Prof. Martijn A. Spruit (1975) is Chief Executive Officer at CIRO+, a highly-specialized pulmonary rehabilitation center in Horn, The Netherlands, and full professor in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). His research is driven by his ambition to improve the health status of patients with chronic respiratory disease. As a physiotherapy-rehabilitation scientist, his research builds towards a paradigm shift in the organization of care of this large patient population. A shift beyond the traditional focus on drug therapy, towards an integrated allied healthcare. He (co-)authored of more than 450 peer-reviewed English-language papers, and has been engaged towards ERS and European Lung Foundation for many years in different roles, including Head of Assembly 9 and co-chair of multiple international Task Forces. He was the lead author on the 2013 ATS/ERS Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation; the European Respiratory Society awarded him the ERS COPD Research Award in 2013; he became a Fellow of the ERS in 2016; and he was the 2019 AACVPR’s Thomas L. Petty Distinguished Pulmonary Scholar Awardee; the 2020 The ATS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Recognition Awardee; and the 2023 ERS Lifetime Achievement Awardee. He is married to Gwen and they have three daughters. They all love sushi and dim sum.