Medical Review Panel

Arthritis Today wishes to thank the experts who volunteered time to ensure the accuracy of this year's Drug Guide.

Daniel Clauw, MD, professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and executive director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and of the Center for the Advancement of Clinical Research at the University of Michigan, reviewed the analgesics section.

N. Lawrence Edwards, MD, professor of medicine and director of the internal medicine residency program at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, reviewed the section on gout drugs.

Don L. Goldenberg, MD, chief of rheumatology at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., director of the medical research committee at Newton-Wellesley and professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, reviewed the section on drugs used for fibromyalgia.

Eric L. Matteson, MD, professor of medicine and consultant in the department of internal medicine, division of rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., reviewed the section on disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

Larry W. Moreland, MD, director of the General Clinical Research Center and the Arthritis Clinical Intervention Program and associate dean of medicine for clinical research and professor of medicine in the division of clinical immunology and rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, reviewed the section on biologic response modifiers (BRMs).

Harold Paulus, MD, professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), reviewed the section on NSAIDs.

Kenneth Saag, MD, associate professor and director of the Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, reviewed the section on osteoporosis medications as well as the section on corticosteroids.

Frederick Vivino, MD, chief of rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center; director, Penn Sjögren's Syndrome Center; and chair, Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, Sjögren's Syndrome Foundation, reviewed the section on Sjögren's syndrome.

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