J Alberto Neder MD, PhD, DSc, FRCPPC, FERS is currently Full Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is the Director of the Laboratory of Clinical Exercise Physiology (Kingston General Hospital) and the Pulmonary Function Tests Laboratory (Hotel Dieu Hospital). Previously, he was Professor “Livre-Docente” and “Titular” at UNIFESP-Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Neder is the senior co-editor of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2018 Monograph on Clinical Exercise Testing. He also recently received the prestigious FERS award (Fellow of the ERS) which “recognises lifetime excellence and contributions to research, education and clinical leadership in respiratory medicine”.

Dr. Neder is a respirologist and physician scientist with a specific interest in the cardio-circulatory and respiratory interactions that support oxygen transfer from atmospheric air to cell mitochondria. Using physical exercise as a systemic stressor, Dr. Neder and his associates have been successful in elucidating the mechanisms and consequences of abnormal oxygen delivery and utilization in chronic cardiopulmonary diseases. These lines of research have the ultimate goal to develop and test novel pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to improve patients’ quality of life. His clinical and teaching interests include COPD, COPD-heart failure overlap, cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, pulmonary hypertension & pulmonary vascular disease, lung function and cardiopulmonary exercise tests. 

He has been a senior author in over 200 peer-reviewed papers and has authored many book and book chapters on respiratory and exercise physiology, pulmonary rehabilitation and integrated care in chronic respiratory diseases. His book on "Clinical Exercise Physiology: Theory and Practice" is widely used as a reference text in his home country of Brazil and remains the only Portuguese-written textbook on the field. He has extensive experience in training research personnel from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels.