Dr. Bartolome Celli
Physician Advisor, B4 Symptoms
Emphysema

Bartolome Celli , MD

Bartolome Celli graduated from Universidad Central de Venezuela and came to the United States in 1971. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Boston City Hospital, where he was Chief Medical Resident 1975-76. He then trained in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Currently, he is Professor of Medicine at Tufts and Harvard Medical School. He is author of over 450 peer reviewed scientific papers and 390 abstracts and edited several books. Dr. Celli has been the Chairman of the Committee that established the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of COPD. In addition, he is in the Scientific Committee and the Board of Directors of the Global Obstructive Lung Disease initiative. Although caring for patients has provided him with unique pleasure, his greatest achievement is to have personally helped mentor 65 individuals in whom he helped instill a love for the profession, a desire to generate new knowledge, and respect for our fellow humans and for the world at large. His trainees are located in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Japan and Latin America.