Dr. Wells is currently a practicing rheumatologist and the Director of Rheumatology for the American Medical Group in Destin, FL. He is the co-founder of the Advances in Rheumatology and Technology Symposium. He is the immediate past Midwest Region Director, Department of Rheumatology for the Advocate Health Medical Group in Franklin, Wisconsin. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He also maintains his clinical affiliation with Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC where he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Prior to returning to private practice, Dr. Wells was an Associate Medical Director at Abbott Laboratories where he played a central role in the launch of HUMIRA.

Dr. Wells received his MD from the University of South Florida, Tampa and trained in Internal Medicine and in Rheumatology at Duke University, where he was a faculty member before joining Abbott. He received his PhD in Immunology from the University of South Carolina, where he developed an animal model for Reiter’s Syndrome. He was a recipient of the prestigious Fogarty Biomedical Research Award from the National Institutes of Health, which allowed him to undertake a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Uppsala University, Sweden, with Dr. Lars Klareskog. Dr. Wells is fluent in Swedish.