Timothy Craig, DO

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.

Dr. Timothy Craig's teaching interest includes the mentoring of medical students, residents and fellows. He is a Penn State College of Medicine Distinguished Educator and recently established a site in Vietnam (Lam Dong Medical College in Dalat, Vietnam) to train Penn State medical students in global health. He mentors and hosts many international students.