Ohio State Rheumatology

What a fabulous group we have @OSUWexMed 🤩 @OhioStateMed #OSUWexMed

Dr. Wael Jarjour, Director of Rheumatology at the 2025 EULAR meeting with 3 presentations from him and the Jarjour Lab members. #osuwexmed #rheumatology #EULAR25 #rheumatologypresentation #myositis #myositisresearch #myopathy #lupus #lupusresearch #lupusmyocarditis

Check out Dr. Judith Lin’s recent publication titled “Eosinophilic Fasciitis: New Developments and Future Directions”. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40452121/ #osuwexmed #rheumatology #immunology #EosinophilicFasciitis #ShulmansDisease #AutoimmuneDisorders #RareDisease #SclerosingDisease

It is the most wonderful time of the year #AAI2025 #IMMUNOLOGY2025 @OhioStateRheum. We are back at AAI, catching up with the frontier research in immunology, meeting old friends and presenting our exiting discoveries...

Our second year fellows, Dr. Megha Kotha, Dr. Karthik Kovuru, and Dr. Elidona Mirashi, presented at the DOIM Grand Rounds last week. Their presentation is titled “AOSD- Adult Onset Stills Disease”. Congratulations to our fellows! #fellows #rheumatologyfellowship #rheumatology

Last Friday, our graduate student Amir Shoja successfully defended his thesis and graduated with a master of science degree. Amir became the first student to graduate with an advanced degree from @akkayalab We wish him success in his future career. @OhioStateRheum @OSUWexMed

Here is a wrap for the MSK ultrasound conference @OhioStateRheum @OSUWexMed 2 days of “joint”exploring and learning, with amazing faculty @JonathanDauMD @MymaAlbaydaMD #mskultrasound #ultrasoundconference #rheumatologyultrasoundconference

Congratulations to Amir Shoja, a research assistant in the Akkaya Lab who recently graduated with his Master’s Degree and successfully defended his thesis titled “Novel Strategies to Detect Autoreactive & Rare Antigen Specific B Cells”. 🎉 #osurheum #rheumatology #Bcells

Congratulations to Dr. Stacy Ardoin for her recent publication titled "Bringing Reproductive Health Guidelines Into Fellowship Training: A National Survey of Adult and Pediatric Rheumatology Fellows and Program Directors". #rheumatology #fellow Article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37489092/

Dr. Ryan Mathew, a graduate of the Ohio State University Rheumatology fellowship program 2021 was recently appointed as the President of Alabama Society for the Rheumatic Diseases. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UAB. #rheumatology #osuwexmed #fellowship

Congrats to first year fellow Dr. Yasaman Ahmadzadeh for her recently published article! acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac… #rheumatology #antiphospholipidsyndrome #rheumatologyresearch #fellows #fellowship #rheumatologyfellowship #osuwexmed #osurheum #rheum

Congratulations to Dr. Judith Lin for her publication titled “Characterizing Treatment-resistant Tumid Lupus Erythematosus: A Comparative Cohort Analysis of Refractory Versus Responsive Cases” ovid.com/journals/ijder… #rheumatology #lupus #rheumatologyresearch #dermatology

Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Strahle for being offered the position of Personal and Professional Coach for OSU medical students starting in July 🎉 #osuwexmed #rheumatology #rheum #professionalcoach #medicalcoach

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Yates for her publication titled “Associations and Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound Features in Knee Osteoarthritis: Cross-sectional Results from a Large Community-based Cohort”. #osteoarthritis #rheumatology #osuwexmed acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

Join us MAR 4 at NOON for the #Immunology, #Infection, & #ImmunoOncology (i3) Seminar Series, where Dr. Juhi Bagaitkar (@nationwidekids) will give a seminar titled “Pathogenic Manipulation of #Oral_Mucosal_Immunity” #CME-credited @OhioState #MIIProud @OhioStateRheum…

Last nights fellow dinner for Fellow Day!! We appreciate all that our wonderful fellows do and are proud to have them in our division. #thankafellowday #fellowappreciation #osuwexmed #Osurheumatology #rheumatology

Dr. Latha Ganesan, PhD recently published an article titled “Resazurin dye is an in vivo sensor of kidney tubular function”. #rheumatology #nephrology #rheumatologyresearch #nephrologyresearch #kidneytubularfunction #resazurin pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39733791/

Dr. Brad Rovin, MD, Director of OSU Division of Nephrology, published article. Obinutuzumab plus standard therapy was more efficacious than standard therapy alone in providing a complete renal response in active lupus nephritis. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…