Ephraim P. Engleman
Ephraim P. Engleman, MD, clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, has been awarded the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons' Gold Medal for excellence in clinical medicine.
It is the highest honor the school's Alumni Association can bestow.
Engleman is also director of the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis at UCSF.
Engleman earned his BA degree from Stanford University. After attending medical school at Columbia University and holding a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, he went into private practice as the first rheumatologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He joined the UCSF clinical faculty in 1947.
Among the many major honors that Engleman has received over his 60-year career are: the Presidential Gold Medal of the American College of Rheumatology; visiting lecturer and visiting professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic and at Harvard's Robert Brigham Hospital; honorary membership in the Chinese Medical Association and the rheumatology societies of Australia, France, Japan, Spain and Uruguay; creation of the Ephraim P. Engleman Distinguished Professorship in Rheumatology at UCSF and the UCSF Medal, the University's highest honor.
