Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Clinical Research Interest

Lupus

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease, primarily at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Clinical Research Interest

I am particularly interested in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

John P. Atkinson, M.D.
Chief, Division of Rheumatology

Professor of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Samuel B. Grant

Professor of Medicine

Clinical Focus

Difficult to diagnosis and/or manage inflammatory disorders, including autoimmune conditions like SLE.

Research Interest

Over the past decade, my laboratory focuses on the identification and characterization of membrane glycoproteins that regulate complement activation and process immune complexes; recently, mutations in these proteins have been identified in several rare as well as common human diseases.

Clinical Focus

Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis and educating the next generation of Rheumatologists

Clinical Research Interest

My research is directed toward testing investigational treatments for rheumatic diseases, especially new biologic agents for rheumatoid arthritis.

Linda Grismer, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Research Interest

Chyi-Song Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Clinical Focus

Research Interest

The goal of my laboratory is to understand how self-reactive T cells are eliminated or controlled, thereby preserving tolerance to self and preventing autoimmunity, with the belief that this knowledge may eventually be utilized therapeutically in human disease

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease, primarily at the St. Louis VA Medical Center, and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Clinical Research Interest

I am particularly interested in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and the role of the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Focus

Studying and treating patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and vasculitis, and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Research Interest

The role of B cell-derived cytokines in kidney disease. 

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Research Interest

The goal of my laboratory is aimed at elucidating the mechanism by which ISG15 exerts its antiviral activity by exploring the function of the innate immune system in the absence of ISG15; determining the fate of proteins conjugated to ISG15; and investigating the cytokine activity of ISG15. 

Clinical Focus

I am working at the Veteran Administration Medical Center taking care of veterans with rheumatic diseases. I am also teaching students, residents and Rheumatology fellows during several outpatient and inpatient clinical rotations at the Veteran Administration Medical Center.

Clinical Research Interest

I am doing research concerning the potential causes of Gulf War Illness in the veteran population.

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Research Interest

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Research Interest

The goal of my laboratory is to define the role of proteases in immunity and autoimmunity.

Clinical Focus

Treating patients with rheumatic disease and educating the next generation of rheumatologists.

Clinical Research Interest

Pharmacogenetics, vitamin D and osteoporosis in RA, outcomes research in RA

Research Interest

Our lab studies the genetics and molecular biology of human disease, particularly those diseases that interface with both Rheumatology and Dermatology. Searching for molecular signatures to tailor drug regimens in Rheumatology.

Clinical Focus

Treating rheumatic disease with an emphasis on the spondyloarthropathies and rheumatoid arthritis, and quality training of rheumatology fellows.

Clinical Research Interest

Designing clinical development plans and writing clinical protocols to accelerate the availability of new rheumatologic drugs for patients.

Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D.
Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Chair

Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Research Interest

Our laboratory is currently interested in the identification and characterization of cell surface receptors that guide the function of NK cells.