Dr. Theresa Wampler Muskardin, MD

Dr. Wampler Muskardin is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Rheumatology and a Clinical Research Scientist in the Research Institute at Hospital for Special Surgery. She has been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Rheumatology and by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatric Rheumatology. Dr. Wampler Muskardin sees both pediatric and adult patients. Particular areas of clinical expertise include autoinflammatory disorders, interferonopathies, and primary immune deficiencies with immune dysregulation. These diseases, which often have a strong genetic driver, lend insight into the biology of more complex/heterogenous rheumatic diseases. She has diagnosed and managed patients who have exceptionally rare disease and enjoys collaboration with colleagues at the NIH and elsewhere to provide the best care to patients. She also has expertise in inflammatory arthritis (e.g., Rheumatoid arthritis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, …Spondyloarthropathies), systemic autoimmune connective tissue diseases (e.g., Sjogren's), and inflammatory bone diseases (e.g., Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis). Born in Detroit, Dr. Wampler Muskardin completed her MD training at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She then completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and combined fellowship in both adult and pediatric Rheumatology at the University of Minnesota, where she began research in Type I interferon (IFN) and toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways. After fellowship she became faculty at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where she began training in the laboratory of Timothy Niewold, a Lupus genetics and type I IFN expert. She moved to New York in 2017 to continue her translational work at NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health. She joined the faculty of HSS in 2022.