Books By John H. Stone - Author

John H. Stone MD, MPH. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. The Edward A. Fox Chair in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.  He writes: I have had a career-long interest in teaching, research, and clinical care of patients with rheumatic diseases; i.e., inflammatory diseases mediated by patients’ overly active immune systems.  My work has focused on the systemic vasculitides, particularly ANCA-associated vasculitis and giant cell arteritis; IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD); and glucocorticoid toxicity.  Following medical school at Harvard Medical School, internal medicine training at Johns Hopkins, and a rheumatology fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco, I co-founded and directed the Vasculitis Center at Johns Hopkins University.  This Center was the first in the United States to focus on inflammatory diseases of blood vessels such as ANCA-associated vasculitis and giant cell arteritis.  At JohnsHopkins, I directed the first NIH-funded, multi-center clinical