- William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
- Professor, Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Dr. David A. Hafler is the William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, and Neurologist-in-Chief of Yale-New Haven Hospital. He graduated magna cum laude from Emory University and AOA from the University of Miami School of Medicine, completed his internship at Johns Hopkins and his neurology residency at Cornell-New York Hospital, and trained in immunology with Henry Kunkel at the Rockefeller University before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1984, where he later held the Breakstone Professorship in Neurology and served as a founding Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
Dr. Hafler’s discoveries in the pathogenesis and treatment of multiple sclerosis have led to fundamental advances in understanding the disease and the development of novel therapies. He is the founder of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies and the International MS Genetics Consortium. His honors include the Dystel Prize for MS Research from the American Academy of Neurology, the University of Miami Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2023 AAI Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research.
Dr. Hafler is a Fellow of the American Association of Immunologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine.