Esther Barreiro
Research Institute of Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
Biography
Dr. Esther Barreiro (MD, PhD) coordinates a research group at Hospital del Mar-IMIM and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She has obtained more than 40 grants to conduct medical research in COPD, and has published more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and several book chapters. She is Editor-in-Chief of Archivos de BronconeumologÃa (July 2012), Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Physiology (July 2011), and a member of the Editorial Board of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (January 2012). She is also a member of the American Thoracic, American Physiological, European Respiratory and Spanish Respiratory Societies.
Abstract
Abstract : Biological Mechanisms of Muscle Mass Loss and Cachexia in Patients with COPD