Stephen Rennard, M.D.

Stephen Rennard, M.D., is Larson Professor of Medicine in the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section in Omaha, Neb. He also holds an appointment as courtesy professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology.

Dr. Rennard received his bachelor's degree cum laude in folklore and mythology from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1971, and his medical degree with honors in 1975 from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

From 1975 to 1977, he did an internship and residency in internal medicine at Washington University, St. Louis. From 1977 to 1979, he served as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and then as a staff fellow until 1984. In 1984, Dr. Rennard accepted a position at UNMC as the Stokes-Shackleford Associate Professor in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section.

In 1990, Dr. Rennard was named Larsen Professor. In 1997, he became director of the Nebraska Office of Tobacco Control and Research at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Institute for Research in Cancer and Alllied Diseases. He is board-certified in internal medicine and pulmonary diseases.

He has written and published more than 300 articles.

Dr. Rennard is active in several professional societies and has served on the board of directors for the American Thoracic Society, Council of the American Lung Association and was governor for the American College of Chest Physicians. He served on the American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Section, and was a member of the expert panel that prepared the global guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for the World Health Organization/U.S. National Institutes of Health Task Force.