Dr. Wolfe is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine – Wichita, and a Director of the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases. The author of more than 500 scientific articles, he received 1995 Distinguished Rheumatologist Award of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), and was elected an ACR master. He was the senior author of the 1990 and 2010 ACR fibromyalgia criteria, and studies of fibromyalgia mortality, prevalence, and outcome. He authored numerous papers on longitudinal outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis, work and functional disability, psychological status, mortality, and the effect of treatment on disease outcomes.