Leadership

The Rheumatology Research Foundation is led by a wide range of rheumatology community members from private practice, academic investigators and rheumatology professionals, as well as corporate representatives and public members dedicated to the Foundation’s mission.

• Board of Directors
• Honorary Board of Advisors
• Development Advisory Council
• Impact Advisory Council
• Scientific Advisory Council
• Leadership Development Council
• Past Presidents
• Peer Reviewers

Board of Directors  

Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH President Berkshire Medical Center	Bryce Binstadt, MD, PhD Vice President University of Minnesota
Anne Bass, MD Treasurer Hospital for Special Surgery	William Harvey, MD Secretary Tufts Medicine
Edward Behrens, MD Chair, Scientific Advisory Council Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Jody Hargrove, MD Chair, Development Advisory Council  Arthritis & Rheumatology Consultants, P.A.
Alfred Kim, MD, PhD Chair, Impact Advisory Council Washington University School of Medicine	Carrie Hansen Member-at-Large
Elaine Husni, MD Member-at-Large Cleveland Clinic	Corinne S. Karp, MAEd Member-at-Large
Firas Kassab, MD Member-at-Large South Charlotte Rheumatology	Vikas Majithia, MD, MBBS, MPH Member-at-Large Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
Ted Mikuls, MD, MSPH Member-at-Large University of Nebraska Medical Center	Leo Wegemer, JD, LLM Member-at-Large
Carol Young, MD Member-at-Large Arthritis Medical Clinic of North County, Inc.	Ryan DeMasi, MD Corporate Roundtable  Abbvie
Marian Hannan, DSc, MPH Representative of ARP Harvard Medical School	Linda Hiraki, MD, FRCPC, ScD ACR Research Representative The Hospital for Sick Children
Bethany Marston, MD ACR Training Representative University of Rochester	Marta Bean, MD Fellow-in-Training Representative University of Pennsylvania
INVITED GUESTS
Colleen Correll, MD Chair, ACR's Pediatric Special Committee University of Minnesota Medical Center	V. Michael Holers, MD Foundation Immediate Past President University of Colorado
Ex-Officio Members
Deborah Dyett Desir, MD President, ACR Yale School of Medicine	Carol Langford, MD, MHS President-elect, ACR Cleveland Clinic
Aileen Ledingham, PT, MS, PhD President, ARP                                                              Mount Auburn Hospital	Rachel Myslinski, MBA Executive Director, Rheumatology Research Foundation

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HONORARY BOARD OF ADVISORS

The Honorary Board of Advisors is reserved for individuals who have made a transformative contribution, either through monetary support and/or an act of leadership, which made an indelible mark on the Foundation's future fundraising success.

Mark Andrejeski

Neil S. Birnbaum, MD

Stanley B. Cohen, MD

Mary K. Crow, MD

Leslie J. Crofford, MD

Ephraim P. Engleman, MD
Inducted posthumously

Norman B. Gaylis, MD

Beverly Guin

Stuart Kassan, MD, MACR

Brian R. Loggins, BA, BS, MBA

Stephen E. Malawista, MD and Tobé Malawista
Dr. Malawista was inducted posthumously

Rodolfo Molina, MD, FACP, MACR 

Audrey M. Nelson, MD

James R. O'Dell, MD

Arthur L. Weaver, MD

Leo Wegemer, JD, LLM and Terry Wegemer

Michael H. Weisman, MD

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Development Advisory Council

The Development Advisory Council is charged with overseeing the Foundation’s fundraising program to ensure the Foundation is cultivating the stable support needed to fulfill its mission.

Jody Hargrove, MD
Chair
Arthritis & Rheumatology Consultants P.A.

Cheryl Crow, OT
Arthritis Life

Deborah Durkee
University of Utah School of Medicine

Betsy Khan
Teleflex

Kristine Kuhn, MD, PhD
Univeristy of Colorado School of Medicine

Brian Loggins, MBA
Arthritis Associates, PA San Antonio

Lisa Mandl, MD, MPH
Hospital for Special Surgery

Alexa Meara, MD, MS
The Ohio State University

Iris Navarro Millan, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery

Mark Snyder
Pfizer

Jeff Stark
UCB

Benjamin Widener, MD
Sheridan Memorial Hospital

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Impact Advisory Council

The Impact Advisory Council is charged with communicating the work of the Foundation to patients and caregivers in the rheumatology community, advocating for rheumatology research, and highlighting the impact this research has on the patients with rheumatic diseases.

Al Kim, MD, PhD
Chair
Washington University School of Medicine

Heather Benham, DNP

Betty Hsiao, MD
Yale-New Haven Medical Center

Annastasha Parker

Steve Russel, MBA

Bernie Rubin, DO, MPH

 

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Scientific Advisory Council

The Scientific Advisory Council is charged with overseeing the Foundation’s research and education funding programs to ensure they are run effectively and efficiently and are meeting the needs of the rheumatology community and people with rheumatic diseases.

Ed Behrens, MD
Chair
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Nunzio Bottini, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Scott Canna, MD
Penn Institute for Immunology

Maria Danila, MD, MSPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jason Kolfenbach, MD
University of Colorado

Katherine Liao, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Bethany Marston, MD
University of Rochester

Kaleb Michaud, PhD, COR Rep
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Susan Murphy, OT, ScD
University of Michigan

Miriam Shelef, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin

Jeffrey Sparks, MD, MMSc
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Vivian Stone, MD
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health

Elizabeth Wellsandt, PT, DPT, PhD
University of Nebraska

Arissa Young, MD
UCLA

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

V. Michael Holers, MD, Chair, Immediate Past President Liana Fraenkel, MD, MPH, President Bryce Binstadt, MD, PhD, Vice President Stacy Ardoin, MD Alicia Hinze, MD, MHS Emily Isaacs, MD Jon Giles, MD Betsy McKelvey Stuart Kassan, MD Barbara Slusher, MSW, PA-C, ARP Representative

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PAST PRESIDENTS

Arthur Weaver, MD (1991-1993) Ronald Kaufman, MD, MBA (1993-1995) Daniel Wallace, MD (1995-1999) Stanley Cohen, MD (1999-2001) Joseph Golbus, MD (2001-2003) Michael Weisman, MD (2003-2005) James O’Dell, MD (2005-2007) Leslie Crofford, MD (2007-2009)

E. William St.Clair, MD (2009-2011) David Daikh, MD, PhD (2011-2013) David Karp, MD, PhD (2013-2015) Eric Matteson, MD (2015-2017) Abby G. Abelson, MD (2017-2019) S. Louis Bridges, Jr., MD, PhD (2019-2021) V. Michael Holers, MD (2021-2023)

 

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Peer Reviewers

The following list includes the peer reviewers that served over the last 3 years. The peer reviewers are charged with rigorously reviewing all applications for awards and grants to ensure the proposals adhere to specific criteria and are of a high quality.

RECRUITMENT AWARDS

Lawren H. Daltroy in Health Communication Patricia (Patti) Katz, PhD Daniel K. White, PT, ScD, MSc Janet Poole, PhD, OTR/L Mark Law, PhD Mentored Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant for Workforce Expansion Janet L. Bahr, NP LaurieAnn Hughell, MPH, PA-C Sara Kellahan, NP Laura Sampson, PA-C Erin Siceloff, PA-C Brit Donaldson, PA-C Hazel L. Breland, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Anna Richmond, APRN, DNP, MSN Daniel K. White, PT, ScD, MSc Resident Research Preceptorship Kevin Deane, MD, PhD Amanda Nelson, MD, MSCR, RhMSUS Linda Li, PT, PhD Aileen Davis, PhD, M.Sc., B.Sc. (P.T.) Jawad Bilal, MD Angeles Lopez, Olivo, MD, PhD Richard Bucala, MD, PhD Felipe Andrade, MD, PhD S. Reza Jafarzadeh, DVM, MPVM, PhD Evelyn Hsieh, MD, PhD Joshua F. Baker, MD, MSCE Zachary S. Wallace, MD

Rheumatology Future Physician Scientist Award Miriam Shelef, MD, PhD Julia F. Charles, MD, PhD Bryant England, MD, PhD David Fernandez, MD, PhD Monic Guma, MD, PhD Kevin S. Wei, MD, PhD Vanessa L. Malcarne, PhD Brian Skaug, MD, PhD Anna Helena Jonsson, MD, PhD Paul Hoover, MD, PhD Daniel Solomon, MD, PhD Lindsey A. MacFarlane, MD, MPH Lisa Mandl, MD, PhD Alan M. Rathbun, PhD, MPH Colleen Correll, MD, MPH

EDUCATION AND TRAINING AWARDS

Andy Abril, MD Juliet Aizer, MD, MPH Amanda Alexander, MD, RhMSUS Marissa Blum, MD Floranne Ernste, MD Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD Kristen Hayward, MD Jennifer Huggins, MD Rumey C. Ishizawar, MD, PhD Eugene Kissin, MD Kichul Ko, MD

Jason R. Kolfenbach, MD Fotios Koumpouras, MD David Leverenz, MD Justin Levinson, MD, MBA Tiffany Lin, MD Jay Mehta, MD, MS Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD Kelly Rouster-Stevens, MD, MS Phillip Seo, MD Hemalatha Srinivasalu, MD Dawn Wahezi, MD, MS, RhMSUS

CAREER DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AWARDS

Bridge Funding Awards Felipe Andrade, MD, PhD David Bradley, PhD Benjamin Chong, MD Cong-Qui Chu, MD, PhD Cecilia Chung, MD, MPH Melissa Cunningham, MD, PhD Candace Feldman, MD, MPH, ScD Xu Feng, PhD Christine Pham, MD Deepak Rao, MD, PhD Career Development Research, Basic Science Eric Allenspach, MD, PhD Ashira Blazer, MD Margaret Chang, MD, PhD Carla M. Cuda, PhD Anna Helena Jonsson, MD, PhD Jennifer King, MD, PhD Pui Lee, MD, PhD Scott Lieberman, MD, PhD Christian Lood, MSc, PhD Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD Michael Paley, MD, PhD Grant Schulert, MD, PhD Lin Shen, MD, PhD Hong Shi, MD Jessica Turnier, MD, MS Michael Waterfield, MD, PhD Julie Zikherman, MD

Career Development Research, Clinical Sciences Sheila Angeles-Han, MD, MSc James Andrew, MD Bryant England, MD, PhD Tracy Frech, MD, MSCI Michael George, MD Sabrina Gmuca, MD, MSCE Lauren Henderson, MD, MMSc Aimee Hersh, MD Mariko Ishimori, MD Deepak Kumar, PT, PhD Christopher A. Mecoli, MD, MHS Susan Murphy, ScD, OTR Uyen-Sa D. T. Nguyen, DSc, MPH Alan Rathbun, PhD, MPH Rennie Rhee, MD, MS Ami Shah, MD, MHS Jeffrey Sparks, MD, MMSc Louise Thoma, DPT, PhD Beth Wallace, MD, MSc Katherine Wysham, MD Jared Younger, PhD Yongdong Zhao, MD, PhD

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS

Innovative Research Awards, Basic Science Tom Appleton, MD, PhD Ru Bryan, PhD Keith Elkon, MB, BCh Polly Ferguson, MD Tanya Freedman, PhD Matlock Jeffries, MD Trine Jorgensen, PhD Insoo Kang, MD Susan MacLauchlan, PhD David Markovitz, MD Mandy McGeachy, MD Evan Nair-Gill, MD, PhD Johannes Nowatzky, MD Andras Perl, MD, PhD Richard M. Pope, MD Anne Satterthwaite, MD Henri Tiedge, PhD Shouan Zhu, PhD Innovative Research Awards, Clinical Felipe Andrade, MD Joshua F. Baker, MD Nancy Baker, MPH, OT, ScD Vinod Chandran, MBBS, MD, DM, PhD, FRCPC Christina Charles-Schoeman, MD Kristen Demoruelle, MD, PhD Robyn Domsic, MD, MPH David Felson, MD Jon Giles, MD, MPH C. Kent Kwoh, MD Nancy Lane, MD Yvonne Lee, MD, MMSc Timothy McAlindon, MD, MPHD Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, PhD, PT Sangeeta Sule, MD, PhD Matthew Stoll, MD, PhD, MSCS Zachary Wallace, MD, MSc Pamela F. Weiss, MD, MSCE Yee Ling Wu, PhD

Innovative Research Awards, Health Services Research Kelli Allen, PhD Megan Clowse, MD Yvonne M. Golightly, PhD, MS, PT Betty Hsiao, MD Una Makris, MD Gopika Miller, MD Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH Ernest Vina, MD Daniel White, PT, ScD, MSc Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH   Community Practice Innovation Award Herbert S. Baraf, MD Stuart S. Kassan, MD Elizabeth Perkins, MD

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