Dr. Garrity is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Clinical Operations at The University of Chicago, where he helped develop a new lung transplant program since 2006. He received his MD degree from Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in 1976 and completed his Internal Medicine residency also at Loyola in 1979, after serving as the Chief Medical Resident. Following two years working in the Indian Health Service at Red Lake, Minnesota, Dr. Garrity received fellowship training in Pulmonary Diseases at The University of Chicago and Loyola University Medical Center/Hines VAH, and joined the faculty at Loyola in 1984. He was instrumental in founding and growing the Loyola Lung Transplant Program after 1984. Dr. Garrity received his MBA from Benedictine University in Lisle, IL in 2001, and joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in late 2005. Ed is currently chair of the Policy Oversight Committee, and is a former chair of the Thoracic Committee. He has co-authored numerous reports on lung transplantation and development of allocation policy and practice. Ed is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Transplantation, is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and is a reviewer for numerous journals covering pulmonary/critical care and transplant topics. Research interests deal with the clinical mechanisms and prevention of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome after lung transplants.