Nortin Hadler Named Master of American College of Rheumatology
ATLANTA – Nortin M. Hadler, MD; professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was named a Master of the American College of Rheumatology at a session of the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting, on November 7 in Atlanta.
The member designation of Master is conferred by the board of directors of the College on ACR members, age 65 or older, who have made outstanding contributions to the field of rheumatology through scholarly achievement and/or service to their patients, students and profession.
Dr. Hadler received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He also trained in rheumatology at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Stephen M. Krane, MD, the National Institutes of Health with John L. Decker, MD, and the Clinical Research Centre in London. He trained in genetics with J. Hirsch, MD, and T. Goldsmith, MD, immunochemistry with Henry Metzger, MD, and immunobiology with B. Arnason, MD, and G. Asherson, MD.
He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1973 and was promoted to professor in 1985. In addition to his position at the university, he serves as attending rheumatologist at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Medical education is a focus of his career at UNC and beyond: he has lectured widely, garnered multiple awards, and served lengthy visiting professorships in England, France, Israel and Japan. He has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Social Insurance, to fellowship in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and elevated to Mastership in the American College of Physicians.
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.
