Medicine Grand Rounds with Northwestern’s Harris Perlman, PhD

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College of Medicine – Tucson Lecture Hall, Room 5403
1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721

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Topic

“Macrophage heterogeneity: The key to precision medicine for rheumatic disease”

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Presenter details

Harris R. Perlman, PhD
The Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Rheumatology,
Feinberg School of Medicine
Director, Flow Cytometry Facility,
Lurie Cancer Center
Northwestern University

Dr. Perlman received his doctorate from Tufts University (1998) and completed postdoctoral training at Northwestern University (2001). He served on the faculty at Saint Louis University, where he earned tenure and directed the Flow Cytometry Core Facility and graduate program before returning to Northwestern in 2008 as an associate professor in the Division of Rheumatology.

He was promoted to professor in 2013 and appointed rheumatology division chief and director of the Lurie Cancer Flow Cytometry Core Facility in 2015. As chief, he expanded the division from 13 to 22 faculty members, generating over $10 million in extramural funding, more than $100 million in clinical revenue and increasing the division’s clinical trial revenue to over $5 million.

Dr. Perlman has received 36 grants totaling more than $28 million, published 178 manuscripts (h-index 66) and has been continuously funded since graduate school. His research focuses on myeloid cells in rheumatic disease. He was named mentor of the tear at the Feinberg School of Medicine in 2022 and is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy.
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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Medicine Grand Rounds are held at the College of Medicine – Tucson, Room 5403. To view Medicine Grand Rounds remotely, see this live weblink: https://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/streaming/. To view it after the fact, click on "Archive" at the top of this same link's webpage and, from the dropdown menu under "Category," select "Medicine Grand Rounds" and click "Search" to find the event you're seeking.

Accreditation Statement: The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The college designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement: All faculty members, CME Planning Committee members and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.

Learning Objectives:

1. Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
2. Understand more clearly advances in therapy
3. Become truly professional physicians

For questions or accommodations that may be necessary, please call 520-626-7174 at least three days in advance of the event. If you would like to participate in the Q&A portion of this lecture, email Crystal Escobar (crystalescobar@arizona.edu) for the Zoom link and password.