Dr. Enrico Lombardi, MD graduated in Medicine from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1991. From 1995 to 1996 he was a research associate in Tucson, Arizona, where he worked and published in the fields of lung function testing in young children and the epidemiology of pediatric asthma. He completed his residency in Pediatrics in 1997 in Florence, where in 2001 he took a position as Pediatrician at the “Anna Meyer” Children’s Hospital (University Hospital AOU and Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare IRCCS). In 2006 he completed the specialization in Diseases of the Respiratory System and since then he is in charge of the Pulmonary Unit at Meyer Children’s Hospital. His main area of interest is lung function testing in young children, on which he has published extensively and presented nationally and internationally. He was the Chair of the 7.1 Group “Paediatric Respiratory Physiology and Sleep” of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) from 2012 to 2015 and Chair of the International Relation Committee of the Pediatric Assembly of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) from 2010 to 2016. He was acknowledged as Fellow of the ERS (FERS) in 2023 and ATS Fellow (ATSF) in 2024. He is also a National Ambassador of the International Society of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (INSPiRED) since 2025 and the current Vice-President (2024-2026) of Società Italiana Malattie Respiratorie Infantili/Italian Pediatric Respiratory Society (SIMRI).
