Interdisciplinary Rheumatology

Dr. Laura J. Kopplin is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed a fellowship in uveitis and ocular immunology at the Casey Eye Institute – Oregon Health & Science University and the Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon. Her research interests include epidemiology and risk factors for inflammatory eye diseases, clinical trials of uveitis therapeutics, biomarkers for uveitis outcomes, and clinical management of ocular inflammatory disease. She is the Subcommittee Chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Pattern – Uveitis Panel. She is also the co-host of Headlight in the Fog: The Uveitis Podcast. Dr. Joanne Valeriano-Marcet is Professor of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She completed her fellowship in rheumatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Her awards have included the Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach” Award for Program Director Excellence from the ACGME and the Outstanding GME Program Director Award from USF, and she has been named among the Best Doctors in America. She has published widely and served on the ACGME Working Group to develop the Rheumatology Milestones 2.0.