Visiting Professors
Alexei A. Grom, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Research Director, Division of Rheumatology, University of Cincinnati
"Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis," November 2016
Jason S. Knight, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health Center
"Antiphospholipid Syndrome: More Inflammatory (and interesting) than you think," October 2016
Nora G. Singer, MD
Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Director, Division of Rheumatology, Metrohealth Medical Center, Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Medicine, Medical Director, Clinical Trials Unit
"Mesenchymal Stem cells as Therapy in Rheumatic Disease-Where are we and where are we going?" August 2016
Stephen D. Miller, PhD
Judy Gugenheim Research Professor, Director-Interdepartmental Immunobiology Center, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinburg School of Medicine
"From Bench to Bedside: Translation of a Novel Nanoparticle Approach for Tolerogenic Therapy of Immune-Mediated Diseases," July 2016
Joseph E. Craft, MD
Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), Professor of Immunobiology, Section Chief, Rheumatology, Program Director, Investigative Medicine Program, Yale University
"Follicular B Helper T cells: Development, Differentiation, Disease," June 2016
Betty Diamond, MD
Investigator and Head, Center for Autoimmune and Musculoskeletal Diseases, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Reasearch, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine
"C1q as an Immune Modulator," May 2016
V. Michael Holers, MD
Scoville Professor of Medicine, Head, Division of Rheumatology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
"Insights from Studies of At-Risk Populations into the Initiation and Pathogenesis of Preclinical Rheumatoid Arthritis," April 2016
Song Guo Zheng, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Director of Rheumatology Research, Penn State University Hershey College of Medicine
"CD4+Foxp3+Treg Cells and Autoimmune Diseases," April 2016
Megan Clowse, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Duke University
"How YOU can Succeed in Managing Lupus Pregnancy," February 2016
David A. Fox, MD
Professor, Internal Medicine, Division Chief, Rheumatology, University of Michigan
"Interactions Between T cells and Stromal Cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovium: Implications for Novel Therapeutic Targets," March 2016
Hermine I. Brunner, MD, MSc, MBA
Director, Division of Rheumatology, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
"Neuropsychiatric SLE in Children," December 2015
Bruce Cronstein, MD
Dr. Paul R. Esserman Professor of Medicine, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Professor, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine
"Taking a Bite Out of Inflammatory Bone Injury," September 2015
Dana Ascherman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Miami
"Role of Jo-1 in the Immunopathogenesis of Myositis and the Anti-Synthetase Syndrome," May 2015
Trine Jorgensen, PhD
Staff Assistant, Department of Immunology, Learner research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic
"Pro- and anti-inflammatory cells in Lupus," March 2015
Richard Loeser, MD
Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, University of North Carolina
“Aging and Osteoarthritis: What’s the Mechanistic Link?” September 2014
George Tsokos, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Harvard University
“A Serine/Threonine Phosphatase, PP2, Controls Autoimmunity,” April 2014
Gary Gilkeson, MD
Professor, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina
Cornelia Weyand, MD
Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Stanford University
“Vasculitis of the Aorta and its Branches,” March 2014
“Mesenchymal stromal cells as therapy in lupus: miracle versus hype versus reality,” March 2014
David Pisetsky, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Duke University
“The Role of Microparticles in the Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Disease,” December 2013
James O'Dell, MD
Professor and Chair, Division of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
“RA: Not everyone needs a biological. Lessons from TEAR and RACAT,” November 2013
Toshihide Mimura, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Saitama Medical School, Japan, "Epigenetic abnormalities in RA," October 2013
John Sundy, MD, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Duke Clinical Research Unit and Duke Proof-of-Concept Research Network, Duke University
“The Role of Academic Phase 1 Clinical Trial Units in the Changing World of Translational Clinical Research,” May 2013
Gregory Lesinski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, The Ohio State University
"From nature to bench to bedside: Modulating inflammation and cancer with dietary agents and small molecules," August 2012
Miriam Shelef, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Wisconsin
“Citrullination in Arthritis,” May 2012
Ann Reed, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic
“A Phenotypic Conundrum: My Experience studying Inflammatory Myositis,” May, 2012
Bevra Hahn, MD
Chief of Rheumatology and Arthritis, University of California Los Angeles
"Update on pathogenesis and therapy of SLE," February 2012
