Stephen Rennard

Stephen I. Rennard is Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He also serves as medical director of the Alpha 1 Foundation Therapeutic Development Network and as president of Great Plains Biometrix. He is a fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, since 2016 and a fellow of the National Strategic Research Institute since 2021. In addition to clinical work in pulmonary and critical care medicine, Professor Rennard’s research has focused on mechanisms of tissue remodeling and repair and clinical studies particularly related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and smoking cessation, translational medicine, including observational and clinical therapeutic trials, and advanced clinical trial design, lung regeneration, and the use of technology for remote clinical data collection