Faculty
Course Directors
Cassandra Calabrese, DO
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
M. Elaine Husni, MD, MPH
Director, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Treatment Center
Vice Chair of Rheumatology
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Planning Committee
Elizabeth Kirchner, DNP
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Debra Kangisser, PA-C
Clinical Affairs, PA Services
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Guest Faculty
Lianne Gensler, MD
Director, UCSF Ankylosing Spondylitis Clinic
UCSF Health
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
R. John Looney, MD
Professor of Medicine
Stephen I. Rosenfeld Professor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Puja Mehta, MD
Clinical Research Training Fellow in Respiratory Medicine, UCL Respiratory
Center for Inflammation and Tissue Repair
University College London
London, UK
William Rigby, MD
Vice-Chair, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH
Gregg Silverman, MD
Associate Director, Division of Rheumatology
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc
Director, Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Adam Brown, MD
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Emily Littlejohn, DO, MPH
Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Amanda Shallcross, ND, MPH
Department of Preventative Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Community Care
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH