Robert Inman

Bio sketch:

Dr. Inman completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University, and his medical degree at McMaster University. He did his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University and his fellowship in Rheumatology at Cornell University, based at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He worked as a research fellow at the Hammersmith Hospital in London before returning to a faculty position as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cornell University. He then moved to the University of Toronto where he was appointed Associate Professor and subsequently Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Immunology, and attending physician at Toronto Western Hospital.

On the international scene, he has held numerous leadership positions within the American College of Rheumatology, including President of the Northeast Region of the ACR, member of the Board of Directors of the ACR, and Chair of the Abstract Selection Committee of the ACR annual scientific meeting. He was Vice-President of the XXI PanAmerican Congress of Rheumatology, co-chair of the NIH conference on HLA-B27, and Chair of the Workshop on Experimental Autoimmune Diseases at the 11th International Congress of Immunology in Stockholm. He is Past-chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the Spondylitis Association of America. He is co-PI on the NIH-funded North American Spondylitis Consortium, a multicenter study on the genetics of ankylosing spondylitis. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Ankylosing Spondylitis Genetics Consortium. He has been Visiting Professor of Rheumatology at numerous universities in the U.S. and Europe. He is a regular invited lecturer in the "Advances in Rheumatology" courses held at Harvard Medical School and New
York University. He is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Rheumatology and is a Section Editor of Current Opinion in Rheumatology.

On the national scene he has been Visiting Professor at many Canadian universities, and was selected to deliver the Dunlop-Dottridge Lecture at the annual meeting of the Canadian Rheumatology Association meeting in Montreal. He has received awards for the Woodbury Lectureship at Dalhousie University, the Ogryzlo Lectureship at the University of Manitoba, and the Little Lectureship at the University of Toronto. He has received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Canadian Rheumatology Association. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Spondyloarthritis Research Consortium of Canada. He is co-Director of Frontiers in Inflammatory Joint Disease, a national research consensus conference.

He is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Arthritis Society Ontario Division.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Center Foundation.

Locally, he is a member of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, with appointments as Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Immunology and in the Institute of Medical Sciences. He was Director of the University of Toronto Division of Rheumatology 1991-2003. He is Director of the Arthritis Center of Excellence at The University Health Network, a multidisciplinary research program incorporating basic and clinical investigators.