Dr. David Hardy is an Associate Professor of Medicine-in-Residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles, CA.

A diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Hardy is also a member of numerous professional societies including the American Academy of HIV Medicine, for whom he serves as a member of the National Board of Directors and Chairman of the California/Hawaii Chapter as well as the International AIDS Society. He works with several community organizations, including Project Angel Food, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and the Medical Advisory Committee of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Since 1988 he has been President of the Los Angeles Physicians AIDS Forum, which he co-founded. He has served on the scientific committees for various national and international HIV congresses.

Dr Hardy has been principal investigator on a number of HIV clinical trials, and is currently undertaking a 5-year NIH grant-funded study developing and optimizing HIV-1-based vectors for vaccine and gene therapy applications.