School of Medicine lures Harvard neurologist
Six months after appointing a prominent Harvard doctor to direct the Yale Cancer Center, the University has lured another top researcher from Cambridge to head its neurology department.
David Hafler, a Harvard Medical School neurologist and an expert on the genetic basis of multiple sclerosis, was named the chief and chair of neurology at Yale–New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine in July.
“He’s an outstanding recruit,” Medical School Dean Robert Alpern said in a telephone interview. “His research made him an outstanding candidate — there was never any question he...
