1 is a Medical Student, and is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, both at David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Hashemi is a Primary Care Attending Physician and the Ambulatory Care Clerkship Director at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles campus.
Primary care providers should monitor disease progression in the skin and in the pulmonary, renal, cardiac, and gastrointestinal systems in patients with systemic sclerosis, a rare autoimmune and connective tissue disease.