They met in a medical school biochemistry class in which the professor arranged the students alphabetically, so that Woodward sat next to Wortmann. In the beginning, their teamwork as study partners earned them excellent grades. But when romance distracted them, they had to study apart. By the second year of medical school Dorothy Woodward and Robert... »

Countless rheumatologists who look back on their training count Dr. James O’Dell as being among their mentors who mattered.

Such has been Dr. O’Dell’s enthusiasm for rheumatology and teaching that many young physicians in their internal medicine residency opted to leave their home states and come to Omaha to focus on rheumatology in a fellowship at the... »

A career in medicine snuck up on Dr. David Wofsy. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in mathematics in 1968, his mind was occupied by the large moral issues of the day.

As the son of a labor-organizer father and social-worker mother who were hounded by the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and the House on Un-American Activities Committee, Dr. Wofsy... »

One of the first things one may notice about Dr. Roy D. Altman are his neckties. They are hand painted by his wife Linda and have been his trademark since the 1970s.

At first glance, you might think you recognize the silly dog or other fanciful creatures included in their design. But rest assured that any resemblance to a copyrighted character is only in... »

rhnews@elsevier.comHere is something you may not know about Dr. Eric P. Gall: He was involved with patients with tiger bites and bat bites when he was an army physician in Vietnam. Yet, he received his Bronze Star for something that he describes with typical understatement: “Epidemiologic investigation of serious disease outbreaks in less than ideal... »

Do you love being a rheumatologist enough to still be seeing patients, teaching, and conducting research when you are 100 years old? May you live long enough to find out the answer to that question.

Rheumatologist Dr. Ephraim P. Engleman, who turned 100 years old in March, loves his specialty enough to still be very active in it. He is the longest... »