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Inmaculada Del Rincon, M.D., M.Sc.

Professor of Medicine

Rheumatology specialist

Dr. del Rincon is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology. She is certified in Rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. She sees patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic diseases at the UT Health Physicians Medical Arts and Research Center and at the University Health System clinic downtown. In addition, she provides in-patient rheumatology consultations at the University Hospital.

Dr. del Rincon was born in Spain, where she grew up and obtained her medical education. She completed a Rheumatology Research Fellowship at UTHSCSA and obtained a Master of Science degree in Clinical Investigation at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Her award-wining research has focused on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with special attention on the cardiovascular comorbidity that occurs in RA. She and her colleagues reported that the incidence of cardiovascular events in patients with RA is higher than that of people without RA, and that the increase is not due to a greater frequency of cardiovascular risk factors. Dr. del Rincon’s research has been funded by K23 and RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health, and by the Arthritis Foundation and the American Heart Association. For her research, she has received awards from the American College of Rheumatology, the Arthritis Foundation and the American Heart Association. Dr. del Rincon has served on grant review panels from the NIH, the Arthritis Foundation and the VA, and on data safety and monitoring boards of multinational clinical trials.