Robert P. Kimberly MD

Robert P. Kimberly received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School after receiving his AB magna cum laude from Princeton University and a BA/MA from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England.

After training at Penn and NIH he joined the Cornell Medical Center where he was Professor of Medicine and Director of Biomedical Research in the Cornell Arthritis Center. Dr. Kimberly joined the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1996 as Professor of Medicine and the Howard L. Holley Research Chair of Rheumatology.

Dr. Kimberly is a clinical rheumatologist, immunologist and human geneticist. His interests focus on translational research in autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the systemic vasculitides. He is Principal Investigator for the CTSA Hub at UAB.