Current Rheumatology Fellows
*Fiscal Year 2012-2013
Myriam Guevara, MD - First Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Myriam Guevara graduated from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala for her medical education. She completed her internal medicine residency at Bridgeport Hospital, Yale University in Connecticut.
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Eyal Kedar, MD - 2nd Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Eyal Kedar is currently working in the laboratory of Dr. Karin Bornfeldt (Department of Pathology) at South Lake Union. His research is the roles of acyl co-A synthetase 1 in inflammation and atherosclerosis in lupus.
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Jane Park, MD - 2nd Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Jane Park is working with Dr. Peter Simkin to assess the relationship between urate crystals and both cardiac and renal disease. Urate crystals have not previously been identified in coronary arteries, but we have identified two coronary arteries with urate crystals thus far and will be continue to examine coronaries and aortic valves. We will also be analyzing the cytokine profiles of kidneys to identify a cytokine "signature" of kidneys with urate crystals.
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Ingeborg Sacksen, MD - 2nd Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Ingeborg Sacksen is working with Dr. Mark Wener, Dr. Scott Pollock, and Dr. Manjiri Dighe (Dept of Radiology). They will be evaluating different properties of scleroderma skin and response to treatment over time using ultrasound and tissue elastography.
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Megan Shaw, MD - First Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Megan Shaw is originally from Redmond, WA. She went to medical school at Wake Forest University in North Carolina then returned to the UW for residency in internal medicine, followed by a year as a hospitalist at UW Medical Center.
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Amy Tolsdorf, MD - First Year Fellow, BB546
Dr. Amy Tolsdorf grew up in Columbia, CT, and attended Colby College in Maine where she majored in English literature. She then took a year off prior to going to medical school at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Seattle in 2009 for residency at the University of Washington. She loves the northwest and suspects to be here for the long term.
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