James T. Rosenbaum is an American physician-scientist who is Chief of Ophthalmology at the Legacy Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, where he holds the Richard Chenoweth Chair, and Chief of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases at the Oregon Health & Science University where he holds the Edward East Rosenbaum Professorship in Inflammation Research.
Education
Rosenbaum is a National Merit Scholar who graduated from Harvard College in 1971, magna cum laude. He graduated from Yale Medical School with honors in 1975. He did an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford Medical Center from 1975 to 1978.
He was a fellow of the Arthritis Foundation under the supervision of Hugh O. McDevitt at Stanford from 1978 to 1981.
Career
Rosenbaum is the only practicing rheumatologist/non-ophthalmologist in the world to serve as a chief of ophthalmology. He is recognized for his description of an animal model of uveitis (inflammation inside the eye) resulting from injection of bacterial endotoxin (Nature, 286:611, 1980) and for more than 400 scholarly publications, mostly related to the intersection between rheumatology and ophthalmology. He is a co-author of the book, "The Clinical Neurology of Rheumatic Diseases".
Rosenbaum is part of a notable family that includes ten physicians including his father, Edward East Rosenbaum, author of "A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient".
Membership
Rosenbaum is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.