Dr. Timothy Craig has been a clinical researcher for more than 23 years and has participated in NHLBI asthma research consortiums, including ACRN and AsthmaNet. He is a leader in the field of allergy and immunology and has written guidelines for international management of urticaria, hereditary angioedema and rhinitis. He has more than 300 publications and around 400 invited lectures.
His clinical research and clinical care focuses include asthma, COPD, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, urticaria, hereditary angioedema, immunodeficiency, vaccine response and other respiratory, allergic and immunologic diseases. Dr. Craig directs the Penn State Alpha-1 Deficiency Center; the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Fellowship; the Respiratory Allergy and Immunology Clinical Research Center; and the Section of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Craig works with collaborators in Vietnam, Cornell University and elsewhere in Penn State to study respiratory and allergic diseases. His collaborations with basic researchers in asthma include a mouse model to study how asthma affects anxiety and a mouse model to assess microbiome influence on asthma.
Education/Academic qualification
Internal Medicine, Residency, Naval Medical Center San Diego
DO, New York College Osteopathic Medicine
Allergy and Immunology, Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
External positions
Board member, American Association of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Board member, Mid-Atlantic States, American Lung Association
Medical Advisory Board member, US Hereditary Angioedema Association
