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George E. Ehrlich, MD
| Adjunct Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA George E. Ehrlich, M.D., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.P., F.R.C.P. (Edin)., is a Master of the American College of Rheumatology and Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), and holds Adjunct Professorships in Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. A rheumatologist who trained at the National Institutes of Health and New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, he served on the Arthritis Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 1991 to 1996, the last three years as Chairman, and subsequently on the Council of Chairs. He is Chairman of the Expert Advisory Panel on Chronic Degenerative Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO), where he heads several programs, including the Low Back Pain Initiative and participates in the Osteoporosis Initiative, and serves also on the Executive Committee of the International League of Associations of Rheumatology (ILAR). In addition, he is actively involved in the Bone and Joint Decade and OMERACT planning groups, is a member of several medical and scientific advisory boards in the United States, Canada and Europe, and has been decorated or honored by governments and organizations internationally. In 2004 he received the Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander Award is for excellence and achievement in the field of rheumatology of the Pennsylvania Arthritis Foundation. Dr. Ehrlich is editor of twelve medical books and co-editor of one for the public, and author of more than 180 peer-reviewed and an equal number of non-peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Ehrlich has served as editor or on the editorial boards of several journals, including, for ten years, the Journal of Rheumatology. He has held Professorships and chaired rheumatology programs at several universities and medical centers in the past, including Philadelphia’s first multidisciplinary Arthritis Center at Albert Einstein Medical Center/Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, and served as consultant to several government agencies (including the Commission on revising disability regulations for the Social Security Administration and the Panel on Licensing Physical Therapists of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has been a frequent lecturer on a variety of scientific, clinical, and historical subjects throughout the world, and his biography can be found in many reference works, including Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He was recently elected Honorary Life President of the newly constituted International Society for Behcet’s Disease. |
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