Francesca Puggioni

Francesca Puggioni, MD, is an Adjunct Professor in Respiratory Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics at Humanitas University. She is also the clinical coordinator and Vice Director of the Personalized Medicine Asthma and Allergy Clinic of Humanitas in Milan. Dr. Puggioni trained in medicine and completed a resident program in respiratory diseases at the University of Pavia, Italy. 

Dr. Puggioni has main research interests in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with a particular focus on new biologic treatments, personalized medicine, asthma comorbidities, and translational research for the development of predictive biomarkers. She has acted as principal investigator and study coordinator for several clinical studies at the Humanitas Immuno Center, Milan. Dr. Puggioni has a range of clinical interests including allergic diseases, asthma, severe asthma and comorbidities, COPD, and lung function. 

Dr. Puggioni is a member of the European Respiratory Society, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Italian Respiratory Society, and the Italian Society of Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology. She is also involved in the Severe Asthma Network in Italy as a member of the Education and Dissemination Committee.