Dr. Jane Salmon is the Collette Kean Research Professor at Hospital for Special Surgery. She is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs at Weill Cornell College of Medicine.

Dr. Salmon graduated magna cum laude from New York University and earned a medical degree in 1978 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, where she was the first woman enrolled in their Medical Scientist Training Program. She completed training in internal medicine at The New York Hospital and in rheumatology at Hospital for Special Surgery, where she currently conducts clinical and basic research studies and practices rheumatology. Dr. Salmon has served on the Board of Directors of the American College of Rheumatology and Rheumatology Research Foundation. Dr. Salmon was co-editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism and is currently an Associate Editor of Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. At Hospital for Special Surgery, she is a Director of the Lupus and APS Center of Excellence, co-Director of the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research.

Dr. Salmon’s research has focused on elucidating mechanisms of tissue injury in lupus and other autoimmune diseases. Her basic, translational and clinical studies have led to a paradigm shift in the understanding of mechanisms of pregnancy loss, cardiovascular disease and end-organ damage in patients with lupus. She identified the critical role of inflammation as a mediator of placental insufficiency and defined new treatment targets.

Appointments
Attending Physician, Hospital for Special Surgery Collette Kean Research Chair, Hospital for Special Surgery
Director, SLE APS Center of Excellence, Hospital for Special Surgery
Senior Scientist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Co-Director, Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research, Hospital for Special Surgery
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College 
Professor of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medical College 
Professor, Graduate Program in Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine

Specialty
Rheumatology
Internal Medicine

Special Expertise
Systemic Lupus 
Erythematosus Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Rheumatoid Arthritis

Awards
Elected member, National Academy of Medicine, 2016 
Master, American College of Rheumatology, 2017 
Evelyn Hess Award, Lupus Foundation of America, 2014 
Swartz Lectureship, Swedish Society of Medicine, 2012 
Virginia Kneeland Frantz ’22 Distinguished Women in Medicine Award, Columbia P&S Alumni Association, 2012 
New York Magazine: Top Doctors: 2013, 2012, 2009, 2004 
American Association of Physicians 2008 Carol Nachman Prize in Rheumatology (most prestigious international award for rheumatology), 2007 
Theodore E. Woodward Award, American Clinical and Climatological Association, 2007