Alan Altraja, MD, PhD

• Head of the Department of Pulmonology, University of Tartu

Alan Altraja is professor of pulmonary medicine at the University of Tartu and senior respiratory physician at the Tartu University Hospital, Estonia. He graduated the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu in 1990 and received the scientific degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery form the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 1999. Professor Altraja’s research interests include respiratory metabolomics, the mechanisms and phenotypes of obstructive pulmonary diseases, diagnosis and management of interstitial and pulmonary vascular diseases, and lower respiratory tract infections. Professor Altraja is member of the Board of the Estonian Respiratory Society and member of the European Respiratory Society and many of its Assemblies. Since 2007, Professor Altraja is associate editor of the Clinical Respiratory Journal and has contributed as a referee to numerous international journals.