46 Results for Rheumatology near Birmingham, AL

Dr. Toribio's Biography — Dr. Toribio’s clinical interests include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and gout. She was born in Dominican Republic, raised in New Orleans and is a native Spanish speaker. Dr. Toribio graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans, where she received the Ruth and Lee Faust Award for highest GPA in Biological Sciences, and completed medical school at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She completed her internal medical residency at Duke University and her rheumatology fellowship at New York University, where she served as chief rheumatology fellow as a result of her excellent teaching and leadership skills. Dr. Toribio joined the Department of Rheumatology at Ochsner Clinic in 2014.

Dr. Scopelitis's Biography — Dr. Eve Scopelitis, former Professor of Medicine and Director of the Rheumatology Clinics at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, joined the Department of Rheumatology at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in 2006. Dr. Scopelitis, a native of New York City, obtained her medical degree at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York, and completed an internal medicine residency at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, New York. A fellowship in Rheumatology at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans followed. At the completion of her fellowship, she was invited to join the faculty. Over the years, she has been involved in numerous academic endeavors including research, teaching, and patient care. She has been the recipient of many grants and awards, including the prestigious National Arthritis Foundation Fellowship award. Her publications have spanned the spectrum of rheumatology and have included topics such as systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases, gout, and osteoporosis, among others. In recent years she was successful in establishing the LSU Distinguished Women in Medicine Visiting Professorship, as well as the annual LSU Women in Medicine Symposium. She has been voted among the best doctors in Louisiana yearly since 2006. Dr. Scopelitis is past-president of the Louisiana branch of the American Medical Women's Association and the Louisiana Rheumatism Society. She has been on the medical advisory board of the Louisiana Lupus Foundation and the Spondylitis Association of America. She is a Founding Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and in the subspecialty of Rheumatology, and (insert) "formerly" by the International Society of Clinical Densitometry.

Dr. Keshavamurthy's Biography — Dr. Chandana Keshavamurthy, MD is a Rheumatology Specialist who practices in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Chandana Keshavamurthy, MD is affiliated with Ochsner Medical Center.