Founded in 1990, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) is a non-profit, international medical organisation with more than 6,000 members - scientists, doctors and allied health professionals, coming from over ninety countries. The Society's mission is to advance respiratory medicine by stimulating and coordinating the actions of its members, in order to achieve the highest possible medical, paramedical and social standards in the treatment of respiratory disease. The Society cooperates with national and international societies to promote education, research, patient care and public health in the field of respiratory medicine. Through its activities, the ERS seeks to improve the prevention, management and treatment of lung disease.
