Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Disclosure(s): Gilead Sciences: Advisor/Consultant; Merck: Advisor/Consultant; ViiV Healthcare: Advisor/Consultant
Dr. Wm David Hardy is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC. He teaches learners in the Rand Schrader HIV Clinic and the USC HIV Street Medicine Service. He was Senior Director of Research at Whitman-Walker Health overseeing ACTG trials and HIV Cohort studies and industry-sponsored clinical trials and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2015-2018).
He was Director, Division of Infectious Diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2002-2013). Dr. Hardy has served as CMO for Calimmune, Inc (2013-2015), a biotechnology company using gene-modified CD4+ T cells and stem cells as a cure for HIV infection, and acting CMO for Enochian Biosciences, a biotechnology company developing cell and gene therapy cures for viral infections and cancer (2018-2022).
He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in infectious diseases/immunology/clinical research at UCLA School of Medicine with Dr. Michael Gottlieb (1984-86) and later a laboratory fellowship in molecular retrovirology with Irvin Chen, PhD at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Hardy has cared for persons with HIV infection since 1982 and conducted research on HIV and related diseases since 1984. His research has focused on treatment and prevention of opportunistic infections, antiretroviral therapy, immunotherapies, hepatitis treatments as well as retroviral vector research, cellular and gene therapy as cures for viral infections and cancer. Dr Hardy was Chair HIVMA (2018-2019). Currently, he is Treasurer of AAHIVM. He served as editor-in-chief of AAHIVM’s Fundamentals of HIV Medicine for the HIV Specialist in 2007, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. He currently serves on the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV.