About Richard Brasington, M.D.

Dr. Brasington currently works at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis as a professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology. His specialty areas are rheumatology and arthritis. His areas of clinical interest are the investigation of new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, and Sjögren's syndrome.

Dr. Brasington received his medical degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and completed his fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Iowa.

Some of the awards Dr. Brasington has received are:

• Listed in America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, 2002–2008
• Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002–2008 (Best Doctors, Inc.)
• Junior faculty participant, ACR/EULAR Academic Rheumatology Exchange
  Program, 1998–1999
• Spirit of Giving Award, Arthritis Foundation Eastern Missouri Chapter.
  1998

He has written and co-written many publications. His most recent are:

• "Clinical features of rheumatoid arthritis,” Rheumatology fourth edition Hochberg, 2007, Vol 1, chp 72, 763-772
• “Corneal Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis,” CORNEA second edition, 2004, Vol 1,chp 96, 1207-1224