The UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital Pediatric Rheumatology team provides consultative care and advanced therapies for children and adolescents with a wide array of rheumatologic and musculoskeletal disorders.

Our expertise is in:

  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • Sjogren's syndrome
  • Juvenile spondyloarthropathies
  • Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis
  • Arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease
  • Psoriatic arthritis
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
  • Mixed connective tissue disease
  • Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
  • Raynauds
  • Positive autoantibodies
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Polymyositis
  • Morphea
  • Linear scleroderma
  • Diffuse cutaneous and diffuse systemic scleroderma
  • Autoimmune hearing loss
  • Autoimmune lung disease
  • Autoimmune eye disease such as uveitis, scleritis, retinitis
  • Serum sickness
  • Vasculitis
  • Behcet's
  • Henoch Schonlein Purpura
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Granulomatosis with polyarteritis (GPA, formerly Wegener's)
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Takyasu vasculitis
  • Autoinflammatory diseases such as chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO), synovitis acne pustulosis hyperostosis and osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome
  • Familial mediterranean fever and periodic fever syndromes (CAPS, HIDS, TRAPS, PFAPA)
  • Pain amplification
  • Fibromyalgia

Pediatric Rheumatology

  • Appointments & Referrals - Phone: (310) 825-0867

  • Administrative Office & Information - Phone: (310) 825-0775

  • Administrative Office - Fax: (424) 322-1923

UCLA Westwood Campus

Inpatient Services

UCLA Santa Monica

Inpatient Services

Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship