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No stranger to the Department of Pathology, Dr. Clifford V. Harding, III, is well known to faculty and staff, having been a member of the School of Medicine and the University Hospital community for fifteen years. It was no surprise to many that on May 14th, the School of Medicine appointed him to the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC). Dr. Harding is well known and respected by his peers both nationally and internationally for his research into understanding the regulation of antigen presentation in the context of infectious diseases, for example, tuberculosis and HIV infection. He and his collaborators are widely published in peer reviewed publications and consistently funded by the National Institutes of Health.
In 1993, Dr. Harding came to the Department as Assistant Professor of Pathology and Oncology at CWRU and Senior Staff Physician at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Since 1999, he has been a Professor of Pathology and beginning in 2001, Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). The CWRU School of Medicine is one of only 42 institutions nationwide to offer the dual degrees through the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Harding also serves as Director of the Clinical and Translational Scientist Training Program (CTSTP) and Chair of the Immunology Training Program.
A magna cum laude graduate with highest honors in Biology, he received his B.S. from Harvard College as Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Harding completed his M.D and Ph.D. degree in Cell Biology at Washington University followed by a Residency and Chief Residency at Barnes Hospital of St. Louis. Before taking the position at CWRU, he was an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Washington University and Senior Staff physician at Barnes Hospital.
He states:
I am honored to accept the Interim Chair position. My goal is to enhance the development of our research, teaching and clinical programs. There are exciting possibilities for future growth of our programs, and in the coming months I will be working with our faculty to establish the foundation for future initiatives. One resource that I will depend on is the commitment of our faculty to excellence in research, teaching, diagnostic work and patient care.
Residing in Shaker Heights, Dr. Harding is married to Mina Chung, M.D., Staff Cardiologist in the Section of Pacing and Electrophysiology in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. They have two sons, Clifford and Andrew.
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