Biographical Sketch:
Sixty-Eighth President of the ACR
Elizabeth Tindall, MD, Director of Rheumatology and Clinical Research
at Portland Medical Associates, and Clinical Professor of Medicine
in the Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at Oregon Health
Sciences University in Portland, was named president of the American
College of Rheumatology during the ACR's annual business meeting held
Oct. 20 in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Tindall is also an active affiliate of Adventist Medical Center
and Providence St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, and Legacy Meridian
Park Hospital in Tualatin, Oregon.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Tindall
received her MD from Indiana University Medical School. She graduated
Sigma Phi Alpha and Alpha Omega Alpha from Indiana University Medical
School, and remained at Indiana University to do her internship in
internal medicine. She performed her residency in internal medicine
at Providence Medical Center in Portland, and her fellowship in allergy,
immunology, and rheumatology at Oregon Health Sciences University.
Dr. Tindall has been an active volunteer and a leader in the American
College of Rheumatology in many capacities. She served on the Board
of Directors in 1993---1997 and again from 1999 to the present. She
was the ACR's representative to the American Medical Association's
CPT Specialty Advisory Committee in 1993---1997, the Ad Hoc Ethics
Committee in 1996---2000, and the Finance Committee in 1997---2002.
She was a member of the Committee on Rheumatologic Care in 1991---1992.
Dr. Tindall chaired the Pacific Northwest Region of the Committee on
Rheumatologic Care in 1997---2000, the ACR Quality Indicators Committee
in 2003---2004, and the Planning Committee in 2004. In 1999---2002,
she was the Chair of the Finance Committee, and Secretary-Treasurer
of both the ACR and the ACR Research and Education Foundation. She
was elected Vice-President of the ACR, and she became President-Elect
in 2003.
A member of the Oregon Council of the American Society of Internal
Medicine, Dr. Tindall has also participated in the Oregon Medicare
Advisory Committee. She has served on the Board of Directors for the
Oregon Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, the Oregon Quality Corporation
of the Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers, and the Oregon Rheumatology
Alliance. She was the Secretary of the Oregon Rheumatology Alliance
in 2000---2003. Dr. Tindall is also on the Medical Advisory Board of
the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America.
Dr. Tindall's many honors include the American College of Rheumatology
Paulding Phelps Award in 1992, and the American Women's Association
Scholastic Achievement award. She has been featured in Best Doctors
in America from 1992 to 2004.
Dr. Tindall resides in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Dr. Charles
L. Colip. They have two children, Leslie Ann and Charles.
