Dr. Henri Colt is an award-winning medical educator, wandering scholar, and adventure traveler. He is the former chairman of the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and has served on the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians. He was a founding member of the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, serving as the association’s President in 1999. He is the founder of the nonprofit Bronchoscopy International Foundation for the Advancement of Medicine and has personally conducted dozens of Train-the-Trainer courses for leaders in chest medicine on six continents. His multidimensional programs, including step-by-step technical skill training and assessments, have transformed existing education methodologies and are used in competency-based subspecialty accreditation programs around the world.

After graduating from medical School in France, Dr. Colt devoted several years to providing technical assistance and humanitarian aid in Africa and countries of the Indian Ocean before specializing in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Following his Pulmonary/Critical Care training at Oregon Health Sciences in the United States, he worked at the University Hospitals in Marseille, France before returning to the USA where he was a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and University of California, Irvine until his retirement in 2012. He is also a medical ethicist and a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Colt is an internationally-recognized pioneer in Interventional Pulmonology, and the author/coauthor of almost 300 original peer-reviewed scientific papers, review articles, and book chapters, as well as of the best-selling textbook, A Patient-Centered Approach to Central Airway Obstruction. He is the author/editor of The Essential Bronchoscopist series of textbooks, and The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. His YouTube teaching videos have more than 1 million views, and his website www.Bronchoscopy.org is an educational resource of global significance.

A wandering scholar and adventurer by nature, his hobbies include rock-climbing, tango, and mountaineering. From his home in Laguna Beach, California, he writes short stories and essays related to art and medical history.