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New Leadership
along with the Democratic Town Committee. She's a member of Trinity Episcopal Church
on the Green in New Haven.
Dr. Desir is the wife of Dr. Gary Desir and the daughter of the late Dr. Benjamin I. Dyett and
Mrs. Betty M. Dyett. She is the mother of Carl (Reema), Matthew (Cortni), Chrysanthemum
(Camille Seaberry), and Alexandra (Maurice Clarke), and the grandmother of Elodie, Amari,
Zaydee, and Lexington.
Carol Langford, MD, MHS
ACR PRESIDENT-ELECT
Dr. Langford received her MD at the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1987 and trained in
internal medicine at the University of Michigan from
1987-1990. She was a fellow in rheumatology at
Duke University from 1990-1994, where she also
received an MHS in 1995.
From 1994-2004, Dr. Langford was senior investigator
within the Immunologic Diseases Section of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National
Institutes of Health, where her research focused on vasculitis.
In 2004, Dr. Langford joined Cleveland Clinic to become Director of
the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research within the Department of Rheumatic and
Immunologic Diseases. She is professor of medicine of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College
of Medicine and was named vice-chair of rheumatology for Research in 2007. In 2011, she
became the Harold C. Schott endowed chair in rheumatic and immunologic diseases.
At Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Langford's work has focused on patient care, education, and
research in vasculitis. Her main research focus has been the investigation of novel
therapies in vasculitis, and she has served as principal investigator for randomized
trials in granulomatosis with polyangiitis, giant cell arteritis, and Takayasu arteritis. From
2000-2005, she was associate editor of Arthritis & Rheumatology. She currently serves as
an editor for Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.
Throughout her career, Dr. Langford has been actively involved with the ACR. She was
clinical abstract chair for the annual meeting and was part of the ACR team involved in
developing tools directed toward Maintenance of Certification that sought to advance the
educational goals of rheumatologists. She has served as Chair of the Committee
on Education and, most recently. on the ACR Board of Directors.
ACR
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
2023-2024
OFFICERS
President
Deborah Dyett Desir,
MD
President-Elect
Carol Langford,
MD, MHS
Secretary
William " Will " F.
Harvey, MD, MSc,
FACR
Treasurer
Anne Bass, MD
Rheumatology
Research Foundation
President
Liana Fraenkel, MD,
MPH
ARP President
Aileen Ledingham,
PT, MS, PhD
MEMBERS
Marcy Bolster, MD
Vinicius
Domingues, MD
Colin Edgerton, MD
Maura Iverson, PT,
DPT, ScD
Jane Kang, MD, MS
Andrew Laster, MD,
MACR
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Karen Onel, MD
Deborah Parks, MD
Eric Ruderman, MD
Saira Sheikh, MD
Marcus Snow, MD
Nehad Soloman, MD
Blair Solow, MD, MSc
Swamy
Venuturupalli, MD
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NOVEMBER 10-15, 2023

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