Robert Hal Scofield, MD
- Research Program: Geroscience
- Position: College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Professor of Medicine
Biography
Hal Scofield received a BA in Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1980 and was the fourth generation of his family to attend Texas A&M. He attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and was graduated with the MD degree in 1984. He was an internal medicine intern and resident at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center from 1984 through 1987, serving as Medicine Chief Resident 1987-1988 and an endocrinology fellow at the same institution. He was a post-doctoral fellow in immunology and genetics at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1988 to 1991, joining the faculty at OUHSC in the Department of Medicine and the Arthritis & Immunology Program at OMRF in 1991.
His research concentrates on the immunology, genetics, and endocrinology of systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s syndrome. He has published over 325 scientific articles and has had continuous funding by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Veterans Affairs since 1991. He was an NIH Fogarty International Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1998. From May 2008 through June 2011 he was Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research in the College of Medicine at OUHSC. In 2016, he was appointed Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Oklahoma City Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
He is the co-director of the History of Medicine Enrichment course for second-year medical students at OUHSC as well as the author of two published short stories as well as a paper in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
He and his wife Bea live in a historic neighborhood in Oklahoma City in a house built in 1928. He is a golfer, a soccer referee, a tuba player, and a collector of 19th and early 20th century medical and scientific texts. He has served in predominately Spanish-speaking free clinics in Oklahoma City since his second year of residency.
Publications
- Graduate School
- Masters Student (2018-present) Johns Hopkins University, Department of History Medicine
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Immunology/Genetics
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK -
MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX
- Undergraduate School
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B.A. Chemistry
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
- Sex bias in Autoimmune Disease
- Autoimmunity in PTSD
- Oxidative Damage in Autoimmune Disease
- Autoantibodies in Lupus and Sjogren's
- Clinical Expression of Sjogren's Syndrome
- Consensus Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Disease in Sjögren's 2021
- American Indians Have a Higher Risk of Sjögren's Syndrome and More Disease Activity Than European Americans and African Americans 2020
- The lupus risk gene CXorf21regulates lysosomal pH in a sex dependent manner 2019
- Characterization of CXorf21 provides molecular insight into female-bias immune response in SLE pathogenesis. 2019
- Evidence of Alternative Modes of B Cell Activation Involving Acquired Fab Regions of N-Glycosylation in Antibody-Secreting Cells Infiltrating the Labial Salivary Glands of Patients With Sjögren's Syndrome 2018
- Triple X syndrome (47,XXX) increases the risk of the autoimmune diseases systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren's syndrome: Support for a gene-dose effect from the X chromosome 2016
- Autoantibodies are present years before the clinical onset of systemic lupus erythematosus 2003