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Scientific Advisory Board
Mark C. Genovese, MD
Professor of Medicine and Co-Chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford University Medical Center
Mark C. Genovese, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Co-Chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Genovese established a clinical research program at Stanford University that is focused on bench-to-bedside translational medicine in autoimmune diseases and has designed and participated in many trials investigating novel therapies and therapeutic strategies for the treatment of autoimmune disease and arthritis. He has served as an editor for the textbook, Primary Care Rheumatology, as an associate editor for Kelley’s Essentials of Internal Medicine and as an editor on the 7th edition of Kelley’s Textbook of Rheumatology.[top]
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD
Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Director of the Center for Innovative Therapy in the UCSD Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Director of the Center for Innovative Therapy in the UCSD Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology. Dr. Kavanaugh has authored more than 240 scientific publications and book chapters. He is on the editorial board for several journals, and has served as peer reviewer for more than a dozen scientific journals. Dr Kavanaugh is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI), and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).[top]
Fernando Perez-Ruiz, MD, PhD
Assistant Head of the Rheumatology Division
Hospital de Cruces in Vizcaya, Spain
Fernando Perez-Ruiz, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Head of the Rheumatology Division at the Hospital de Cruces in Vizcaya, Spain. He received his medical degree from the Basque Country University in Bilbao, Spain, and a PhD from Barcelona University, Spain. Board-certified in Rheumatology, Dr. Perez-Ruiz is a member of the American College of Rheumatology and Spanish Society for Rheumatology and has collaborated with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Task Force for Gout and with the Outcome Measures for Rheumatic Arthritis Clinical Trials (OMERACT) group for chronic gout. He serves on the editorial boards of Arthritis Rheumatism (Care & Research), Bone Joint Spine, and Reumatologia Clinica and serves as a reviewer for more than 20 international journals. His research interests include crystal-induced arthritis, especially gout, but he has also investigated lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. Dr. Perez-Ruiz has published more than 80 articles on topics related to rheumatology, and most frequently to hyperuricemia and gout.[top]
John S. Sundy, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Head of the Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
John S. Sundy MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Head of the Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Sundy is Director of the adult allergy training program at Duke, and is Director of rheumatology research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is board certified in the fields of Rheumatology and Allergy/Immunology and is a national leader in the clinical testing of novel therapies for gout. His additional research interests include translational studies in inflammatory diseases such as asthma and allergic rhinitis.[top]
Ikumi Tamai, PhD
Professor of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan
Ikumi Tamai, PhD, is Professor of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan. His research has focused on the relevance of transporters to the efficacy and toxicity of drugs, as well as the pharmacokinetics of drugs and its application to intestinal drug delivery. Recent areas of study include transporters in the lung, uric acid transporters, drug-induced changes in uric acid transporters, species effect on transporters and drug transports related to intestinal absorption and elimination. He has published over 180 original articles mainly related to transporters. [top]