Gary Hoffman Receives American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award
ATLANTA – Gary S. Hoffman, MD, MS; Harold C. Schott Professor of Medicine at the department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases at the Cleveland Clinic, and a professor of medicine Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, received the Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology during the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting, November 6 – 11 in Atlanta.
The Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award, formerly known as the Clinical Research Award, is given to a clinical scientist making outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology.
Dr. Hoffman received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and pursued advanced training in medicine and rheumatology at Dartmouth Medical School-Mary Hitchcock Clinic. In being first a clinician, patient experiences steered his research in many unrelated directions, including calcium oxalate arthropathy in ESRD, inflammatory muscle disease, arachnoiditis and lupus. After 13 years in general rheumatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, the Army and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, he joined the Vasculitis and Related Diseases Section at the National Institutes of Health and led vasculitis care and research , run by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, (1987–1992). He became the head of that section and has since focused on vasculitis care and research. In 1992, he also chaired the department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases (1992–2008) at the Cleveland Clinic, where he is the Harold C. Schott Chair. He is the founder of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Vasculitis Care and Research and is also the founder and past chairman of the International Network for the Study of the Systemic Vasculitides. He has led investigations of new therapies for vasculitis and coordinated INSSYS based multi-center studies of diagnostic laboratory and imaging tools to assess vasculitis disease activity. His major current interest is related to factors that may be involved in determining organ vulnerability and selective targeting
Previous ACR service includes being a member and chair of abstract selection committees, member and chair of the Committee on Journal Publications, member of the Committee on Nominations and Appointments and member of the board of directors. In 2009, he was also named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology.
The American College of Rheumatology is an international professional medical society that represents more than 8,000 rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals around the world. Its mission is to advance rheumatology. The ACR/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting is the premier meeting in rheumatology. For more information about the meeting, visit www.rheumatology.org/education. Follow the meeting on twitter by using the official hashtag: #ACR2010.
