Nicolas Girard (Figure 1) is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology at the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France, and Head of the Thorax Institute Curie Montsouris in Paris. Nicolas Girard, as vice president of ITMIG from 2010 to 2014, has served in several committees, including the prospective database, the virtual tumor bank, and the research committees; more recently he has been involved in the development of the biology/basic science group. Nicolas Girard is coordinator of RYTHMIC, a French nationwide network for the management of these tumors.
