1941
Dr. Clements is born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Enoch Hogate and Mary Charlene Clements.
1962
Dr. Clements receives a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
1965
Dr. Clements receives a Doctor of Medicine from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
1965
Dr. Clements begins a rotating internship at the University of California San Diego Medical Center (now UC San Diego Health).
1966
Dr. Clements joins the U.S. Navy in China Lake, California, rising in the ranks to Lieutenant Commander.
1969
Dr. Clements begins a residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (now Cedars Sinai).
1971
Dr. Clements begins a residency in rheumatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
1972
Dr. Clements receives a fellowship in rheumatology from the Southern California chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.
1974
Dr. Clements becomes an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
1981
Dr. Clements serves as a Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at Moffitt Hospital in San Francisco, California.
1981
Dr. Clements is promoted to associate professor of medicine in residence at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
1988
Dr. Clements receives a Philip and Jane Williams Fellowship in scleroderma.
1990
Dr. Clements is promoted to full professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
1996
Dr. Clements is cited among The Best Doctors in America for third time.
1998
Dr. Clements receives a Master of Public Health from the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
2001
Dr. Clements is named Emeritus Professor of Medicine and the David Geffen School of Medicine.
2004
Dr. Clements is named Doctor of the Year by the National Office of the Scleroderma Foundation.
2005
Dr. Clements is cited as one of the Top Doctors in America for the fifth consecutive year.
2006
Dr. Clements publishes “The Scleroderma Lung Study #1” in the New England Journal of Medicine.
2016
Dr. Clements publishes “The Scleroderma Lung Study #2” in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.