Dr. Harshini A S

She has more than 15 years experience with about 8 years as a super specialist. She has worked as Assistant Professor in the department of medicine in MVJ medical College. She has been associated with various private hospitals in Bangalore. AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Managing complicated cases of Inflammatory Arthritis, Myositis, Connective tissue disease, Systemic Vasculitis, Interstitial lung diseases, Fibromyalgia etc • Managing Paediatric Rheumatological diseases • Procedures – intra-articular injections, minor salivary gland biopsies and nail-fold video capillaroscopy • Musculoskeletal ultrasonography (certified by European league against rheumatism) PRESENTATIONS • Poster- ‘Do dietary factors influence the treatment outcomes in patients with Rheumatoid arthritis on standard triple drug therapy?’ at the international EULAR conference, held between 12th June-15th June 2019 at Madrid, Spain • Poster- ‘Do dietary factors influence the treatment outcomes in patients with Rheumatoid arthritis on standard triple drug therapy?’ at the IRACON held in December 2018 at Guwahati, Assam • Poster- ‘Correlation of IgA anticardiolipin antibody with pregnancy loss in patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus and Primary Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome’ at the IRACON held in December 2018 at Guwahati, Assam • Poster – ‘Primary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome with mid-aortic involvement mimicking Takayasu arteritis’ at the 1st International Vasculitis Symposium held at PGIMER, Chandigarh on 31st March and 1st April 2018 • Poster -‘IGG4 aortitis does not masquerade as Type IV Takayasu arteritis’ at IRACON 2017 held at SGPGI Lucknow from 30th Nov to 3rd Dec 2017 • Plasma lipids and Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy: A Prospective study KAPICON 2014

Presentations: Ÿ Poster - ‘Do dietary factors influence the treatment outcomes in patients with Rheumatoid arthritis on standard triple drug therapy?’ at the international EULAR conference, held between 12th June-15th June 2019 at Madrid, Spain Ÿ Poster - ‘Do dietary factors influence the treatment outcomes in patients with Rheumatoid arthritis on standard triple drug therapy?’ at the IRACON held in December 2018 at Guwahati, Assam Ÿ Poster - ‘Correlation of IgA anticardiolipin antibody with pregnancy loss in patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus and Primary Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome’ at the IRACON held in December 2018 at Guwahati, Assam Ÿ Poster - ‘Primary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome with mid-aortic involvement mimicking Takayasu arteritis’ at the 1st International Vasculitis Symposium held at PGIMER, Chandigarh on 31st March and 1st April 2018 Ÿ Poster - ‘IGG4 aortitis does not masquerade as Type IV Takayasu arteritis’ at IRACON 2017 held at SGPGI Lucknow from 30th Nov to 3rd Dec 2017 Ÿ Plasma lipids and Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy: A Prospective study KAPICON 2014 Ÿ An Update on Aluminium Phosphide poisoning at the Bangalore Lives CME 2014, BMC&RI, September 2014 Ÿ A Rare case of Jaundice – Benign Recurrent Intrahepatic Cholestasis, API meet-June 2014 Publications: Ÿ Chapter on- ‘Extremity Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Rheumatology Practice’ in the Manual of Rheumatology 2017 edition Ÿ Author- “BMJ certificate course in primary care Musculoskeletal medicine”, British Medical Journal.