Randy Young is a native of Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Southern New Jersey. After completing his undergraduate education at MIT, he returned to Philadelphia for medical school and received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and he remained there for his Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship. Following that, he served an Allergy/Immunology Fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Upon the completion of his fellowship training, Dr. Young was recruited to join the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, AL, where he served for 23 years including 15 as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine. While there, he held a number of other leadership positions including the Directorships of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program and the Lung Transplant Program. In 2011, he returned to Philadelphia as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, and in 2015 he moved to Hershey, PA, as the Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Since retiring from his academic duties at Hershey in 2020, Dr. Young has maintained an active practice in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. In his leisure time, he enjoys cycling, sailing, and playing music.