Megan Elizabeth Bowles Clowse, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology at Duke University School of Medicine. She is a clinical associate director of Duke Forge, where health data is put into action. Her clinical research focuses on the management of rheumatologic diseases in pregnancy. She is the director of the Vasculitis-Pregnancy Registry. Additionally, she has collected prospective pregnancies in women with rheumatic disease in the Duke Autoimmunity in Pregnancy Registry, which includes clinical data, pregnancy outcomes and a large sample repository. She received her MD from Vanderbilt University and her MPH at the University of California, Los Angeles.
David Leverenz, MD, is pursuing a fellowship in rheumatology and immunology at Duke University School of Medicine.
Disclosures
Dr. Clowse has received funding from the following sources:
- Consulting: UCB, Regeneron, AstraZeneca, BMS
- Investigator-initiated grants: Janssen, Pfizer
- Independent Medical Education grant: GlaxoSmithKline
Dr. Leverenz has nothing of relevance to disclose.
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Editor’s note: Reprinted from Duke Forge by permission.