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LINDSLEY RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FROM AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY

ATLANTA – Carol B. Lindsley, MD, professor of pediatrics, chief of pediatric rheumatology, and director of the Mid-America Pediatric Arthritis Program at the department of pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City was honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Rheumatology during the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting, October 16 – 21 in Philadelphia, Pa.

The Distinguished Service Award is given to an ACR member for outstanding and sustained service to the ACR. 

Dr. Carol B. Lindsley received her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Wash. She completed her internship and residency at the University of Washington Hospitals and Seattle Children’s Hospital (then Children’s Orthopedic Hospital). It was during her residency that Dr. Lindsley developed her interest in pediatric rheumatology under the mentorship of Jane G. Schaller, MD. She did her fellowship in rheumatology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (Oliver J. Lawless, MD, director) while her husband served in the U.S. Army.

Dr. Lindsley then accepted a faculty position at the University of Kansas as chief of pediatric rheumatology where she developed a statewide childhood arthritis program. She has been director of the pediatric residency program, the pediatric rheumatology fellowship program, and served as chair of the department of pediatrics for almost ten years. Her research interests include pediatric rheumatic disease – especially systemic juvenile arthritis, uveitis and inflammatory myositis, as well as medical education and child health advocacy. She has served on several editorial boards, the Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Board and review committees for the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

Dr. Lindsley has been a member of the board of directors of the American College of Rheumatology, chair of the Pediatric Section, a member of the Finance and Professional Meetings Committees and was elected a Master in 2006. She served as board liaison to the ARHP board of directors and has received their STAR Award. She was a member of the first sub board of pediatric rheumatology of the American Board of Pediatrics and is currently on the board of directors of the American Board of Pediatrics. She has been an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, both her state chapter and the pediatric rheumatology section and executive committee. She received the Cassidy Award (teaching, patient care and training in pediatric rheumatology) from the AAP. She has been elected to the American Pediatric Society and is past chair of the ACGME Pediatrics Residency Review Committee. She is past chair of the Juvenile Arthritis Alliance of the Arthritis Foundation.  She is married to Herbert B. Lindsley, MD and they have two sons.

The ACR is an organization of and for physicians, health professionals, and scientists that advances rheumatology through programs of education, research, advocacy and practice support that foster excellence in the care of people with or at risk for arthritis and rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

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