Gary Hunninghake

Now retired, Dr. Gary Hunninghake possesses a distinguished professional history as a physician and educator. Board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, allergy and immunology, and critical care, he served as a Senior Investigator in the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Gary Hunninghake also acted as a Consultant in Pulmonary Diseases at NIH and as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. At the latter institution, he served on the faculty was Director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Dr. Gary Hunninghake’s career also included seven years of military service in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, where he attained the rank of Commander. He held numerous other positions of honor over the years, serving as President of the American Thoracic Society, as a member of the Program Project Review Committee and the Parent Committee of the NHLBI, and as President of the Central Society for Clinical Research. In addition, he chaired the NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Network. Dr. Hunninghake received a number of awards, including the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Mentor Award and the prestigious Murray Kornfeld Memorial Founders Lecture from the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Hunninghake's areas of research included lung immunology and host defenses such as asthma; viral, interstitial, and granulomatous lung diseases; and macrophage biology. Dr. Gary Hunninghake was licensed in Maryland, Virginia, and Iowa, and contributed to 250 peer-reviewed publications, as well as more than 140 reports, reviews, editorials, and chapters and nearly 400 abstracts. A summa cum laude graduate of St. Benedict’s College (now Benedictine College) in Kansas, he subsequently received his M.D. and completed an internship and residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center.