Elizabeth Burgener, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist and physician-scientist. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Pediatric Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine at Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California. She is the Associate Director of the Therapeutic Development Network Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She cares for patients with pulmonary disease such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and other systemic illnesses that affect pulmonary health. In her laboratory at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles she conducts translational research program focused on chronic airway infection. She is interested in understanding the interaction of bacteriophage and antibiotic resistance in chronic bacterial airway infections. She seeks to bring new therapies to individuals with chronic airway infections. Her work is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health as well as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.