Dr Ingari graduated from Harvard University in 1982 with honors in biology, and he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society while in medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Following medical school graduation in 1986, Dr Ingari was promoted to captain in the United States Air Force, beginning a 25-year career that culminated in his promotion to full colonel. He was deployed to combat operations on multiple occasions, including serving as the deputy commander of the Air Force's largest theater hospital in Iraq in 2005-2006.