Philip Mease, MD
Seattle Rheumatology Associates
Director, Rheumatology Research,
Swedish Medical Center
Clinical Professor, University of
Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington, USA

Philip Mease, MD, is Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Director of the Rheumatology Clinical Research Division of Swedish Medical Center, and his clinical practice is based at Seattle Rheumatology Associates. He conducts clinical trials of emerging therapies for rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis and lupus. A research focus is disease state metrics and he is on the steering committee of OMERACT(Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials) and the Co-Chair of three of its working groups on psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia and single joint assessment, as well as being a member of the Soluble Biomarker working group. He is a founding organizer and immediate past president of GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis), a member of SPARTAN (Spondyloarthritis Research & Treatment Network) and ASAS, and a member of TREG (The Rheumatology Education Group). He is on the executive committee of and directs the spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis arm of the US national rheumatology research registry CORRONA (Consortium of Rheumatology Researchers of North America).

Dr. Mease received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he also served as chief resident and fellow in rheumatology. He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed journal articles, numerous abstracts, and 13 book chapters in texts including Biologics in General Medicine (Springer-Verlag, 2007), Update in Targeted Therapies in Rheumatology (Lippincott, 2007), and Rheumatology (2010). He serves as a reviewer for a number of journals including Arthritis & Rheumatism, Arthritis Care & Research, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Journal of Rheumatology, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, Journal of Experimental and Clinical Rheumatology, and Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine. He has been the recipient of the Medical Communicator Award of the American College of Rheumatology.