Medicine Grand Rounds

"The Long Latent Road to Autoimmunity"
Eric Gershwin, MD

Dr. Gershwin is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UC Davis. He was the first scientist to clone the gene that produces the autoantigen involved in the anti-mitochondrial antibody test for patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis. He is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune disease and has been continuously funded by NIH for nearly 50 years. Dr. Gershwin is also a consultant for multiple federal agencies and has worked with NIH, FTC, FDA, USAID, and USDA. Dr. Gershwin is a world expert on the role of environment and autoimmunity and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Autoimmunity. Dr. Gershwin graduated from Stanford Medical School and did his residency in internal medicine at  the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He trained in immunology at the National Institutes of Health and joined the faculty of the University of California at Davis in 1975. Dr. Gershwin founded the Clinical Immunology Program at UC Davis in 1977. He has authored over 1000 experimental papers and more than 20 books and has been cited in the peer-review literature nearly 100,000 times.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
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