About the Speaker
Bevra H. Hahn, M.D. 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, and the Association of American Physicians. In 1995 she was elected as a member of 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 and is a Master in that group.
Dr. Hahn serves as the Chair in the NIH/NIAID Immune Tolerance Network Data and Safety Monitoring Board and is a Member of NIH Council of Councils. 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 and ACR REF Award of Distinction for Academic Mentoring in 2007. Dr. Hahn has authored more than 120 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. Her current research at the Laboratory for Lupus Research at UCLA includes investigations in genetics, pathogenesis, atherosclerosis, and treatment of lupus. The laboratory is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Arthritis Foundation (National and Southern California Chapters), the American College of Rheumatology/Research Education Foundation, a Lupus Clinical Trials Center award, and private donors including Bertram Maltz, MD Bud and Marla Paxson, Roger and Carolyn Horchow, and Jeanne Rappaport.
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