Andreas Reiff, MD is the current Vice President and global therapeutic area head for Inflammation/Immunology at Parexel International Global Medical Services, a large Contract Research Organization (CRO) based in Boston, MA, USA. In addition he is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and the former Division Head of the Division of Rheumatology at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. He was also the director of the Pediatric Rheumatology Program at Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach, California and a Visiting Clinical Associate Professor, at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine.

Dr. Reiff received his medical degree from University Medical School in Freiburg, Germany. Following an internship in internal medicine and surgery at the Kantonsspital Liestal in Switzerland, he returned to Freiburg and completed his residency at the University Children’s Hospital.

He completed a research fellowship in the Division of Rheumatology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles between 1993 and 1994, and a fellowship in pediatric rheumatology at University Children’s Hospital in Freiburg from 1994 -1996.

Dr. Reiff’s primary expertise includes the treatment, management, and genetics of autoimmune diseases (AIDs), treatment of inflammatory and degenerative eye diseases, and alternatives to stem cell transplantation for the treatment of AIDs. He served as PI and coinvestigator on numerous clinical trials in immunology and inflammation and was a clinical consultant for several pharmaceutical companies.

In addition to authoring and co-authoring numerous journal articles, abstracts, reviews, and book chapters, he has lectured on rheumatologic topics nationally and internationally.

He is a well-known national and international speaker on biologic drug development and the treatment of chronic inflammatory eye diseases.

He is a member of the American College of Rheumatology, the Southern California Rheumatology Society, the pediatric rheumatology networks PRINTO and PRSCG and served on the advisory boards for the Arthritis Foundation, Lupus LA, and on several CHLA committees.

Dr. Reiff is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology by the European Union and the American Board of Pediatrics. He has received several honors, grants, and awards.