Invited Faculty

Peter A. Merkel

Univ. of Pennsylvania

USA
Dr. Merkel is the Chief of Rheumatology and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Merkel is an internationally recognized research and clinical expert in vasculitis and scleroderma and is an author on over 400 scientific publications. He is the Principal Investigator of the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC), a leading international research infrastructure for vasculitis clinical investigation. Dr. Merkel’s research focuses on clinical trial design and conduct, outcome measure development, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and biomarker discovery.

Dr. Merkel received his MD from Yale University, his MPH from Harvard University, completed his residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Merkel has received the majority of his research support from the National Institutes of Health, the US Food and Drug Administration, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, with additional funding from industry sources and private foundations.

Research & Clinical Focus

Vasculitis

Scleroderma

Clinical Trials

Clinical Epidemiology

Outcome Measures

Date	Time	Room	Session Title	Lecture Title
May 18	17:00-17:30	Room Grand Ballroom 103	[International Symposium 2] Management of Systemic Vasculitis	Recent advances in the treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis