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Dr. Henke graduated from medical school at the University of Minnesota in 1983. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine in 1986 and fellowship sub-specialty training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 1989, both at the University of Minnesota. He is a professor emeritus in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division. Clinical activities and interests included a subspecialty pulmonary clinic focusing on interstitial lung diseases. Dr. Henke's research program sought to understand the pathogenesis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) at the basic science level. His research program focused on identifying the underlying mechanisms driving IPF fibrotic progression. Recent discoveries include the identification of pathological mesenchymal progenitor cells as a cell-of-origin for scar-forming IPF fibroblasts. The research program recently focused on elucidating epigenetic processes responsible for reprogramming IPF progenitor cells to their pathologic phenotype. Dr. Henke's research in IPF was supported by an NIH/NHLBI R01 Grant.