James Rosenbaum

Biography

James T. Rosenbaum (born September 29, 1949) is an American physician-scientist who is Chief of Ophthalmology emeritus at the Legacy Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, where he held the Richard Chenoweth Chair, and Chief of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at the Oregon Health & Science University where he holds the Edward E Rosenbaum Professorship in Inflammation Research. Rosenbaum is the only practicing rheumatologist/non-ophthalmologist in the world to serve as a chief of ophthalmology. He is recognized for his description of an animal model of uveitis (inflammation inside the eye) resulting from injection of bacterial endotoxin (Nature, 286:611, 1980) and for more than 600 scholarly publications, mostly related to the intersection between rheumatology and ophthalmology. He is a co-author of the book, "The Clinical Neurology of Rheumatic Diseases".

Education
M.D., 1975, Yale Medical School
Residency: Medicine-Stanford Medical Center, Stanford
Fellowship: Rheumatology-Stanford Medical Center, Stanford

Honors

Rosenbaum is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He was given a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was awarded the Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2011, the Gold Medal from the International Uveitis Study Group Eye Foundation in 2012, the Cless Award from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2012, and the American College of Rheumatology Distinguished Clinician Scholar Award in 2013. His first authored papers or essays have appeared in journals that include Science, Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, the Archives of Internal Medicine and the online source for physicians, UpToDate.

Most cited publications

Standardization of uveitis nomenclature for reporting clinical data. Results of the First International Workshop
Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group
American journal of ophthalmology 140 (3), 509-516 2005

Guidelines for the use of immunosuppressive drugs in patients with ocular inflammatory disorders: recommendations of an expert panel
DA Jabs, JT Rosenbaum, CS Foster, GN Holland, GJ Jaffe, JS Louie, ...
American journal of ophthalmology 130 (4), 492-513 2000

Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group. Standardization of uveitis nomenclature for reporting clinical data. Results of the First International Workshop
DA Jabs, RB Nussenblatt, JT Rosenbaum
Am J Ophthalmol 140 (3), 509-516 2005

Endotoxin-induced uveitis in rats as a model for human disease
JT Rosenbaum, HO McDevitt, RB Guss, PR Egbert
Nature 286 (5773), 611-613 1980

American College of Rheumatology/Spondylitis Association of America/Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network 2015 recommendations for the treatment of ankylosing Spondylitis and Nonradiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis
MM Ward, A Deodhar, EA Akl, A Lui, J Ermann, LS Gensler, JA Smith, ...
Arthritis care & research 68 (2), 151-166 2016