Faculty | Division of Rheumatology | Washington University in St. Louis

John P Atkinson, MD

Samuel B. Grant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Complement and RVCL Research

Medical School: Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas (1969)

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (1969-1971)

Fellowship: National Institutes of Health (1973-1974), NIH postdoctoral research fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1974-1976)

Mohamed Babiker-Mohamed, MBBS

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical School: University of Khartoum Faculty of Medicine, Khartoum, Sudan

Residency: AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2022-2024)

Alissa Chandler, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical School: USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida

Residency: Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

Fellowship:Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2022-2024)

Vladimir N Despotovic, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan (2004)

Residency: BJH/Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (2007)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine,St. Louis, Missouri (2007-2009)

Fellowship: Critical Care, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2008-2010)

Colin Diffie, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research interests: Vasculitis

Clinical interests: Vasculitis and rare diseases, arthritis, treating medically under-served populations

Medical School: Medical School at UT Houston, Houston, Texas (2014)

Residency: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (2017)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (2017-2019)

Seth Eisen, MD, MSc

Professor Of Medicine

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Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1962-1966)

Residency: Resident, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri (1972-1974)

Fellowship: USPHS Fellow in Allergy and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1969-1972)

Graduate School: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Masters in Epidemiology, (1988-1989)

Maria Gonzalez-Mayda, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical School: University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus (2008)

Residency: Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri (2008)

Fellowship: Washington University School of Medicine, Rheumatology, St. Louis, Missouri (2010)

Dennis Hourcade, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Complement and RVCL research

Chyi Hsieh, MD, PhD

Alan A and Edith L Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Autoimmunity, regulatory T cells, tolerance, and mucosal immunology

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1996)

Residency: Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1996-1999)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1999-2001)

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (2001-2005)

Andrew Jones, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical School: St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

Residency: BJH/Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (2021-2024)

Amy Joseph, MD

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, hepatitis C, epidemiology

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee (1986)

Residency: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, (1986-1989)

Fellowship: Washington University School of Medicine, Rheumatology, St. Louis, Missouri, (1989-1992)

Sana Kang, MBBS, MD

Instructor in Medicine

Medical School: King Edward Medical University, Lahore Pakistan

Residency: Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Fellowship: Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

Eirini Kefalogianni, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: The role of cytokines and growth factors that regulate kidney injury, repair and fibrosis

Graduate School: University of Athens School of Biology, Athens, Greece (2002-2007)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: New York University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, New York, New York (2008-2011)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Renal Division, Boston, Massachusetts (2012-2016)

Visiting Fellow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Biological Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts (2012-2016)

Alfred Kim, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Lupus translational research, B cell biology

Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2005)

Residency: Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri (2007)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine (2010)

Iris Lee, MD

Instructor in Medicine

Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Residency: BJH/ Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2018-2021)

Deborah J Lenschow, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, John S. Daniels Professor in Immunology

Research Interests: Chikungunya viral arthritis, interferons, autoimmunity

Medical School: Univerisity of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois (1998)

Residency: Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2000)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2003)

M. Kathryn Liszewski

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Complement and RVCL research

Michael Paley, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Uveitis, scleritis, T-cell biology

Graduate School: PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2012)

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Medical Scientist Training Program (2014)

Residency: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri (2016)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2017-2019)

Hua Pan, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Output Profile

Research Interests: Onco-Nephrology, Cardio-Oncology, Nanotechnology, Inflammation

Graduate School: Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China (1997-2000) Master of Medicine: Biomedicine

Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH (2001 - 2004) ME: Biomedical Engineering

Washington University in St. Louis; St. Louis, MO (2004 - 2007) PhD: Biomedical Engineering

Washington University in St. Louis; St. Louis, MO (2012 - 2014) MBA: General Management/Entrepreneurship

Deborah Parks, MD

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, clinical trials

Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky (1982)

Residency: Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1985)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1988)

Christine Pham, MD

Division Chief, G & EM Magness Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Neutrophil proteases, nanomedicine for inflammatory arthritis

Clinical Interests: Rheumatology, arthritis, inflammation and proteases

Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida (1985)

Residency: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1989)

Felowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1997)

Sytse Piersma, PhD

Instructor in Medicine

Research Interests: Improving immunotherapy through studying natural killer (NK) cells

Graduate School: University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (2009-2011)

Fellowship: Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (2009-2011)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2011-2013)

Beatrice Plougastel Douglas, PhD

Instructor in Medicine

Research Output Profile

Research Interests: Natural Killer Cells

Graduate School: PhD, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris- France (1989-1992)

Post Doctoral Fellowship: Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories - Lincoln's inn Fields, London United Kingdom (1993-1997)

Post Doctoral Fellowship: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1998-2000)

Prabha Ranganathan, MD, MSCI

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, epidemiology

Medical School: University of Madras, Madras, India (1990)

Residency: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1995)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (1999)

Elisha Roberson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Genetic basis of hidradenitis suppurativa, other human diseases

Graduate School: John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (2004-2009)

Benjamin D Schwartz, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

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Medical School: Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, New York, New York (1972)

Deepali Sen, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Lupus, clinical trials

Medical School: Seth G. S. Medical College, University of Mumbai, India (2003)

Residency: King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India (2003)

Residency: Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey (2010)

Aisha Shaikh, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Vasculitis and interstitial lung disease therapies

Clinical Interests: vasculitis and vasculopathies, interstitial lung diseases in connective tissue disorders, inflammatory muscle disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis

Medical School: Dow Medical Institute of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan (2001)

Residency: St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2006)

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2009)

Reema Syed, MD

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: systemic lupus erythematosus adult and childhood onset, juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Clinical Interests: systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, vasculitis, fever syndromes, childhood onset lupus, scleroderma

Medical School: Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan (1998)

Residency: Michigan State University - Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Michigan (2004)

Fellowship: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri (2007)

Jessica Williams, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Lupus, social determinants of health, environmental epidemiology

Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Internal Medicine Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Rheumatology Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Xiaobo Wu, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Complement and RVCL research

Wayne Yokoyama, MD

Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Natural killer cells, innate lymphoid cells, autoimmunity

Fang "Roseanne" Zhao, MD, PhD

Instructor in Medicine

Medical School: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

Graduate School: University of Cambridge and the National Institute of Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Residency: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Fellowship: Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2018-2021)

Lisa A Zickuhr, MD, MHPE

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests: Healthcare professions education

Clinical Interests: Systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune interstitial lung disease

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 2012

Internship: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2013)

Residency: BJH/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (2015)

Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio (2018)

Graduate School: Master of Health Profession, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri (2021)