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Ralf Thiele, MD, RhMSUS

University of Rochester
PITTSFORD, New York, United States

Dr. Thiele completed medical school in Frankfurt, Germany in 1991 and fellowship training in rheumatology at Dartmouth in 2003. He has trained first in abdominal and thyroid ultrasound starting in 1990 and later specialized in musculoskeletal ultrasound. He was certified in musculoskeletal ultrasound in 1995 in Germany (DEGUM), and in rheumatologic ultrasound in 2013 with the American College of Rheumatology (RhMSUS).
He joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology Division in 2006, currently as Professor of Medicine. His research interests include sonographic diagnosis and outcomes assessment of crystal arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthropathy.
Dr. Thiele has served as chair of the musculoskeletal section of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, chair of the ultrasound task force of the American College of Rheumatology, co-chair of the ACR abstract selection committee, and has developed and chaired educational ultrasound courses at the University of Rochester, Cooper University Hospital, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the American College of Rheumatology. He has developed imaging algorithms, practice guidelines and certification in musculoskeletal ultrasound with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, OMERACT, EULAR, the American College of Radiology and the ACR.

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