Robert Fox, MD, PhD is a board-certified rheumatologist (and internal medicine physician) with a special interest in Sjögren’s Syndrome.
His past training includes a combined MD–PhD from Harvard Medical School (PhD in Molecular Biology and Virology). After completing his postdoctoral training — internship, residency, fellowship, and faculty role in the Rheumatology Department — at Stanford University, he took a combined clinical and research position at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation as a Skaggs Endowed Fellow.
This position allowed him to interact with the basic and applied clinical research faculty of Scripps Research Foundation, UCSD, and the Salk Institute, as well as direct the Scripps General Clinical Research Center. He has served with both Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization in underserved countries and has been involved in new drug development through scientific collaborations.
He serves on Advisory Committees at the National Institutes of Health and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and was awarded the Broadhurst Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard Medical School for these contributions. He enjoys traveling with his wife (an RN) to practice medicine worldwide and has three married daughters and five grandchildren.
He has worked extensively in the United States — including three months in the Navajo Nation — and internationally in China, Vietnam, India, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Israel, the broader Middle East (including refugee camps in Jordan), South America, Europe, and Australia (including Aboriginal communities). He is continually humbled by the knowledge and commitment of the local physicians he partners with and is excited to collaborate with the outstanding faculty at Kaizen Brain Center, where he is exposed to new horizons in immunology from a neurologic perspective.
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Biophysics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Michigan
- Combined Medical Scientist Degree Program (MD & PhD), Harvard Medical School
- Internship, Fellowship in Rheumatology, and Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Member, Department of Medicine (Clinical) and Immunology (Research), Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Job Experience
- Director, Clinical Research Center, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Honors
- Broadhurst Distinguished Faculty Alumni Award, Harvard Medical School
- Skaggs Fellowship in Clinical Research, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Honorary Memberships:
- Chinese Institute of Medicine
- Indian Academy of Rheumatology
Visiting Professorships:
Cambridge University, Oxford University, All India Research Institute, Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic
External Advisory Committees:
- National Institutes of Health
- Food and Drug Administration (including the College of Center for Biological Agents, which provides updates in rheumatology)
- American College of Rheumatology
- Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation (including joint committees for clinical trials and collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology)
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