A Re-printed Study for OIRF Supporters
From THE BRIDGE Newsletter of OIRF
Published February 2012
CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINIONS
VOL. 17, NO. 3, 2001, 190-196
© 2001 LIBRAPHARM LIMITED
About the author

Nicolò Pipitone, PhD Physician
Nicolò Pipitone, PhD Physician, practices in Reggio Nell’emilia, Italy. His top areas of expertise are Vasculitis, Temporal Arteritis, Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), and Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. His clinical research consists of co-authoring 146 peer reviewed articles in the past 15 years.
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bari in 1989,
Specialty: Rheumatology, University of Siena (1993) Internship at the Department of Internal Medicine, Neurology and Department of Genetics, University of Bari. research in Experimental Rheumatology, University of Siena, (1998)
Work experience abroad: Assistant Specialist (King’s College Hospital) and Locum Consultant in Rheumatology (Whipps Cross Hospital), London. UK Area of special interest: large vessel vasculitis (Horton’s arteritis, Takayasu arteritis) and inflammatory myopathies (dermatomyositis and polymyositis).
About the author

David L. Scott, MD
David L. Scott, MD is Professor of Clinical Rheumatology at King’s College London and honorary Consultant Rheumatologist at King’s College Hospital. He trained in Leeds and Birmingham working with Professors Verna Wright, Kenneth Walton and Paul Bacon.
He held Arthritis Research UK, Wellcome Trust and Royal College of Physician’s Fellowships and was Senior Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. He moved to King’s over 20 year ago to develop clinical outcomes and trials research complementing laboratory research led by Professor Gabriel Panayi.
He has served the British Society for Rheumatology as honorary Secretary, Heberden Librarian and President and has also been editor of Rheumatology.
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