Robert Wortmann Named Master of American College of Rheumatology
ATLANTA – Robert L. Wortmann, MD; professor of medicine of the section of rheumatology at The Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center , 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. Wortmann graduated from The University of Kansas School of Medicine. His internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan was interrupted by two years in the United States Army Medical Corp, serving at the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea and Fort Carson, Colorado. After completing his medicine training, he served as the first chief resident for William N. Kelley, MD. This was followed by a rheumatology fellowship in the Rackham Arthritis Unit at the University of Michigan, where he did research in purine biochemistry in the laboratory of Irving H. Fox, MD. He has had faculty positions at The Medical College of Wisconsin, East Carolina University School of Medicine, and The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine-Tulsa, serving as chairman of medicine at the latter two institutions.
Dr. Wortmann has been an active member of the ACR for 22 years and has been instrumental in planning national meetings including 15 years of service to the Winter Rheumatology Symposium. He also volunteered with other organizations and served on local Arthritis Foundation Chapters in three states and the national Medical Advisory Board for The Myositis Association. Dr. Wortmann is married to pediatric rheumatologist Dorothy W. Wortmann, MD, his medical school biochemistry lab partner.
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.
