Professor of Medicine
Director, Lupus Center

• M.P.H.: Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Epidemiology
• M.D.: Harvard Medical School
• Internship and Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Post-doctoral Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco, Allergy and Immunology/Rheumatology

Dr. Petri is the Director of the Hopkins Lupus Cohort, a longitudinal study of morbidity and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus, and Co-Director of the Hopkins Lupus Pregnancy Center. Her research interests include the following aspects of SLE:

•  Hopkins Lupus Cohort:  A longitudinal study of outcomes in SLE – including demographic disease activity, treatment, laboratory tests – and a serum and plasma bank.  Fellows may use this resource for projects.
• Pregnancy Database:  Over 450 pregnant patients are included in this database, which includes lupus activity, antiphospholipid tests, and pregnancy outcomes. 
• Biomarkers:  A longitudinal study of the “interferon signature” genes in SLE. 
• UAB SCOR:  A longitudinal study of genotype-phenotype in SLE, with the initial focus being Fc gamma receptor alleles.
• SLICC:  As part of the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics, Hopkins participates in studies of atherosclerosis, malignancy, and neuropsychiatric lupus.  

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