Cassandra Calabrese is an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU and holds a dual appointment in the Departments of Rheumatologic and Immunologic Disease and Infectious Disease at the Cleveland Clinic, where she completed a 3-year combined rheumatology and infectious disease fellowship. She also holds an appointment in the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center.

Her areas of interest include infection in the setting of immunosuppression, infection prevention and immunizations, rheumatic manifestations of infection, human immunodeficiency virus, COVID-19 and immune related adverse events from checkpoint inhibitor therapy.

Dr. Catherine Sims is a rheumatologist at Duke University and health services research fellow at the Durham Veterans Affairs hospital. Her research initiatives include pregnancy outcomes in systemic vasculitides and exploring reproductive health experiences for Veterans with rheumatic diseases. Through novel research efforts, education of providers, and streamlined communication with patients her hope is to improve the reproductive experience for women with autoimmune diseases.

Dr. Deal graduated from the University of Arkansas School Of Medicine in 1977 where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Society. After completing his internal medicine training at Boston City Hospital, he completed his rheumatology fellowship at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. After serving on the faculty in the rheumatology program at Boston University, Dr. Deal moved in 1984 to Cleveland and Case Western University School of Medicine to work under Dr. Roland Moskowitz. He served as fellowship program director and was an investigator in clinical trials in both arthritis and osteoporosis. In 1999 he established the Osteoporosis Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation under Dr. Gary Hoffman. Dr. Deal is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is a staff physician at the Cleveland Clinic and Head, Section of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease.

He has been co-author for the osteoporosis management chapter for the textbook Rheumatology for the last three editions. He is a Master of the American College of Rheumatology.

Chadwick R. Johr, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is Director of the Penn Sjogren's Center & Associate Program Director for the Penn-CHOP Med-Peds Residency Program.

Dr. Correia is a board-certified, fellowship-trained rheumatologist. While he has extensive experience in systemic sclerosis research and treatment, Dr. Correia also cares for patients with many rheumatic conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout, osteoarthritis, Sjögren's, lupus and myositis.

Because our understanding of rheumatic diseases advances rapidly, and the treatment options expand each year as new discoveries are made, Dr. Correia believes that this is an exciting time to be a rheumatologist. He specialized in rheumatology for the opportunity to develop meaningful, long-term relationships with his patients and looks forward to getting to know each of his Riverside patients individually while fulfilling Riverside’s mission to “care for others as we would care for those we love.”

With multiple of publications and presentations to his name, Dr. Correia is a prolific researcher, educator and leader in the field of rheumatology. He won grant funding to study advanced diagnostic and treatment solutions for rheumatic diseases, as well as the Excellence in Teaching Award from Northwestern University. He is also an avid community health volunteer and has provided free medical care to patients in homeless shelters, community clinics, and in rural Honduras.

He earned his medical degree from the University of Nevada in Reno and completed an internal medicine residency at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, where he was also appointed chief resident in 2015. The following year, he began a rheumatology fellowship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, also in Chicago. At Northwestern, he became a faculty member and co-director of the Northwestern scleroderma program while earning a Master of Science in clinical investigation.

Originally from Reno, Nevada, Dr. Correia is married with two children. He enjoys mountain biking, running, hiking, cycling and spending time outdoors with his family.

Dr. Oddis is Professor of Medicine in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Director of the Myositis Center. His academic interests center around the investigation and treatment of inflammatory myopathy with an emphasis on the clinical features, autoantibody associations, pathogenesis, and treatment. Dr. Oddis was the Principal Investigator on the RIM (Rituximab in Myositis) Trial, the first multicenter clinical trial in myositis funded by the National Institutes of Health.  He authored the Consensus Guidelines for the Conduct of Clinical Trials in Myositis. He continues to coordinate myositis clinical trials including the investigation of autoimmune ILD. He directed or co-directed the Fellowship Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh from 2001-2019, received the Clinician Scholar Educator Award from the ACR, chaired the ACR Annual Meeting Planning Committee from 2012-2014 and was selected as a Master in the ACR in 2019. He served as an Associate Editor for Arthritis and Rheumatology until 2020.

Cuoghi Edens, MD is a rheumatologist board-certified in both rheumatology and pediatric rheumatology.  Dr. Edens treats adult and children suffering from a wide array of rheumatic diseases. Due to her combined adult and pediatric rheumatology training, her clinical practice centers around teens and young adults diagnosed with rheumatic diseases and their healthcare transition into adult-centered care.   Reproductive health topics and their interplay with rheumatic diseases in patients of all ages is her other clinic concentration, in addition to research focus.  She is the co-leader of the CARRA Reproductive Health Work Group.

\Aside from her clinical work, Dr. Edens is also the pediatric rheumatology fellowship director at the University of Chicago and involved in medical student and resident education.