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Elena K. Joerns, M.D., M.P.H., is a rheumatologist and assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She specializes in autoimmune-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD), with particular interest in interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features (IPAF) and rheumatoid arthritis–associated ILD. Her research investigates genomic differences between IPAF and other forms of ILD, along with factors influencing disease progression and treatment response, with the goal of refining disease classification and guiding more personalized care.
Genetics seems to be playing an increasingly huge role in autoimmune diseases, and certainly in ILD, and we are only now starting to recognize it.
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