Professor Ioannis Vogiatzis

Ioannis is the Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange at the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University Newcastle. He is the Drirector (elect) of Educational Programmes of the European Respiratory Society.

Ioannis has worked in the areas of pulmonary rehabilitation and clinical exercise physiology for over 30 years. For 3 years he was the Chair of the Rehabilitation and Chronic Care group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and has served the ERS as the Head of the largest Assembly (Respiratory, Clinical Care & Physiology). Ioannis represents the ERS on the World Rehabilitation Alliance hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO). He has contributed to several joint ERS and American Thoracic Society (ATS) Statements on pulmonary rehabilitation, skeletal muscle dysfunction, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, respiratory muscle function assessment and physical inactivity in patients with COPD. He has co-chaired the ATS/ERS joint policy statement for enhancing the implementation, use and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation globally.  He was a member of the Development Group for COPD for the WHO Rehabilitation Programme. He is currently a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) expert advisory panel for managing the long-term effects of COVID-19. His research focuses on factors limiting exercise tolerance in people with respiratory disease, and on the benefits of rehabilitation-based exercise programmes in people with respiratory disease, long COVID and multimorbidity.  Ioannis is an Honorary Research Fellow at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.   

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• Exploring Exercise as Airway Clearance in Cystic Fibrosis: A Qualitative Study From the ExACT-CF Feasibility Trial, Taylor, E., Soilemezi, D., Urquhart, D., Cunningham, S., Lewis, S., Neilson, A., Ensor, H., Vogiatzis, I., Allen, L., Saynor, Z. Jan 2026, In: Pediatric Pulmonology
• Safety, feasibility and efficacy of exercise as an airway clearance technique in cystic fibrosis: a randomised pilot feasibility trial, Urquhart, D., Taylor, E., Cunningham, S., Lewis, S., Neilson, A., Soilemezi, D., Ensor, H., Vogiatzis, I., Allen, L., Saynor, Z. 15 Jan 2026, In: Thorax
• Tailored Exercise Prescription for People with COPD and Clinically Relevant Comorbidities: A Consensus Statement of the EXPERT Working Group and Experts in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Machado, F., Coninx, K., Neunhaeuserer, D., Tonoli, C., Niebauer, J., Piepoli, M., Pedretti, R., Kouidi, E., Ambrosetti, M., Dendale, P., Bjarnason-Wehrens, B., Beckers, P., Cornelissen, V., Barna, O., Doherty, P., Rauch, B., Edelmann, F., Schwaab, B., Takken, T., Reibis, R., Davos, C., Garcia-Porrero, E., Pitta, F., Hernandes, N., Stickland, M., Gimeno-Santos, E., De Brandt, J., Nyberg, A., Machado, A., Marques, A., Burtin, C., Gloeckl, R., Vogiatzis, I., Balbi, B., Jensen, D., Man, W., Rochester, C., Singh, S., Franssen, F., Spruit, M., Hansen, D. 1 Jan 2026, In: Sports Medicine
• Advances in exercise physiology and pathophysiology, Megaritis, D., Hume, E., Aliverti, A., Vogiatzis, I. 1 Apr 2025, Respiratory Physiology: New Knowledge, Better Diagnosis, European Respiratory Society
• Automated Multicohort Mobility Assessment with an Instrumented L-test (iL-test), Albites-Sanabria, J., Palumbo, P., D’Ascanio, I., Bonci, T., Caruso, M., Salis, F., Cereatti, A., Din, S., Alcock, L., Kuederle, A., Paraschiv-Ionescu, A., Gazit, E., Kluge, F., Kirk, C., Encarna Micó-Amigo, M., Scott, K., Hansen, C., Klenk, J., Schwickert, L., Megaritis, D., Vogiatzis, I., Becker, C., Maetzler, W., Hausdorff, J., Caulfield, B., Vereijken, B., Rochester, L., Muller, A., Mazzà, C., Carpinella, I., Bowman, T., Ciechi, R., Torchio, A., Cattaneo, D., Bianchi, S., Ferrarin, M., Randi, P., Piraccini, L., Davalli, A., Chiari, L., Palmerini, L. 12 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
• Cocreating the Visualization of Digital Mobility Outcomes: Delphi-Type Process With Patients, Lumsdon, J., Wilson, C., Alcock, L., Becker, C., Benvenuti, F., Bonci, T., van den Brande, K., Brittain, G., Brown, P., Buckley, E., Caruso, M., Caulfield, B., Cereatti, A., Delgado-Ortiz, L., Del Din, S., Evers, J., Garcia-Aymerich, J., Gaßner, H., Gur Arieh, T., Hansen, C., Hausdorff, J., Hiden, H., Hume, E., Kirk, C., Maetzler, W., Megaritis, D., Rochester, L., Scott, K., Sharrack, B., Sutton, N., Vereijken, B., Vogiatzis, I., Yarnall, A., Keogh, A., Cantu, A. 9 May 2025, In: JMIR Formative Research
• Co-design and development of a Personalised Exercise-based Rehabilitation and self-management programme FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions: The PERFORM intervention, Daw, P., Greaves, C., Gardiner, N., Doherty, P., Withers, T., Barradell, A., O’Halloran, P., Ahmed, Z., Barber, S., Barwell, G., Brown, S., Dean, S., Echevarria, C., Evans, R., Ibbotson, T., Jani, B., Jolly, K., Manifield, J., Mair, F., McIntosh, E., Miller, D., Ormandy, P., Smith, S., Simpson, S., Waheed, G., Taylor, R., Singh, S., Vogiatzis, I. 2025, In: Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity
• Distinct Intramuscular Extracellular Matrix Protein Responses to Exercise Training in COPD and Healthy Adults and Their Association with Muscle Remodeling, Camargo Madeira Simoes, D., Kritikaki, E., Terzis, G., Vogiatzis, I. 22 Oct 2025, In: Cells
• Gait and mobility assessment in cardio-respiratory conditions, Megaritis, D., Hume, E., Echevarria, C., Vogiatzis, I. 17 Jan 2025, Gait, Balance, and Mobility Analysis, Amsterdam, Elsevier
• How do people with COPD walk? A European study on digitally measured real-world gait, Delgado-Ortiz, L., Buekers, J., Chynkiamis, N., Demeyer, H., Frei, A., Gimeno-Santos, E., Hansen, C., Hausdorff, J., Hopkinson, N., Jansen, C., Kirsten, A., Koch, S., Maetzler, W., Megaritis, D., Puhan, M., Singleton, D., Vogiatzis, I., Watz, H., Del Din, S., Caulfield, B., Becker, C., Rochester, L., Troosters, T., Garcia-Aymerich, J. 24 Jul 2025, In: European Respiratory Journal

• Sneha Chakraverty Efficacy of an adapted, exercise-based, pulmonary rehabilitation programme in adults with Long COVID Start Date: 01/12/2023
• Sneha Chakraverty Efficacy of an adapted, exercise-based, pulmonary rehabilitation programme in adults with Long COVID Start Date: 01/12/2023 End Date: 24/01/2026

• Physiology PhD July 08 1995
• Fellow of the European Respiratory Society FERS 2018