Born in December of 1959, Dr. Clarence Legerton attended Davidson College and Vanderbilt University, where he was awarded the Clinical Science and Physical Diagnosis Award and inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. In 1996 he became a member of the regional Best Doctors in America, then of the national listing in 1998. He began his medical training in 1986 with an internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. From 1990-1991 he was Chief Resident of Medicine at St. Thomas Hospital, and from 1990-92 he served a fellowship in rheumatology at Vanderbilt. Dr. Legerton was Assistant Professor of Medicine at MUSC twice, and is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Rheumatology, the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, the Charleston Country Medical Society, and the South Carolina Rheumatism Society, of which he has been Program Chair and President. He has received over $400,000 in extramural grants and awards for 8 different clinical trials. On the University level, he has been on the Planning Committee, the JCAHO Task Force, the MUSC Clinical Expertise Strategic Plan Steering Committee, the Hospital Executive Committee, the Board of Trustees Joint Conference Committee, and has been Vice President and President of the Medical Staff of the MUSC Hospital. Up to this date, Dr. Legerton has had up to 25 invited lectures. He has been published in Patient Care, Manual of Family Practice, The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, and other sources. Dr. Clarence Legerton is Board Certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and clinical densitometry.