Dr. Harshini A S

Education: Dr Harshini A S is a Consultant Rheumatologist in Fortis hospital Nagarbhavi, Bangalore. She has been trained at prestigious institutes in India. Graduation from MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, MD Internal Medicine from Bangalore medical College & Research Institute and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology from Christian Medical College,Vellore. Experience: She has more than 12 years experience with about 5 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 Sparsh group of hospitals and Samarpan Rheumatology center 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: 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.