Do you have burning questions that can’t wait until your next appointment?Are you newly diagnosed and learning all you can? Please join this Ask the Doc webinar to ask any question you have about any type of myositis.
Adam Schiffenbauer, M.D., is Deputy Head of the Environmental Autoimmunity Group at the National Institutes of Health and serves as an Associate Research Physician. The mission of the Environmental Autoimmunity Group is to understand the mechanisms for the development of autoimmune diseases so that group members can extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. Dr. Schiffenbauer’ s work has particularly focused on myositis with an emphasis on the impact of environment on disease risk and phenotype, calcinosis, and novel imaging techniques. He currently serves as the principal investigator on studies looking at risk factors for myositis in the military, evaluating environmental risk factors in new onset myositis, and an interventional drug study treating calcinosis with sodium thiosulfate. Dr. Schiffenbauer is a current member of TMA’s Medical Advisory Board.
TMA’s Ask the Doc Webinar series features a member of TMA’s Medical Advisory Board, or another distinguished member of the myositis medical community. Those who live with myositis often have many questions about their condition, their medications, and how to navigate the healthcare system. Often they do not trust their local care team who may have limited understanding of myositis and how to treat it. This series offers those who live with myositis and their care partners the valuable opportunity to have their questions addressed by a knowledgeable expert.
