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Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko
President Elect of the European Respiratory Society, Member of the Executive Board of the Polish Lung Association
Professor Chorostowska-Wynimko, is the current President-Elect of the European Respiratory Society, Professor of Medicine, Head of the Department of Genetics and Clinical Immunology at National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NITLD) in Warsaw, Poland, and a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at NITLD. Professor Chorostowska-Wynimko received training as a post-doctoral researcher at Department of Physiology and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Ohio (2001–2002), and at the Urology Research Center, Medical University of Toledo (2009).
She has received Board certification in Laboratory Immunodiagnostics (2011), Respiratory Medicine (2001), and Internal Medicine (1997). Professor Chorostowska-Wynimko is widely published with over 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a principal investigator and coordinator on many clinical studies and scientific programs.
Professor Chorostowska-Wynimko’s clinical/scientific interest is mostly devoted to lung cancer as well as COPD and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. She is a scientific co-coordinator of the EU4Health project „Strenghtening the screening of Lung Cancer in Europe” (SOLACE), the lead for lung cancer domain in the EU JANE2 Shaping the EU Networks of Expertise on cancer (101183265 JANE-2 EU4H-2023-JA-3-IBA) consortium, site lead for the CraNE2- Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (101183407), as well as participates as an expert in the EU DIGItal Infrastructure for ONcology in Europe (101115081 DigiONE I3 I3-2021-INV1), and EUCanScreen - Implementation of cancer screening programmes (101162959).
She is part of the Medical Steering Committee of the European Reference Network-LUNG, member of the Scientific Committee of the European AATD Research Collaboration (EARCO), coordinator of the National Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Registry, as well as the head of the Polish Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Diagnostic Centre. Professor Chorostowska-Wynimko has been elected for the position of the President-Elect of the European Respiratory Society.
