Professor Brigitte Fauroux is Professor in Paediatrics and exerts at Necker University Hospital and Paris University. She is the head of the pediatric noninvasive ventilation and sleep unit and a respiratory physiology laboratory.
Professor Fauroux did part of her research training at the Respiratory Muscle Laboratory at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK, where she improved her expertise in respiratory physiology, respiratory muscle testing and noninvasive ventilation. She has an international expertise in pediatric sleep, respiratory physiology, work of breathing, respiratory muscles, and noninvasive ventilation. She is the head of the French national pediatric noninvasive ventilation group. She has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers and is actively involved in numerous scientific societies, assemblies and workshops.