I am a senior faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School. I am a co-investigator in an NIH-funded trial studying Psoriatic Arthritis. My past academic appointments include Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and faculty at Boston University. I was a consultant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and an internationally recognized Center for Orthopedic and Arthritis Diseases. I am the current Chief of Rheumatology Clinical Services and Training in the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare system. I received my Rheumatology training from the University of Michigan. I am a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and a member of the Veterans Affairs Rheumatology Consortium, GRAPPA, and the National Psoriasis Foundation. I have been a leader in developing standards of care and criteria, including disability ratings in the VA, the 2013 DXA guidelines for the International Society of Clinical Densitometry [ISCD], Performance Pay Measures, and Lyme Disease. I was a member of the team that first described Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis and Scleroderma-like skin disorders. I have been a site investigator for controlled therapeutic studies of rheumatoid arthritis, Gout, dermatomyositis, and psoriatic arthritis.
Research & Clinical Networking Interests:
– Rheumatic Diseases with Cutaneous (Skin) Manifestations:
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
-Vaccine related injuries (autoimmune)
-Biologic and intraarticular therapies for Osteoarthritis, Vasculitis, Myositis, Lupus, and Rheumatoid Arthritis