SCARI Chronology
2023
The SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented by Matlock Jeffries, MD, Oklahoma University
2021
The SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented by Richard Furie, MD, Hofstra University
2020
The SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented by Christopher Hernandez, PhD, Cornell University
2018
The SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented presented by Peter Nigrovic, MD, Harvard University
2017
The SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented by V. Michael Holers, MD, University of Colorado
2016
The Inaugural SCARI Endowed Lecture is presented by James S. Louie, MD, Professor Emeritus, UCLA
2015
The SCARI Endowment was gifted to the University of Arizona Foundation
2013
C. Kent Kwoh, MD, is named Director of the UAAC, the Charles A. L. and Suzanne M. Stephens Chair of Rheumatology, chief of the division of rheumatology and professor of medicine and medical imaging in the University of Arizona College of Medicine
1995
The top two floors of University Medical Center were renovated to house the Arthritis Center. SCARI contributed to that effort and other needs.
1985
Arizona Board of Regents approves establishment of the University of Arizona Arthritis Center (UAAC), with Eric P. Gall, MD, and Robert G. Volz, MD, as founding directors.
1977
The Holbrook-Hill Clinic is dissolved. Not long after, SCARI donated its equipment to the UA, which was becoming a national leader in arthritis treatment and research.
1957
Through the efforts of Dr. Stephens and Mrs. Stanfield and with the expert assistance of Dr. Charles M Poinerat, the Tissue Culture Laboratory was established on the fourth floor of the UA Agricultural Sciences Building.
1950
Southwestern Clinic and Research Institute (SCARI), originally part of the Holbrook-Hill Medical group clinic, moves to the basement of the College of Agriculture building on the University of Arizona campus to do the first arthritis research at the UA. Community rheumatologists are active in the establishment of the UA College of Medicine and later with the development of the University of Arizona Arthritis Center.
1949
Alice Borden Stanfield established the SCARI Laboratory and later the Tissue Culture Laboratory at the University of Arizona.
1934
Drs. Donald Hill and Paul Holbrook opened a private practice in downtown Tucson and organized SCARI in an effort to revitalize arthritis research in Southern Arizona. That year Alice Borden Stanfield was recruited to set up the Clinical Laboratory at the Holbrook-Hill Medical Clinic.
1931
Dr. Hill began working at the Desert Sanatorium.
1928
Dr. Holbrook began practice at the Desert Sanatorium and Research Institute, a treatment and research facility. By 1929, the focus of this facility had shifted from tuberculosis to encompass pulmonary disease and arthritis.