| University
of California, San Francisco
400 Parnassus Avenue, Plaza Level
San Francisco, CA 94143-0326
Phone: 415-353-2497
Email: Lianne.Gensler@ucsf.edu
Dr. Gensler graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (1995). She then received her M.D. degree (2001) from the University of California, Irvine. She completed her internal medicine residency (2004) and chief residency (2005) as well as her fellowship training in Rheumatology (2008) at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco in the Division of Rheumatology after completion of fellowship training. She is the Director of the Ankylosing Spondylitis clinic at UCSF.
Research
Interests
Dr. Gensler’s primary research interest is in the area of Ankylosing Spondylitis. She is currently enrolling patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis in a natural history cohort. Her aims are to better understand why some patients progress to have more radiographic disease severity and which patients with axial undifferentiated Spondyloarthritis go on to develop Ankylosing Spondylitis. She is also collaborating with other scientists to develop better biomarkers for disease activity.
Dr. Gensler’s other research interest is in the area of bone health in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Specifically, she is working with Dr. Ed Yelin to better understand the predictors associated with fracture in these patients.
Recent
Publications
1. Gensler LS, Ward MM, Reveille JD, Learch TJ, Weisman MH, Davis JC Jr. Clinical, radiographic and functional differences between juvenile-onset and adult-onset ankylosing spondylitis: results from the PSOAS cohort. Ann Rheum Dis. 2008 Feb;67(2):233-7.
2. Bent S, Gensler LS, Frances C., Saint-Frances Guide to Outpatient Medicine; 2 nd edition, 2007, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
3. Gensler L, Davis JC Jr. Recognition and treatment of juvenile-onset spondyloarthritis. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2006 Sep;18(5):507-11. Review.
4. Kobashigawa JA, Moriguchi JD, Laks H, Wener L, Hage A, Hamilton MA, Cogert G, Marquez A, Vassilakis ME, Patel J, Yeatman L. Ten-year follow-up of a randomized trial of pravastatin in heart transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2005 Nov;24(11):1736-40.
5. Leeper NJ, Wener LS, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, Wachter RM. Clinical problem-solving. One surprise after another. N Engl J Med. 2005 Apr 7;352(14):1474-9.
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