James E. Dowd, M.D., FACR

Dr. Dowd is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and director of the Arthritis Institute of Michigan and the Michigan Arthritis Research Center.

He did his undergraduate work at Texas A&M University and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He completed a residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he served as chief medical resident at Erie County Medical. He completed a four-year fellowship in combined adult and pediatric rheumatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He received a Physician-Scientist Development Award given by the American College of Rheumatology for research on superantigens. He is board-certified in general internal medicine, adult rheumatology, and pediatric rheumatology. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Michigan Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. He has authored several scientific papers as well as a book, The Vitamin D Cure published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008.