Dr. Carol Langford received her MD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987 and trained in internal medicine at the University of Michigan from 1987–1990. She was a fellow in rheumatology at Duke University from 1990–1994, where she also received an Masters in Health Sciences in 1995. From 1994–2004, Dr. Langford was a senior investigator within the Immunologic Diseases Section of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, where her research focused on vasculitis. In 2004, Dr. Langford joined Cleveland Clinic to become Director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research within the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. She is Professor of medicine of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and was named vice-chair of rheumatology for Research in 2007. In 2011, she became the Harold C. Schott endowed chair in Rheumatic and Immunologic diseases.