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Richard D. Sontheimer, M.D.

Professor of Dermatology

• B.S., 1968, Tulane University
• M.D., 1972, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School
• Residency in Internal Medicine, 1974-1976, University of Utah
• Dermatology Foundation Research Fellowship in Immunodermatology, 1976-1978, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School
• Residency in Dermatology, 1978-1979, University of Texas-southwestern Medical School
• Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Dermatology and Dermatologic Immunology/Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Clinical and Research Interests

• Dr. Sontheimer has been widely recognized for his longstanding clinical and research interests in the cutaneous manifestations of rheumatologic disorders. His laboratory research interests have focused primarly on the immunopathologic mechanisms responsible for the characteristic skin lesions of lupus erythematous and dermatomyositis. His patient-oriented clinical research interests have focused on rheumatologic skin disease sub-phenotyping and better defining the relationships that exist between the cutaneous and systemic manifestations of rheumatologic diseases. He has co-edited the only textbook that has focused exclusively on the cutaneous manifestations of rheumatologic skin diseases. In addition to rheumatologic skin diseases, Dr. Sontheimer's current clinical interests include other aspects of complex medical dermatology and adult general dermatology.

Selected Publications

• Sontheimer RD, Thomas JR, Gilliam JN: Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus: A cutaneous marker for a distinct lupus erythematosus subset. Arch Dermatol 115:1409-1415, 1979.
• Sontheimer RD, Maddison PJ, Reichlin M, Jordon RE, Stastny P, Gilliam NJ: Serologic and HLA associations of subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, a clinical subset of lupus erythematosus. Ann Intern Med 97:664-671, 1982.
• McCauliffe DP, Zappi E, Lieu T-S, Michalak M, Sontheimer RD, Capra JD: A human Ro/SS-A autoantigen is the homologue of calreticulin and is highly homologous with Onchocercal RAL-1 antigen and an aplysia "memory molecule". J Clin Invest 86:332-335, 1990.
• Euwer R, Sontheimer RD: Amyopathic dermatomyositis (dermatomyositis sine myositis). J Am Acad Dermatol 24:959-966, 1991.
• Wu Q, Fu YX, Sontheimer RD: Blockade of lymphotoxin signaling inhibits the clinical expression of murine graft versus host skin disease. J Immunol 172:1630-1636, 2004.
• Gerami P, Schope JM, McDonald L, Walling HW, Sontheimer RD: A systematic review of adult-onset clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (dermatomyositis sine myositis): a mission link within the spectrum of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. J Am Acad Dermatol Apr;54(4):597-613, 2006.
• Sontheimer RD, Henderson CL, Grau RH: Drug-induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus: a pardigm for bedside-to-bench patient-oriented translational clinical investigation. Arch Dermatol Res. 301(1):65-70, 2009.
• Sontheimer RD: Lichenoid tissue reaction/interface dermatitis: Clinical and histological perspectives. J Invest Dermatol 129(5):1088-99), 2009.