Bio
Dr Iannis E Adamopoulos is the Vice Chair of Research and Professor of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine-Phoenix, University of Arizona. Prior to joining the Department of Medicine Dr. Adamopoulos was the Director of Arthritis program, Co-Director of the Pathogens, Immunity and Inflammation translational Hub at Beth Israel Medical Deaconess Center, Head of the Osteoimmunology Lab and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr Adamopoulos earned his DPhil at the University Oxford and completed post-doctoral training at Washington University of St Louis and at the DNAX research Institute in Palo alto California.
Prior to his move to Harvard University he was an endowed and tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of California at Davis. He has a long-standing interest in osteoimmunology, a discipline that studies the interaction of immune and skeletal systems as it commonly occurs in rheumatic diseases and inflammatory arthritis. He has authored more than 80 original and review articles that have been published and highlighted by leading journals including the BMJ, Immunity, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Annals of Rheumatic Diseases and Arthritis and Rheumatology. Dr Adamopoulos serves in multiple international scientific boards including the scientific advisory board of Arthritis National Research Foundation, the Skeletal Biology