John Atkinson received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Kansas. His training in internal medicine was at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. His postdoctoral research training was with Sheldon Wolff and Michael Frank at the National Institutes of Health and with Charles Parker and Donald Shreffler at Washington University. He has been on the faculty of Washington University since 1976 and directed the Division of Rheumatology from 1976 to 1992. He was an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1976 to 1992. He was Physician-in-Chief at Barnes Hospital and Adolphus Busch Professor and Head of John Milliken Department of Medicine from 1992 to 1996. Dr. Atkinson is currently Professor of Medicine and of Molecular Microbiology. He is the first Samuel B. Grant Professor.
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