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Dec 30, 1945 78 years old
American physician and professor
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About Robert G. Lahita
- Robert George Lahita is an American physician, internist and rheumatologist, best known for his research into systemic lupus erythematosus.
- and other autoimmune diseases.
- He is the author of more than 16 books and 150 scientific publications in the field of autoimmunity and immuno-endocrinology and a media consultant on health-related issues.
- He currently serves as Chairman of Medicine at St.
- Joseph's Healthcare System, specializing in rheumatology, and treatment of diseases of joints, muscle, bones and tendons including arthritis, back pain, muscle strains, common athletic injuries and collagen diseases. Lahita is a clinical professor at New Jersey Medical School, an adjunct professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a full professor of medicine at New York Medical College.
- He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a master of the American College of Rheumatology, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- His research interests are the molecular aspects of antigen expression in response to sex hormones in the autoimmune diseases, reasons for female predisposition of autoimmune disease, and the etiopathogenesis of the phospholipid syndrome. Lahita is the editor of the standard textbook Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (5th edition).
- and the Senior Editor of the Textbook of Autoimmune Diseases Lahita is the Associate Editor of Lupus, An International Journal and was co-editor of the Yearbook of Rheumatology (out of print).
- He is the author of four books for the general public, Lupus, Q&A; Everything You Need to Know, The Arthritis Solution Rheumatoid Arthritis: Everything You Need to Know and Women and Autoimmune Disease; The Mysterious Way the Body Betrays ItselfOn September 11, 2001, Lahita triaged and treated those involved in the disaster that were transported to Jersey City, New Jersey by ferry.
- He was featured in Life Magazine's Faces of Ground Zero.
