Lisa Young

Lisa Young (Col ’93 CM) is an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at Vanderbilt University. She received an American Thoracic Society Foundation/Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease Foundation/Children’s Interstitial Lung Disease (Lung) Foundation—UK Research Award to support her research project, “Genetic Discovery in Familial Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy.” Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy is a poorly understood disorder that most commonly causes fast breathing and low oxygen levels in young infants.