Dr. Hausman graduated with an B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1972 in the field of immunogenetics and transplantation biology. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia in 1975 he joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a Staff Fellow in the intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging. In 1977, he became Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Arthritis, Bone and Skin Diseases of the then-named National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases. In 1978, he became Director of the Arthritis Centers program in the same Institute and in 1986 was appointed Deputy Director of the Division of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. When the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) was established in 1987 he became Deputy Director of the Extramural Program. In 1990 he was appointed as the first Deputy Director of the NIAMS. He concurrently served as Director of the Extramural Program from 1995 to 2002.
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