William J. Scheuing, MD, is an internal medicine resident at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke.
Nitasha Kumar, MD, is a rheumatologist with Arthritis & Rheumatism Associates, in the Washington, D.C., area. She completed her rheumatology fellowship at Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans.
William Davis, MD, is the rheumatology department head and vice chair of education in the Department of Internal Medicine at Ochsner Health, New Orleans. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and an ACR Fellow. He is also an associate professor for the University of Queensland, Brisbane/Ochsner Clinical School.
Robert Quinet, MD, FACP, is the director of the Ochsner Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Ochsner Health, New Orleans, and holds a clinical professorship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and a clinical assistant professorship at Tulane Medical Center, both in New Orleans. He is also an ACR Fellow.
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