Dr. Gary M. Hunninghake is the director of the Sarcoidosis and Granulomatous Lung Disease Service and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He received his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine (now the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine). He then completed a residency in internal medicine and a chief residency at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals (now the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center) followed by a fellowship in pulmonary disease at BWH. He is board certified in critical care medicine and pulmonary disease.
Dr. Hunninghake’s clinical interests include interstitial lung disease, connective tissue disease, pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis. As a member of the BWH Respiratory Genetics Center and the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) clinic, his research applies new technologies of genome-wide association, integrative genomics, epigenetics, and pharmacogenetics to ILD. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health.
