ERS | monograph Guest Editors Stefano Aliberti Stefano Aliberti is Associate Professor in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Milan and consultant at the Policlinico Hospital in Milan (Italy). His major clinical and research interests are in chronic and acute respiratory infections. He started working on CAP in the mid-2000s at the University of Louisville (KY, USA) as an investigator of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Organization (CAPO) and member of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Inflammatory Study Group (CAPISG). He has extensively published clinical and translational research papers on CAP, especially in the field of antimicrobial resistance, and was awarded the Young Researcher Award in Respiratory Infections from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 2007. In recent years he has been heavily involved in bronchiectasis research, leading the largest non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis clinic in Italy. He co-founded the European Bronchiectasis Registry (EMBARC), and is the Director of the Italian Bronchiectasis Registry and the Italian Registry of Pulmonary Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria. Stefano Aliberti has published over 130 articles on respiratory infections over the past 10 years. He is an Associate Editor of ERJ Open Research and BMC Pulmonary Medicine. He has been involved in the ERS, as Secretary of the Respiratory Infections Group, and Secretary and now Head of the Respiratory Infections Assembly. James D. Chalmers James D. Chalmers is Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the University of Dundee (UK). He trained in Glasgow and Edinburgh (UK), performing his PhD studies at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Inflammation Research studying the immunology of bronchiectasis. His research and clinical interests are in respiratory infections, including bronchiectasis, COPD and CAP. Copyright ©ERS 2017. Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-083-5. Online ISBN: 978-1-84984-084-2. Print ISSN: 2312-508X. Online ISSN: 2312-5098. https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10000917 vii