Gary Pierce is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health and Human Physiology, and the Russell B. Day and Florence D. Day Endowed Chair in Liberal Arts & Sciences.  He is also Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension (secondary appt) at the University of Iowa. 

Dr. Pierce is a faculty member in the Abboud Cardiovascular Research Center, the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center and the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and a fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) and the American Physiological Society (FAPS).  

He received a PhD in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology with a focus in cardiovascular exercise physiology from the University of Florida and completed postdoctoral training in vascular aging/human physiology in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder.  He has been a faculty member at the University of Iowa since 2011.