Jieming Qu, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chief Physician in Respiratory Medicine. He currently serves as Secretary of the Party Committee of Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Respiratory Disease Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and Leader of the Pulmonary Infection Group, as well as Vice President of the Respiratory Physician Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. Professor Qu has published 121 SCI-indexed papers as the corresponding author or first author, with a total impact factor of 791, and has published more than 200 articles in journals of the Chinese Medical Journal series. He has served as principal investigator for seven projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and two subprojects under the National Key Basic Research Program of China. He has received eight scientific achievement awards, including the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education of China and the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. Professor Qu has authored or co-authored 10 academic books as editor-in-chief or deputy editor-in-chief. He serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 academic journals, including Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chinese Medical Journal, and Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Science Bulletin and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. He has been recognized as a Shanghai Leading Talent, a Shuguang Scholar, recipient of the Chinese Respiratory Physician Award, and one of the Top Ten Outstanding Medical Contribution Experts by The Physician Newspaper.