Alex Gifford, MD
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Location:UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
11100 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
- Call: 216-844-3267
Biography: Alex Gifford, MD
Expertise
Certifications & Memberships
- Critical Care Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
- Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine
Education
Fellowship | Pulmonary/Critical Care
Pulmonary/Critical Care - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2007 - 2010)
Residency | Internal Medicine/Chief Resident
Internal Medicine/Chief Resident - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2006 - 2007)
Residency | Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (2003 - 2006)
Medical Education
Pennsylvania State University College Of Medicine (2003)
Undergraduate
Allegheny College (1999)
About
Alex H. Gifford, MD, FCCP, is Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at University Hospitals. Dr. Gifford also serves as Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Center in the Leroy W. Matthews Cystic Fibrosis Center at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Additionally, he is an associate professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University.
Dr. Gifford graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 2003. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 2006 and served as chief medical resident in 2007. Dr. Gifford then completed his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, also at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in 2010. He joined the faculty of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center that year and attained the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine before coming to University Hospitals in 2021.
At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dr. Gifford served as associate director of the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Program. He organized a comprehensive pulmonary-rheumatology case registry that served educational and research purposes. He also contributed to a pulmonary-rheumatology interdisciplinary case conference series at which he discussed the evaluation and management of complex cases. Dr. Gifford was a local principal investigator on several phase 2 and 3 controlled trials of investigational medicinal products designed to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive-fibrotic interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD).
In addition to caring for pulmonary patients in his clinical practice, Dr. Gifford continues a clinical trials program at University Hospitals for patients with interstitial lung diseases.
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Industry Relationships
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As of December 31, 2016, Alex Gifford did not disclose any Outside Relationships with Industry.