Current Faculty
Our clinicians and physician-scientists are integrating pioneering, disease-related research into clinical practice.
Matthew Baker, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Baker is the Clinical Chief in the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology and the Co-Director of the Stanford Multidisciplinary Sarcoidosis Program. He runs a clinical research program that is focused on clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and bench-to-bedside translational research.
Clinical focus: Sarcoidosis, IgG4-related disease, Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis
Academic focus: Clinical trials, epidemiologic research, mechanistic biomarkers
Yashaar Chaichian, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr. Chaichian is the Director of the Stanford Lupus Clinic and has a clinical, research, and teaching focus in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). He also co-directs a twice monthly Rheumatology-Dermatology multidisciplinary clinic at Stanford with Dr. Jennifer Yeh (Dermatology).
Clinical focus: SLE, rheumatology-dermatology overlap conditions, general rheumatology
Academic focus: SLE clinical research, including epidemiologic/outcomes research and translational research collaborations
Lorinda Chung, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Dermatology
Dr. Chung focuses on patient care and research related to systemic sclerosis (SSc) and dermatomyositis. She has extensive experience in SSc clinical trial design and enrollment, as well as collaborative translational studies to better understand the pathogenesis of SSc and identify novel biomarkers and therapeutics for SSc patients.
Clinical focus: Systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis
Academic focus: Clinical trials, epidemiologic research
Robert Fairchild, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Fairchild specializes in the diagnosis, evaluation and management of rheumatic diseases utilizing ultrasonography. He is the Director of Stanford’s Rheumatology Ultrasound Diagnostic and Interventional Clinic and the Stanford Rheumatology Ultrasound Program, where he leads Stanford's rheumatology ultrasound education curriculum.
Clinical focus: Diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound
Academic focus: Next-generation ultrasound approaches, value-based care
Titilola Falasinnu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Falasinnu’s research focus is on developing best practices for adapting electronic health records for epidemiological inference in rheumatology, emphasizing pain, disability, and function.
Academic focus: Epidemiology and chronic pain research in autoimmune rheumatic diseases
C. Garrison Fathman, MD
Professor of Medicine (Emeritus)
Dr. Fathman is a previous Division Chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology. He developed the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford (CCIS) and was instrumental in creating the Stanford Human Immune Monitoring Center. He also founded the international Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS).
Academic Focus: Identification of regulatory T cell (Treg) defects in autoimmunity, methods to restore the defects to treat autoimmune diseases
Mark Genovese, MD
Professor of Medicine (Emeritus)
Dr. Genovese has designed and led numerous investigator-initiated studies and international multi-center trials investigating novel therapies, therapeutic strategies, and biomarkers associated with disease progression and response for the treatment of autoimmune disease and arthritis.
Clinical focus: Clinical trials and interventions in the rheumatic diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, and osteoarthritis.
Halsted Holman, MD
Professor of Medicine (Emeritus)
Clinical focus: Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus.
Academic focus: Outcomes research.
Jison Hong, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Hong specializes in diagnosing, evaluating, and managing all rheumatologic diseases with special interests in paraneoplastic rheumatologic disease manifestations and gout. She leads and develops Value-Based Care initiatives within rheumatology and Stanford Health Care.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology
Academic focus: Value-based care
Lakshmi Jayaram, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jayaram specializes in the diagnosis and management of all rheumatologic conditions with special interests in myositis, gout, psoriatic arthritis, and vasculitis.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology
Academic focus: Medical education, value based care, quality improvement
Audra Horomanski, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Horomanski is the Director of the Stanford Vasculitis Clinic where she manages the complex care of patients with all types of vasculitis. Additional areas of research include the application of ultrasound in the study and management of rheumatologic diseases and epidemiologic studies of vasculitis in reproductive health/pregnancy.
Clinical focus: Vasculitis
Academic focus: Clinical research in vasculitis, medical education, ultrasound
Tamiko Katsumoto, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Katsumoto serves as the director of the Stanford Immune-Related Toxicity Working Group, a multidisciplinary group which aims to improve the quality of care of cancer patients on immune checkpoint inhibitors. She also has a strong interest in understanding dietary impacts on systemic inflammation and is passionate about sustainable diets for individual and planetary health.
Clinical focus: Immune-related adverse events (irAEs), systemic sclerosis, diet and microbiome
Academic focus: Mechanisms underlying irAEs, dietary factors driving inflammation
Tobias V. Lanz, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Lanz's research focuses on the fundamental immunological mechanisms mediating neuroimmunological diseases and rheumatic diseases with neurological manifestations.
Using single-cell sequencing, high-throughput proteomics, and structural analyses, he investigates the immune mechanisms that underlie commonalities and differences between autoimmune disorders.
Kate Lorig, DrPH
Professor of Medicine (Emerita)
Dr. Lorig has a research program which includes the use of her program for rural caregivers, those nearing the end of life, and those who are tapering opioids. She is also studying the comparison of programs offered via telephone, virtual platforms and in person.
Academic Focus: Developing, evaluating and translating into practice self-management intervention for people with arthritis, other chronic and conditions and caregivers
Eric Meffre, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Dr. Meffre’s work focuses on the etiology of autoimmune diseases and on characterizing the various roles played by autoreactive B cells in both the initiation and propagation of these syndromes.
Laboratory focus: B cell biology, role of B cells in autoimmunity
Nitya Reddy Ramreddy, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Ramreddy specializes in diagnosing and treating all rheumatological conditions. She is a general rheumatologist with special interest in Rheumatoid arthritis associated Interstitial lung disease.
Clinical focus: Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis associated Interstitial lung disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis.
Academic focus: Value based care, patient education
Neha Shah, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Shah's clinical and research interests lie in Integrative Rheumatology, exploring the impact of diet/nutrition/botanicals on inflammation as it pertains to rheumatic diseases such as gout, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis and other autoimmune conditions.
Clinical focus: Integrative medicine
Academic focus: Medical education, integrative medicine
Julia Simard, ScD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
Dr. Simard studies outcomes such as malignancy, stroke, infection, and mortality, in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases with a focus on systemic lupus erythematosus, and the intersection between reproductive epidemiology and rheumatic disease.
Academic focus: Epidemiologic research in SLE
Suzanne Tamang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Tamang’s research leverages her training in biology, computer science, health services research and biomedical informatics to work with interdisciplinary teams of experts on population health problems of public interest. Integral to her research, is the analysis of large and complex population-based datasets, using techniques from natural language processing, machine learning and deep learning.
Academic focus: Biomedical informatics
Janice Lin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Lin specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatologic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, myositis, gout, and seronegative spondyloarthropathies. She has special clinical and research interests in psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis, dermatomyositis, and cutaneous lupus/systemic lupus.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology, rheumatology/dermatology overlap
Academic focus: Quality improvement
Diane Mar, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Mar's clinical interests include crystalline arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and utilization of ultrasound in rheumatology. She sees a broad range of rheumatologic cases.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology, musculoskeletal ultrasound, myositis, psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
Academic focus: Next-generation ultrasound approaches, general rheumatology
Prachaya Nitichaikulvatana, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Dr. Nitichaikulvatana practices general rheumatology with a focus on psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis and lupus.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology, psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis, lupus
Academic focus: Health-care delivery
William H. Robinson, MD, PhD
James W. Raitt, MD Professor of Medicine
Dr. Robinson’s overarching objective is to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying autoimmune diseases, and to leverage these insights to develop next-generation therapeutics. His research is defining critical roles for microbial triggers of autoimmune disease, with a focus on Epstein-Barr virus and mucosal breaks of bacteria.
Clinical focus: Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis
Laboratory focus: Antibodies, B cells, and microbial triggers in autoimmune disease
Stanford Shoor, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Dr. Shoor's interests include sarcoidosis, evidence-based medicine, patient self-care and practice improvement.
Clinical focus: General rheumatology, sarcoidosis
Academic focus: Patient-centered care
Liya Stolyar, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine- Affiliate
Clinical focus: General rheumatology, VA women’s health
Academic focus: Provider-level decision making in systemic lupus erythematosus, psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis
PJ Utz, MD
Professor of Medicine; Associate Dean, Medical Student Research; Department of Medicine Director of Team Science Initiatives
Dr. Utz studies autoimmunity, infection, vaccines, and technology development. He is Associate Dean for Medical Student Research. He is founder and Faculty Director of SIMR (Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program), one of the nation's largest high school research programs devoted to improving diversity of our nation's biosciences and physician scientist workforce.
Laboratory focus: Autoantibodies, role of interferons in systemic lupus erythematosus