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The Amazing Volunteers Who Make Up the American College of Rheumatology Board of Directors

James R. O’Dell, MD  |  Issue: May 2012  |  May 9, 2012

Erin Arnold, MD, Wilmette, Ill.

Erin Arnold, MD, Wilmette, Ill. (2013)
Dr. Arnold is a rheumatologist in private practice at Illinois Bone & Joint Institute, a multispecialty group. Outside of her board service, she is the current ACR representative to the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria MSK Panel and was a member of the ACR Strategic Planning Committee.

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Michael Brenner, MD, Boston

Michael Brenner, MD, Boston (2012)
Dr. Brenner is chief of the division of rheumatology, immunology, and allergy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has been on the board for four years because he generously agreed to complete someone else’s term. His past volunteer activities for the ACR included the Committee on Research (COR) and the BOD of the ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF).

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Robert Colbert, MD, Bethesda, Md.

Robert Colbert, MD, Bethesda, Md. (2014)
Dr. Colbert, a pediatric rheumatologist, is chief of the pediatric translational research branch at the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases. His service includes being a COR member and chair, a seat on the REF Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), and being on the Section on Pediatric Rheumatology Executive Committee.

William Harvey, MD, Boston

William Harvey, MD, Boston (2014)
Dr. Harvey was recently promoted to clinical director at Tufts University. He currently serves as the BOD Young Member and is also participating on the 2020 Task Force and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Academic Affairs. He started his volunteer activities on the ACR Fellows Subcommittee and has also served on the Government Affairs Committee.

V. Michael Holers, MD, Aurora, Colo.

V. Michael Holers, MD, Aurora, Colo. (2014)
Dr. Harvey was recently promoted to clinical director at Tufts University. He currently serves as the BOD Young Member and is also participating on the 2020 Task Force and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Academic Affairs. He started his volunteer activities on the ACR Fellows Subcommittee and has also served on the Government Affairs Committee.

Karen Kolba, MD, Santa Maria, Calif.

Karen Kolba, MD, Santa Maria, Calif. (2014)
Dr. Kolba is a rheumatologist in private practice at the Pacific Arthritis Center Medical Group. She has participated as a member and chair of the Committee on Rheumatologic Care (CORC). She also served on the ACR Strategic Planning Committee.

Sharad Lakhanpal, MD, Dallas

Sharad Lakhanpal, MD, Dallas (2013)
Dr. Lakhanpal is in practice at Rheumatology Associates. He is also clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. His ACR service includes chair of GAC and the ACR Strategic Planning Committee.

Carlos Lozada, MD, Miami

Carlos Lozada, MD, Miami (2013)
Dr. Lozada is professor of clinical medicine in the division of rheumatology and immunology and director of the rheumatology fellowship training program at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. He has served on multiple ACR and REF committees, including Communications and Marketing, the Committee on Rheumatology Training and Workforce Issues, the ACR Abstract Selection Subcommittee, and the REF BOD and SAC.

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