Dr. Hochberg was also the first senior ACR participant in the ACR/EULAR exchange program and enjoys active research and publishing collaborations with many other European rheumatologists (such as textbooks he co-edited with Alan Silman, MD, and Josef Smolen, MD) based on the relationships he established at that time. (To hear Dr. Hochberg’s reflections on the importance of collaborations with European researchers, visit http://www.the-rheumatologist.org.)
Dr. Hochberg reports that he finds great satisfaction in all domains of his current activities: epidemiological research focusing on OA and recovery from hip fracture, mentoring and training research fellows, and editing Rheumatology, 6th edition (to be published in June) and Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. In the current funding environment, he sees challenges for academic institutions who wish to recruit and retain talented young faculty as physician-scientists. And in the face of healthcare reforms, such as the Affordable Care Act, it will become even more important, he believes, for rheumatologists to train their primary care colleagues to manage the more common rheumatic diseases—especially gout and OA—so that rheumatologists can concentrate on the patients with more difficult-to-control conditions, especially RA, other systemic inflammatory arthritidies and immune-mediated connective tissue diseases. With the depth of knowledge from epidemiologic research he’s pioneered, those practitioners will have the tools to carry out that charge.
Listen to excerpts of our interview with Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MPH.
Gretchen Henkel writes the Metrics in Rheumatology series.
Partial Bibliography
- Silman AJ, Hochberg MC. Epidemiology of Rheumatic Diseases. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Hochberg MC, Thomas J, Thomas DJ, et al. Racial differences in the incidence of gout: The role of hypertension. Arthritis Rheum. 1995;38:628–632.
- Hochberg MC, Altman RD, Brandt KD, et al. Guidelines for the medical management of osteoarthritis: I. Osteoarthritis of the hip. Arthritis Rheum. 1995;38:1535–1540.
- Hochberg MC, Altman RD, Brandt KD, et al. Guidelines for the medical management of osteoarthritis: II. Osteoarthritis of the knee. Arthritis Rheum. 1995;38:1541–1546.
- Berman BM, Lao L, Langenberg P, et al. Effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee: A randomized controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:901–910.
- Moskowitz RW, Altman RD, Buckwalter JA, Goldberg VM, Hochberg MC, eds. Osteoarthritis: Medical and Surgical Management, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
- Kraus VB, Jordan JM, Doherty M, et al. The Genetics of Generalized Osteoarthritis (GOGO) study: Study design and evaluation of osteoarthritis phenotypes. Osteoarthritis Cart. 2007;15:120–127.
- Hochberg MC, Silman AJ, Smolen J, et al, eds. Rheumatology, 5th edition. Philadelphia: Mosby (Elsevier), 2011.
