Mission Statement

The UCSF Lupus Program is composed of a multi-disciplinary group of health care professionals who share a common vision: to find safer, more effective therapies for lupus and to improve the quality of life of patients living with lupus. Supporting this vision, the Lupus Collaboration has established several important goals:

• To provide pediatric and adult patients with the highest quality clinical care
• To give pediatric and adult patients access to promising new therapies through clinical trials
• To understand the basic immunologic processes underlying lupus
• To elucidate the role of genetics in the development of lupus
• To understand and treat problems with memory, concentration, and thinking in lupus patients
• To study the socioeconomic impact of lupus on individual patients and their families

Acknowledgments

Support for UCSF Lupus Program endeavors comes from the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Lupus Clinical Trials Consortium, and the State of California.