The University of Arizona Arthritis Center's Dominick Sudano, MD, will present a workshop on Arthrocentesis and Bursal Injections as part of the Waxman Clinical Skills Center at the 2017 annual meeting of the American College of Physicians in San Diego, Calif. The Waxman Clinical Skills Center is a dynamic collection of educational activities that provide hands-on learning and interactive self-study. The meetings are being held March 30 - April 1.
Dr. Sudano serves as an assistant professor and a practicing rheumatologist at the University of Arizona. He completed his rheumatology fellowship at the University of Arizona in 2014. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at Pennsylvania State University in 2001 and his medical doctorate from Drexel University College of Medicine in 2008. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Arizona in 2012.
His major research interest is the diagnosis and management of coccidioidomycoses in patients with rheumatic disease treated with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), corticosteroids and biologic response modifiers.
Dr. Sudano is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Rheumatology, the Housestaff Committee at the University of Arizona and the Peer Review Committee for SAVAMC. He has authored several articles on topics ranging from exon skipping mutations in collagen, new molecular mechanisms in Muscular Dystrophy and comparative analyses of gene-expression patterns in human and African great ape cultured fibroblasts. Dr. Sudano is the recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and was honored twice as a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Scholar and Fellow.
Dr. Sudano is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology.