Dr. Dubois; Founder of Lupus Clinic
Edmund L. Dubois, founder and director of the Lupus Clinic at County-USC Medical Center and an international authority on that mysterious ailment, died Feb. 2 after a seven-year struggle with cancer.
Dubois, 61, a rheumatologist, founded what is believed to be the nation’s first lupus clinic while in private practice in Beverly Hills. At his death he was working on a third revision of “Lupus Erythematosus,” considered the definitive text on the skin disease that was discovered in 1828 and later found to also affect internal organs. The disease is difficult to diagnose because it often masquerades as arthritis or rheumatic fever.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy; two sons; two daughters and a granddaughter.
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