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Naeije R.

Robert Naeije, MD, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), Brussels, Belgium Dr Naeije got his MD in 1973 and specialized in Internal Medicine. From 1978 to 1996 Dr Naeije was active as a critical care physician. From 1983to 1996 he was first Attending then Clinical Director at the Department of Intensive Care of the Erasme University Hospital, Brussels. In 1996, he took the Chair of Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the ULB and founded a Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. Dr Naeije has published extensively about the pulmonary circulation, gas exchange, right ventricular function and exercise, with a total of 54 chapters in books and over 500 papers mentioned in pubmed and covering a range of topics, from cell and molecular biological aspects, mathematical modeling, integrative physiology, high altitude and clinical studies. Dr Naeije has served as vice-president of the French Society of Intensive Care (1981-3), secretary of the working group on the Right Ventricle of the European Society of Cardiology in the 1980’s and was Chairman of the Pulmonary Circulation group of the European Respiratory Society in the 1990’s. He has been member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and of the European Respiratory Journal.