
Dwight C. Look, MD
VA Pulmonary Section Chief
- Phone: 314-652-4100 X53341
- Email: dwight.look@nospam.va.gov
Appointments
- VA Pulmonary Section Chief
Research Interests
COPD exacerbation mechanisms and prevention and airway epithelial cell responses to infection.
Education and Training
- 1984 – BA, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Missouri
- 1985 – MD, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Missouri
- 1985-1988 – Internal Medicine Residency, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
- 1988-1989 – Chief Medical Residency, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois
- 1989-1991 – Fellowship, Pulmonary Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Positions
- 1991-1995 – Instructor of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- 1995-2001 – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
- 2001-2007 – Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- 2007-2011 – Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- 2011-2014 – Staff Physician, Phelps County Regional Medical Center, Rolla, Missouri
- 2014-present – Chief, Pulmonary, VA St. Louis Health Care System, St. Louis, Missouri
Honors and Awards
- University of Missouri Curators Scholarship, 1979-1983
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1982
- Founding Dean’s Founders Award, 1985
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, 1985
- Edward Livingston Trudeau Scholar, American Lung Association, 1993
- Allen & Hanburys Respiratory Institute Fellowship, 1993
- Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians, 1994
- NIH/NHLBI Pulmonary K08 abstract representative to the NHLBI Advisory Council, 1998
- Fellow, American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine, 1998
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Above and Beyond Award – 2005, 2008
- Phelps Regional Health Care Foundation, Guardian Angel Award – 2014