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Kenneth Hjort Fye, M.D.

-Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine
-Master, American College of Rheumatology
-Fellow, American College of Physicians

University of California, San Francisco
400 Parnassus Avenue, Plaza Level
San Francisco, CA. 94143-0326
Email: kenfye@itsa.ucsf.edu


Education

University of California, Berkeley B.A. 1960 – 1964 Zoology
University of California, San Francisco M.D. 1964-1968 Medicine


Medical Societies

• National Arthritis Foundation, past member of the National Research Committee
• Northern California Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, Past Chairman of the Chapter and Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Committee
• Faculty-Alumni Association, University of California San Francisco, Past President, 2001-2002


Selected Research

Proctor and Gamble. 10/14/99 to present. Randomized, double-blinded, parallel, multi-center, placebo-controlled study to determine the efficacy and safety of orally administered 5 and 15 mg/day and 50 mg/week risedronate in patients with dual compartment knee osteoarthritis in North America.

Briston Myers Squib. 4/10/00 to 1/1/03. A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study to evaluate the safe and clinical efficacy of intravenous infusions of BMS-188667 (2 mg/kg) given monthly in combination with subcutaneous injections of etanercept (25 mg) given twice weekly to subjects with active rheumatoid arthritis.

Scios. 10/01/02 to present. A phase II multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose escalating study of SCIO-469 in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis receiving methotrexate.

Merck. 4/6/02 to present. Etoricoxib vs diclofenac sodium gastrointestinal tolerability and effectiveness (EDGE) trial. A randomized, double-blind, multi-center study to evaluate the tolerability and effectiveness of etoricoxib 90 mg qd vs diclofenac sodium 50 mg tid in patients with osteoarthritis.

Selected Publications

Fye KH: “A Review of the Vasculititic Disorders Associated with Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies.” Rheumatology Review 3:141-148, 1994.

Fye KH, Weinstein PR, Donald F. "Compressive Cervical Myelopathy Due to Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydate Deposition Disease." Arch Int Med 159: 189-193, 1999.

Fye KH. "New Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Available and Upcoming Slow-acting Antirheumatic Drugs". Postgrad Med 106:82-92, 1999.

Seligman VA, Bolton PB, Sanchez HC, Fye KH. Propylthiouracil-Induced Microscopic Polyangiitis. J. Clin. Rheum. 7:170-174, 2001.

Cunnane G., Warnock M., Fye KH., Daikh DI : Accelerated nodulosis and vasculitis following etancerpt therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. Arth Rheum (Arth Care Research) 47:445-449, 2002.

Fye, KH. Recognizing the extra articular manifestations of RA: Journal Musculoskeletal Med. Vol. 19 307-316, 2002

 

   

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