Faculty
Activity Directors
Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute
Cleveland Clinic
M. Elaine Husni, MD, MPH
Director, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Treatment Center
Vice Chair, Rheumatology
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cassandra Calabrese, DO
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Planning Committee
Elizabeth (Betsy) Kirchner, DNP
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Additional Planner
Debra Kangisser, PA-C
Guest Faculty
Rohit Aggarwal, MD, MS
Medical Director, Arthritis and Autoimmunity Center
Professor of Medicine
Co-director, UPMC Myositis Center
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Jack Cush, MD
Executive Editor, RheumNow.com
Noha Abdelwahab Hassan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Section of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Department of General Internal Medicine
Division of Internal Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Maximilian F. Konig, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Cellular Therapy Program (Autoimmunity)
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Michelle Petri, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Michael Putman, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Vasculitis Program
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Deepak Rao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Cellular Profiling
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Christopher Ritchlin, MD, MPH
Director, Clinical Immunology Research Unit
University of Rochester Medicine
Rochester, NY
William Robinson, MD, PhD
Raitt Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Adam Brown, MD
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute
Anthony Fernandez, MD, PhD
Director, Medical and Inpatient Dermatology
Department of Dermatology
Medical Specialty Institute
Emily Littlejohn, DO, MPH
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
Medical Specialty Institute