This profile is based on one written by Harold Amos, PhD, the program's original director, as part of his work for the program's 15th anniversary activities in 1998. The featured scholar was selected by the NPO as representative of the success of the program across different years, specialties, locations and with scholars of diverse backgrounds.
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas)
$313,913; July 1995 to December 1999
ID# 026259
Fellowship Research Topic
Determinants of Functional Outcome in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Positions as of February 2008
- Professor of Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Rheumatology Clinic Director, University Health Center, Downtown
- Attending Physician, University Hospital and Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
Profile
Augustin Escalante, MD, completed his premedical education in 1976 at the Colegio Franco Español in Mexico City and his MD in 1983 from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals in Houston. Escalante began his career in academic medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, where he was clinical instructor of medicine (1988–90) and assistant professor of clinical medicine (1990–91). In 1992 he became assistant professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he completed his MMFDP fellowship. He was promoted to associate professor in 1998 and was given tenure in 2000.
Escalante is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Rheumatology, and the American Federation for Medical Research. He has authored dozens of articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Arthritis and Rheumatism, the Journal of Rheumatology, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, and the American Journal of Medicine.