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Dr. Basil Clyman is clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and staff physician at the VA healthcare center in west Los Angeles. A founding fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, Dr. Clyman is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Geriatric Society. He is also a member of the executive committee for the California Geriatric Society.

Dr. Clyman earned his medical degree from the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine in Switzerland, completed his internship and residency at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, and finished his fellow in rheumatology in the department of medicine at UCLA. He served as a captain in the United States Army Medical Corps during the 1960s.