1983 B.S., Biological Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
1987 M.D., University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
My activities encompass administration, teaching and patient care. I serve as Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, which is part of the Department of Medicine and Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM), and I am responsible for the clinical practice and academic mission of the division. I have extensive experience in teaching medical students, interns, residents and fellows since 1993. I enjoy teaching, and as Fellowship Program Director, I am responsible for running the fellowship training program at UVM. I have also been involved in numerous activities pertaining to education for medical students (including development of the rheumatology curriculum for the UVM medical school “Vermont Integrated Curriculum”), interns, residents, fellows and attending practitioners in Vermont, at a national level as part of several American College of Rheumatology committees and subcommittees, and as a member of the committee writing the rheumatology portion of the American College of Physicians publication, the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17 and MKSAP 18. I have a large, active clinical practice caring for patients with rheumatic diseases in the outpatient clinic and inpatient wards at The University of Vermont Medical Center.
1993-2001 Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont.
2001-2011 Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont.
2002 -2009 Associate Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program
2011-present Professor, Divison of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont
2009-present Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Training Program
Phi Beta Kappa
Alpha Lambda Delta
Phi Kappa Phi
Alpha Mu Gamma
1979-1983 Dean's List
1979-1983 National Merit Scholar
1979 Presidential Award Recipient
2010-2013 Three time recipient of the American College of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation/Amgen/Wyeth/Rheumatology Fellowship Training Award
Libman BS, Quismorio Jr. FP, Stimmler MM. Polyarteritis nodosa-like vasculitis inhuman immunodeficiency virus infection. J Rheumatol 1995;22:351-5.
Salahuddin N, Libman BS, Lunde JH, Kay J, Cooper SM. Association of relapsingpolychondritis and myelodysplastic syndrome. Report of three cases. Journal of ClinicalRheumatology 2000;6(3):146-9.
Bruno KM, Farhoomand L, Libman BS, Pappas CN, Landry FJ. Cryptococcalarthritis, tendinitis, tenosynovitis, and carpal tunnel syndrome: report of a case and review of the literature. Arthritis Care & Research (Arthritis and Rheumatism) 2002;47:104-8.
Cooper SM, Libman BS, Lazarovich M. Churg-Strauss syndrome in a group of patients receiving fluticasone for asthma. Journal of Rheumatology 2002;29:2651-2652.
Nepveu K, Libman BS. Hepatitis C as another possible cause of porphyria cutanea tarda and systemic lupus erythematosus: comment on the article by Kutz and Bridges. Arthritis Rheum 1996;39:352-4.
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