R. Hal Scofield, MD

R. Hal Scofield, MD, is a professor in the Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. He joined the faculty at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) in 1991 and is currently a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and an adjunct professor in the Department of Pathology. He was also appointed associate chief of staff for research at the Oklahoma City US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 2017.

Dr Scofield was the fourth generation of his family to attend Texas A&M, where he received a BA in chemistry in 1980. He graduated with an MD from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1984. He was an internal medicine intern and resident at OUHSC from 1984 to 1987 and served as medicine chief resident from 1987 to 1988. Dr Scofield was an endocrinology fellow at the same institution and a postdoctoral fellow in immunology and genetics at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1988 to 1991.

His research is focused on the immunology, genetics, and clinical expression of systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjögren’s syndrome. He has published approximately 375 scientific articles and has had continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 1991. Dr Scofield served as a National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1998. From May 2008 to June 2011, he was associate dean for clinical and translational research at the College of Medicine at OUHSC.

Dr Scofield has taught a history of medicine enrichment course for second-year medical students at OUHSC since 2010. He is also a masters student at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of the History of Medicine. He has published several medical history papers and 2 short stories and a paper in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Dr Scofield enjoys golf, soccer refereeing, practicing Spanish at free clinics, and playing the trumpet and the tuba.