Elizabeth Renzoni PhD

Dr Elizabeth Renzoni obtained her medical degree and completed her training in respiratory medicine at the University of Siena, Italy, and subsequently specialised in interstitial lung diseases (ILD) in the regional ILD specialist centre in Siena.

In 1999, she was awarded an European Respiratory Society (ERS) research fellowship to study the genetic predisposition to interstitial lung diseases at the Interstitial Lung Disease Unit at Royal Brompton Hospital. She continued research and clinical activities as a clinical research fellow in the Unit, and completed a PhD in gene expression analysis in pulmonary fibrosis with Imperial College, London.

In 2006, she was appointed consultant physician in the Interstitial Lung Disease Unit at the Royal Brompton Hospital. She is a member of the British Thoracic Society, of the European Respiratory Society, of the Pan-London Interstitial Lung Disease Network and is an honorary faculty member of the PhD programme in cellular biology and physiopathology at the University of Siena, Italy.