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Richard Furie, M.D.
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Dr. Furie is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Allergy-Clinical Immunology at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. He directs the Hospital's SLE and Autoimmune Disease Treatment Center, which has become nationally recognized for its role in the development of new therapies for SLE. Regarded as one of the senior rheumatologists in the New York metropolitan area, he has been on the Boards of Directors of the local chapters of the Arthritis Foundation and the Lupus Alliance of America and is a member of the editorial board of the Lupus Foundation of America Lupus News. Dr. Furie continues to serve on many committees of the American College of Rheumatology after completing a three-year term as chair of the Annual Scientific Meeting.
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Kenneth Kalunian, M.D.
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Dr. Kalunian is a Professor in the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He serves as the Associate Director of the UCSD Center for Innovative Therapy. Dr. Kalunian completed fellowships at the Lutheran General Hospital for arthroscopic surgery and the University of California, Los Angeles for rheumatology. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers and serves on several committees, including the Collective Data Analysis Initiative for the Lupus Foundation, serving as the Chair.
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Michelle Petri M.D.
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Dr. Petri is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Hopkins Lupus Cohort, a longitudinal study of morbidity and mortality in SLE. In addition, she serves as the Co-Director of the Hopkins Lupus Pregnancy Center. Previously, she completed two fellowship programs at the University of California, San Francisco in allergy and immunology and rheumatology.
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Lee S. Simon MD, FACP, FACR
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Dr. Simon is a Rheumatologist and a Principal at SDG LLC, a consulting firm that helps companies create successful drug development programs. He also serves as a regulatory consultant to Leerink Swann/Medacorp. Previously, Dr. Simon was the Division Director of Analgesic, Anti-inflammatory and Ophthalmologic Drug Products (DAAODP) within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) of the U.S. FDA, where he was the recipient of several Quality Performance Awards, as well as a Faculty Recognition Award. Before joining the FDA, he was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Simon is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. In 2003, he was awarded the Scientific Leadership Award by the Lupus Research Institute. He has served on editorial boards of multiple journals and has authored more than 110 original publications, review articles and chapters, as well as co-edited four books.
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David Wofsy, M.D.
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Dr. Wofsy is a Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Admissions. He has served as Chief of Rheumatology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and as Director of the Department of Medicine Clinical Trials Center at UCSF. Dr. Wofsy is also a former President of the American College of Rheumatology. He is best known for his research in murine models of SLE, where he developed and tested several novel treatment strategies. Dr. Wofsy's current clinical research is devoted to testing novel biologic therapies for patients with SLE.
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