LauraBHughesMDMSPH

Rheumatology • Birmingham, AL

Professor, Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine

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Office
SHEL 178G
1825 University Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35294
Phone+1 205-975-2175

Fax+1 205-934-1564
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Education & Training

University of Alabama Medical CenterFellowship, Rheumatology, 2000 - 2003
Physicians Medical Center CarrawayResidency, Internal Medicine, 1996 - 2000
University of Alabama School of MedicineClass of 1996

Certifications & Licensure

AL State Medical License 2000 - 2024
American Board of Internal Medicine Rheumatology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2012
Fellow (FACR) American College of Rheumatology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

15 citations
Deconstruction of rheumatoid arthritis synovium defines inflammatory subtypes.
Fan Zhang, Anna Helena Jonsson, Aparna Nathan, Nghia Millard, Michelle Curtis, Qian Xiao, Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, William Apruzzese, Gerald F M Watts, Dana Weisenfeld...> ;Nature. 2023 Nov 1
23 citations
Everyday Discrimination in Adults with Knee Pain: The Role of Perceived Stress and Pain Catastrophizing.
Ellen L. Terry, M Dottington Fullwood, Staja Q. Booker, Josue Cardoso, Kimberly T. Sibille, Toni L. Glover, Kathryn A. Thompson, Adriana S. Addison, Burel R. Goodin, R...> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2020 May 1
21 citations
Neuropathic-Like Pain Symptoms in a Community-Dwelling Sample with or at Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis.
Ellen L. Terry, Staja Q. Booker, Josue Cardoso, Kimberly T. Sibille, Emily J. Bartley, Toni L. Glover, Ivana A. Vaughn, Kathryn A. Thompson, Hailey W. Bulls, Adriana S...> ;Pain Medicine. 2020 Jan 1
18 citations
At the Intersection of Ethnicity/Race and Poverty: Knee Pain and Physical Function
Kathryn A. Thompson, Ellen L. Terry, Kimberly T. Sibille, Ethan W. Gossett, Erin N Ross, Emily J. Bartley, Toni L. Glover, Ivana A. Vaughn, Josue Cardoso, Adriana Soto...> ;Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2019 Jul 10
630 citations
Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry.
Fan Zhang, Kevin Wei, Kamil Slowikowski, Chamith Y. Fonseka, Deepak A. Rao, Stephen Kelly, Susan M. Goodman, Darren Tabechian, Laura B. Hughes, Karen Salomon-Escoto, G...> ;Nature Immunology. 2019 May 6
43 citations
Activity and Connectivity Differences Underlying Inhibitory Control Across the Adult Life Span
Kamen A. Tsvetanov, Zheng Ye, Laura B. Hughes, David Samu, Matthias S. Treder, Noham Wolpe, Lorraine K. Tyler, James B. Rowe> ;The Journal of Neuroscience. 2018 Sep 5
33 citations
Optimism and Psychological Resilience are Beneficially Associated With Measures of Clinical and Experimental Pain in Adults With or at Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis
Kathryn A. Thompson, Hailey W. Bulls, Kimberly T. Sibille, Emily J. Bartley, Toni L. Glover, Ellen L. Terry, Ivana A. Vaughn, Josue Cardoso, Adriana Sotolongo, Roland ...> ;The Clinical Journal of Pain. 2018 Dec 1
34 citations
Transcriptional Profiling of Synovial Macrophages Using Minimally Invasive Ultrasound-Guided Synovial Biopsies in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Arthur M. Mandelin, Philip J. Homan, Alexander M. Shaffer, Carla M. Cuda, Salina Dominguez, E. Bacalao, Mary Carns, Monique Hinchcliff, Jongmin Lee, Kathleen Aren, Anj...> ;Arthritis & Rheumatology. 2018 Jun 1
38 citations
Update on Importance of Diet in Gout
Randall N. Beyl, Laura B. Hughes, Sarah L. Morgan> ;The American Journal of Medicine. 2016 Nov 1
9 citations
The role of genetic variants in CRP in radiographic severity in African Americans with early and established rheumatoid arthritis.
Maria I. Danila, Andrew O. Westfall, K Raman, Ligong Chen, Richard J. Reynolds, Laura B. Hughes, Donna K. Arnett, Gerald McGwin, Alexander J. Szalai, D. van der Heijde...> ;Genes and Immunity. 2015 Jul 30
29 citations
HLA-DRB1-associated rheumatoid arthritis risk at multiple levels in African Americans: hierarchical classification systems, amino acid positions, and residues.
Richard J. Reynolds, Altan F. Ahmed, Maria I. Danila, Laura B. Hughes, Peter K. Gregersen, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Robert M. Plenge, S. Louis Bridges> ;Arthritis & Rheumatology. 2014 Dec 1
16 citations
Complementary and alternative medicine use in African Americans with rheumatoid arthritis.
Ashutosh Tamhane, Gerald McGwin, David T. Redden, Laura B. Hughes, Elizabeth E. Brown, Andrew O. Westfall, Doyt L. Conn, Beth Jonas, Edwin A. Smith, Richard Brasington...> ;Arthritis Care & Research. 2014 Feb 1
22 citations
Comparison of the Disease Activity Score Using Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate and C-reactive Protein in African Americans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ashutosh Tamhane, David T. Redden, Gerald McGwin, Elizabeth Brown, Andrew O. Westfall, Richard J. Reynolds, Laura B. Hughes, Doyt L. Conn, Leigh F. Callahan, Beth Jona...> ;The Journal of Rheumatology. 2013 Nov 1
9 citations
Gene expression patterns in peripheral blood cells associated with radiographic severity in African Americans with early rheumatoid arthritis
Richard J. Reynolds, Xiangqin Cui, Laura Vaughan, David T. Redden, Elizabeth L. Perkins, Tishi Shah, Laura B. Hughes, Clear Investigators, Aarti Damle, Marlena Kern, P...> ;Rheumatology International. 2013 Jan 1
16 citations
Association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in CCR6, TAGAP, and TNFAIP3 with rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans.
Perkins Ea, Landis D, Zenoria L Causey, Yuanqing Edberg, Richard J. Reynolds, Laura B. Hughes, Gregersen Pk, Robert P. Kimberly, Jeffrey C. Edberg, S. L. Bridges> ;Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2012 May 1
66 citations
Use of a Multiethnic Approach to Identify Rheumatoid- Arthritis-Susceptibility Loci, 1p36 and 17q12
Fina A S Kurreeman, Eli A. Stahl, Yukinori Okada, Katherine P. Liao, Dorothée Diogo, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Jan Freudenberg, Yuta Kochi, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, Namrata...> ;American Journal of Human Genetics. 2012 Mar 9
42 citations
Saccadic latency in Parkinson's disease correlates with executive function and brain atrophy, but not motor severity.
Robert Perneczky, Boyd C.P. Ghosh, Laura B. Hughes, Roger H. S. Carpenter, Roger A. Barker, James B. Rowe> ;Neurobiology of Disease. 2011 Jul 1
151 citations
Assessment of synovitis with contrast-enhanced MRI using a whole-joint semiquantitative scoring system in people with, or at high risk of, knee osteoarthritis: the MOS...
Ali Guermazi, Frank W. Roemer, Daichi Hayashi, Michel D. Crema, Jingbo Niu, Yuqing Zhang, Monica D. Marra, Avinash Katur, John A. Lynch, George Y. El-Khoury, Kristin B...> ;Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2011 May 1
57 citations
Most common single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with rheumatoid arthritis in persons of European ancestry confer risk of rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans.
Laura B. Hughes, Richard J. Reynolds, Elizabeth E. Brown, James Michael Kelley, Brian Thomson, Doyt L. Conn, Beth Jonas, Andrew O. Westfall, Miguel A. Padilla, Leigh F...> ;Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2010 Dec 1
40 citations
Anticitrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) in rheumatoid arthritis: influence of an interaction between HLA-DRB1 shared epitope and a deletion polymorphism in glutathio...
Ted R. Mikuls, Karen A Gould, Kimberly K. Bynoté, Fang Yu, Tricia D LeVan, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Kaleb Michaud, James R. O'Dell, Andreas M. Reimold, Roderick S. Hooker, ...> ;Arthritis Research & Therapy. 2010 Nov 18
Most common SNPs associated with rheumatoid arthritis in subjects of European ancestry confer risk of rheumatoid arthritis in African-Americans.
Hughes, L.B., Reynolds, R.J., Brown, E.E., Kelley, J.M., Thomson, B., Conn, D.L., Jonas, B.L., Westfall, A.O., Padilla, M.A., Callahan, L.F., Smith, E.A., Brasington, ...> ;Arthritis Rheum. 2010-10-22
231 citations
Relation of synovitis to knee pain using contrast-enhanced MRIs
Kristin Baker, Andrew J. Grainger, Jingbo Niu, Margaret Clancy, Ali Guermazi, Michel D. Crema, Laura B. Hughes, Joseph A. Buckwalter, A. Wooley, Michael C. Nevitt, Dav...> ;Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2010 Oct 1
20 citations
Measurement of Erythrocyte Methotrexate Polyglutamate Levels: Ready for Clinical Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Maria I. Danila, Laura B. Hughes, Elizabeth E. Brown, Sarah L. Morgan, Joseph E. Baggott, Donna K. Arnett, S. Louis Bridges> ;Current Rheumatology Reports. 2010 Jul 28
94 citations
Rheumatoid arthritis risk allele PTPRC is also associated with response to anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha therapy.
Jing Cui, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Brian Thomson, Leonid Padyukov, Annette H M van der Helm-van Mil, Joanne Nititham, Laura B. Hughes, Niek de Vries, Soumya Raychaudhuri,...> ;Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2010 Jul 1
17 citations
Association of IL4R single-nucleotide polymorphisms with rheumatoid nodules in African Americans with rheumatoid arthritis
Paula I. Burgos, Zenoria L Causey, Ashutosh Tamhane, James Michael Kelley, Elizabeth E. Brown, Laura B. Hughes, Maria I. Danila, Amalia A. Van Everdingen, Doyt L. Conn...> ;Arthritis Research & Therapy. 2010 May 5
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