Ron Hunninghake, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Wichita

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Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD, is Chief Medical Officer at the Riordan Clinic. He is a medical doctor who specializes in the care of people with chronic disease, cancer, nutritional deficiency, and mental health.

Dr. Ron, as he is known to patients, is a native Kansan and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Benedictine College in Atchison. He attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine and had a medical internship at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He moved to Salina for his residency at Smoky Hill Family Practice.

He has also earned a Metabolic Approach to Cancer certificate from the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health (MATC certified) and is a certified Chelation Advanced Provider with the American College for Advancement in Medicine. He is a member of the International College of Integrative Medicine. He is also a past certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and past chairman of the International Schizophrenia Foundation.

Dr. Ron began his career as a small-town doctor in Minneapolis, Kan., where he first started teaching clinic-based wellness. He later returned to Salina to join Salina Family Physicians, where he was instrumental in founding WellPlan, a comprehensive lifestyle modification program. He joined the Riordan Clinic in 1989 to have even greater involvement in helping patients learn innovative ways to rebuild and maintain their health.

Dr. Ron was inspired to adopt his own high-level wellness behaviors based upon a book gifted to him by a medical school surgery instructor who thought it was much smarter to prevent illness rather than wait for the worst to happen.

Later on, Dr. Riordan encouraged him to only make recommendations to patients that he himself was willing to adopt and live with. After all, Dr. Ron says it is always wisest to walk your talk.

In addition to his practice at the Riordan Clinic, Dr. Ron has lectured extensively on the Riordan Intravenous Vitamin C Protocol for Cancer and has been a regular presenter at the Orthomolecular Medicine Today conference. He has traveled worldwide to present lectures in Japan, Spain, Ecuador, Columbia, India, and Canada.

At the Riordan Clinic, he has presented hundreds of lectures dealing with a wide variety of topics including nutrition, lifestyle, and optimal health. He has co-authored three books on subjects including inflammation, energy-boosting supplements, and how to stop pre-diabetes.

Dr. Ron was recognized as the Orthomolecular Doctor of the Year in 2011 by the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine and named to the Orthomolecular Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2017, he was also recognized as a Healthcare Hero by the Wichita Business Journal.

In his free time, Dr. Ron enjoys time with his grandchildren, mowing the lawn, reading mystery novels, and travel.

2017 Healthcare Heroes | Wichita Business Journal

2013 Orthomolecular Hall of Fame | Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

2011 Orthomolecular Doctor of the Year | International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine

Pearl Maker Award | Riordan Clinic | IVC and Cancer Symposium

Dr. Ron is accepting new patients in our Wichita office. Call 800-447-7276 to schedule an appointment.

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Patient Stories

Professor Grateful and Looks Forward After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Meredith Trexler Drees

As Meredith Trexler Drees rode with her husband, Jeff, to her family’s farm near Hill City, Kansas on the day of her breast cancer diagnosis, she had no idea she would be walking the campus at the University of Notre Dame a little less than two years later. 

“I remember on the day that I was diagnosed, I told my husband as we were driving back out to the farm I thought I was going home to die,” she said, recalling that her initial perspective was limited because she didn’t know about options beyond conventional care.

Meredith, 38, was diagnosed in February 2021 with a large, cancerous tumor in her left breast, with a spot that had grown into her sternum. She had two weeks to wait before she could get more scans, so she and Jeff headed toward her family in Hill City.

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Patient Advises Others to “Be Curious” After Potentially Fatal Autoimmune Diagnosis

Denise Douty

Scleroderma started small for Denise Douty, 49, of Wichita. Her fingers felt funny after scraping her windshield on a frigid January morning in 2019. Not thinking much of it at first, she assumed it would go away. It didn’t.

Not long after, she began experiencing joint pain, which became increasingly debilitating. As the year progressed, so did her pain. Denise had a job teaching a graduate school class at a Wichita-area college that summer. She said the pain was getting so bad she began to doubt if she would be able to walk across campus. She also worked as a licensed counselor and could hardly show up for appointments because of the exhaustion and pain.

Having no primary care physician of her own, she saw her wife, Cindy’s, doctor, who referred her to a rheumatologist. During the four-month wait for her appointment her symptoms continued to worsen.

“By that time, I thought I was just dying,” Denise said. “I was feeling awful and could hardly work.”

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Patient Advises Others to “Be Curious” After Potentially Fatal Autoimmune Diagnosis

This video is a Patient Story featuring Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD, and Riordan Clinic Patient Denise Douty.

Scleroderma started small for Denise Douty, 49, of Wichita. Her fingers felt funny after scraping her windshield on a frigid January morning in 2019. Not thinking much of it at first, she assumed it would go away. It didn’t.

Not long after, she began experiencing joint pain, which became increasingly debilitating. As the year progressed, so did her pain. Denise had a job teaching a graduate school class at a Wichita-area college that summer. She said the pain was getting so bad she began to doubt if she would be able to walk across campus. She also worked as a licensed counselor and could hardly show up for appointments because of the exhaustion and pain.

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Discovering Real Health: Our Approach

Dr. Ron Hunninghake, Chief Medical Officer, and Dr. Lucas Tims, Medical Director of our Overland Park office, discuss an overview of the Riordan Clinic approach to treatment. Filled with key takeaways and practical advice you can implement into your daily life, Dr. Ron and Dr. Lucas explain what we mean by looking for the "root cause" of illness, why it's crucial for you to be a participant in your own health, and what exactly do we mean when we use the phrase "Real Health".

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Dr. Ron Interviews Chris Wark of Chris Beats Cancer

This video is the full-length interview between Dr. Ron Hunninghake and Chris Wark of Chris Beat Cancer. Chris was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer and having surgery to remove the tumor he opted out of chemotherapy and used evidence-based nutrition and natural, non-toxic therapies to heal.

In this video, Chris shares his journey back to health, and how he is determined to help people understand all the treatment options available to them after a cancer diagnosis and how they can beat cancer daily through diet and lifestyle choices.

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The Root Cause of the Rise of Chronic Illness

This presentation was recorded live at the October 2018 IVC and Chronic Illness Symposium hosted by the Riordan Clinic.