Dr. Cliff attended and graduated medical school at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, in Lewisburg, West Virginia. He completed an AOA Approved Traditional Rotating Internship at Massapequa General Hospital, Massapequa, New York. He then went on to complete his Family Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine degree at the Community Hospital Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

He is a licensed physician with the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery. He was Board Certified in Family Practice and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment from 2000 to 2008. He has taught 3rd and 4th-year medical students in his clinic for approximately a decade and was an Adjunct Professor in the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department for several years at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona. He has also taught the 4th year osteopathic students and was a supervisor of the osteopathic clinic for 5 years at The Academic College at Wingate. He is a member in good standing with the American Osteopathic Association.