"Harnessing the Microbiome for Understanding Inflammatory Arthritis"

The Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lectureship in Rheumatology

Speaker:

Kristi Kuhn, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine & Head of Rheumatology
University of Colorado School of Medicine

About Kristi Kuhn:

Dr. Kuhn holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and a doctoral degree in immunology from the University of Colorado. She earned her medical degree from the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center and completed internal medicine residency training at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as Chief Resident and remained to obtain advanced training through a fellowship in rheumatology.

In 2013, Dr. Kuhn returned to the University of Colorado to establish her independent research program focused on specific intestinal microbe-mucosal interactions that influence the generation of systemic inflammation and the development of spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

She holds the Scoville Endowed Chair.