Roger G. Spragg, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego; and volunteer staff, San Diego Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Dr. Spragg served as Professor of Medicine and Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and as Chief of the Medicine Service at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System from 1991 to 2006. Previously, from 1976 – 1991, he was Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the UCSD Medical Center. Dr. Spragg has been a Visiting Scientist at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna, Austria, a member of the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, and a member of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at UCSD. Dr. Spragg served as Interim Chair for the Department of Medicine at UCSD from 2000 through 2002.
As a UCSD faculty member for over 35, years he has received numerous honors and awards. These honors include an American Thoracic Society Fellowship Award, a National Research Service Award, and the Department of Medicine Chief Residents Teaching Award. Dr. Spragg is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and has served on the American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Subspecialty Board and on the Advisory Council of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. As well, he has received recognition as an Established Investigator of the American Lung Association of California.
Dr. Spragg is an expert in acute lung injury. His research interests focus primarily on the pathology of the pulmonary surfactant system of the mature lung. Since 1997, Dr. Spragg has served as a Research Scientist with the Veterans Medical Research Foundation. He has made extensive research contributions to the field of pulmonary medicine and has authored over 150 contributions to the scientific literature.
