The Medical & Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of physicians and medical health care leaders who volunteer their time to help meet the needs of SAA's constituents.

Board Chair: Robert A. Colbert, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Rheumatology
Children's Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039

Robert A. Colbert, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics, the Director of the Division of Rheumatology for Children's Medical Center in Cincinati, Ohio, is the Associate Director, Physician Scientist (MD / PhD), and is involved in the Training Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Dr. Colbert is also actively involved in research for spondylitis. For more information on his work, visit his laboratory's webpage by clicking here.

Bruce M. Clark, PT
Clark Physical Therapy
#206-888 West 8th Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V5Z 3Y1

Daniel Clegg, MD
Division of Rheumatology
University of Utah Medical Center
50 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84132

Atul Deodhar, MD
Division of Arthritis & Rheumatism
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR 97239

Nortin Hadler, MD
Department of Medicine
UNC School of Medicine
3330 Thurston Bldg
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7280

Robert Harris, MD
Whittier Medical Plaza
13203 Hadley Street
Whittier, CA 90601

Robert D. Inman, MD,
Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Department of Medicine/Rheumatology
Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst St. FP 1-221
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 2S8

Walter Maksymowych, MD
Senior Scholar Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
Professor of Medicine
University of Alberta
562 Heritage Medical Research Building
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2S2
Canada

Muhammad Asim Khan, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
MetroHealth Center
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109-1998

Allan Metzger, MD
8737 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048

David H. Neustadt, M.D.
234 East Gray Street, Suite 328
Louisville, Kentucky 40202

James Rosenbaum, MD
Casey Eye Institute
Oregon Health Sciences University
3375 SW Terwilliger Boulevard
Portland, OR 97201

Millicent Stone, MB MRCP (UK) MSc
Royal National Hospital
Rheumatic Diseases
Upper Borough Walls
Bath, United Kingdom, BA1 1R1

Joel Taurog, MD
HC Simmons Arthritis Research Center
University of Texas SW Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75390-8884

Ruben Burgos-Vargas, MD
Rheumatology Unit
Hospital General de Mexico
Dr Balmis 148
Mexico City
Mexico 06726

Robert W. Warren, MD, PhD, MPH
Chief, Rheumatology Service
Medical Director, Information Services
Texas Children's Hospital
6621 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77030

Michael H. Weisman, MD
Chief of Rheumatology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048

David Yu, MD
Div. Rheum. Dept. of Med.
UCLA School of Medicine
1000 Veteran Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095