Timothy Niewold, MD, FACR
Vice Chair of Medicine for Research, Hospital for Special Surgery
Dr. Timothy Niewold is the Judith and Stewart Colton Professor of Medicine and Pathology at New York University School of Medicine. He is a physician-scientist, and directs the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, which is dedicated to identifying causal factors and new treatment targets in autoimmune disease. Working as a human geneticist and translational researcher, Dr. Niewold bridges the traditional gap between the basic and clinical sciences. He has published more than 170 papers in the fields of Immunology, Genetics, and Rheumatology, and is the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier’s Journal of Immunological Methods.