Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Jörg J. Goronzy, MD, PhD is a Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Mayo College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Stanford University, where he was on the faculty from 2009 to 2021. Before coming to Stanford, he was the Mason I. Lowance, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Division of Rheumatology and Director of the Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Human Immunology at Emory University, Atlanta. From 1990 to 2003, he was on the faculty of the Mayo Medical and Graduate School. He received his medical degree from the University of Aachen and a doctoral degree in medicine from the University of Bonn in 1979. His training includes a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, a residency in internal medicine at Hannover Medical School in Germany and a fellowship in immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University.
Dr. Goronzy is recognized for his studies on rheumatoid arthritis and on immune aging. His program examines the mechanisms that render individuals more susceptible to autoimmunity with increasing age and that compromise the generation of protective immune responses. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
2:20 PM – 2:45 PM PT
