AARDA Scientific Advisory Board Members

Betty Diamond, M. D. - Chair, Scientific Advisory Board
Center Head
Department of Autoimmune Diseases
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
North Shore-LIJ Health System
Manhasset, NY, U.S.A.

Noel R. Rose, M.D., Ph.D. - Chairman Emeritus
Professor of Pathology and of
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Center for Autoimmune Disease Research
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

Frank C. Arnett, Jr., M.D.
Retired
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology
Houston, TX , U.S.A.

Jean-François Bach, M.D., D.Sc.
Professor of Immunology
Head, Clinical Immunology Unit and
Immunology Research Laboratories
Hôpital Necker
Paris, France

Nicholas Chiorazzi, M.D.
Investigator
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Professor of Medicine and of Cell Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Manhasset, NY, U.S.A.

Joseph E. Craft, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology
Chief, Section of Rheumatology
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Maurizio Cutolo, M.D.
Professor of Rheumatology
Director for Laboratory Research
and Division of Rheumatology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Genova
Genova, Italy

Luis A. Diaz, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Dermatology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.

Robert A. Eisenberg, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

M. Eric Gershwin, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
The Jack and Donald Chia Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Rheumatology,
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
School of Medicine
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, U.S.A.

Bevra H. Hahn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Chief of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA , U.S.A.

Eon Nigel Harris, M.Phil, M.D., D.M.
Vice Chancellor
The University of the West Indies
Office of the Vice Chancellor
Vice Chancellery
Jamaica, West Indies

Steven A. Krilis, Ph.D.
Head
Department of Immunology, Allergy and Infectious Disease
The St. George Hospital
Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia

Parviz Lalezari, M.D.
Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine and Pathology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
President
The Biomedical Research Institute
Scarsdale, NY, U.S.A.

Ian Reay Mackay, A.M., M.D., F.A.A.
Professor (Honorary)
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Founding Dean
School of Public Health
Hunter College
New York, NY, U.S.A.

Michelle Petri, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine
Division of Molecular and Clinical Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.

Robert Phillips, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Coping
Long Island, NY, U.S.A.

Yehuda Shoenfeld, M.D.
Head: Department of Medicine 'B' and
Center for Autoimmune Diseases
Chaim Sheba Medical Center
(Affiliated to Tel-Aviv University)
Incumbent of the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair
for Research of Autoimmune Diseases
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Yaron Tomer, M.D.
Vice Chair of Research
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease
Director, Metabolism Institute
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, U.S.A.

Hartmut Wekerle M.D.
Professor; Director
Department of Neuroimmunology
Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie
Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

Caroline Whitacre, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Virology,
Immunology and Medical Genetics
Director, School of Biomedical Science
Associate Vice President for Health Science Research
Vice Dean for Research
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH , U.S.A.