Emiel Wouters#
| Membership Number: | 6026 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - 2019 Professor in Respiratory Medicine and Head of the pulmonary department, Maastricht University Medical Centre
- 2003 - 2019 Director of Centre for Chronic Diseases, Maastricht University Medical Centre.
- 2005 - 2019 Chairman of Board of Directors, Centre Integrated Rehabilitation Organ Failure (CIRO+)
- 1998 - 2003 Chairman of the Thorax Centre Maastricht University Medical Centre
- 2020 - present Senior Scientific Advisor Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Health, Vienna, Austria
- 2021 - present Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Rehabilitation and personalised management in COPD and chronic heart failure
- Phenotyping of COPD: particular interest in multi- and comorbidity in COPD
- Oxidative metabolism in asthma and COPD
- Advance care in non-malignant disease conditions
- Health Care Management and chronic disease conditions
- Pathophysiology of COPD
- Body composition
- Inflammation in COPD
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Award Maastricht University Medical Centre
- 2019 Award Research School Nutrim, Maastricht
- 2019 J Swieringa Award
- 2014 Fellow of The European Respiratory Society
- 2013 Assembly of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Recognition Award of American Respiratory Society
