Dr. Aaron Baugh grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan before completing his medical school and Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Toledo College of Medicine before matriculating to the University of California San Francisco for a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. He is the Nina Ireland Program for Lung Health Endowed Chair for Health Equity at UCSF, the Chair of the National Medical Association's Pulmonary Medicine sub-section, a member of the American Thoracic Society's Health Equity & Diversity Committee, and a member of the CHEST Health Equity Task Force. He is a licensed pulmonologist who practices in San Francisco, California.