Dr. Panitch is an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Pulmonary Division’s Technology Dependence Center and Home Ventilation Program. His interests include the care of children with chronic respiratory failure and assessment of lung growth and pulmonary outcomes in children with pulmonary hypoplasia.