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R. John Looney, MD
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Rachel Wolfe, MD
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Rajdeep Pooni, MD, MS
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Randy Cron, MD, PhD
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Rebecca Manno, MD, MHS
Having been a visiting physician for the past year, Dr. Rebecca L. Manno has joined the team at Comprehensive Orthopaedic Global on St. Thomas and St. Croix on a full-time basis. |
Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhDDr. Sadun is a pediatric and adult rheumatologist and Assistant Professor at Duke University. After earning her MD and PhD in immunology from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, she came to Duke for MedPeds residency followed by a combined adult and pediatric rheumatology fellowship. Since joining the faculty at Duke, she cares for rheumatology patients of all ages, with a focus on the lupus population, and she serves as the Program Director for the Duke Pediatric and MedPeds Rheumatology Fellowship Programs. Her current area of research focuses on mRNA vaccine immunogenicity and safety in lupus. |
Richard Furie, MD
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Richard Lee, MD
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Richard Silver, MD, MACR
Dr. Silver's research interests include the pathogenesis and treatment of scleroderma interstitial lung disease, as well as environmental exposures and the risk of systemic sclerosis. During his tenure at MUSC, he has trained over 85 rheumatology fellows and mentored many students and residents who later went on to careers in Rheumatology. The MUSC Board of Trustees recognized Dr. Silver as a Master Teacher‚ and bestowed the University's highest academic recognition, ‚ Distinguished University Professor. In 2014, Dr. Silver was bestowed Master designation by the American College of Rheumatology. |
Robert Kalish, MD
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Dr. Looney received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his MD from the University of Rochester. His residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Infectious Diseases, Allergy and Immunology, and Rheumatology were all at the University of Rochester. He has been on the faculty of the Allergy Immunology Rheumatology Division in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester since 1984. He is currently Professor of Medicine, and the Stephen and Elise Rosenfeld Distinguished Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Dr. Looney became a Master of the American College of Rheumatology in 2017.
Dr. Rachel Wolfe is currently an assistant professor at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, NC. After she earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University, she returned to Tennessee to complete her medical degree from Quillen College of Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina before joining faculty at Wake Forest in 2015. She served as assistant program director for several years before becoming program director of the rheumatology fellowship in July 2020. Her academic interest lies in medical education – both undergraduate and graduate – with special attention to medical decision making. She is currently a medical education research fellow through the NBME.
Dr Pooni is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford. Her primary research interest involves the use of digital health technologies in pediatric specialty care. She is actively involved in CARRA and serves as a chair for both the implementation sciences and informatics workgroups.
Dr. Cron is Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine and Director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He developed and is the Director of the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship program at Children's of Alabama. He is also Director of the Alabama Center for Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Disorders and is the inaugural holder of the Arthritis Foundation, Alabama Chapter Endowed Chair in Pediatric Rheumatology at UAB. He has served on several UAB committees, including the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, the Immunology, Autoimmunity and Transplantation, the UAB Dept. of Pediatrics Chair search, and the Dept. of Pediatrics Career Evaluations and Promotions committees.
Dr. Cron attended the University of California at Riverside for undergraduate studies (B.S. in Biomedical Sciences) and then the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellow prior to receiving a PhD in Immunology from the University of Chicago. He attended UCLA for medical school and completed Pediatric residency training at Stanford Children's Hospital. He completed his fellowship training in Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Washington in Seattle and subsequently worked as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University Medical Center. His first faculty appointment was at the University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1999 prior to recruitment to UAB in 2007
Dr. Manno is a board-certified Rheumatologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She has authored almost 30 articles, case reports, book, electronic chapters, and research documents.
Dr. Richard Furie, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Northwell Health, is a rheumatologist whose activities for the last several decades have focused on patient care, physician education, and clinical research in the area of anti-rheumatic drug development. He directs The Program in Novel Therapeutics, the Health System's clinical research program in musculoskeletal disease. He also directs the Hospital's SLE and Autoimmune Disease Treatment Center, which has become internationally recognized for its role in the development of new therapies for SLE. Regarded as one of the senior rheumatologists in the New York metropolitan area, he has served as a volunteer for the local chapters of the Arthritis Foundation and the Lupus Alliance, the Lupus Foundation of America, the SLE Foundation, the Lupus Research Alliance, and Lupus Therapeutics. For twenty years he served on many committees of the American College of Rheumatology and was named a Master of the College in 2018. Although often featured as a speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. Furie's favorite educational venue is at home with his colleagues and trainees.
Richard Lee is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University in the Division of Endocrinology. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Duke, as well as his clinical fellowships in both Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology. Currently, he serves as the Clinical Lead for the VA Bone Health Service at the Durham VA, a Fracture Liaison Service focused on secondary fracture prevention. His research interests include assessment of fracture risk among older adults with medical comorbidities including Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.
Dr. Richard Silver is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, followed by a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology with Dr. Barbara Ansell in London, UK. Dr. Silver then completed a Fellowship in Rheumatology with Dr. Nathan Zvaifler at the University of California, San Diego. In 1981, Dr. Silver was invited by Professor E. Carwile LeRoy to join the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He succeeded Dr. LeRoy as Director of the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology in 1995, serving in that role until 2018.
Dr. Robert Kalish completed his 3 year Rheumatology training fellowship at the Tufts- New England Medical Center (Tufts-NEMC) in 1992. He has been very involved in teaching fellows, medical residents and students since then and currently is Director of Rheumatology Education in the Division of Rheumatology and Program Director of the rheumatology fellowship program at Tufts Medical Center. Dr Kalish's interests include Lyme disease, Clinical Anatomy and various aspects of Medical Education. He was supported in much of his curricular work at Tufts by a Clinician Scholar Educator grant through the American College of Rheumatology from the period July 2004 through June of 2007 and subsequently through two different Tufts Innovations in Education Awards.