Dr. David Carlyle retired in October 2023 after decades as a board-certified family physician and co-medical director of Homeward Hospice; he had also been chair of the Iowa Legislative Health Care Coverage Commission. For more than 25 years, he served on legislative committees and a variety of commissions for the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, the Iowa Medical Society, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He was on the Iowa Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Commission’s Board for six years, serving as chair for two years. Dr. Carlyle is a former chair of the Board of Directors for the Iowa Prescription Drug Corporation, a nonprofit organization that provides medicine to the uninsured. He has been honored for his wide-ranging work in public health, receiving the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Public Health Award and two Iowa Senate commendations for his work for children’s insurance and anti-tobacco efforts, as well as numerous other awards and special acknowledgements for his work as a physician. He received an appointment to the Advisory Board to the United States Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (Co-Op) Program. He earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame and his MD from the University of Iowa. He lives in Ames, Iowa, with his wife. Their two daughters also are physicians.