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Sara Ellen Walker, MD — education (teaching), internal medicine (rheumatology)

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Dr. Sara E. Walker (b. 1939), a specialist in rheumatology, studies the chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly known as lupus. Her investigations have found a link between certain hormones and lupus, a disease nine times more common in women than in men. Dr. Walker is a past president of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM).

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