Linda Nici is the Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Section at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Brown University. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Columbia University in NYC and a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at Yale University. She joined the faculty at Brown University in 1991, initially as a basic scientist investigating the alveolar epithelium’s response to injury. She transitioned to the Providence VAMC in 2004, where her focus has been on clinical work and clinical research in COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation.