James T. Rosenbaum (born September 29, 1949) is an American physician-scientist who is Senior Vice President for Research at Corvus Pharmaceuticals[1] and Chief of Ophthalmology emeritus at the Legacy Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, where he held the Richard Chenoweth Chair.[2] Previously, he was Chief of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at the Oregon Health & Science University where he held the Edward E Rosenbaum Professorship in Inflammation Research.[3] Rosenbaum was the only practicing rheumatologist/non-ophthalmologist in the world to serve as a chief of ophthalmology. He is recognized for his description of an animal model of uveitis (inflammation inside the eye) resulting from injection of bacterial endotoxin (Nature, 286:611, 1980) and for more than 600 scholarly publications, mostly related to the intersection between rheumatology and ophthalmology.[4] He is a co-author of the book, "The Clinical Neurology of Rheumatic Diseases".[5]
Education
Rosenbaum is a National Merit Scholar who graduated from Harvard College in 1971, magna cum laude. He graduated from Yale Medical School with honors in 1975.[4] He did an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford Medical Center from 1975 to 1978. He was a fellow of the Arthritis Foundation under the supervision of Hugh O. McDevitt at Stanford from 1978 to 1981.[6]
Family
Rosenbaum is part of a notable family that includes ten physicians including his father, Edward E Rosenbaum, author of "A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient".[7] His maternal grandmother was Rose Naftalin.
^Lahita, Robert G. (1997). "Book Review Clinical Neurology of Rheumatic Diseases by Richard B. Rosenbaum, Stephen M. Campbell, and James T. Rosenbaum. 436 pp. Illustrated. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 1996. $95. 0-7506-9613-3". New England Journal of Medicine. 336 (19): 1397. doi:10.1056/NEJM199705083361922.
^Rosenbaum, JT (1997). "Lessons from litigation over silicone breast implants: A call for activism by scientists". Science. 276 (5318): 1524–5. doi:10.1126/science.276.5318.1524. PMID9190690.
^Rosenbaum, James T. (2012). "Eyeing Macular Degeneration — A Few Inflammatory Remarks". New England Journal of Medicine. 367 (8): 768–70. doi:10.1056/NEJMcibr1204973. PMID22913688.
^Rosenbaum, JT (1981). "Why HLA-B27: An analysis based on two animal models". Annals of Internal Medicine. 94 (2): 261–3. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-94-2-261. PMID6937155.