Michael D. Lockshin

Michael D. Lockshin
Born (1937-12-09) December 9, 1937
Columbus, Ohio
Nationality American
Institutions Hospital for Special Surgery
Alma mater Harvard Medical School
Known for Autoimmune diseases

Michael D. Lockshin, M.D., is an American professor and medical researcher. He is a researcher of autoimmune diseases, with focus on antiphospholipid syndrome and lupus. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics-Gynecology at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College in New York City. In addition, he is Director, Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease and Co-Director, Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research both at the Hospital for Special Surgery

Locksin's twin brother, Richard A. Lockshin, is an American cellular biologist known for his work on apoptosis.

Education and training

Michael Lockshin graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1959 with an AB in history and literature. He received his MD in 1963 from Harvard Medical School. Lockshin interned and did his residency at Bellevue Hospital and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and his fellowship in Rheumatic Diseases at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.

Work

Dr. Lockshin's long-term research interest is in the clinical aspects of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), pregnancy in rheumatic disease patients, gender and rheumatic disease, and neurological SLE.

He has authored more than 200 scientific papers and numerous textbook chapters. He co-authored the first reports on hepatitis B–associated polyarteritis nodosa; early reports on twins with lupus; studies on neurologic lupus, including treatment and cognitive dysfunction; pregnancy and lupus; atherosclerosis and lupus, and many research papers on the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. He convened the first International Conference on Pregnancy and Rheumatic Disease and, though the Barbara Volker Center, the first Conference on Gender, Biology, and Human Disease. His research has been supported by grants from NIAMS, the Arthritis Foundation, the SLE Foundation, and private donors throughout his academic career.

Dr. Locksin served as editor-in-chief of Arthritis & Rheumatism for five years.[1] He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Rheumatology, and as a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Journal of Immunology, among other scientific journals.

Dr. Lockshin held senior management positions at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He served first as director of the Extramural Program of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and then as acting director of the Institute. This Institute is responsible for U.S. government research funding in the fields of rheumatology and dermatology. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Director at the NIH's Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center.

Honors

Dr. Lockshin received the Lupus Foundation of America's 2012 National Leadership Award for Lupus Medical Advancement and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Arthritis Foundation in 2008. He was named a master of the American College of Rheumatology in 2003 and a Research Hero of the Arthritis Foundation in 2001. He is an honorary faculty member of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Committee membership

Dr. Lockshin has served on numerous study sections and ad hoc committees for the National Institutes of Health, the Veterans' Administration, the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, the Canadian Medical Research Council, the SLE Foundation, among others. He chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine's Sub Specialty Committee on Rheumatology and the American College of Physicians' Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program. He chaired the Arthritis Foundation's Professional Education and Unproven Remedies Committees and the American College of Rheumatology's Education Committee. He chaired the ACR's Audiovisual Aids Committee that produced the first Clinical Slide Collection in rheumatology.

Books

References

  1. ↑ Wiley online library, "Introducing the new editor of Arthritis & Rheumatism, Michael D. Lockshin, MD", June 28, 2005, retrieved May 5, 2011.
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