Marc C. Hochberg, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Head, Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Marc C. Hochberg  received his undergraduate degree (A.B. cum laude in Chemistry) from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.  He completed residency training in internal medicine and fellowship training in rheumatology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.  He was a member of the full-time faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1977 to 1991.  Since 1991, Dr. Hochberg has been Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  Since 1995, he has been the Head of the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dr. Hochberg’s research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases, particularly osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.  He is the Principal Investigator of the Baltimore Clinical Center of the Osteoarthritis Initiative and the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (both funded by the National Institutes of Health), and the Baltimore Men’s Osteoporosis Study (funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs), and is a Co-investigator on several other studies.

Dr. Hochberg has received numerous awards and has held appointments in several nationally and internationally recognized medical societies. He is a Founding Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He currently is Chair, Standing Committee on Epidemiology of the International League of Associations of Rheumatology. In 1999, Dr. Hochberg received the Clinical Research Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International. In 2001, he was named one of only 50 “Postdoctoral Fellow Heroes” by the Arthritis Foundation.  In 2002, he received the Mary Betty Stevens Clinical Research Award from the American College of Physicians (Maryland Chapter).  He has published his research in over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and is an editor of the textbooks “Epidemiology of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2nd edition” (Oxford University Press, 2001), “Rheumatology, 3rd edition” (Elsevier, 2003) and “Practical Rheumatology, 3rd edition (Elsevier, 2004).  He is Associate Editor of Clinical Rheumatology, and is presently on the editorial board of Rheumatology, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, The Journal of Rheumatology, Journal of Clinical Densitometry and Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.