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Dennis E. Doherty, MD, FCCP

Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Dennis E. Doherty, MD, FCCP, is a pulmonologist and professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He is a past chair of the National Lung Health Education Program and an active member of several other academic and professional medical organizations, such as the American College of Chest Physicians, the Kentucky Thoracic Society, the American Thoracic Society, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the National Association for the Medical Direction of Respiratory Care, the US Pharmacopoeia, Central and Western Societies for Clinical Investigation, and the American Society of Cell Biology.

Dr. Doherty has been principal investigator for more than 50 grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Lung Association, amongst many other organizations. He has conducted several clinical research studies in the areas of asthma, COPD and pulmonary fibrosis. Dr. Doherty also has published more than 150 articles, abstracts, and chapters on acute and chronic lung inflammation, obstructive lung disease, and pulmonary fibrosis.

From 2003 to 2008, Dr. Doherty was elected by his peers as one of America’s Top Doctors in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Inclusion in the 2005 to 2006 and 2007 to 2008 honors of Best Doctors in America also were granted to Dr. Doherty. In 2002 and 2005, he was a National Telly Award recipient for the Best Medical Education Video entitled COPD: New Concepts in Disease Management; the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), and COPD: IMPACT.

Dr. Doherty received his MD and completed an internal medicine residency at The Ohio State College of Medicine in 1983. In 1986, he completed his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Colorado and the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and remained on faculty for an additional 11 years. Dr. Doherty then moved to the University of Kentucky; from 1996 to 2007, he served as chief in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep. Dr. Doherty also continues to have an active clinical research program and practice at the University of Kentucky.

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