Dr Russell

Founding Editor: Dr Richard E Russell

Dr Richard Russell was trained at Guy’s Hospital with further postgraduate training at St Bartholomews and St George’s Hospitals in London. He was trained in respiratory medicine in the Southeast Thames Region and at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr Russell has been a Consultant at Wexham Park and Windsor Hospitals for two years and has special interests in COPD, asthma, and delivery of care. During his time at the Royal Brompton, he completed a PhD as a British Lung Foundation Research Fellow under the supervision of Professor Peter Barnes. The research focussed on the basic mechanisms of COPD and disease progression in a population of smokers in primary care, and this is a continuing area of study.

Dr Russell has interests in obstructive lung disease, particularly pathophysiology of COPD and how patients should be cared for across the primary/secondary care interface. He is a member of the British Thoracic Society Executive, Scientific Committee and the Communications Committee, is active in the British Lung Foundation, and was recently involved in drawing up the new asthma guidelines. As editor of the International Journal of COPD, Dr Russell is keen to increase the awareness of COPD and provide a platform for advances in the understanding of COPD pathology, which are so desperately needed.

Dr Crockett

Associate Editor: Alan J. Crockett PSM 

Associate Professor Alan J. Crockett recently retired from the position of Chief Medical Scientist, Respiratory Unit at Flinders Medical Centre after a career in respiratory medicine spanning 38 years. Alan Crockett currently holds a fractional-time position of Associate Professor, Director Primary Care Respiratory Unit within the Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide.

Alan Crockett has been involved in teaching medical and health science students and researching into critical appraisal and EBM since 1987 and has held the position of Deputy Chair of the Australian Centre of Evidence Based Practice since its inception in 2000. He also Chairs the Steering committee for the University of South Australia’s Centre for Allied Health Evidence. He was the first graduate of the Masters of Public Health at the University of Adelaide and holds qualification in respiratory technology in the USA and Canada and a Graduate Certificate of Health Economics (University of Aberdeen).

Alan Crockett was elected Fellow of the Australian Institute of Science Technology in 1976. More recently, he was awarded a Fellowship and Life Membership of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Respiratory Science and Emeritus Member status of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand for his contribution to respiratory medicine. He was awarded a Public Service Medal for “outstanding contribution to community health” in the Order of Australia Awards for Australia Day 2003.

Dr Rahman

Associate Editor: Irfan Rahman

Dr Irfan Rahman is an Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, Lung Biology, and Disease Program of the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. He has a dedicated research program to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of COPD and the potential benefit of therapeutic interventions. Dr Rahman was trained at prestigious institutions involved in state-of-the-art lung research, including Georgetown University, USA and Edinburgh University Medical School, UK. He has spent over 15 years in understanding the lung cellular and molecular responses to inhaled toxicants.

Dr Rahman’s main research interests include oxidants, antioxidants, non-invasive biomarkers, and molecular therapeutic targets of transcription factors, chromatin remodeling and proinflammatory mediators in COPD and chronic lung inflammation. He is the author of over one hundred publications in prestigious internationally renowed peer-reviewed journals, and has been invited to write chapters in reference books and editorials in journals. Dr Rahman has been invited to more than 50 national and international conferences (ATS, ERS, Experimental Biology), and to academic institutions throughout the world, to present the results of his research before esteemed audiences. Dr Rahman is an ad-hoc member of the National Institutes of Health/NCI special emphasis study section panel, National Research Council of Canada and is on the program committee roster of the respiratory cellular and molecular biology section of the American Thoracic Society. Alongside the prestigious appointment as an Associate Editor (North America) of the International Journal of COPD, Dr Rahman is also an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and the Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Dr Singh

Associate Editor: Dave Singh

Dr Singh is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant Physician, Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology. After graduating from Cambridge University, Dave Singh trained in Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology in Manchester. As part of his training, he spent time in industry working in Phase 1 respiratory studies, and completing an MD thesis. He is now Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, with clinical commitments at South Manchester University Hospitals Trust. His research is focused on airway inflammation in COPD, with studies of non-invasive biomarkers and basic science studies of airway pharmacology.