Tamiko Katsumoto, MD is honored as the first recipient of the Jo Rae Wright Early Career Investigator Award given by the Assembly on Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology (RCMB).
	Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD is the recipient of the 2012 UCSF Lifetime Mentoring Award.
	Tamiko Katsumoto, MD has been chosen to receive the Laura Bechtel Junior Faculty Award in recognition of her research. Tamiko’s research is providing insights into disease pathogenesis and new directions in the treatment of scleroderma lung disease and asthma.
	Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD is the recipient of 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.
	US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals ranks UCSF Rheumatology in the top 10 in the United States.