Marcel Veltkamp is a pulmonologist working at the ILD Center of Excellence of the St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein which is a national expert center for Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD) and Sarcoidosis in the Netherlands. He is the current secretary of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Assembly on Sarcoidosis (12.03), board member of the Netherlands Respiratory Society (NRS) and a member of the WASOG executive Committee. He is also involved in the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Clinical Studies Network. His research interests includes sarcoidosis (aetiology, different treatment strategies, biomarkers, small fiber neuropathy), pulmonary fibrosis (treatment, genetics) and Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis.