Arnold E. Postlethwaite, M.D. Associate Program Director Center of Excellence in Connective Tissue Diseases Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology G326 Coleman College of Medicine Building 956 Court Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 phone: 901/448-5774 fax: 901/448-7265 apostlethwai@utmem.edu

Dr. Postlethwaite is Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Connective Tissue Disease in the Department of Medicine at UTHCS. He received his MD degree from Cornell University Medical College and completed Internal Medicine Residency Training at Tulane and Duke. He received Rheumatology Fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center. He was a recipient of VA Research and Education and Clinical Investigator Career Development Awards at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, where he presently has an appointment as a Staff Physician in Rheumatology. He is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He has published over 100 scientific articles dealing with his research interests including chemotaxis, inflammation, fibrosis, systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, fibroblast and macrophage biology, cytokines, and oral immune tolerance. He has served as chairman of study sections for the National Arthritis Foundation and has been a member of the VA Immunology Merit Review Board, NIH-NIAMS Special Grants Review Committee and numerous NIH ad hoc grant review panels. He is presently Principal Investigator on a VA Merit Review Grant to study the role of PGE₂ on oral tolerance, an NIH R01 grant to determine whether oral bovine type II collagen is efficacious in rheumatoid arthritis patients off NSAIDS, an NIH N01 contract grant to determine whether oral bovine type I collagen is efficacious in scleroderma, and is Program Director of a T32 NIH training grant to study diseases of connective tissue.


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