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Rheumatology is a branch of medicine that mainly deals with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues and allied conditions of connective tissues.
The Rheumatology Division is comprised of twelve community-based rheumatologists with full staff privileges at St. Paul's Hospital as well as clinical appointments with the University of British Columbia. The Division provides emergency and inpatient consultations, specialized clinics and private practice consultation services for the full spectrum of rheumatic and connective tissue disorders.
Dr. Amiri attended Internal Medicine and Rheumatology training at the University of British Columbia. She undertook additional training in management of rheumatic diseases in pregnancy at the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS), University of California, San Diego and University of Toronto. She is the director of PReDICT clinic (Pregnancy and Rheumatic Disease Clinic) and a consultant at the Lupus Clinic. Her other areas of interest include medical education. Her areas of research include impact of systemic inflammatory diseases on pregnancy outcomes, and medication use in pregnancy and peripartum period.
Dr. Bardi has completed his training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the University of British Columbia. In addition, he completed an additional fellowship in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the American College of Rheumatology USSONAR program. He pursued additional training in ultrasound with a focus on the use of vascular ultrasound in Giant Cell Arteritis. He helped establish the Rheumatology Downtown Eastside outreach clinic at Pender Clinic. He provides rural Rheumatology clinics in Willams Lake and Fraser Lake. His research areas include the use of ultrasound in the assessment and diagnosis of rheumatic conditions.
Dr. Natasha Dehghan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She did her medical school, residency and rheumatology training at UBC and completed a vasculitis fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the director of the Vasculitis clinic at the Mary Pack Arthritis Centre in British Columbia which operates out of Vancouver and Victoria. Her research areas of interest are in the area of vasculitis. She collaborates with CanVasc (Canadian network for research on vasculitides) as well as VCRC (Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium) on multiple research projects. She has initiated a registry in collaboration with CanVasc to gather important information on patients with vasculitis.
Dr. Ennis is an assistant clinical professor at the University of British Columbia. He completed his Royal College fellowship in Rheumatology at the University of British Columbia in 2018. He received the 2018 CanVasc fellowship award and completed a clinical fellowship in Vasculitis at the University of Toronto where he participated in clinical trials, quality improvement, and cohort research.
Dr. Ennis continues to collaborate in both national and international research with the CanVasc Network and Vasculitis Research Consortium. As a founding member of the Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology (CanRIO) network, he is taking part in ongoing research on rheumatic immune related adverse events.
Dr. Ennis is a member of the Communications Committee for the Canadian Rheumatology Association and hosts a Rheumatology podcast, Around the Rheum. His other podcast, The St. Paul’s Morning Report, focusses on teaching advanced clinical reasoning through complex cases. He is passionate about medical education and patient centred care.
Dr. Hyein Kim is a Vancouver-based Rheumatologist with a special interest in systemic sclerosis. She practices General Rheumatology in Vancouver, but also works at the Scleroderma Clinic at the VCH Mary Pack Arthritis Centre and the Scleroderma-Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital. She enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary team caring for patients with multi-organ involvement from systemic sclerosis.
She obtained her Undergraduate Medicine degree at UBC, then Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Western Ontario. During this time, she completed her Masters of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health. She returned to Vancouver for Rheumatology fellowship.
Dr. Klinkhoff is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. She graduated from McGill University with a MDCM at and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alberta. She completed her fellowship in Rheumatology at UBC and then post fellowship training at McMaster University. She has been an Active Staff at St. Paul's Hospital since 1986. She is currently practicing general rheumatology with special interest in inflammatory arthritis conditions.
Dr. Kam Shojania is Clinical Professor and Head of the Division of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Shojania is also Chief of Rheumatology at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital and he is the Medical Director of the Mary Pack Arthritis Program. He has received the UBC Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching, the UBC Master Teacher Award, the Howard Stein Award and the Canadian Rheumatology Association Teacher-Educator Award. Dr. Shojania has over 100 publications and six book chapters.
Dr. Sun finished 3 years of honours pharmacology and completed his medical school training at UBC. He trained in Internal Medicine residency program at UBC and completed his Royal College fellowship In Rheumatology.
Dr. Sun has a general rheumatology practice and also has special interest in interventional pain procedures and chronic musculoskeletal pain management. He practices at both ARTUS and the ChangePain clinic. Dr. Sun is also a clinical staff member at Mount St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Dr. Fergus To completed medical school, Internal Medicine Residency, and a Rheumatology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He completed subspeciality training in inflammatory myopathies (myositis) at the University of Manchester, UK and has a MSc in Healthcare Quality from Queen's University. Dr. To is the co-founder of the VCH Myositis Clinic and was the recipient of the BC Society of Rheumatologists Innovation Award for this initiative. His research interests include inflammatory myopathies and healthcare delivery.
