Dr. Saag is the Anna Lois Waters Endowed Chair and Director of the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology and the Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, Bone, and Autoimmunity Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
He received his undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan and his MD from Northwestern University. He joined the faculty at Iowa as an Assistant Professor until moving to UAB in 1998.
Dr. Saag’s continuously funded research has advanced the fields of novel therapeutics and outcomes research in osteoporosis and gout. He has authored more than 430 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including 3 first-author New England Journal of Medicine articles. He has also authored more than 100 reviews, editorials, and book chapters, and the handbook Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis. He has served on the editorial boards of many medical journals and is currently Deputy Editor of Arthritis and Rheumatology. Dr. Saag was the 85th ACR President in 2021–2022.
