Division News

E. William St. Clair, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, was one of nine School of Medicine faculty members awarded a distinguished professorship by Duke University last week. St. Clair now is the W.

Sixteen faculty and fellows participated in Duke's inaugural two-day Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology Training Course in April. This Duke CME accredited event, chaired by Robert Keenan, MD, MPH, and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, both assistant professors of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, included lectures and hands-on demonstrations by guest faculty Alvin F.

The joint Pediatric and Medicine Fellows’ Research and Career Development Conference will be held today, Tuesday, Dec.

Fellows and faculty across the Department of Medicine are using their blogs this week to report from national meetings and share readings from divisional journal clubs:

• The Duke Cardiology Fellows blog has reports from the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco (and see tweets at @dukeheartfellow)
• The Duke Rheumatology Fellows blog has r

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David Pisetsky, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Rheumatology), recently learned that the Division of Rheumatology T32 training program has been successfully renewed. "We want to thank you for all of your support and the opportunity to create a unique training program that combines adult and pediatric rheumatology," Pisetsky wrote in an email.

Virginia Kraus, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Rheumatology), was recently awarded an Arthritis Foundation Mid-Atlantic Region Grant for "Early Identification of Osteoarthritis Risk After Joint Injury." This is a two-year award for $50,000 each year, subject to annual renewal.  

Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine, announced the appointment of E. William St.

The amount of uric acid in one's joints may increase the likelihood of severe osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis worldwide, according to Kraus and her collaborators. The researchers looked at 159 people, who had knee osteoarthritis but no history of gout, a type of arthritis triggered by uric acid crystals in the joints.