Pulmonary Rehabilitation: ERS Monograph 93

Anne E. Holland is Professor of Physiotherapy and Head of Respiratory Research at Monash University and Alfred Health (Melbourne, Australia). Over the last 20 years she has had the privilege of working in PR and witnessing the important outcomes it delivers for patients. Anne's research programme investigates new models of rehabilitation for people with chronic respiratory disease. Her recent clinical trials have tested novel models of PR to improve access and uptake, including low-cost home-based models and telerehabilitation. She led the first randomised controlled trial of PR for people with pulmonary fibrosis, a treatment that is now considered the standard of care.

Anne has published over 300 peer reviewed journal articles and her publications have been cited over 16 000 times, including in 27 clinical guidelines for PR, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, skeletal muscle dysfunction, oxygen therapy and respiratory management. She has been an Editor for Cochrane Airways since 2009, providing editorial oversight for Cochrane Reviews of non-drug treatments for respiratory disease.

In 2016, Anne received the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly Award, in recognition of a career serving the field of PR. She is a Fellow of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), and in 2021 was awarded the TSANZ Society Medal, the first allied health professional to be afforded this honour.

Simone Dal Corso is Professor of the Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Science at the Universidade Nove de Julho (Sao Paulo, Brazil). In 2012, she received a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Currently, Simone is leading a research group into Evaluation and Intervention in Cardiorespiratory Diseases, registered as part of the CNPq. Her research mainly focuses on PR in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.

Martijn A. Spruit completed a bachelor in physiotherapy in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Rehabilitation Sciences at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).

Currently, Martijn is a member of the Executive Board of Ciro, a specialised PR centre in Horn (the Netherlands). He is also Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences at Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands).