Jeffrey R. Lisse MD

Dr. Lisse is a Professor of Medicine in the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Medical Director for the University of Arizona Arthritis Center’s Osteoporosis Program and Medical Director of the Arizona Telemedicine Program.

A native of Washington D.C., he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Franklin & Marshall College in 1972 and his Medical Doctorate with honors from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1976.

He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the United States Public Health Services Hospital in San Francisco, California, in 1979 and a fellowship in Rheumatology at the University of California in San Diego in 1983.

He joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2000 as the Ethel McChesney Bilby Endowed Chair for Osteoporosis. He served as chief of the UA Division of Rheumatology from 2004-2013 and was interim director of the University of Arizona Arthritis Center from 2005-2008.

Before coming to the University of Arizona in 2000, Dr. Lisse spent 17 years at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He served as a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, a consultant in the Department of Pathology, and Medical Director of the Immuno-diagnostic Laboratory. Prior to these appointments, Dr. Lisse was a staff associate at the National Institutes of Health Southwest Studies Field Section in Phoenix, Arizona, and was an internal medicine consultant for the Phoenix and Sacaton Indian Health Service Hospitals during that time.