Dr. Baraldi is Professor of Pediatrics, Women’s and Children’s Health Department, University of Padova, Italy; Head, Unit of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care, University of Padova; Past-Head of the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Unit, University of Padova; and Past-President Italian Society for Pediatric Respiratory Diseases (SIMRI). His primary research interests: neonatology, pediatric asthma, respiratory infections, markers of airway inflammation, BPD and metabolomics.