Timothy J. 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 the 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 focus 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 at 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.