Co-Activity Directors

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
Vice Chairman
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair in Clinical Immunology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Nizar N. Zein, MD
Director of Clinical Hepatology
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Digestive Disease Center
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Planning Committee

Ed Keystone, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Director, Rebecca MacDonald Center for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease
Director, Division of Advanced Therapeutics in Arthritis
Consultant, Rheumatology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Christopher T. Ritchlin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Unit
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York

E. William St. Clair, MD
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Faculty

Jean-Paul Achkar, MD
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Aaron A. Brzezinski, MD
Staff Physician
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Charles Camisa, MD
Head of Clinical Dermatology
Vice Chair, Department of Dermatology
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Naples, Florida

Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD
Director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program
Edward J. & Louise E. Mellen Center for
Multiple Sclerosis Research and Treatment
Department of Neurology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Daniel Culver, DO
Director of Community Outreach at the
Sarcoidosis Center of Excellence
Clinical Associate
Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

John J. Cush, MD
Chief, Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Clinical Professor of Medicine
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas

Claudio Fiocchi, MD
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Division of Gastroenterology
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

JoAnne L. Flynn, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Department of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

David A. Fox, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Chief, Division of Rheumatology
Director, Multipurpose Arthritis &
Musculoskeletal Diseases Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steven M. Gordon, MD
Chairman, Department of Infectious Diseases
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Gary S. Hoffman, MD
Chairman, Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Professor and Harold C. Schott Chairman,
Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Neil J. Korman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Steven P. LaRosa, MD
Director, Clinical Coordinating Center
Division of Infectious Disease
Rhode Island Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brown Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island

Bret A. Lashner, MD
Director for the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Peter E. Lipsky, MD
Chief, Autoimmunity Branch
National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Disease
Bethesda, Maryland

Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
Vice Chairman of Medicine for Education
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Jonelle K. McDonnell, MD
Associate Staff
Section of Clinical Dermatology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Iain B. McInnes, FRCP, PhD
Professor of Experimental Medicine
University of Glasgow
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Steven A. Porcelli, MD
Murray and Evelyne Weinstock Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor, Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York

William F.C. Rigby, MD
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology
Dartmouth Medical School
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Mary Jane Thomassen, PhD
Director, Cytokine Biology Laboratory
Department of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Cornelia M. Weyand, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Lowance Center for Human Immunology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

James B. Young, MD
Chairman, Division of Medicine
Professor & Chairman
Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio