Prof. Semra Bilaceroglu is the academic director of a pulmonary department in Izmir Dr. Suat Seren Training and Research Hospital for Thoracic Medicine and Surgery that is affiliated to the University of Health Sciences in Turkey. After serving as the secretary, president-elect and president of the EABIP, currently she is the past president of this society. She is the regent-EABIP in the WABIP Board of Regents, chair of the CHEST Council of Global Governors Executive Committee and the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Respiratory Society. Her fields of interest are interventional pulmonology, pleural diseases, lung cancer, interstitial, granulomatous and vascular lung diseases. She is a reviewer, editorial board member and associate editor of several international journals and has published extensively in pulmonary medicine and interventional pulmonology.