Dr. Anthony is a Professor of Medicine and Pathology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the Divisions of Rheumatic and Infectious Diseases, a US Department of Veterans Affairs Senior Clinician Scientist, Northeast Ohio VA Healthcare System Rheumatologist, University Hospitals DSMB co-chair, and staff Rheumatologist at MetroHealth Medical Center. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry, studying the regulation of protein synthesis at the level of cap-binding and RNA unwinding initiation factor activity utilized in cap-independent viral translation. He joined the faculty at Case in 1999. Since then, he has led a nationally-funded investigative team evaluating host cellular immunity (NK cell, T cell, B cell, dendritic cell), immune health, and cardiovascular health in the setting of chronic HCV infection, HCV-HIV co-infection, aging, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and COVID.