Background
Cluff, Leighton Eggertsen was born on June 10, 1923 in Salt Lake City. Son of Lehi Eggertsen and Lottie (Brain) Cluff.
Cluff, Leighton Eggertsen was born on June 10, 1923 in Salt Lake City. Son of Lehi Eggertsen and Lottie (Brain) Cluff.
Bachelor of Science, University Utah, 1944. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Utah, 1989. Doctor of Medicine with distinction, George Washington University, 1949.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Hahnemann Medical School, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), Long Island University, 1988. Doctor of Science (honorary), St. Louis University, 1990.
Doctor of Science (honorary), George Washington University, 1990. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Utah, 1990.
Intern Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1949—1950, assistant resident, 1951—1952, staff, 1954—1966, professor medicine, 1964—1966, physician, head division clinical immunology, allergy and infectious diseases, 1958—1966. Assistant resident physician Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina, 1950—1951. Visiting investigator, assistant physician Rockefeller Institute Medical Research, 1952—1954.
Fellow National Foundation Infantile Paralysis, 1952—1954. Member faculty Johns Hopkins School Medicine, Baltimore. Professor, chairman department medicine University Florida, Gainesville, 1966—1976, VA distinguished physician, 1990—1995, professor emeritus department medicine, 1990—2004.
Executive vice president Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976—1985, president, 1985—1990, trustee emeritus, 1990—2004. United States delegate United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, 1972—1981. Member council drugs American Medical Association, 1965—1967.
Member National Research Council-NAS Drug Research Board, 1965—1971. Member expert advisory panel bacterial diseases (coccal infection) World Health Organization. Member council National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1968—1972.
Consultant Food and Drug Administration. Member training grant committee National Institutes of Health, 1964—1968.
Author, editor books on internal medicine, infectious diseases, clinical pharmacology, long-term care and healthcare policy. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Board directors National Council on Aging, 1995—1998, University Florida Foundation, from 2001, Hospice of Worth Centers, from 1985. Board directors, past president University Florida Performing Arts. Trustee emeritus Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Member of American College of Physicians, Johns Hopkins University Society Scholars, Board Institute for Child Health Policy (board directors 1991—2004), American Social Health Association 1991-1999, (chair 1997-1999, board directors 2002-2004), American Clinical and Climatological Association, Southern Society Clinical Investigation, New York Academy of Sciences, Infectious Diseases Society of America (president 1975-1976), Harvey Society, American Fedn.Clin. Research, American Association Immunolgists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, Assembly Life Science of National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Theta Tau (Archon award 1992), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Beth Allen, August 19, 1944. Children: Claudia Beth, Patricia Leigh.