Carlos C. Daughaday III, M.D.

Dr. Daughaday is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Section at the John Cochran Veterans Affairs Medical Center . He received his AB from Harvard College and graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in 1971. After residency in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Minnesota he served in the US Army at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington , DC and was Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences until returning to Washington University in 1979 as Assistant Professor of Medicine.

His current interests are in the clinical management of granulomatous lung disease, including tuberculosis, and lung diseases caused by nontuberculosis mycobacteria. The Clinic for Mycobacterial Diseases at the Jacqueline Maritz Lung Center provides consultations for both difficult tuberculosis cases and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections.

Within the Department of Veterans Affairs, he is involved in the development and implementation of a national joint Department of Defense-VA evidence-based clinical practice guideline for management of patients with asthma. He serves as Chair of the Clinical Ethics Consultation Committee for the VA Medical Center and is the Director of Respiratory Therapy and the Pulmonary Function Laboratory.

In the community he has served on the board and is former President of the American Lung Association of Missouri and has served as a volunteer consultant to the Missouri Health Department on tuberculosis case management.

He is a member of the American Thoracic Society and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha in 1999. He has been a member of the Committee on Admissions since 2003.

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