Director, Duke University Arthritis Center
Professor, Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
piset001@mc.duke.edu
Dr. Pisetsky has a long-standing interest in medical ethics,
having served for many years on the Ethics Committee of the Durham
Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center. He has taught medicine
for over twenty years and is currently Chief of the Division of
Rheumatology, Arthritis, and Clinical Immunology. In addition to
his clinical and teaching work, he has published over 200 investigative
scientific articles and dozens of abstracts, and has edited four
scientific volumes. But Pisetsky has not limited himself to the
strictly scientific line of investigation—he also brings the human
realities of medical practice and the experiences of both doctor
and patient to light in his published short stories and essays.
These have appeared in journals ranging from the Annals of Internal
Medicine and JAMA to the Journal of Medical Humanities.
Extremely active in committee work for the Arthritis Foundation,
American Rheumatism Association, American College of Rheumatology,
the VA, Time Life Medical publishers, and the National Institutes
of Health, Pisetsky has also received a number of awards from these
and other groups. He is currently Editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism.
Dr. Pisetsky's long and active medical service combines with his
first-person shared narrative experience to enrich the ongoing investigation
into the importance of the relation between physician and patient.
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