Dr. Vina serves as associate chief of the division of rheumatology and is an associate professor of medicine in the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson. He also serves as the division of rheumatology fellowship program director. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychobiology from UCLA in 1999 and his medical doctorate from the Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin School of Medicine, in 2004. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center where he also completed a Health Services Research fellowship. His rheumatology fellowship was completed at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2011, and he also earned a master's degree in health studies. He joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the U of A Division of Rheumatology in 2014.

Prior to coming to the UA in 2014, Dr. Vina served as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and as a staff rheumatologist in the Veteran’s Administration Pittsburgh Healthcare System. He was also the core investigator at the VAPHS Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, a VA Center of Excellence. 

Dr. Vina’s research interests include racial disparities in systemic lupus erythematosus, treatment preferences, racial disparities in osteoarthritis, quality of care and health services.

He is a member of the American College of Rheumatology and the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. He has received research grants from the Rheumatology Research Foundation and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a unit of the National Institutes of Health. 

Dr. Vina has authored numerous publications on osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and racial/ethnic disparities research in various rheumatologic and musculoskeletal diseases among other subjects. He has published in various journals, including the Journal of Rheumatology, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, Osteoarthritis & Cartilage, and Arthritis Care & Research. He has served on the editorial board of Arthritis Care & Research and has served as an ad hoc abstract reviewer several times for the annual American College of Rheumatology Convergence meetings. 

DEGREES
BS: Psychobiology, UCLA
MS: Health Studies, University of Chicago
MD: Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University, 2004

RESIDENCY
Internal Medicine - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, 2008

FELLOWSHIPS
Health Services Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 2008
Rheumatology, Chicago Medical Center, 2011

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine - General
American Board of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology - Subspecialty

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