease Initiative (BOLD). He was also previously Treasurer and Chairman of the Danish Society of Respiratory Medicine.
Professor Vestbo has been Associate Editor for Respiratory Medicine and the European Respiratory Journal, and is currently Associate Editor of the Clinical Respiratory Journal. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the International Advisory Board of Thorax, the scientific panel of the Journal of the Danish Medical Association and on the Editorial Board of BMJ Case Reports.
Professor Vestbo has authored over 170 peer-reviewed publications, and a sample of which his most recent papers is listed below.
Recent publications
Patel BD, Coxson HO, Pillai SG, Agusti AGN, Calverley PMA, Donner CF, Make BJ, Müller NL, Rennard SI, Vestbo J, Wouters EFM, Hiorns MP, Nakano Y, Camp PG, Fauerbach PVN, Screaton NJ, Campbell EJ, Anderson WH, Silverman EK, Lomas DA. Airway wall thickening and emphysema show independent familial aggregation in COPD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008;178(5):500–5.
Iversen KK, Kjærgaard J, Akkan D, Køber L, Torp-Pedersen C, Hassager C, Vestbo J, Kjøller E, and the ECHOS-lung function study group. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in patients admitted with heart failure. J Intern Med 2008 Jun 3. [Epub ahead of print]
Celli BR, Thomas NE, Anderson JA, Ferguson GT, Jenkins C, Jones PW, Vestbo J, Knobil K, Yates JC, Calverley PMA. Effect of pharmacotherapy on rate of decline of lung function in COPD: Results from the TORCH study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008;178(4):332–8.
Vestbo J, Anderson W, Coxson HO, Crim C, Dawber F, Edwards L, Hagan G, Knobil K, Lomas DA, MacNee W, Silverman EK, Tal-Singer R, the ECLIPSE investigators. Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE). Eur Respir J 2008;31:869–73.
Calverley PMA, Anderson JA, Celli B, Ferguson GT, Jenkins C, Jones PW, Yates JC, Vestbo J, on behalf of the TORCH investigators. Salmeterol and fluticasone propionate and survival in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. N Engl J Med 2007;356:775–89.
Dahl M, Vestbo J, Lange P, Bojesen SE, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Nordestgaard BG. C-reactive protein as a predictor of prognosis in COPD. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;175:250–5.
Løkke A, Lange P, Scharling H, Fabricius P, Vestbo J. Developing COPD – a 25 years follow-up study of the general population. Thorax 2006;61:935–9.
Lange P, Scharling H, Ulrik CS, Vestbo J. Inhaled corticosteroids and decline of lung function in community residents with asthma. Thorax 2006;61:100–4.
Vestbo J, Prescott E, Almdal T, Dahl M, Nordestgaard BG, Andersen T, Sørensen TIA, Lange P. Body mass, fat free body mass and prognosis in COPD patients from a random population sample. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;173:79–83.