Stephen Paget Named Master of American College of Rheumatology
ATLANTA – Stephen A. Paget, MD; professor of medicine and physician-in-chief emeritus of the division of rheumatology, department of medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery 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. Paget currently serves as the physician-in-chief emeritus at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has held several rheumatology positions including physician-in-chief and chairman of the division of rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery and professor of medicine and rheumatic disease at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. As chairman at the Hospital for Special Surgery, he developed and ran a world-class rheumatology division of 46 physicians, scientists and clinician-scholar educators who were focused on clinical, perioperative and consultative care throughout HSS and the York Avenue institutions, basic, translational and clinical and drug trials research and musculoskeletal education to medical students, residents and fellows.
He is currently a member of the board of directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the co-chair of the rheumatology subspecialty board. He has been a member of the board of directors of the ACR Research and Education Foundation and the chair of the ACR Development Advisory Council. He continues to be a member of the board of trustees of the New York Arthritis Foundation.
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.
