Amaka Odonwodo, MD, MPH, recently completed her internal medicine residency at the Cleveland Clinic at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland. She is interested in rheumatology as a career path.
Carlos Julio Aponte, FACP, FACR, graduated from the National University of Colombia in 1968. He completed internal medicine residency in Cleveland, Ohio, and a rheumatology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. From 1975–2013, he practiced rheumatology mostly at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, where he was chief of the Rheumatology Section of the Department of Medicine. His present title is chief of rheumatology emeritus. He continues to teach in many countries, most recently in Cambodia with Health Volunteers Overseas.
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