Dr Gunning received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah and completed a postgraduate residency in Family Medicine/Primary Care at the University of Washington. She is currently a Professor (Clinical) of Pharmacotherapy, Adjunct Professor of Family & Preventive Medicine, and clinical pharmacist for the University of Utah Family Medicine Residency Program. She is director of the PGY 2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy residency at University of Utah Healthcare. She recieved the USHP pharmacist of the year award, Teacher of the Year for the College of Pharmacy three times, and Specialty Teacher of the Year for the Family Medicine Residency Program twice; as well as receiving the Utah Society for Health System Pharmacists of the Year Award. In 2016, she recieved the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching award. Dr Gunning has served 6 years on the Board of Pharmacy Specialties Pharmacotherapy Council, including as chair, and is now serving her first term on the Board of Directors for BPS.
Research and teaching interests include sex and gender pharmacotherapy, curriculum development for pharmacists and medical residents regarding changing models of care delivery, medication safety in the patient centered medical home (PCMH), the impact of pharmacists and the interdisciplinary team on costs, outcomes and efficiency in the PCMH, and the impact of ambulatory care pharmacist engagement in transitions of care.

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