Professor Dr. Bartolome Celli

Bartolome Celli is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine at Caritas St Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Professor Celli’s primary research interest lies in the field of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), particularly in clinical management, exercise, outcomes and its predictors, and pulmonary rehabilitation. He is coeditor of several books including Baum’s “Textbook of Pulmonary Diseases” and Hodgkin’s “Textbook of Pulmonary Rehabilitation”. He is the author of over 160 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Celli is a Past Chairman of the Clinical Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Past President of the Massachusetts Thoracic Society and New England Chapter of the American College of Chest Physicians, and is currently a member of the ATS World Lung Health Committee. He is co-chairman of the ATS/European Respiratory Society (ERS) Committee that has published the ATS/ERS Standards for the Diagnosis and Treatment of COPD.