Prof. Bevra HAHN (USA)

Bevra H. Hahn is Professor of Medicine, Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Chief of Rheumatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, where she has been since 1983. A summa-cum-laude graduate of Ohio State University, Dr. Hahn received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Society of Clinical Investigators, the Association of American Physicians and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. She did an internship and residency in medicine in St. Louis at Barnes Hospital, Washington University. She is past-president of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and is currently a Master. She serves as the Chair of the NIH/NIAID Immune Tolerance Network Data and Safety Monitoring Board, and member of the Council of Councils, which is advisory to the Director of the NIH. Among her awards are the Dunlop-Dottridge Award of the Canadian Rheumatism Association for research in rheumatology, the Joseph Bunim Medal and prize of the American College of Rheumatology, the Holley Research prize in Rheumatology, the Southern California Arthritis Foundation's Klinenberg Medal for Arthritis Research, the Carol-Nachman International Award for Rheumatology Research, the first Evelyn V Hess Award of the Lupus Foundation of America for research in SLE, the 2007 ACR/REF Award of Distinction for Academic Mentoring, and the 2009 ACR Gold Medal. Dr. Hahn has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed research papers and over 40 book chapters or reviews as well as serving as co-editor of an influential textbook Dubois’ Lupus Erythematosus. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and the Annals of Internal Medicine. Her current research at the Laboratory for Lupus Research at UCLA includes investigations in immune tolerance, regulatory CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, genetics, accelerated atherosclerosis and treatment of systemic lupus. The laboratory is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Arthritis Foundation (Southern California Chapter), the American College of Rheumatology/Research Education Foundation, a Lupus Clinical Trials Center award, Rheuminations and private donors including Jeanne Rappaport.