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5 unusual facts about rheumatology


Andrew D. Luster

Andrew D. Luster, MD, PhD, is the Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Barry Bresnihan

In 1991 UCD created a chair of Rheumatology for Bresnihan and in 2009 he was honoured as a "Master" by the American College of Rheumatology.

Bustamante Hospital for Children

The hospitals deals with General Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, Asthma and Respiratory ailments, Nephrology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Ears, Nose and Throat (ENT), Plastic and Burns, Ophthalmology and more.

Rheumatology

Occupational therapy can help patients finding alternative ways for common movements which would otherwise be restricted by their disease.

University of Nottingham Medical School

3) features Medicine, Surgery, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Disability (Rheumatology and Orthopaedics), General Practice and a Critical Illness Module.


American Society for Apheresis

ASFA represents a broad range of health care professionals involved in apheresis medicine including those practicing pathology, transplantation, hematology, oncology, neurology, rheumatology, nephrology, hepatology, gastroenterology, cardiology, and ophthamology.

André Lussier

From 1963 to 1964, he pursued a “clinical and research fellowship” in rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Hollander.

Atul Butte

Butte is Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Immunology & Rheumatology.

Barry Bresnihan

After qualifying as a doctor, Bresnihan specialised in rheumatology at Guy's Hospital in London before working with Morris Ziff at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School before returning to Ireland to set up a laboratory at the UCD Medical School and St. Vincent's University Hospital.

Clodovero Ferri

A native of Cropani ,a little town in Calabria, Italy, Clodoveo Ferri graduated cum laude at the University of Pisa and later specialized in internal medicine and rheumatology.

German Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology

The German Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (also called the 'Kinderrheumaklinik', i.e. the Pediatric Rheumatology Hospital) is the largest specialized center for the treatment of children and adolescents with rheumatic diseases and chronic pain syndromes in Europe.

Paul Janssen

2008: Professor Marc Feldmann, FMedSci, FAA, FRS and Emeritus Professor Sir Ravinder Maini, FRCP, FMedSci, FRS of The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College London, received the 2008 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for their role in the discovery of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, or TNF-alpha, as an effective therapeutic target for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.


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