Thomas G. Osborn

Thomas Osborn received the bachelor’s degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 1968. He graduated from medical school in 1972 from Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, USA, and did his internship there as well in Internal Medicine. He subsequently performed required United States Army service as a general practitioner in Alaska, USA, finished his residency in the military, and served one additional year at the NSA in Fort Meade, MD, USA, in the U.S. Army. Following this, he did a fellowship in Rheumatology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA, and stayed on staff there as an Associate Professor, focused on research, teaching, and clinical practice until 1994. From 1994 to 1997, he was in private practice and subsequently did clinical care for Cleveland Clinic, Weston, FL, USA, for five years. In 2003, he joined Mayo Clinic in Rheumatology, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has published on Sjögren’s syndrome and a variety of other rheumatologic diseases. He has recently published and co-published articles related to research in this field. His primary interests have been scleroderma and scleroderma animal models. His most recent work has been with autoimmune pulmonary diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis. His current research interest with Dr. Xiaoming Zhang has stemmed from work on scleroderma, skin, attempting to quantitate the amount of elasticity. He has previously reviewed grants for the National Institute of Health and the Rheumatology Research Foundation, which he continues.