Dr Beukelman is a pediatric rheumatologist and clinical epidemiologist. He received his MD from Washington University in 2001 and his master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has authored or co-authored greater than 70 published peer-reviewed manuscripts of original research and has led numerous high-impact studies of drug utilization, effectiveness, and safety using large administrative claims databases and observational registry data. In addition to his academic achievements, he has provided extensive epidemiology consulting services to large and small pharmaceutical companies in the development of observational study protocols and statistical analysis plans.