Joel Block, Editor-in-chief, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Rush University, USA Joel A. BlockMD,
is the Willard L. Wood, MD, Professor of Rheumatology at Rush Medical College. He is Director of the Division of Rheumatology and Director of the Rush Center for Clinical Studies at Rush University Medical Center. He has served on numerous grant review panels for the NIH, Department of Defense, and multiple overseas governmental funding agencies, as well as domestic and foreign foundations. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Rheumatology and is an ex officio member of the Board of Directors
of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. He is a past chair of the Annual Meeting Planning Committee and the Committee on Education of the American College of Rheumatology. He serves as Editor in Chief of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research and the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. Block’s early research focused on cartilage biology and chondrocytic proteoglycans, and several of his human chondrocyte cell models remain in use in laboratories on four continents. His interests subsequently broadened to include the role of aberrant biomechanical loading in lower extremity osteoarthritis. He leads a large multidisciplinary group that studies osteoarthritis from a broad perspective, including joint tissue biology, physiology of pain and mechanical mediators of osteoarthritis progression, all with a focus on identifying novel therapeutic strategies.
Joel Block 教授，美国拉什大学风湿病学教授，医学博士， 现任拉什大学医学中心风湿病学系主任及临床研究中心主任，为NIH基金及多项国际政府基金评审专家。美国风湿病学会理事会成员和国际骨关节炎学会（OARSI）理事会理事，美国风湿病学会教育委员会前任主席。Osteoarthritis and Cartilage杂志主编，Orthopaedic Research、Clinical Rheumatology国际杂志编委等。他早期研究主要集中在软骨生物学和软骨细胞蛋白多糖上，他的几种人类软骨细胞模型仍在四大洲的实验室中使用。目前他主要研究方向是异常生物力学负荷在下肢骨关节炎中的作用。他的研究团队致力于，从宏观上研究骨关节炎，包括关节组织生物学，疼痛生理学和骨关节炎进展的机械介质，以此寻找骨关节新的治疗策略。