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  • Gary S. Firestein, MD

    Gary S. Firestein, MD

    Distinguished Professor of Medicine
    Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
    Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute
    UC San Diego Health Sciences

Chair of the Executive Committee, UC BRAID (Biomedical Research, Acceleration, Integration & Development) Consortium

For Scholarly Journals
Editor-in-Chief, Kelley Textbook of Rheumatology

Advisory Positions
Board of Directors, Veterans Medical Research Foundation
Advisory Council, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Chair, American College of Rheumatology Committee on Journal Publications

Honors and Awards

1996 Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation

1998 Carol-Nachman Prize for Rheumatology

2000 Ruitinga van Swieten Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam

2002 Elected to Association of American Physicians

2002 Visiting Professor, and Physician-in-Chief Pro-Tempore, Hospital for Special
Surgery, New York

2003 Visiting Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

2004 Weichselbaum-Landsteiner Lecture, University of Vienna

2006 Simon Dworkin Lecture, McGill University

2006 Lee C. Howley, Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research

2007 Elected to the Henry Kunkel Society

2007 Walter Bauer Visiting Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital

2009 American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Basic Investigator Award

2009 Boland Lecture, Mayo Clinic

2010 Visiting Professor, Feinstein Institute, New York

2010 Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award, Arthritis Foundation

2012 Edward Harris, Jr Memorial Lecture, American College of Rheumatology

2012 Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award

2013 Knowles Lecture, Arthritis Foundation

2013 Arthur DeGraff Lecture, NYU

Dr. Gary Firestein

Distinguished Alumnus Award for scientific achievement from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, 2012.

Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award from the Arthritis Foundation, 2010, and
American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Investigator Award, 2009.