CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DATA:

Frank C. Arnett, M.D.

PROFESSOR OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
ELIZABETH BIDGOOD CHAIR IN RHEUMATOLOGY

Dr. Arnett received his rheumatology training in the 1970's at Johns Hopkins University under Dr. Lawrence E. Shulman (presently Director Emeritus, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, and a greatly admired mentor and teacher of many of the nation's leading rheumatology investigators here and abroad). Dr. Arnett came to UT in 1984 to become Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Rheumatology, a position he held until he became Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in 2001–2004.

Dr. Arnett is internationally known as a clinician, teacher and clinical investigator. He was elected to the Association of American Physicians in 1993 and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 1995. He served on the Board of Directors of national Alpha OmegaAlpha Honor Medical Society for nine years and was President of AOA in 1996. He also served on the American Board of Internal Medicine from 1988–1994. In 1997 he became Director of the first NIH-NIAMS Specialized Centers of Research in Scleroderma, the longest continually funded SCOR in scleroderma in the nation (1997–2006). In 1986, he received the American College of Rheumatology Howard and Martha Holley Research Award for his contributions to understanding MHC class II allele in SLE. In 1998, he received the Mark Flapan Lifetime Achievement Award for Scleroderma Research from the Scleroderma Foundation. He received the Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teacher Award in 2001 and the John P. McGovern Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award in 2001 and 2003. In 2005, Dr. Arnett received the UT Health Science Center’s highest award, the President’s Scholar Award for Teaching. He has been named to both Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America since 2000.