Félix Fernández-Madrid Named Master of American College of Rheumatology
ATLANTA – Félix Fernández-Madrid, MD; professor of medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine 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. Fernández-Madrid obtained his medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1953 and completed internal medicine training at the University Hospital in Buenos Aires. He also spent three years as a trainee in the department of pediatric cardiology and rheumatic diseases at Children Hospital in Buenos Aires. He continued his medical career in the United States where he was granted a Howard Hughes fellowship and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in physiology and cellular and molecular biology at the University of Miami in 1966. His thesis on collagen biosynthesis on polyribosomes was one of the first accounts of collagen synthesis in the newly developing field of molecular biology. Through his research, he became deeply interested in the immunological aspects of the rheumatic diseases and in rheumatology. After leaving the faculty of the University of Miami in 1968, he joined the department of internal medicine at Wayne State University as chief of rheumatology, where he remained as professor for the next thirty years. Dr. Fernández-Madrid was a member of the American Rheumatism Association and founding fellow of the ACR. He has also served the Michigan Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, the Lupus Foundation and the Sjögren’s Foundation and he was president of the Michigan Rheumatism Society.
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.
