Return to the Basics: Examination for Birefringence and Its Direction Is Critical to Diagnosis of Gout
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Short Biography of Authors
| Bruce M. Rothschild graduated from New Jersey College of Medicine in 1973. He is a member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology and Society of Skeletal Radiology and elected to the International Skeletal Society. He has been recognized for his work in Rheumatology and Skeletal Pathology where his special interests focus on clinical-anatomic-radiologic correlation, data-based paleopathology, evolution of inflammatory arthritis and tuberculosis and management of inflammatory arthritis. He is widely recognized for his contributions to understanding radiologic manifestations of rheumatologic disease.
He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the US, Canada, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and Australia and has been an invited lecturer at universities, hospital and museums throughout the world. He has published over 1000 papers and abstracts, including authoritative papers on the origins of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, syphilis and tuberculosis, character of bone changes in metastatic cancer, myeloma, leukemia, tuberculosis, fungal disease, renal disease, treponemal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and primate bone disease. He is the author of 7 books and has participated in 8 Discover Channel/BBC documentaries on origins of diseases and ancient reptiles. Since 1986, Dr. Rothschild has been Professor of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, West Virginia University and Indiana University Health and holds Research Associateship at the Carnegie Museum. He was first director of the Rheumatology Division at The Chicago Medical School and a prime force behind the resurgence of data-based paleorheumatology and comparative osseous pathology. |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleRothschild, Bruce M. 2021. "Return to the Basics: Examination for Birefringence and Its Direction Is Critical to Diagnosis of Gout" Rheumato 1, no. 1: 2-4. https://doi.org/10.3390/rheumato1010002
APA StyleRothschild, B. M. (2021). Return to the Basics: Examination for Birefringence and Its Direction Is Critical to Diagnosis of Gout. Rheumato, 1(1), 2-4. https://doi.org/10.3390/rheumato1010002