Romain Antoine Roland Pauwels

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1943-2005

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Romain Antoine Roland Pauwels

1943-2005

Vol XII

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b.13 June 1943 d.1 January 2005

MD Ghent(1969) PhD(1978) FRCP(2006) Hon MD Modena and Reggio Emilia

Romain Pauwels was a professor of medicine and head of the department of respiratory diseases at the University Hospital of Ghent, Belgium.

Pauwels studied medicine at the University of Ghent, gaining his MD degree in 1969. From 1969 to 1974, he was an assistant in the department of internal medicine at University Hospital of Ghent. From 1974 to 1981, he was a clinical assistant in the department of respiratory disease, also at Ghent. During this time he spent two years in the department of experimental pathology at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he worked with Denis Stanworth.

In 1981 Pauwels was appointed as an associate professor and, in 1989, professor of medicine and head of the department of respiratory diseases at the University Hospital of Ghent. His main research interests were the pathogenesis and pharmacology of asthma and of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and he produced more than 400 papers on pulmonary subjects.

He was president of the Belgian Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, of the Belgian Society of Pneumology and of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology’s annual meeting in Belgium in 1987. He was a member of the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network, and chairman of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases (GOLD).

He received many awards, including the prize of the Belgian National League against Tuberculosis (in 1976), and the J F Heymans prize (in 1978) and K Verleysen prize (in 1999), both from the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.  

He was married to Christine. They had four children.

RCP editor

[European Respiratory Journal 2005 25: 585-6 https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/25/4/585 – accessed 16 July 2020]