The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, United States
Kenneth Saag, MD, MSc, is the Waters Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Director, Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Saag is a native of Chicago, following studies in engineering at the University of Michigan, he returned to Chicago for medical school and Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at Northwestern University. He then traveled to the University of Iowa for his rheumatology and epidemiology training and remained on the faculty there until moving to UAB in 1998. Dr. Saag is the principal investigator (PI) of the NIH funded TL1 and KL2 connected to the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), Director of the NIAMS UAB Center of Research Translation (CORT) in Gout and Hyperuricemia, and the founding Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Deep South Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics. He’s published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts; authored over 100 reviews, editorials, and book chapters. He’s the Past President of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, the first rheumatologist to hold this position, and he is President of the ACR.
Amgen (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Ongoing): Grant/Research Support; Horizon Pharmaceuticals (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Ongoing): Grant/Research Support; LG Chem (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Ongoing): Grant/Research Support; Radius (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Ongoing): Grant/Research Support; SOBI (Individual(s) Involved: Self; Ongoing): Grant/Research Support
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
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Monday, November 14, 2022
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