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You are here: Home / Articles / Rheumatologist Richard M. Pope, MD, Was Honored at Northwestern University Symposium

Rheumatologist Richard M. Pope, MD, Was Honored at Northwestern University Symposium

September 8, 2016 • By Ann-Marie Lindstrom

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Not surprisingly, Dr. Pope appeared humbled by the event his successor put together. “I am honored, but undeserving,” he says. He stayed on as director of the division as long as he did because he enjoyed the work. He took satisfaction in building the program, establishing the clinical aspect of the program and hiring good people. He stepped down, because “it’s time for a younger, more invigorated person to take over,” he says.

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He went into the rheumatology field, because as a student he was interested in immunology, “and back then, rheumatology was the field associated with immunology. Nowadays, everything is.” He trained with a doctor who had trained with Dr. Henry Kunkel, the founder of applying immunology to rheumatology.

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When asked what in his philosophy led everyone to speak so highly of him as a man, he offered several possible explanations. He started with “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” before giving a more pragmatic response: “You may be on the top of the heap today, but you could be on the bottom someday.” Advice any manager or supervisor could take to heart was, “Remember, you are not in charge. You have to convince them; you can’t force them.”

He summed up his overall approach to heading up a prestigious research lab with the observation that he was surrounded by “accomplished people who could be elsewhere, so you have to create an environment they want to be in.”

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Retirement?

Dr. Pope sounds like a man who is dealing well in his new position as not the chief of the rheumatology division. He says he now he “doesn’t have to deal with as many administrative hassles.” And he gets to arrive at work an hour later these days.

Dr. Perlman says he was surprised at how quickly Dr. Pope adjusted. “The first day [after he handed over the division to Dr. Perlman], he rode his bike to work and wore a sweater. I didn’t think I’d ever see him out of a suit,” says Dr. Perlman.


Ann-Marie Lindstrom is an independent writer and editor based in the Tucson, Ariz., area.

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Recent Publications

You can get a sense of Dr. Pope’s continuing influence from this partial list of his recent publications:

  • Huang QQ, Perlman H, Birkett R, Doyle R, Fang D, Haines GK, Robinson W, Datta S, Huang Z, Li QZ, Phee H, Pope RM. CD11c-mediated deletion of Flip promotes autoreactivity and inflammatory arthritis. Nat Commun. 2015 May 12;6:7086.
  • Korman BD, Huang CC, Skamra C, Wu P, Koessler R, Yao D, Huang QQ, Pearce W, Sutton-Tyrrell K, Kondos G, Edmundowicz D, Pope R, Ramsey-Goldman R. Inflammatory expression profiles in monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and relationship with atherosclerosis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2014 Jul 10;16(4):R147.
  • Huang QQ, Birkett R, Koessler RE, Cuda CM, Haines GK 3rd, Jin JP, Perlman H, Pope RM. Fas signaling in macrophages promotes chronicity in K/BxN serum-induced arthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Jan;66(1):68–77.
  • Majka DS, Liu K, Pope RM, Karlson EW, Vu TH, Teodorescu M, Chang RW. Antiphospholipid antibodies and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) cohort. Inflamm Res. 2013 Oct;62(10):919–927.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chicago, division of rheumatology, Dr. Richard M. Pope, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, rheumatologist, rheumatology, symposiumIssue: September 2016

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