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Arezou Khosroshahi

  • Department of Medicine
    Associate Professor
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Overview

Dr. Arezou Khosroshahi received her medical degree from Tehran University Medical School in Iran. After finishing a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Transplantation Center at the Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, she completed her internal medicine training at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University. Upon completion of her clinical rheumatology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, she became involved in exciting clinical research focused on a newly recognized condition called IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). Their group was one of the first in the country to become aware of and focus on this condition.

Dr. Khosroshahis efforts to understand different aspects of IgG4-RD over the past ten years have led to important contributions to the field of IgG4-RD, including adding new clinical manifestations to the list of organs involved with this protean disease and its responsiveness to B cell depletion. She co-directed the first two international symposiums on IgG4-RD to bring investigators from all around the world together and helped to establish the name of the disease, pathology statements for the diagnosis of this condition, and guidelines on the management of IgG4-RD. She is currently an active member of an international committee for the development of classification criteria and validation of IgG4-RD responder index.

Dr. Khosroshahi has established an IgG4-RD clinic at Emory since her arrival in 2013. This clinic is one of the few in the United States to evaluate and treat patients with IgG4-RD. Patients have the option to participate in multiple research projects related to this condition. She has developed close collaboration between clinicians in multiple specialties at Emory and scientists in Emorys Lowance Immunology Center to be able to diagnose, treat, and investigate many unknowns in regards to this novel condition.

She has been involved in Lupus Clinic at Grady Hospital for the past six years and recently established a new lupus clinic at Emory. She is the principal investigator for different clinical trials in lupus and is working closely with her colleagues Drs. Lim and Sanz to help understand many different aspects of lupus, with particular interest in treatment.

Dr. Khosroshahi has a particular interest in clinical education and works closely with Emory medical students, residents, and fellows at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Research

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