Lisa R. Young, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine (Penn). She holds the John M. Keating Endowed Chair, Presidential Scholar at CHOP.

Dr. Young received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and then earned her MD and completed residency training in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Duke University. She completed fellowship training in Pediatric Pulmonology and Adult Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, and then joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s. In 2011, she relocated to Vanderbilt, where she was Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Cell & Developmental Biology until moving to Philadelphia in 2019.

Dr. Young’s longstanding clinical focus has been in interstitial and other rare lung diseases. Her NIH-funded research program takes both laboratory and patient-oriented approaches to alveolar epithelial biology and mechanistic understanding of rare lung diseases, particularly Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome and Neuroendocrine cell Hyperplasia of Infancy. She has led foundational efforts in the field of Childhood Interstitial Lung Diseases, including as the PI of the National Registry in childhood ILD. She has mentored many trainees and is currently co-PI for a T32 training program on Pediatric Lung Diseases.