Peter M. A. Calverley MBChB, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, FMedSci, FERS, ATSF

Professor Peter Calverley is an Emeritus Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Liverpool, UK, and continues to work in the Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease. He trained at the University of Edinburgh, was a travelling fellow at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories at McGill University, Montreal 1982–3, and subsequently moved to Liverpool, becoming a full professor in 1995. His research interests focus on the pathophysiology and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease He has published over 350 papers and several textbooks as well as lectured widely on these topics.

Prof. Calverley was Associate Editor of Thorax till 2010 and has been an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine since 2015. He has chaired the scientific committee of the British Lung Foundation, the British Sleep Society, and the Clinical Physiology Assembly of the ERS and was a member of the ERS Executive Committee.

He helped develop the GOLD initiative for COPD and chaired its Dissemination Committee and Scientific Committee. He was President of the British Thoracic Society in 2006, co-chaired the External Reference Group advising Ministers on the content of the COPD Clinical Service Strategy, and chaired the Respiratory Specialty groups of the UK Comprehensive Clinical Research Network until 2015. Prof. Calverley is a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011, the European Respiratory Society in 2014, and the American Thoracic Society in 2020.