Dr. Jesse Roman is Ludwig Kind Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Enterprise Division Chief for Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine; and Chief Executive Officer of the Jane & Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute – Jefferson Health and National Jewish Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Roman received his M.D. from the University Of Puerto Rico School Of Medicine in 1983. After undergoing training in Internal Medicine at the San Juan VA Medical Center in Puerto Rico, he joined the Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. In 1991, Dr. Roman joined the faculty at Emory University where he became Professor and Division Chief (2002), co-founder and Director for Research of the Emory Interstitial Lung Diseases Program (2003), and AVP and Founding Director of the Emory Center for Respiratory Health (2007). In 2009, Dr. Roman became Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until his move to Philadelphia in 2018. Dr. Roman remains active in patient care, clinical trials, and basic science research in pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung disorders, and has written extensively in the areas of lung tissue remodeling and inflammation, and on the role of extracellular matrices in the control of cellular functions. He is the current Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences.