Dr. Richard Gaeke was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1948. He attended Archbishop Alter High School and was Valedictorian of Alter’s first graduating class in 1966. Dr. Gaeke played varsity basketball at Alter for the legendary “Jumpin’ Joe” Petrocelli, who fondly designated Dr. Gaeke the worst basketball player he had ever seen in his incredibly successful forty year coaching career.

Dr. Gaeke holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, where he graduated maxima cum laude in 1970. He was designated a Notre Dame Scholar in 1966 and also received the Mitchell Playwright Award at Notre Dame in 1966.

Dr. Gaeke then attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois and graduated in 1973. He received the La Verne Noyes Award Scholarship at the University of Chicago for 1969 through 1973. He was awarded the University of Chicago’s Hilger Perry Jenkins Award in 1976, Chicago’s Florence James Adams Prize in 1970, and Alpha Omega Alpha in 1973. He completed his internship at the University of Chicago, as well as his Internal Medicine Residency and his Gastroenterology Fellowship (Kirsner Fellow). Dr. Gaeke was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at that institution from 1978 through 1980.

Dr. Gaeke is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine. He was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1978. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Society, the American College of Physicians, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ohio Academy of Science, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Medical Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, the Ohio State Medical Association and the Butler County Medical Society. He is past chairman of the Department of Medicine of the Middletown Regional Hospital. Dr. Gaeke serves on the Alumni Council and Alumni Senate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Dr. Gaeke has been in gastroenterology private practice in Middletown, Ohio since 1980. He is past chairman of the Department of Medicine, past Section Chief, Internal Medicine, and past Executive Committee Member at Middletown Regional Hospital. He is a co-founder and Board Member of The GI Endoscopy Center in Middletown, Ohio and President of Medical Associates of Middletown, Inc. He accepts consultations and sees inpatients at Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, OH. He currently remains in full-time private practice at Medical Associates of Middletown with no plans to retire.