Premios Howley a la investigación sobre la artritis

Ganadora del premio Lee C. Howley Sr. 2025

The Arthritis Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 Lee C. Howley Sr. prize to Elaine Husni, MD, MPH. Este premio reconoce a un médico-científico en los primeros años de su carrera que haya hecho contribuciones importantes a la investigación relacionada con la artritis y haya demostrado un compromiso excepcional con el trabajo voluntario a través de la Fundación.  
 
Dr. Husni received her undergraduate education from Boston College, her master's and medical degrees from Boston University School of Medicine, completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, and fellowship at Brigham & Women's Hospital. She is currently the vice chair in the department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases at Cleveland Clinic. 
 
Trained in rheumatology with a career-long emphasis on improving outcomes in inflammatory arthritis, her research integrates patient-reported outcomes, precision medicine, and immunologic mechanisms underlying treatment response and nonresponse. She is the recipient of the Arthritis Foundation Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Program grant, “Defining a Personalized Treatment Approach to Rheumatoid Arthritis: Using Genetic Markers of TNFi Response,” and has shared her work nationally, including at the RA Research Summit. Her program bridges rigorous science with real-world impact to advance individualized care and quality of life for patients living with arthritis. 

Dr. Husni’s Arthritis Foundation volunteer service began as a rheumatology trainee, helping lead early community health and fundraising efforts — including a Boston-area 5K event. Since then, she has served locally and nationally across the Foundation’s medical and scientific activities, supported major fundraising events such as Walk to Cure Arthritis and Silver Spoons, and participated in multiple think tank initiatives (patient-reported outcomes, psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis). She also contributes to the Arthritis Foundation Science & Industry Consortium to strengthen collaboration among academia, clinicians and industry, and regularly supports Living Well patient education. 

“I’m deeply honored and grateful to receive the 2025 Howley Sr. Prize. The Arthritis Foundation has shaped my career since training, and this recognition fuels my commitment to arthritis research and patients,” says Dr. Husni. 

The 2025 Lee C. Howley Jr. Prize Recipient 

The Arthritis Foundation has awarded the 2025 Lee C. Howley Jr. Prize to Mileka Gilbert, MD, PhD. This award recognizes physician-scientists who have made important contributions to arthritis-related research and have shown exceptional commitment to volunteer work through the Foundation.  
 
Dr. Gilbert, associate professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for engagement, at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), completed undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2001. She then earned her MD and PhD degrees in 2009 from the University of North Carolina. She completed her training in general pediatrics at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in 2012 and went on to complete fellowship training in pediatric rheumatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 2015. She joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at MUSC in 2015 where she is the principal investigator for the Pediatric Rheumatology Care & Outcomes Improvement Network. Dr. Gilbert has led quality improvement and implementation science work to improve disease and mental health outcomes of children with juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic diseases.  

She has served on the Arthritis Foundation Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee, Community Health Expert Working Group. Dr. Gilbert is also the co-chair of the Arthritis Foundation Community Health and Workforce Summit and is now serving on the Vaccine Policy Taskforce.  She has also reviewed grant proposals for Arthritis Foundation awards and participated in Jingle Bell Runs. 

“I am very honored to receive this award especially from an organization that inspires inclusive and collaborative teamwork in the holistic care of children with juvenile arthritis,” says Dr. Gilbert. 

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