Olivia Ghaw, MD Email Olivia Ghaw
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- Position
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Rheumatology
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- Specialty
- Rheumatology
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliation
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- 212-241-1671 212-241-1671
- Physician Office 212-731-3610 212-731-3610
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Olivia Ghaw, MD, completed her fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital and now joins the faculty in the Division of Rheumatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Dr. Ghaw received her BA from Wellesley College and her medical degree from NYU Langone Medical Center. She completed her internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. During these times, she has participated in numerous medical humanitarian missions to underserved locations such as Mongolia, Honduras, and Western China.
Her clinical interests include connective tissue diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, crystal deposition diseases, spondyloarthropathies, osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.
Certification
Rheumatology
Clinical Focus
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Arthritis
- Arthrocentesis
- Behcet's Disease
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Dermatomyositis
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen Shoulder
- Gout
- Joint Pain
- Muscle Pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's Disease
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica And Giant Cell Arteritis
- Polymyositis
- Pseudogout
- Raynaud's Disease And Phenomenon
- Reiter's Syndrome
- Rheumatic Fever
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Temporal Arteritis
- Vasculitis
- Wegener's Granulomatosis
Education
BA, WELLESLEY COLLEGE
MD, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
MD, New York University School of Medicine
, MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
, MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
Residency, Internal Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital
Fellowship, Rheumatology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Language
English
Evaluation of Tuberculosis screening strategies in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis using cutaneous antigen testing and whole blood Quantiferon®-TB assay
· Preceptors: Clifton O. Bingham III, M.D., and Jeffrey Greenberg, M.D.
· Site: Seligman Center for Advanced Therapeutics, NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
2003-2004
Phase 2 Study of Uricase-PEG 20 in Humans with Hyperuricemia and Gout
· Preceptors: Peter D. Gorevic, M.D., Chief, Rheumatology Division
May 2005-Present
: Safety and Efficacy of Tocilizumab versus Placebo in Combination with Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs in Patients with Moderate to Severe Active Rheumatoid Arthritis
· Preceptors: Peter D. Gorevic, M.D., Chief, Rheumatology Division
August 2008- Present
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