John H. Klippel, M.D., medical director at the national Arthritis Foundation
in Washington, D.C., will give the annual Latta Lecture at the University
of Nebraska Medical Center on Friday, May 12.
Dr. Klippels lecture will deal with progress being made in the treatment
of lupus, a form of arthritis. The lecture will begin at noon in the UNMC
Eppley Science Amphitheater. Faculty, alumni and students are invited.
Dr. Klippel had a distinguished career in biomedical research at the
National Institutes of Health, where he served as a senior investigator
from 1974 to 1987 and as clinical director of the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases from 1987 to 1999. He joined
the Arthritis Foundation last year.
A contributor of more than 100 peer-reviewed medical publications, Dr.
Klippel also has written more than 70 chapters and reviews. His honors
and awards include the Surgeon Generals Exemplary Service Award and the
Directors Award from the NIH.
The Latta Lecture is named after the late John S. Latta, M.D. Dr. Latta
taught courses in embryology and histology at UNMC from 1921 until 1963.
The chairman of the Department of Anatomy from 1940 to 1960, Dr. Latta
earned the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Nebraska
Foundation in 1957. In 1980, the UNMC College of Medicine Alumni Association
established the John S. Latta Lectureship to commemorate his service to
the college. Dr. Latta died in 1989 at age 94.
In 1996, Latta was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service to
Medicine Award from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of
Medicine.