Faculty

Tom Appleton

Associate Professor, Division Head

Research Interests / Specializations: Cartilage, Cell signaling, Clinical Trials, Early osteoarthritis, Inflammation, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatology, Synovitis, Ultrasound
Room D2-163, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.66319
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Pari Basharat

Associate Professor, Fellowship Program Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Autoimmune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy, Dermatomyositis, Inflammatory Myopathy
Room D2-170, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.66329
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Lillian Barra

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Inflammatory Arthritis, Biomarkers in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis, Pathogenesis of autoantibodies Vasculitis, Diagnosis and differentiation
Room D2-160, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.65986
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Tristan Boyd

Associate Professor, CBME Lead

Research Interests / Specializations: Ankylosing spondylitis, Inflammatory bowel disease related inflammatory arthritis and reactive arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritis
Room D2-161, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.61269
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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
519.663.3987
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Joanne Jiang

Assistant Professor, PGME Lead

Research Interests / Specializations: Vasculitis, Patient outcomes, Barriers to care
Room D2-169, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext. 66282

Janet Pope

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Clinical research, Clinical trials, Epidemiology, Inflammatory Arthritis, Outcome measurements, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scleroderma, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Vasculitis
Room D2-167, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.61334
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Gina Rohekar

Associate Professor, UGME Lead

Research Interests / Specializations: Database research, Epidemiology patient outcome measures, Rheumatoid Arthritis
Room D2-164, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.66242
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Sherry Rohekar

Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Ankylosing spondylitis, Inflammatory bowel disease related inflammatory arthritis and reactive arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Spondyloarthritis
Room D2-174, SJHC
519.646.6100 ext.61243
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