Exemplifying the response of those recognized as Masters of the ACR this year, Abby Abelson, MD, says, “While the pandemic has changed the way we are able to share our celebration of rheumatology in person for this annual meeting and while we are all missing the hugs that would have marked this milestone honor of becoming an ACR Master, the honor and pride of this Master’s recognition is, nonetheless, profoundly humbling and energizing.”
The 18 individuals recognized in 2020 as ACR Masters are:
Abby Abelson, MD, is chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic.
Martin Jan Bergman, MD, is clinical professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, and in private practice in Ridley Park, Pa.
Michael B. Brenner, MD, is the Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of cell and molecular immunology in the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.
Edward K.L. Chan, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Ciarán M. Duffy, MB BCh, MSc, FRCPC, FRCPI, is chair/chief and professor of the Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), Canada, and a senior investigator for the CHEO Research Institute at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Norman T. Ilowite, MD, is an emeritus professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, N.Y.
Emily Isaacs, MD, is a rheumatologist with the USMD Health System, Fort Worth, Texas.
Nancy E. Lane, MD, is a distinguished professor of medicine and rheumatology at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. She holds an affiliated faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD, MACP, is professor and chair of academic medicine and a senior staff physician in rheumatology, at the Cleveland Clinic.
