William F.C. Rigby, MD, is Vice Chairman of Academic Affairs for the Department of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine of Microbiology and Immunology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and completed his residency and fellowship training at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, NH. His research interests include the scientific underpinnings of the pathogenesis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Rigby has been a successful research faculty member of the Geisel Medical School and is active as a molecular/cellular/translational immunologist, clinical researcher, and board-certified rheumatologist. His experience with clinical trials prompted his concentration on biorepository development to identify biomarkers in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. This work includes recent publications on Copy Number Variation of Complement C4 genes and CXCL13. The variability of the outcomes of pulmonary disease with defined cystic fibrosis genotypes has made him very interested in the role of the adaptive immune response in shaping clinical phenotypes.
Dr. Rigby has also authored or coauthored articles that have been published in peer-reviewed publications, such as Journal of Immunology, Journal of Rheumatology, Blood, and Arthritis Research and Treatment. He is a member of the American Association of Immunologists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Society for Microbiology.