Dr. William Robert Gilliland M.D.
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
Walter Reed Army Medical Ctr 6900 Georgia Avenue, Washington DC, 20307About
Dr. William Gilliland is a rheumatologist practicing in Washington, DC. Dr. Gilliland specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Gilliland treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ovarian cancer presenting as leukocytoclastic vasculitis.
- Osseous disease in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis and musculoskeletal symptoms.
- Disease modifying antirheumatic drugs and pregnancy.
- Polymyalgia rheumatica and breast cancer.
- Updates in the management of gout.
- Duration of preclinical rheumatoid arthritis-related autoantibody positivity increases in subjects with older age at time of disease diagnosis.
- Emerging biological therapies in systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Quinidine-induced dermatomyositis-like illness.
- The Long-Term Career Outcome Study (LTCOS): where we've been and where we hope to go.
- The F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine model: tuition-free medical school in exchange for public service.
- Improving the use of allopurinol in chronic gout: monitoring oxypurinol levels to guide therapy.
- Broadening our understanding of clinical quality: from attribution error to situated cognition.
- Optimizing therapeutics: the next front in the war on rheumatoid arthritis.
- Autoantibody epitope spreading in the pre-clinical phase predicts progression to rheumatoid arthritis.
- Progress toward personalized treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
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