Our Expert Team

Our Expert Team

Our expert team includes specialists from many different fields of medicine to meet the needs of patients with myositis who may have systemic involvement of different organ systems beyond the muscle tissue.

The Myositis Program team can also make appropriate referrals to other UCLA experts. The UCLA Myositis Program only evaluates adult patients (those 18 years and older). For pediatric patients, please visit UCLA Pediatric Rheumatology.

Our expert team includes:

Rheumatology
	Christina Charles-Schoeman, MD, MS Director of Myositis Program Chief of UCLA Division of Rheumatology Professor of Medicine
	Sangmee Bae, MD, MS Associate Director of Myositis Program Clinical Instructor
	Heather Bukiri, MD Clinical Professor of Medicine
	Kate Kolstad, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
	Linh Truong, MD Clinical Instructor
Neurology
	Perry Shieh, MD, PhD Professor
	Francy Shu, MD Assistant Professor
Pulmonary Medicine
	Eric Kleerup, MD  Health Sciences Clinical Professor
	Rajan Saggar, MD Assistant Clinical Professor
Dermatology
	Kyle Cheng, MD, MS Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Cardiology
	Andrew Watson, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine
	Daniel Cruz, MD, PhD Associate Clinical Professor
Pathology
	Negar Khanlou, MD Associate Professor