Professor Gérald Simonneau, MD, is Head of the Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine at Hôpital Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris-Sud University, France. In addition, Professor Simonneau is Director of the French National Reference Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension since 2004 and Director of Research Unit “New therapeutic approaches for Pulmonary Hypertension” INSERM U999, since 2010. He has published widely in the fields of pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary vascular diseases and pneumology in peer-reviewed Journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Circulation. He has been President of the working group on pulmonary circulation , of the European Society of Cardiology and has received the PAH research award of the European Respiratory Society in 2011.