The Friends of the University of Arizona Arthritis Center will host the 16th Annual Eva M. Holtby Arthritis Conversations and Lunch at the Arizona Inn on Thursday, February 18, 2016, from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Holtby Lectureship will be presented by visiting professor Ted R. Mikuls, MD, MPH. Dr. Mikuls is the Vice Chairman of Research and the Umbach Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His lecture is titled: "Oral and Gut Microbes in Arthritis: Friend or Foe?"
Dr. Mikuls received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska in 1995. Following medical school, he completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident. He completed his rheumatology fellowship training at the University of Alabama-Birmingham where he also received a Master's Degree in Public Health. Dr. Mikuls joined the UNMC Rheumatology Division in 2002. In addition to holding the Umbach professorship in rheumatology, he is active in clinical research, education, and patient care. He has directed the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System Rheumatoid Arthritis clinic for the past 13 years.
Dr. Mikuls research efforts are focused on the epidemiology and health outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis and gout. He initiated and has led the multicenter VA Rheumatoid Arthritis registry since its inception in 2002. He has received research funding from the VA, NIH, Arthritis Foundation, the UA Department of Defense, Industry, and the Rheumatology Research Foundation.
To purchase tickets, please call 520-626-6399. Tickets are $36 for Friends' members and their guests, $46 for non-members.
About Eva Holtby
Eva M. Holtby is remembered with great regard for founding the University of Arizona Arthritis Center Friends in 1997. It was Eva’s vision and leadership that created this group dedicated to building support for the Center through education, public awareness and community involvement. Eva passed away in 2003. Her energy and spirit live on through the Eva M. Holtby Endowed Lectureship. As a tribute to Eva, the Board of the University of Arizona Arthritis Center Friends established this lectureship series that allows the Center to invite nationally and internationally recognized arthritis researchers and clinicians to visit the Center for participation in educational public forums that discuss important developments in arthritis research and clinical care.