Richard K. Vehe, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Director
Mayo Mail Code 817
420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: (612) 626-4873
Fax: (612) 626-6905
vehex001@umn.edu

Richard K. Vehe, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and has been the Director of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology since its establishment in 1997.

Dr. Vehe sees children for the evaluation and treatment of arthritis and related conditions such as dermatomyositis, lupus, and scleroderma in the clinics at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare and at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, a division of Fairview.  He has directed the clinical program at Gillette since 1993, at the University since 1995, and coordinates the educational experience in Pediatric Rheumatology for residents in the UM Pediatrics and Pediatric/Internal Medicine programs, and fellows in the UM Internal Medicine/Rheumatology program.  He is a frequent lecturer at local and regional medical educational conferences, and is the Medical Editor for the Arthritis Foundation’s national wellness newsletter “Kids Get Arthritis Too.”

He completed the MD/MA program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, residency and chief residency in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, and fellowship in Pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Washington, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Virginia Mason Research Center in Seattle where he had a special interest in the role of HLA class II gene expression and regulation in autoimmune diseases.  He is board certified in Pediatric Rheumatology, and is past chair of the Subboard of Pediatric Rheumatology for the American Board of Pediatrics.

Dr. Vehe is involved in collaborative studies of dermatomyositis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and is a member of the steering committee of the Quality Measures Work Group, the Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group, and the JRA Research Committee of the Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance.