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Vasculitis Center Physicians

 
Curry L. Koening, M.D., M.S.:  Dr. Koening completed medical school in 2000 at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.  He completed his internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He completed an NIH sponsored vasculitis fellowship through the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (1 U54 RR019497-01) in 2007 at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Vasculitis Care and Research in Cleveland, Ohio.  At the same time, he completed a Master in Science in Clinical Research in the Clinical Research Scholars Program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  Dr. Koening brings to the University of Utah expertise in clinical research and in the diagnosis and management of vasculitis.

Mark Elstad, M.D.:  Dr. Elstad is Professor of Internal Medicine and specializes in pulmonary medicine.  He has extensive experience in managing complicated airway diseases, particularly endobronchial disease and airway stenosis caused by Wegener's granulomatosis.  Both he and Dr. Smith co-direct the University of Utah Airway Disorders Center.

Marshall Smith, M.D.:  Dr. Smith is Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah.  His expertise is in the management of tracheal diseases caused by rheumatic diseases and cancer.  He has particular expertise in managing subglottic stenosis, a common airway disorder afflicting those with Wegener's granulomatosis.

Brad Katz, M.D., Ph.D.:  Dr. Katz is Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Neurology at the University of Utah.  His specialty is in neuro-ophthalmology.  Dr. Katz has interests in a wide variety of ophthalmological diseases but as extensive experience in diagnosing and treating giant cell arteritis and in temporal artery biopsies.