Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD received the 2012 AAI Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding research and career achievements.
	The Vasculitis Foundation has approved Dr. Sharon Chung’s study “Exome sequencing in granulomatosis with polyangiitis” for funding for one year.
	Dr. Jinoos Yazdany has won the 2011 Mary Betty Stevens Young Investigator Award from the Lupus Foundation of America for her research in systemic lupus erythematosus.
	Lindsey A. Criswell, MD, MPH has been appointed as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology ­ Parnassus/Mt. Zion, effective July 1, 2011.
	Sharon Chung, MD, MAS and Julie Zikherman, MD have been selected as the 2011 recipients of the Ephraim P. Engleman Award for Excellence in the Field of Arthritis Research.
	John Imboden, MD was named in 2011 as a UCSF Department of Medicine Master Clinician, an honor that was previously bestowed on Drs. Kenneth Sack and Kenneth Fye in the Rheumatology Division.
	US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals ranks UCSF Rheumatology in the top 10 in the United States.