TOPIC: "Myositis: Clinical Diagnostic Approach to Autoimmune Muscle Disease"
An associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, Dr. Dana P. Ascherman’s clinical practice encompasses a range of systemic autoimmune diseases, with a particular focus on idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (polymyositis/dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis). These clinical interests dovetail with Dr. Ascherman’s basic and translational research program that also includes investigation of the overlap between autoimmune disorders and interstitial lung diseases (ILD). As part of the latter effort, Dr. Ascherman co-founded the interdisciplinary Autoimmune Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic which he directs with Pulmonary Medicine's Dr. Marilyn Glassberg.