Mustafa Abdo

Mustafa Abdo, MD, is a consultant pulmonologist and clinical researcher specializing in respiratory medicine, with a particular focus on COPD, asthma, small airway dysfunction, and personalized approaches to lung disease. He currently serves as an attending pulmonologist and clinician scientist at the Kiel Campus of the University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein in Kiel, Germany, and is a principal investigator within Airway Research Center North, affiliated with the German Center for Lung Research. 

Dr Abdo received his MBBS degree at Mu’tah University in Mu’tah, Jordan. Following this, he earned his medical doctorate at the Georg August University of Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany, after which he completed his habilitation and earned his venia legendi at Kiel University in Kiel, Germany.

Dr Abdo’s research focuses on improving the characterization, early detection, and treatment of chronic airway diseases, and his clinical and scientific work emphasizes translating respiratory research into more precise, individualized approaches to patient care. This includes the use of oscillometry to assess small airway dysfunction as well as investigations into inflammatory pathways and clinically relevant COPD phenotypes. Through his research, he has been published in leading respiratory journals, including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and European Respiratory Journal. 

Dr Abdo received the 2025 German Respiratory Society Research Award for Clinical Medicine for his research aimed at advancing COPD treatment, following an earlier DGP Clinical Abstract Prize in 2023. Additionally, he has served on the executive board of the German Center for Lung Research’s ALL Age Asthma Cohort (ALLIANCE) since 2019.