PHILIP MEASE, MD, is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington and the Chief of Rheumatology Clinical Research at the Swedish Medical Center. His clinical trials of emerging therapies for rheumatic diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, lupus, osteoarthritis, etc. Dr. Mease has numerous articles and book chapters to his credit apart from being on the review boards for Arthritis & Rheumatism, the Journal of Rheumatology and the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.