Gary S. Firestein, MD
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute
UC San Diego Health Sciences
Chair of the Executive Committee, UC BRAID (Biomedical Research, Acceleration, Integration & Development) Consortium
For Scholarly Journals
Editor-in-Chief, Kelley Textbook of Rheumatology
Advisory Positions
Board of Directors, Veterans Medical Research Foundation
Advisory Council, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Chair, American College of Rheumatology Committee on Journal Publications
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Honors and Awards
1996 Elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
1998 Carol-Nachman Prize for Rheumatology
2000 Ruitinga van Swieten Visiting Professor, University of Amsterdam
2002 Elected to Association of American Physicians
2002 Visiting Professor, and Physician-in-Chief Pro-Tempore, Hospital for Special
Surgery, New York
2003 Visiting Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
2004 Weichselbaum-Landsteiner Lecture, University of Vienna
2006 Simon Dworkin Lecture, McGill University
2006 Lee C. Howley, Sr. Prize for Arthritis Research
2007 Elected to the Henry Kunkel Society
2007 Walter Bauer Visiting Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital
2009 American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Basic Investigator Award
2009 Boland Lecture, Mayo Clinic
2010 Visiting Professor, Feinstein Institute, New York
2010 Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award, Arthritis Foundation
2012 Edward Harris, Jr Memorial Lecture, American College of Rheumatology
2012 Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award
2013 Knowles Lecture, Arthritis Foundation
2013 Arthur DeGraff Lecture, NYU
Dr. Gary Firestein
Distinguished Alumnus Award for scientific achievement from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, 2012:
Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award from the Arthritis Foundation, 2010, and
American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Investigator Award, 2009:
Mentioned in ACTRI bio.