This provider is credentialed to practice medicine at one or more UCHealth facilities but is not employed by any UCHealth facility. Contact information on this page may be for a non-UCHealth facility.

Qualifications and experience

Specialties
Pediatrics
Gender
Female
Languages spoken
Education
Fellowship
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Program (1995)

Internship
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Program (1990)

Medical School
University of Alabama School of Medicine (1989)

Residency
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Program (1992)

Undergraduate
Vanderbilt University (1985)

Clinical interest for patients

I treat patients with many different kinds of inflammatory arthritis and vasculitis in my general rheumatology clinic. I also care for patients with lupus in our multidisciplinary Lupus Clinic.

Research interest for patients

My research interests are primarily focused on investigating the cause of systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease that can affect every organ system in the body. My research program has three parts: 1) the study of genes that contribute to the development of lupus in order to understand how they do this as this may lead to new treatments, 2) the study of markers in the blood and urine that may indicate how a person with lupus is responding to treatment or predict when they are going to have a flare so that their treatment can be optimized, and 3) the study of first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, children) of people with lupus to identify factors that lead to the development of lupus so that we can prevent it.

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