R. Elaine Lambert, MD

Private Rheumatology Practice

San Mateo Rheumatology

San Mateo, CA

Dr. Lambert earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Baylor University located in Waco, Texas, and her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas.  She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as her fellowship in rheumatology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center located in San Jose, California.  Dr. Lambert also completed a fellowship in clinical research at Stanford University Medical Center located in Stanford, California.  She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

Dr. Lambert has published numerous articles, abstracts, and chapters in textbooks.  She has also been an invited presenter at national medical conferences.  Dr. Lambert is a fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, and a past chair and board member of the Arthritis Foundation of Northern California for 20 years.   She enjoyed working with Stanford athletes as a team physician from 1992-2012.  She started her career at Stanford University School of Medicine from 1990-1996 before moving to private practice and was a volunteer teaching faculty member at Stanford from 1996 until May 2017.  Dr. Lambert received the highest award given to a clinician in 1994 at Stanford Medical School, the Rambar Award for Excellence in Patient Care as well as numerous teaching awards.

Michael P. Stevens, MD

Dr Michael Stevens was born and raised in West Los Angeles. He left LA to attend UC Berkeley and majored in Comparative literature (French/English). While at Berkeley, he experienced Clinical medicine when he became the first male counsellor at the University hospital Contraception Clinic. He subsequently volunteered Saturday nights in the ER at Highland Hospital in Oakland.
After graduation, he moved back to LA and volunteered at the UCLA ER. While there, a physician suggested he go back to medical school. He attended Santa Monica City College for pre-med courses. He applied to Medical school in his late twenties but was not accepted initially. Instead, he went to Mexico, took a 12-week course in Spanish and started his Medical career at the Autonoma Universidad of Guadalajara. After two years, he transferred to Boston University School of Medicine to finish his schooling. His internship and residency were at Kaiser San Francisco followed by a Fellowship in Rheumatology at UCSF.
After completion of his Rheumatology Fellowship at UCSF, Dr Stevens stayed in the Clinical faculty as an Assistant Clinical Professor helping train Residents and Fellows in the Rheumatology Clinic over the next thirteen years. In 1992, he purchased his current Rheumatology practice in San Mateo. Dr Stevens had been a solo practitioner in Rheumatology for 25 years when he asked Dr Bryan Gescuk to join him at the end of 2017.
While president of the Northern CA Rheumatology Alliance, Dr Stevens founded the Statewide California Rheumatology Alliance (CRA) in 2004. The CRA is a professional organization comprising rheumatologists in California dedicated to patient access to Rheumatology care. He served as President of the CRA from 2004–2010.
During his presidency at the CRA, Dr Stevens was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Coalition of State Rheumatology Organizations (CSRO) in 2004. The CSRO is a national group of practicing rheumatologists who advocate in Washington DC at the federal level to promote patient access to medical care. He served as president of this organization 2015-2018.
Dr Stevens is married to a Pediatrician, has two sons, enjoys golf, cooking, travel and fine wines. The staff at San Mateo Rheumatology have been with him for many, many years. We feel this is the best testament of all to the positive experience of working with Dr Stevens whose wit, dry sense of humor and easy going manner make working at SMR a pleasure.

Dr Gescuk

Dr Bryan Gescuk grew up in rural Ohio in humble circumstances. He excelled in sports and played football and baseball. He attended Harvard University where he played football there for four years while receiving his BA in Psychology. He then attended Boston University School of Medicine where he received his PhD in Pharmacology and then his Medical degree in 1996. He was voted Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He went on to specialize in Rheumatology and did his Internship & Residency at UC San Francisco followed by his Fellowship in Rheumatology there. It was during this Fellowship in Rheumatology that Dr Gescuk met Dr Stevens who was one of his Attending physicians in the UCSF Rheumatology Clinic.
Dr Gescuk spent time working as a Biotech Consultant and on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Genaissance Capital Group from 1998 – 2003. He maintained his affiliation with UCSF as an Assistant Clinical Professor from 2002 – 2005.
In 2002, he began working at the San Mateo Medical Center (formerly Chope Hospital) in San Mateo. He continues to work there now as Chief of Staff as well as Chief of Rheumatology. In late 2017, Dr Gescuk joined Dr Stevens at San Mateo Rheumatology where he divides his time seeing patients in our office as well as patients at the San Mateo Medical Center.
Dr Gescuk has received many honors and awards and he is well respected by his peers and patients alike. The staff here enjoys his friendly and good natured manner and his infectious laugh. He has been a wonderful asset to our Practice.
Dr Gescuk is married to an attorney and has one daughter. He loves sports, writing, reading, cooking, working-out and trips to the Napa Valley.