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.
Research Information
Research Interests
- Bronchiectasis
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Interstitial Lung Diseases