Cornelia M. Weyand, M.D.

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Dr. Weyand is the David C. Lowance, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Lowance Center, Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Before coming to Emory in 2004, she was the Barbara Woodward Lips Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the Mayo Medical and Graduate School in Rochester, MN. Dr. Weyand obtained her medical degree from the University of Aachen in Germany. She graduated summa cum laude with a doctorate in medicine from the University of Bonn in 1980 and earned a doctorate in medical science from the University of Heidelberg in 1988. Dr. Weyand completed a residency in internal medicine at Hannover Medical School and a fellowship in rheumatology at Stanford University. She has received numerous awards and honors including the Henry Christian Award for Excellence in Research (AFCR, 1991), the Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award (American College of Rheumatology, 1992), the Carol Nachmann Award for Rheumatology (1995), the Mayo Foundation Department of Medicine Outstanding Investigator Award (1999), the Laurentian Rheumatology Award (2003), the Emory University School of Medicine Outstanding Research Citation Award for Basic Research (2006), and the Paul Klemperer Award from the New York Academy of Medicine (2006). She has been elected as a member to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. In 2001, Dr. Weyand was named as one of fifty Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Heroes. She has edited several books, including the textbook Inflammatory Diseases of Blood Vessels and the Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases. She is the editor of Current Opinion in Rheumatology and serves on multiple editorial boards.