Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, MACR, FACP

Allan Gibofsky, MD, JD, MACR, FACP, is a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending physician and rheumatologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Hospital for Special Surgery, where he is also codirector of the Clinic for Inflammatory Arthritis and Biologic Therapy.

Dr Gibofsky received his BS from Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, his MD from Cornell University Medical College (currently known as Weill Cornell Medicine), and his JD from Fordham University, where he is an emeritus adjunct professor of law. He completed his internship in pathology, followed by his residency in medicine, at New York Hospital (currently known as NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital). Dr Gibofsky completed fellowships in rheumatology and immunology jointly at Hospital for Special Surgery and The Rockefeller University.

He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and textbook chapters, and he is known for his early studies on the immunogenetics of rheumatic diseases and their relationship to infection, using rheumatic fever as the model for host-microbe interactions. Dr Gibofsky has also published extensively on basic and clinical aspects of immune diseases and on legal aspects of medical practice.

He is a Jonas E. Salk Scholar of The City University of New York and past chair of the US Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Committee; he continues to serve as a special consultant to the agency. Dr Gibofsky is past president of the American College of Legal Medicine and past chair of the American Board of Legal Medicine. He is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and past president and master of the American College of Rheumatology.