Cindy McEvoy, MD, MCR is Professor of Pediatrics at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Doernbecher Children’s Hospital where she is the Credit Unions for Kids Endowed Professor in Pediatric Research, Director of Maternal Child Health Research for the Pediatric Department and Director of Research in Neonatology. She is a neonatologist and physician scientist whose research interest is on the primary prevention of childhood respiratory disease through in-utero and early life interventions with a focus on the use of pulmonary function testing to quantify outcomes. She currently has three NIH funded projects and 17 years of near continuous funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study interventions that will promote lifelong lung health.