Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY, United States
S. Louis Bridges, Jr., MD, PhD is Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Weill Cornell Medical Center (WCMC). From 2008 to 2020, he was Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also served as Director of the UAB Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center and Director of the UAB T32 Training Program in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases Research. Dr. Bridges received a BS degree from the University of Notre Dame, and an MD degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He was a Medicine Resident and Chief Medical Resident at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, then completed a fellowship in Rheumatology at UAB, where he also obtained a PhD degree in Microbiology. His research focus is rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility, autoantibodies, and biomarkers of treatment response. Dr. Bridges has been listed in Best Doctors in America since 2003. He is former Co-Editor of Arthritis & Rheumatology and former Chair of the NIH Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Study Section, and former Chair of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Committee on Research. He previously served as President of the Rheumatology Research Foundation and as a member of Executive Committee of the ACR Board of Directors.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
3:40 PM – 3:55 PM Eastern Time
