Franco Laghi

Dr. Franco Laghi is Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Loyola University Chicago and Hines Jr. VAH. Is a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal Respir Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Applied Physiology, ERS Open Research, BNC Pulmonary Medicine, Journal Clinical Medicine, and a member of the Board of Reviewers of Intensive Care Medicine and of the ERS Task Force on “Respiratory Muscle Testing at Rest and during Exercise”. He has served as President of the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago. Professor Laghi’s research focuses on the study of diaphragmatic muscle fatigue and its functional implications, respiratory muscle recruitment and control of breathing during mechanical ventilation and its discontinuation and respiratory and locomotor muscle dysfunction in COPD. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 per-reviewed publications and more than 30 book chapters.