Faculty

Janet Pope

Professor, Chair, Division of Rheumatology

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical research, Clinical trials, Epidemiology, Inflammatory Arthritis, Outcome measurements, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scleroderma, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Vasculitis

Pari Basharat

Associate Professor, Program Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Autoimmune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy, Dermatomyositis, Inflammatory Myopathy, Polymyositis, Rheumatology

Tom Appleton

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Cartilage, Cell signaling, Clinical Trials, Early osteoarthritis, Inflammation, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatology, Synovitis, Ultrasound

Lillian Barra

Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Inflammatory Arthritis, Biomarkers in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis, Pathogenesis of autoantibodies Vasculitis, Diagnosis and differentiation

Tristan Boyd

Assistant Professor, CBME Lead

Research Interests / Specializations: Ankylosing spondylitis, Inflammatory bowel disease related inflammatory arthritis and reactive arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritis

Ewa Cairns

PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Research Interests / Specializations: Autoimmunity, Immunology, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Genetics and Immune Responses to Citrullinated Antigens

Gina Rohekar

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Database research, Epidemiology patient outcome measures, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sherry Rohekar

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Ankylosing spondylitis, Inflammatory bowel disease related inflammatory arthritis and reactive arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritis