Activity Director
Leonard Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Vice Chairman
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Marc D. Cohen, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, at National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado. Dr. Cohen’s primary interests are rheumatoid arthritis and systemic vasculitis; he is committed to supporting investigations and teaching endeavors that achieve the highest level of quality in medical research and education.

Dr. Cohen is a fellow of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Association and of the American College of Physicians.  At the Mayo Clinic, he was named “Teacher of the Year” for eleven consecutive years, and is a recipient of the Mayo Clinic’s Distinguished Educator award. He is the first physician to be included in the Teacher of the Year Hall of Fame at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was a member of the medical staff  for 22 years.  Dr. Cohen has been a lecturer and presenter at meetings and symposia around the world, and is the author of over 60 articles in prestigious journals including Arthritis and Rheumatism, of which he has been advisory editor. Dr. Cohen is an ad hoc reviewer for many medical journals and the author of numerous book chapters and medical education tapes on rheumatology.

Dr. Cohen received his medical degree at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC; completed an internship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; and was a resident in internal medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a fellow in rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, FACP, FCLM, received his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, his medical degree from Weill Medical College of Cornell University and his law degree from Fordham University. He completed his internship in Pathology, followed by a residency in Medicine at New York Hospital. Dr. Gibofsky completed a fellowship in Rheumatology/Immunology jointly at the Hospital for Special Surgery at The Rockefeller University. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers and text chapters, primarily on the immunogenetics of rheumatic diseases and legal aspects of medical practice. Dr. Gibofsky is known for his work on mechanisms of host-microbe interactions in rheumatology, and, in particular for his basic and clinical studies on rheumatic fever.

Dr. Gibofsky is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Professor of Law at Fordham University and Adjunct Faculty at the Rockefeller University. He is an Attending Physician and Rheumatologist at both Hospital for Special Surgery and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Immediate Past President of the American College of Rheumatology and Secretary-Treasurer of The New York Rheumatism Association, Dr. Gibofsky is past-Chair of the Medical & Scientific Committee of the New York Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation and received its Physicians' Leadership Award in 1999. He also served as a member of the local and national Arthritis Foundation Board of Trustees, and was Chair for Professional Education. Dr. Gibofsky has participated in numerous professional and public education programs, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Gibofsky's civic activities include membership on the Brooklyn College Foundation Board of Trustees. He is a Jonas Salk Scholar of the City University and in 1997, was named Alumnus of the Year by Brooklyn College. Dr. Gibofsky is a member of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. He is also a past president of the American College of Legal Medicine, and is the current Chair of the American Board of Legal Medicine.

M. Elaine Husni, MD, MPH, is Vice Chair of Rheumatology and Director, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Center. She is a Staff Physician in the Orthopedic and Rheumatologic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Husni is also an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Husni joined the Clinic in 2005 following a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital. She completed her internship and residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and she trained in Rheumatology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Husni received her MD and MPH degrees at Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Husni's research interests include examining health outcomes of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, specifically in the area of cardiovascular disease. She is the current recipient of the Clinical Investigator Award by the American College of Rheumatology for this work. She is involved in a number of rheumatology clinical trials at Cleveland Clinic and serves on the Executive Committee of the PRECISION trial.

She also has a research focus on orthopedic outcomes with a specific research interest in the use of clinical pathways in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty. She is a past recipient of the Physician Scientist Development Award by the American College of Rheumatology for this research. She is currently Director of Musculoskeletal Outcomes research and the fellow's research committee for the Rheumatology Department. She is currently on the medical and scientific committee for the Arthritis Foundation of the Northeastern Ohio Chapter. Dr. Husni has had the opportunity to mentor both rheumatology and orthopedic research trainees and this has been one of her most rewarding experiences.

Eric L. Matteson, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine; Consultant in and Chairman of the Mayo Clinic Division of Rheumatology; and Consultant in the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Matteson is a practicing clinician and is engaged in clinical trials, studying the immunopathogenetics of rheumatoid arthritis and vasculitis; he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, most of them on these subjects. He has been Associate Editor of Arthritis Care and Rheumatism, is Associate Editor of Arthritis Research and Therapy, and is an editorial board member of several other scientific journals. He is a member of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Guidelines 2010 Update Task Force Panel of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR); a member of the Technical Expert Panel of the ACR Quality of Care Committee; and Chairman of the ACR Marketing and Communications Committee. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Matteson is a member of the Clinical Research Training Program Committee and head of the safety and compliance component of the Center for Translational Sciences Activities.  Dr. Matteson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, and his medical degree from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany; he was a resident in internal medicine at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, and a rheumatology fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; he received a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Anthony Reginato, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, and Director of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island. His research focuses on cartilage biology, crystal diseases, and the application of musculoskeletal ultrasound to rheumatic diseases, and on diagnostic imaging of early rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. Dr. Reginato is a member of the American College of Rheumatology Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Task Force; he is also a member of the Ultrasound Study Group of the Pan American League of Associations of Rheumatology (PANLAR), which  developed guidelines for a musculoskeletal ultrasound course and is currently developing scanning guidelines for various rheumatic diseases. Dr. Reginato received his medical degree and a PhD in anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; he trained in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, and was a rheumatology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.