ACR REF Physician Scientist Development Award

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2009 Award Recipients

Jennifer Lynn Barton, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Patient-Physician Discordance in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Etiology and Outcomes in an Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Cohort

Sonali P. Desai, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Digital Radiogrammetry as a Tool to Predict Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Robyn T. Domsic, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Markers of Endothelial Activation in Scleroderma: Evaluating the Association with Disease Phase and Clinical-Serologic Subsets

Aimee O. Hersh, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Centocor Recipient
Long Term Outcomes of Pediatric Lupus

Tamiko Katsumoto, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Centocor Recipient
Role of receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatases CD45 and CD148 in Fc receptor and growth factor signaling in mast cells

Jennifer K. King, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Promoting Tolerogenic Dendritic Cell Migration In Vivo As A Potential For Autoimmune Vaccine Therapy

Jay Mehta, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Antiplatelet drugs and atherogenesis in high-risk mice

Julia J. Rhiannon, MD
University of Colorado Denver
CD8+ Clonal Expansions in Autoimmune Disease

Ornella J. Rullo, MD
University of California
Risk Haplotypes Leading to Activation of the IFN-α Pathway in Pediatric SLE Patients and Unaffected Siblings

Antoine G. Sreih, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
MIF gene polymorphism and protein levels in patients with vasculitis

Barton Lahn Wise, MD
University of California, Davis
Physical activities and pain fluctuations in osteoarthritis

2008 Award Recipients

Alvina D. Chu, MD
Stanford University
Toll-like receptor and interferon signaling in SLE

Sharon A. Chung, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Comprehensive analysis of the MHC contribution to autoantibody production in SLE

Alison M. Gizinski, MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Linking smoking and rheumatoid arthritis: Effects of smoking on peptidylarginine deiminase activity and development of citrullinated antigens

Timothy B. Niewold, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
Interferon alpha expression in lupus families

Jane L. Park, MD
Stanford University Medical Center
Diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Victoria K. Shanmugam, MBBS, MRCFC
Lower extremity ulcers in connective tissue disease: Hypercoagulability and response to low molecular weight heparin

Tracey B. Wright, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Michael R. York, MD
Boston University Medical Center
The role of anti-centromere antibodies in stimulation of toll-like receptor 9 in systemic sclerosis

2007 Award Recipients

R. Krishna Chaganti, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical and Serologic Markers Associated with Periprosthetic Ostelysis in Hip Revision Patients

Mehrnaz Hojjati, MD
Yale University
Analysis of Calprotectic Release, a Multipotent Mediator of Inflammation

Kent K. Huston, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Center
Proteolytic Cleavage of Fibrillin - 1 Promotes Tissue Fibrosis in Scleroderma

Diane L. Kamen, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
The Role of Vitamin D in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Dipali Kapoor, MD, MPH
Northwestern University
Cartilage Deformation in Persons With and Without Knee OA

Nancy D. Kim, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
The Role of Neutrophil BLT1 Receptor in an Autoantibody-induced Model of Inflammatory Arthritis

Fotios Koumpouras, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
The Role of IL-15 in Inflammatory Arthritis

Jason Jungsik Song, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Epitope Spreading to Native and Citrullinated Proteins in Rheumatoid Arthritis

2006 Award Recipients

Stacy P. Ardoin, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Neuropsychiatric Manifestations in Pediatric Lupus Cognitive Function

Peter J. Kim, MD
Brigham & Womens Hospital
The Role of ETS Proteins in the T Helper Immune Response

Kristine M. Rea, MD
University of Michigan
The Role of Dendritic Cell-T Cell Interactions in the Pathogenesis of Lupus

Jonathan Samuels, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
Autoimmunity Via Loss of B Cell Tolerance in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Pendleton B. Wickersham, MD
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
The Alternative Pathway of Complement in Collagen-Induced Arthritis

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH
University of California--San Francisco
Quality of Care for Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

2005 Award Recipients

Seetha U. Monrad, MD
University of Michigan
The Role of Microsomal Prostaglandin E Synthase-1 (mPGES-1) and mPGES-1-derived Prostaglandin E2 in Shaping the Immune Response and Regulating Autoimmunity

Elisa Y. Rhew. MD
Northwestern University
Vascular and Bone Complications in Women with SLE

Abigail R. Smuckler, MD
University of Michigan
Modulation of Apoptosis in Articular Chondrocytes

Theresa Kathleen Tarrant, MD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
G Protein-Coupled Receptor Regulatory Mechanisms in Arthritis

Sou-Pan Wu, MD
Yale University
Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy: An Investigation of Disease Features and Pathophysiology