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David A. Hafler, M.D. Sadie and David Breakstone Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience), Harvard Medical School; Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital David A. Halfer, M.D., received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in biochemistry from Emory University and his M.D. degree the University of Miami School of Medicine. He then completed his internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins followed by a neurology residency at Cornell Medical Center-New York Hospital in New York. Dr. Hafler received training in immunology at the Rockefeller University then at Harvard where he joined the faculty in 1984. He is a member of the Program in Immunology at Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology program. Dr. Hafler also leads the NIH Autoimmunity Prevention Center Grant at Harvard, and is a Jacob Javits Merit Award Recipient from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Hafler has been elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation, The American Neurological Association, the Alpha Omega Society, and was a Harvey Weaver Scholar of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is currently a member of the editorial boards for Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cellular Immunology, Clinical Immunology, and Journal of Neuroimmunology, and is co-founder of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies. He also heads the Division of Molecular Immunology in the Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hafler’s clinical research is focused on understanding the mechanism of autoimmunity with a particular interest in inflammatory central nervous system diseases, and he has more than 270 publications in the field of autoimmunity and immunology. He is an Associated Member of the Broad Institute, where he is heading an initiative to solve the genetic basis of multiple sclerosis. He recently received the 1st National Multiple Sclerosis five-year Collaborative Center Award with Dr. Eric Lander of the Broad Institute for tackling the multiple sclerosis (MS) genetic effort. Dr. Hafler is a founding member of the International MS Genetic Consortium, a group recently formed to define the genetic causes of MS. | 