Ted Daughety

Daughtey graduated from Baylor University.[1] He earned a M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and completed a residency at the Medical University of South Carolina.[1] He conducted a fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.[1]

Daughety worked for the National Jewish Hospital and Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver.[1] He held various academic appointments with the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.[1] He married Laura Kelly in 1979.[2] In 1986, he joined the Salina Clinic as a pulmonary specialist and immunologist.[1] Daughety species in the diagnosis and treatment of breathing disorders including asthma and bronchitis.[3] On February 1, 2019, Daughtey closed his outreach clinic at Neman Regional Health and resigned as the sleep disorder center medical director.[4] He had retired as a pulmonologist in April 2020.[5] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas, he resumed work at a screening clinic.[5]

On January 14, 2019, Daughtey became the third first gentleman of Kansas as the spouse of governor Laura Kelly.[6] They moved into the Cedar Crest residence.[6] Daughtey and Kelly have two daughters.[2]