In our inaugural episode, we welcome Monica Yang, MD, lead author for Reactogenicity of the Messenger RNA SARS–CoV-2 Vaccines Associated with Immunogenicity in Patients with Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease, and Maria I. Danila, MD, MSc, MSPH, associate editor for the manuscript. We discuss some of the findings their COVID-19 Vaccine Response in Patients with Autoimmune Disease (COVARiPAD) study found, deeply dive into the data that supports their findings, and ask what was involved in putting this manuscript together, which eventually led to its publishing in Arthritis Care & Research.
Monica Yang, MD - Monica Yang, MD, is a third-year rheumatology fellow at UCSF interested in pursuing patient-centered translational research to advance precision medicine in the field. Her clinical interest is systemic sclerosis (SSc) and leveraging genomic data to better understand the molecular profiles that characterize SSc. After starting fellowship at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and seeing its impact on patients with rheumatic disease, she also became interested in studying the COVID-19 vaccination in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) and became an inaugural member of COVARiPAD, a longitudinal study investigating the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of the COVID-19 vaccines in patients with CID.
Maria I. Danila, MD, MSc, MSPH - Maria I. Danila, MD, MSc, MSPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Physician Scientist with the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. Dr. Danila has been actively involved as volunteer for the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). She served on the ACR Insurance Subcommittee (ISC) from 2012-2016 and as a member of the ACR Committee on Quality of Care from 2018-2021. She currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for the Rheumatology Research Foundation and is an Associate Editor for Arthritis Care & Research.
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