Dr. Gerald Looney

Dr. Gerald L. Looney is a native of Bluefield, West Virginia and a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has recently retired as medical director of the Boeing Company Military Transport Division (C-17 Program in Long Beach, CA) and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine/Occupational Health at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) College of Medicine.

Previously, he held medical faculty appointments at Harvard, Boston University, University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred during Dr. Looney's senior year of medical school, so before graduation he was convinced of the need for civil defense--and his conviction has been reconfirmed many times, the latest confirmation occurring on Sept. 11, 2001.

His entire professional career has supported civilian protection and public preparedness. He helped found the new medical specialty of Emergency Medicine and served on the faculty of the nation's first academic Department of Emergency Medicine. With five other physician members of TACDA, he founded the medical organization, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP). He has been a member of TACDA for nearly three decades and a contributor to the Journal of Civil Defense and numerous medical journals.

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