Our Team
Director
John P. Atkinson, MD
Samuel B. Grant Professor of Medicine
Director, Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Recipient of Washington University School of Medicine Distinguished Service Award and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Lifetime Achievement “Master Physician” Award
Atkinson’s research team initially discovered and named the disease cerebroretinal vasculopathy (CRV). The name has now been changed to retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukodystrophy (RVCL).
Washington University
Jonathan Miner, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology Division
Andria Ford, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor in Neurology, Department of Neurology
M. Gilbert Grand, MD
Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Kathy Liszewski
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology Division and Clinical Trials Coordinator
Lynne Mitchell
Senior Scientist, Rheumatology Division
Xiaobo Wu, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology Division
Madonna Bogacki
Clinical Research Coordinator, Rheumatology Division
Lorraine Schwartz
Assistant Administrator RVCL Research Center, Rheumatology Division
Around the U.S.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)
Nan Yan, PhD
Principal Investigator UTSW
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Microbiology Department
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Herbert (Sandy) Morse III, MD
Principal Investigator NIH
Chief, Virology and Cellular Immunology Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics
The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Joanna Jen, MD, PhD
Senior Faculty Neurology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY