I am a faculty member at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC) within the UNC Department of Medicine. My interests span multiple areas including osteoarthritis, obesity, physical activity, rheumatoid arthritis and social determinants. I am a collaborator on several studies, including the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (JoCoOA), Walk With Ease (WWE), Consortium for Longitudinal Evaluation of African-Americans with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (CLEAR), WWE in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and other trials. I am an active faculty member of TARC's Core Center for Clinical Research in the Methodology Core, providing epidemiologic, study design and statistical methods expertise.

Dr. Siaton received her M.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency training at the University of Maryland Medical Center and rheumatology Fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center. She completed a Master of Education in the Health Professions in 2017. Dr. Siaton is currently an associate professor at the University of Maryland where she has been on faculty since 2011. She serves as an associate program director of the internal medicine residency and program director of the rheumatology fellowship.

Dr. Beth L. Jonas is the Reeves Foundation Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Jonas received her medical degree from SUNY, Upstate Medical Center and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at The George Washington University, where she also served as Chief Resident. She completed fellowship training in Rheumatology at Emory University. 

Dr. Jonas is a clinician educator and has an active rheumatology practice, where she sees patients with a wide spectrum of inflammatory rheumatic disorders. She teaches rheumatology to medical students, residents, and fellows and is actively involved in curricular development to train both physicians and advance practice providers in rheumatology. Dr. Jonas was awarded the American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Fellowship Program Director Award in 2015 and has received a Rheumatology Research Foundation Clinician Scholar Educator Award.

Bonnie L. Bermas, MD, is the Dr. Morris Ziff Distinguished Professor in Rheumatology and Clinical Director of the Rheumatics Diseases Division at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Brad H. Rovin is the Lee A. Hebert Professor of Nephrology at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He is the Division Director of Nephrology and Medical Director of the Ohio State University Clinical Research Management Organization. Dr. Rovin conducts translational research on autoimmune glomerular diseases and applies these studies to clinical trial development and design for investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored trials of novel therapeutics.

Dr. Stevens is a board certified pediatric rheumatologist with clinical and research expertise in scleroderma, both localized and systemic forms. She has presented research in juvenile systemic sclerosis regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Brian J. Andonian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at Duke University. He is a rheumatologist with a focus in inflammatory arthritis and lifestyle medicine. He is also a translational physician scientist studying the effects of exercise and lifestyle interventions on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) outcomes and immune health. The goal of his translational research is to improve outcomes in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, including disease activity and cardiometabolic risk in RA, via personalized lifestyle and pharmacologic prescription.

Brian Mandell is Professor and Chairman of Academic Medicine and a Senior Staff Physician in Rheumatology and Immunologic Diseases, Center for Vasculitis Care and Research at the Cleveland Clinic. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine and editor of a 2023 textbook on Synovial Fluid Analysis and the Evaluation of Patients with Arthritis.

Dr. Mandell joined the Cleveland Clinic in 1993 following a faculty appointment at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Chief of Rheumatology at the Graduate Hospital. BA in Biology and PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from Washington University, St. Louis, and MD from New York University School of Medicine. He trained in IM and rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as interim Director of Inflammation Research and Exploratory Clinical Pharmacology at CIBA Pharmaceuticals.Prior Vice Chair ACGME RRC in Int Med and chaired annual meeting for ACR and ACP

Dr. England is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. He conducts clinical and translational research in rheumatoid arthritis using several large clinical, patient-reported, and administrative databases. His research focuses on the long-term outcomes of RA including RA-associated lung diseases, multimorbidity, and mortality.

Bryce Binstadt is Director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology at the University of Minnesota and the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director.  He runs a basic research lab focused on cardiovascular complications of rheumatic diseases. (Member of the ViP-Ped Working Group).