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Meet Our Speakers

Leading Voices in Autoimmune Care and Research

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Victoria Shanmugam, MD

Director, Autoimmune Research

National Institutes of Health

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Philip Mease, MD

Director of Rheumatology Research Providence/Swedish Health

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Stacie Bell, PhD

Former Chief Clinical Officer

Lupus Research Alliance

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Michael Chiorean, MD

Director

IBD Center | Swedish Medical Center

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Anastasia Albanese-O'Neill 

VP, Medical Affairs

Breakthrough T1D

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Jennifer Hadlock, MD

Director of Medical Data Science Institute for Systems Biology

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Christine Rousseau, Ph.D. 

Advisor - Medical Research Program

Valhalla Foundation

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Atul Deodhar, M.D

Professor of Medicine, Medical Director

Oregon Health & Science University

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Matthew Schwede, MD

Hematologist/Oncologist

Swedish Cancer Institute

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Jason Goldman, MD, MPH

Infectious Diseases Physician

Swedish Medical Center

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Mary McGowan, MA

President/Chief Executive Officer 

Foundation For Sarcoidosis Research

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Christyn A. Edmundson, MD

Neurologist

Swedish Neuroscience Institute

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Pavle Repovic, MD, PhD

Neurologist

Swedish Neuroscience Institute

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Osama W. Amro, MD, MS

Nephrology Director

Swedish Medical Center

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Scott Lee, MD

Director & Gastroenterologist

UW Medical Center

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Lauren Beach, PhD

Assistant Professor

Northwestern Medicine

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Namita Singh, MD

Senior Medical Director

Takeda

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Wendy Zheng 

President of the Board of Directors

Kin On

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Shamekka Marty

Lupus Patient & CEO
Beyond the Game

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Kathy Benton

Associate Director, SSEL
Takeda

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Paiten Hart, RN, BSN

IBD Patient

​Pulmonary RN at Optum

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Estela Mata

RA & Fibromyalgia Patient

Looms for Lupus

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Thomas Lie, PhD

AS Patient, Microbiologist
Spondylitis Association of America

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Reynelda Solitaire

Northwest Chapter Board Member
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation

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Catina Morrison, RN, BSN

RA, Hidradenitis Suppurativa patient

President, Inflamed Sisters Thriving

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Aaron Abend, MBA

Executive Director

Autoimmune Registry

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Luis Rodriguez

Director, State Government Affairs Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease

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Summer Mengelkoch, PhD

Researcher

UCLA Stress Lab

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Jin Lee, PhD

Autoimmune advocate &

IMIDeology Founder

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