Alicia N. Rodriguez
Editors 2013 Interventional Pulmonology (IP) has been the most interesting and rewarding aspect of my medical career. In addition to bene fi ting patients, which is the main goal of Interventional Pulmonology, IP has brought me in contact with and allowed me to develop friendships with other IP physicians throughout the world. One such physician is Dr. Jose Pablo Díaz-Jimenez, one of the premier European interventional bronchoscopists. Dr. Díaz-Jimenez is widely respected internationally (recent past Chairman of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology) and has greatly in fl uenced the education of future IP physicians by his contributions to the medical literature and by organizing many educational courses and respiratory meetings in Barcelona and Sitges…