Dr. Wingard is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Price Eminent Scholar, and Deputy Director of the University of Florida Health Cancer Center. He received his undergraduate training at Yale University, his medical training at Johns Hopkins University, his residency at University of Tennessee, and has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Emory University, and now University of Florida for the past 25 years.

Dr. Wingard has held a number of leadership positions over the years, including co-chair of the Late Effects Working Committee of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, chair of the Steering Committee of the NHLBI/NCI Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Marrow Donor Program (Be the Match), and member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapies, and he is a past president of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. He currently is Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. He has been continuously NIH-funded since 1999. He has published more than 440 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 61 book chapters, and has edited 4 books. In 2018, he was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (top 1% most-cited reports in one’s field during the year of publication).