Marcel Veltkamp is a pulmonologist working at the ILD Center of Excellence of the St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein which is referral center for Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) and Sarcoidosis in The Netherlands. He is also works as a clinical-scientist at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He is the current chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Assembly on Sarcoidosis (12.03), secretary of the ILD division of the Netherlands Society of Pulmonologists (NVALT), board member of the Netherlands Respiratory Society (NRS) and current general secretary of the WASOG. His research interests includes sarcoidosis (aetiology, different treatment strategies, biomarkers, small fiber neuropathy), pulmonary fibrosis (treatment, genetics) and Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis.