Professor Donaldson is the Hubert E. Hatcher Family Distinguished Professor of Medicine and co-Director of the UNC Adult CF Care Center. He has 30 years of experience in CF research and care. He was trained at the University of Michigan (BS, MD), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospitals (Internal Medicine) and UNC (Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship). He established the multidisciplinary adult CF clinic at UNC in 1998 and has been active in basic, translational and clinical CF research throughout his career. He is currently the Director of Mucociliary Clearance National Resource Center; Chair of the “Clinical Research Award +” grant review committee and Clinical Research Advisory Board for the CF Foundation; co-PI of the UNC Therapeutic Development Center; Associate Medical Director of the UNC CTRC; and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.