Richard Furie

Dr. Furie is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Allergy-Clinical Immunology of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System; an Investigator in the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; and Professors of Medicine at both the Albert Einstein College of Medicine  and the newly created Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore-LIJ Health System.  His efforts for the last several decades have focused on patient care, physician education, and clinical research in the area of anti-rheumatic drug development.  He directs the Hospital’s SLE and Autoimmune Disease Treatment Center, which has become internationally recognized for its role in advancing clinical trial design and the development of new therapies for SLE.  He also directs The Program in Novel Therapeutics, the Health System’s clinical research program in musculoskeletal disease.  Regarded as one of the senior rheumatologists in the New York metropolitan area, he has been on the Boards of Directors of the local chapters of the Arthritis Foundation and the Lupus Alliance of America and is a member of the editorial board of the Lupus Foundation of America Lupus News as well as the medical and scientific advisory board of the SLE Foundation.  Dr. Furie also serves on many committees of the American College of Rheumatology, and currently chairs the Committee on Education