Peter Barland, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the director of Rheumatology for Montefiore Hospital in New York. He is also the Director of Montefiore's Immunodiagnostic Laboratory. A graduate of Einstein, where he also trained, Peter was the recipient of the Arthritis Foundation's four year Research Training Fellowship. In recognition of his contributions to rheumatology, the Arthritis Foundation (New York Chapter) honored Dr. Barland in 1996 with its prestigious Charles M. Plotz Award.