Place of work 

Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Experience

José Jardim graduated in medicine in 1970 from the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil. Following three years of residency, he obtained a PhD in Medical Sciences in 1977 and, in the same year, he went to McGill University in Montreal, Canada for a two year fellowship in respiratory pathophysiology under the mentorship of Peter Macklem, MD and Charis Roussos, MD. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Respiratory Diseases at the Federal University of São Paulo, and his main interests are COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. 

Dr Jardim has been the Director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center at the Federal University of São Paulo since 1990 and, for the past five years, the Medical Director of Lar Escola São Francisco, a rehabilitation center affiliated to the Federal University. This Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center trains doctors and physiotherapists from several Universities of Brazil, as well from other Latin America countries. He is a member of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Committee of the Brazilian Thoracic Society (SBPT), where he has served as President three times, and is a member of the Planning Committee of the Rehabilitation Assembly of American Thoracic Society. He has served as President of the Latin American Thoracic Society (ALAT) for two terms and has served one term at the Board of Directors of American Thoracic Society, representing the International Community.