Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, New York, 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 College. From 2008 to 2020, he was Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He also served as Director of the UAB Comprehensive Arthritis Center and as Director of the T32 Training Program in Rheumatic Diseases Research. Dr. Bridges received a BS degree from the University of Notre Dame, and an MD degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He served as 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. Dr. Bridges has published more than 200 scientific papers, mostly focused on the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including genetics of RA in African Americans. He is 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 served as President of the Rheumatology Research Foundation and as a member of Executive Committee of the ACR Board of Directors from 2019 to 2021 . He is Editor-in-Chief of Arthritis & Rheumatology (2025-2030), the flagship journal of the ACR.
27M49: Journal Club with the Editors: Using Large Datasets to Analyze Patient Trajectories
Monday, October 27, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Central Time
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Monday, October 27, 2025
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM Central Time
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