Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - "Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment in 2016"

TOPIC: "Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment in 2016"
SPEAKER: Dominick Sudano, MD, joined the UA faculty as an assistant professor and a practicing rheumatologist after completing his rheumatology fellowship at the University of Arizona in 2014. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at Pennsylvania State University in 2001 and his medical doctorate from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2008. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Arizona in 2012. His major research interest is the diagnosis and management of coccidioidomycosis in patients with rheumatic disease treated with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs), corticosteroids and biologic response modifiers. He has authored several articles on topics ranging from exon skipping mutations in collagen, new molecular mechanisms in muscular dystrophy and comparative analyses of gene-expression patterns in human and African great ape cultured fibroblasts. Dr. Sudano is the recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and was honored twice as a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Scholar and Fellow.

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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
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Learning Objectives:

1. Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
2. Understand more clearly advances in therapy
3. Become truly professional physicians