Prof. Steffen GAY (Switzerland)

Education
Allgemeinbildende Polytechnische Oberschule, Geyersdorf
1954-1962
Erweiterte Oberschule, Annaberg-Buchholz
1962-1966 Abitur “Mit Auszeichnung“
University of Leipzig, Medizinische Fakultat
1966-1972 Graduation: Summa cum laude
1973 Dr.med. Thesis Pathologisches Institut
der Universitat Leipzig

Professional Career
Professor of Experimental Rheumatology and Leitender Arzt
Center for Experimental Rheumatology
Clinic of Rheumatology
University Hospital
Zurich, Switzerland
1996-present

Adjunct Professor of Medicine
1996-present and
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine,
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
1984-1996

Honors
Honorary Member of the American Association of Physicians 1999 (AAP)
Spinoza Professor for 2002 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Honorary Member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society 2003
Honorary Member, Hungarian Society for Rheumatology 2003
Honorary Member Saxonian Society for Internal Medicine 2003
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina 2004
EFIS Lecture Award 2005
OSCAR Rheumatologiae Poloniae 2007
EULAR Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology 2005-2010
Kussmaul Medal German Society for Rheumatology 2008

Most cited scientists in Clinical Medicine ISI Citations over 13,500, h-index 64

Publications
64 book chapters, over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers