Jerry A. Molitor

Dr. Jerry A. Molitor is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology.  He is a graduate of the PhD program in Microbiology and Immunology at Duke University, and of the University Of Iowa College Of Medicine. He completed Internal Medicine Internship and Residency as well as Rheumatology Fellowship at the University of Washington, where he has remained on the Clinical Faculty.

For the past seven years Dr. Molitor has practiced Rheumatology at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He has conducted numerous clinical and translational research projects through the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, where he was Director of the Arthritis Clinical Research Unit from 2001-2007, and Associate Director of Clinical Research from 2004-2007. He also served as the Head of the Section of Rheumatology from 2003-2006. He was named by his peers as one of Seattle's Top Doctors in the Seattle Magazine in 2005, 2006 and 2007, as well as in the Seattle Metropolitan Magazine's 2007 rankings.

Dr. Molitor has clinical and research interests in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Sclerosis. He has cared for a large cohort of Systemic Sclerosis patients at the Virginia Mason Clinic, where he also established a Scleroderma Registry and Repository to facilitate the conduct of translational research in this area. He has served as Washington's Scleroderma Foundation Evergreen Chapter Medical Advisor since 2002.

Dr. Molitor will be staffing the Scleroderma Specialty Clinic, establishing a Scleroderma Registry and Repository, and initiating clinical research projects in Scleroderma and Inflammatory Arthritis. His translational research will focus on characteristics of the autoimmune response to human Topoisomerase I, a biomarker of severe Systemic Sclerosis complicated by Interstitial Lung Disease.