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3. Bruce Rothschild Professor of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology, University of Kansas Research Associate, Carnegie Museum email:bmr@ku.edu http://www2.ku.edu/~lba/researchers/rothschild.shtml

4. Areas of expertise Skeletal pathology paleopathology Inflammatory arthritis.

5. Background (I) Bruce M. Rothschild, M.D. graduated from New Jersey College of Medicine in 1973. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and Society of Skeletal Radiology and elected to the International Skeletal Society.

6. He has been recognized for his work in Rheumatology and Skeletal Pathology where his special interests focus on clinical-anatomic- radiologic correlation, data-based paleopathology, evolution of inflammatory arthritis and tuberculosis and management of inflammatory arthritis. He is widely recognized for his contributions to understanding radiologic manifestations of rheumatologic disease.

7. Background (II) He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in the US, Canada, the Carribean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Asia and has been an invited lecturer at universities, hospital and museums throughout the world. He is the author of 4 books and has participated in 8 Discover Channel/BBC documentaries on origins of diseases and ancient reptiles.

8. He has published over 600 papers and abstracts, including authoritative papers on the origins of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, syphilis and tuberculosis, character of bone changes in metastatic cancer, myeloma, leukemia, tuberculosis, fungal disease, renal disease, treponemal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy, gout, calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy

9. Education & Positions Since 1986, Dr. Rothschild has been Professor of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio, USA. He is also Adjuvant Professor of Geology and Anthropology at the University of Kansas and of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Akron, Ohio and holds Research Associateships at the Carnegie Museum He was first director of the Rheumatology Division at The Chicago Medical School and a prime force behind the resurgence of data-based paleorheumatology and comparative osseous pathology.

10. Current projects Pathology in the fossil record Spondyloarthropathy in dogs Anatomy and skeletal pathology in primates Proof of concept study of application of new techniques to understand anatomy and pathology Origin of disease Skeletal impact of disease

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