Myositis Awareness Month Zoom Meeting

Dr. May Choi from Calgary University was our guest speaker for Myositis Awareness month.

Dr. May Choi is a graduate of the Cumming School of Medicine’s Adult Rheumatology training program. She’s also the Associate Director of MitogenDx and the Associate Director of Translational Research at the Lupus Centre of Excellence.  Dr. Choi completed her Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) degree at the University of Calgary in 2010, her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Alberta in 2014 and Internal Medicine training at the University of Calgary in 2017.

In 2019, she began a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology Program at Harvard University and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lupus Fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Karen Costenbader.

Her recent publications and current research interests are focused on biomarker discovery and validation for the prediction of clinical outcomes in early onset lupus, as well as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) epidemiology.

Dr. Choi took us through the research she is doing on identifying biomarkers for rare diseases such as the different types of Myositis. Some of this research is funded by Myositis Canada. We will publish the presentation shortly.