Jake Murray, D.O. is a board-certified rheumatologist at The Iowa Clinic in Des Moines, Iowa. In addition to his rheumatology fellowship he completed a medical education fellowship in 2023 at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. He recently graduated with a Master’s of Health Professions Education. He is also a current fellow of the TheMednet - Rheumatology community. His interests include improving education about rheumatologic diseases to patients, clinical staff, all levels of medical trainees, and practicing physicians.

Dr. James O’Dell is the Robert L. Grissom Professor of Internal Medicine, Vice-Chairman of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at UNMC. After earning a degree in electrical engineering from UNL in 1974, he received his M.D. and completed a residency at UNMC. He founded the Rheumatology and Arthritis Investigational Network in 1990, which he has directed for 30 years, leading internationally-renowned research in treatments for rheumatoid arthritis that has resulted in several hundred publications including four first authored New England Journal of Medicine publications. He also served as UNMC’s Director of the Internal Medicine Residency for 35 years, training nearly 1,000 residents and numerous teaching awards including UNMC Laureate Award in 2019 . He was President of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2012 and received the ACRs distinguished Research Award as well as UNMC Distinguished Investigator Award. Dr O’Dell was President of the Rheumatology Research Foundation (RRF) from 2005-2007 and received the ACR Presidential Gold Medal in 2020. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief for Rheumatology for UpToDate and editor of Firestein’s Textbook of Rheumatology.

James T. Rosenbaum is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School. He did internal medicine training and an immunology fellowship supervised by Hugh McDevitt at Stanford Medical Center. He was an academic rheumatologist for 41 years including his first faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco, and nearly 37 years at Oregon Health & Sciences University where he was rheumatology division chief for 21 years and held the Edward E Rosenbaum Professorship named in honor of his father. From 2012 to 2019, he was concurrently Richard Chenoweth Chair of Ophthalmology at Legacy Devers Eye Institute in Portland. According to Wikipedia, he is the only practicing rheumatologist to have headed a department of ophthalmology.  In July 2022, he became senior vice- president for research at Corvus Pharmaceuticals. Rosenbaum is part of a rather renowned, multi-generation, eight physician family that includes his late father, his wife, two brothers, his sister-in-law, and two daughters.

Rosenbaum is the author of nearly 650 peer reviewed publications or book chapters which mostly relate to aspects of ocular inflammation. He received continuous funding from the NIH for 41 years. He has advanced the basic and clinical understanding of the microbiome as well as the relationship between the eye and rheumatic diseases. Expertscape assesses the impact of a scientist on the basis of number of publications, frequency those publications are cited, and the scientist’s role in authorship. On this basis in the field of uveitis, Rosenbaum was ranked first in the world.

Rosenbaum’s honors include the ACR’s Master’s designation (an honor his father also received) and the Clinician Scholar Award. Other tributes include election to the Association of American Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Innovative Research Award from the RRF (twice), the Research Career Achievement Award from the Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network, the Volunteer Physician of the Year Award from the Spondylitis Association of America, the von Szily award from the German Ophthalmology Society, the Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Alcon Research Institute Scholar Award, and the International Uveitis Society Foundation Gold Medal. Together with his brother, Richard Rosenbaum, and Edward Neuwelt, he helped to found Partnerships in Scientific Inquiry, a volunteer organization which has introduced approximately 1000 Portland area high school students to hands-on scientific research.

Dr. Knight is the Marvin and Betty Danto Research Professor of Rheumatology and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan. His laboratory studies antiphospholipid syndrome, lupus, and COVID-19.

Jason Kolfenbach, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Ophthalmology at the University of Colorado Denver, where he serves as a clinician educator and Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program. His expertise is in clinical education as well as patient care and research activities focused on the field of inflammatory eye disease, and he is the current co-editor of the popular textbook Rheumatology Secrets.

Dr. Jason Springer completed his general rheumatology and vasculitis fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. He completed his Masters of Science in Clinical and Translational Research. He currently serves as the co-Director of the Vasculitis Center of Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Jay Mehta, MD is a pediatric rheumatologist and is the Program Director of Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Mehta grew up in Las Vegas and completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He graduated from the University of Nevada School of Medicine and completed his pediatrics residency at the University of Colorado and Denver Children's Hospital. His fellowship training in pediatric rheumatology was at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a recipient of an RRF Clinician Scholar Educator Award to study how pediatric rheumatology trainees and early faculty make career decisions and navigate career challenges. He was recently the Chair of the ACR Pediatric Special Committee and now serves on the ACR Finance Committee. Dr. Mehta is currently on the faculty at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine as Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics.

Dr. Jean Liew graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Biology and English and went on to earn her MD at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX. She then relocated to the Pacific Northwest to complete an Internal Medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR followed by rheumatology fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She concurrently earned an M.S. in Epidemiology through the University of Washington School of Public Health. During her fellowship, the primary focus of her research was in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), specifically AS, and cardiovascular comorbidity.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology at BU, where her clinical research currently focuses on knee osteoarthritis and axSpA. Additionally, as a member of the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (GRA) and a member of its Steering Committee, she has led multiple projects relating to data collection, analysis, and dissemination of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with rheumatic disease.

Dr. Jeffrey Gelfand is a neurologist who specializes in caring for patients with autoimmune, inflammatory and neurodegenerative neurological conditions. His expertise encompasses multiple sclerosis, neurosarcoidosis, encephalitis, meningitis, transverse myelitis, optic neuritis, neuromyelitis optica, central nervous system vasculitis, autoimmune dementias and encephalopathies, autoimmune cerebellar ataxia and paraneoplastic neurological syndromes. He also treats neurological problems in people with rheumatic diseases or other systemic illnesses and cares for people with general neurological disorders. Gelfand received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. At UCSF, he completed a residency in neurology, followed by fellowship training in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology (the study of how the nervous and immune systems interact). He also has a master of advanced study degree in clinical research from UCSF. As director of the UCSF Division of Neuroinflammation and Glial Biology clinical fellowship program, Gelfand trains specialists in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology after they have completed a residency in neurology. UCSF recognized his excellence in teaching in 2014 with the Robert B. Layzer Award and in 2015 with an award from the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. Gelfand is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. In 2019 he was elected vice-chair of the Autoimmune Neurology Section of the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Jennifer Weiss is a pediatric rheumatologist in Hackensack, New Jersey and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health and Jersey Shore University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health. She received her medical degree from St. George's University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.