Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Medicine
·
2021 - Present
Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Paging Palliative Care: Barriers to Referral and Why Rheumatologists Aren't Making the Call (Yet).
Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · December 2025 PAGING PALLIATIVE CARE: Barriers to Referral and Why Rheumatologists Aren't Making the Call (Yet). CONTEXT: People with serious rheumatic disease experience high morbidity and mortality, yet palliative care (PC) remains an underutilized resource for these ... Full text Link to item CiteHand Swelling and Other Non-Raynaud Phenomenon Symptoms as the Initial Presentation of Systemic Sclerosis: Prevalence and Clinical Associations in Two US Cohorts.
Journal Article Arthritis Rheumatol · November 2025 OBJECTIVE: Raynaud phenomenon (RP) is often the initial clinical manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc), but some patients develop other manifestations first. To help elucidate the diversity of SSc presentation in its early stages, we describe the initi ... Full text Link to item CiteUse of Nintedanib for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease at Expert Scleroderma Centers in the United States.
Journal Article Ann Am Thorac Soc · August 2025 Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
A Phase 1/2, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Autologous CD19-specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells (CABA-201) in Subjects with Systemic Sclerosis
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cabaletta Bio, Inc. · 2024 - 2042A Phase 1 Study of Healthy Donor CD19-targeted Allogeneic CAR T Cells in Participants with Severe, Refractory Autoimmune Diseases
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Juno Therapeutics, Inc. · 2026 - 2036B Cell-Fibroblast Crosstalk Promotes Chronic GVHD of the Lung
ResearchAdvisor · Awarded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 2024 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ·
2005
M.D.