Cornelia Weyand, M.D., Ph.D.

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Cornelia Weyand received her M.D. from the University of Aachen in 1979 and her Dr. med. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn in Germany in 1980. She earned her Dr. habil degree in Medical Sciences in 1988 from the University of Heidelberg. She completed a residency in internal medicine in 1989 at Hannover Medical School in Germany, and subspecialty training in Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University in California. While at the University of Heidelberg, Dr. Weyand was Chief of Rheumatology. In 1990, she joined the faculty of the Mayo Medical and Graduate School. At the Mayo Clinic Dr. Weyand established a research team that investigated the role of the immune system in chronic inflammatory diseases. She was named the Barbara Woodward Lips Professor of Medicine and Immunology in 2000 and thereafter established and codirected the Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapeutics Program. Dr. Weyand came to the Emory University School of Medicine in 2004 as Professor of Medicine and Codirector of the Kathleen B. and Mason I. Lowance Center for Immunology. She is a leading researcher in defining disease mechanisms in chronic inflammatory syndromes, in particular, inflammatory blood vessel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Recent research focuses on the link between immune-mediated inflammation and atherosclerosis. Dr. Weyand has won national and international awards, including the Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award of the American College of Rheumatology, the Carol Nachmann Award for Rheumatology, the Department of Medicine Outstanding Investigator Award from the Mayo Medical School and the Laurentian Rheumatology Award. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. In 2001, she was named as one of fifty Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow Heroes. Dr. Weyand is author or coauthor of over two hundred publications. She is consulting editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation, associate editor for Arthritis and Rheumatism, and editor of Current Opinion in Rheumatology.